ICA Culture Club by Pepe Mar at The Melin Atrium

Photography by on October 26th, 2024 in Arts, Culture, Lifestyle

Pepe Mar

Miami, FL – October 26, 2024 – ICA Miami Culture Club hosted the unveiling of My First 25,000 Years on Earth, a solo exhibition of new works by Pepe Mar at David Castillo Gallery in the Miami Design District. Attendees were invited to imagine a spiral, reminiscent of the “spiral kiss” Mar had referenced in a 2022 talk at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art—where the coils were adjacent to each other, nestled side-by-side. My First 25,000 Years on Earth was a large-scale Gesamtkunstwerk, with each work comprising it encapsulating the spiral of Mar’s prismatic practice—its origins and its path forward. Most of the pieces served as poignant reflections on the artist’s history, reimagining the past and alchemizing the future into something entirely new. Thus, My First 25,000 Years on Earth allowed Mar to consider where he had been as he entered a new era; the rest of us, thankfully, got to accompany him.

Alex Gartenfeld

Hal Phillips, James Castillo, & Alex Gartenfeld

Alex Gartenfeld

James Castillo & Hal Phillips

Hal Phillips

Shawn Palacious

Shawn Palacious

Shawn Palacious & Pepe Mar

Pepe Mar & Alex Gartenfeld

David Castillo, Pepe Mar, & Alex Gartenfeld

James Castillo, David Castillo, Pepe Mar, Alex Gartenfeld, & Hal Phillips

Christian Ulvert, David Castillo, Pepe Mar, Shawn Palacious, Dennis Leyva, Clark Reynolds, & Carlos Andrade

Christian Ulvert, Alex Gartenfeld, & James Castillo

Zoe Schweiger

Pepe Mar

Pepe Mar

Christian Ulvert, Pepe Mar, Clark Reynolds, & Dennis Leyva

Alex Gartenfeld, Pepe Mar, & David Castillo

Pepe Mar & David Castillo

Pepe Mar

Pepe Mar

Pepe Mar

Pepe Mar & Aaron Powell

Pepe Mar & Jean Raymond Alexandre

Ary Rex & Pepe Mar

Gianfranco Berardinelli & Luis Morais

Ian Krawiecki Gazes, Clark Reynolds, Dennis Leyva, David Castillo, Pepe Mar, & Aaron Powell

Pepe Mar, Raymond Mathews, David Castillo, & Samuel Mathews

Pepe Mar, Joanna Marques, & Samuel & Raymond Mathews

Jorge Garcia, Lorie Mertes, & Joshua & Debbie Veasey

Kerry Phillips, Pepe Mar, & Melissa Diaz

Aaron Powell