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Parallel Oaxaca is pleased to present a selection of historical collaborative works by Susana Wald (Budapest, 1937) and Ludwig Zeller (Rio Loa, Calama, Chile 1927 – Huayapam, Oaxaca 2019).
Mirages, the collaborative works created by Wald and Zeller were created in resonance with their surrealist publishing house Oasis Publications, which they maintained since 1974, after relocating to Toronto, Canada from Santiago Chile.
Wald and Zeller’s Mirages dream forgotten landscapes that converge at diverse temporalities, characters who accept desire emerging from inert structures,machinery or bones. As an athmospheric illusion that reflects far away things as if in a landscaped of water, the Mirages series overflow graphic and pictorial gesturalities alongside cut-outs of old illustrations, evoking transitions between bodies and the visions that contain them.
Echoing enigmatic colossal landscapes scattered in the desert of Atacama, Chile the Mirages came into being through the cutting of their elements out of old illustrations which Zeller selected from publications before 1880, organized in another light via the structure of a collage the poet Zeller composed characters through fragments, semi-automatic, semi-conscious, the collages frequently happened in several days, sounding, digressing in endlessly contemplation, up to the moment when an image surged from the deep within, sudden, absolute and real, Susana Wald spatially positioned them, reinterpreting their setting through their juxtaposition between diverse realities, generated complements, movements and poetic journeys.
Impossible machinery, trees from the depths, pieces of clothing from forgotten bones, the Mirages by Susana Wald and Ludwig Zeller combined the interests from both artists, creating as a third entity; their accomplished surrealist methodology gathered, bones, lifeless structures unless the eyes of the onlooker experiences distances and desires. Perceptions that meet in time and space between gaps and abysses, between consciousness and invisibility.
Susana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, Mirages, 2024, exhibition view, Parallel OaxacaSusana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, Mirages, 2024, exhibition view, Parallel OaxacaSusana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, Mirages, 2024, exhibition view, Parallel OaxacaSusana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, Mirages, 2024, exhibition view, Parallel OaxacaLudwig Zeller & Patricia Pérez, Untitled (1998), collage & object, 180 x 90 x 70 cm, Collage and ink on paper, Collage and ink on paperLudwig Zeller & Patricia Pérez, Untitled (1998), collage & object, 180 x 90 x 70 cm, Collage and ink on paper, Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, La visión de Montezuma / The visión of Montezuma, 1980, 40 x 51 cm, Frame: 43 x 54 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, La visión de Montezuma / The visión of Montezuma, 1980, 40 x 51 cm, Frame: 43 x 54 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, La visión de Montezuma / The visión of Montezuma, 1980, 40 x 51 cm, Frame: 43 x 54 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, La visión de Montezuma / The visión of Montezuma, 1980, 40 x 51 cm, Frame: 43 x 54 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, La visión de Montezuma / The visión of Montezuma, 1980, 40 x 51 cm, Frame: 43 x 54 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, La visión de Montezuma / The visión of Montezuma, 1980, 40 x 51 cm, Frame: 43 x 54 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Untitled (Rencontre de Notre Dame des Christaux et L´Ermite) from Mirages series, (1978), drawing (signed): 30.2 x 40.5 cm, frame: 36.2 x 46.5 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Untitled (Rencontre de Notre Dame des Christaux et L´Ermite) from Mirages series, (1978), drawing (signed): 30.2 x 40.5 cm, frame: 36.2 x 46.5 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Untitled (Rencontre de Notre Dame des Christaux et L´Ermite) from Mirages series, (1978), drawing (signed): 30.2 x 40.5 cm, frame: 36.2 x 46.5 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Untitled (Rencontre de Notre Dame des Christaux et L´Ermite) from Mirages series, (1978), drawing (signed): 30.2 x 40.5 cm, frame: 36.2 x 46.5 x 3 cm, Collage, ink and acylic on paperSusana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, Mirages, 2024, exhibition view, Parallel OaxacaSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Malecón de tormentas / Storm’s pier, 1979 de la serie Mirages, drawing: 40.7 x 25.7 cm, frame: 55 x 40 x 3 cm, Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Preguntas y respuestas / Questions and answers, 1979, de la serie Mirages, drawing: 40.7 x 25.7 cm, frame: 55 x 40 x 3 cm, Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Botiquin transparente / Transparent medicine cabinet, 1979, de la serie Mirages drawing: 40.7 x 25.7 cm, frame: 55 x 40 x 3 cm, Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Untitled, 1979 de la serie Mirages drawing: 40.7 x 25.7 cm, frame: 55 x 40 x 3 cm, Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald, Sin título, (1965), ink and pencil on paper, 55 × 39 cm / 21, 6 x 15,3 inLudwig Zeller, Untitled (1979), Collage on paper, drawing (signed): 40 x 30 cmSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Ensayos de levitación / Levitation rehearsal, 1980 de la serie Mirages drawing: 40 x 50 cm frame: 52 x 62 x 3cm, Collage and ink on paper frame: 52 x 62 x 3 cm, Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, La otra cara de la medalla / The other face of the coin, 1980 de la serie Mirages drawing: 40 x 50 cm frame: 52 x 62 x 3 cm Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, El poeta se casa con la medium / The poet marries the medium, 1980 de la serie Mirages drawing: 40 x 50 cm frame: 52 x 62 x 3 cm Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald and Ludwig Zeller, Los vidrios de la sed / The glass of thirst, 1980 de la serie Mirages drawing: 40 x 50 cm frame: 52 x 62 x 3 cm Collage and ink on paperSusana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, Mirages, 2024, exhibition view, Parallel OaxacaSusana Wald & Ludwig Zeller, Mirages, 2024, exhibition view, Parallel Oaxaca
