Exhibitions
Marie Zolamian and Daniel Jacoby inaugurate Bombon-Crisis in Malasaña
Artistic dialogue between Zolamian's drawings and Jacoby's installations in the new exhibition space in Madrid.
Pink specks of dust in a garden with no sun , by Marie Zolamian and Daniel Jacoby, opens the season at Bombon Projects' new exhibition space in Madrid. The exhibition proposes a dialogue between Jacoby's sculptures, which examine the tensions between aesthetics, consumerism and modernity through references such as Lima's shopping malls, and Zolamian's enigmatic paintings and drawings, which give life to symbolic and imaginary worlds inspired by historical archives and dreamscapes.
From September 11 to October 31, the two series developed in recent years raise questions about identity, belonging and spirituality through different but complementary formal languages. As the title suggests, the exhibition oscillates between contradiction and speculation, creating universes where the domestic becomes disturbing and the everyday is transformed into fiction.
Le jardin sans soleil (14) (2023) Marie Zolamian.
Madrid opens its art season: from September 11 to 14, the Madrid Gallery Weekend opens a new cycle of exhibitions in 55 spaces in the city. Among the new features, a project that recently arrived in the capital stands out, the result of the collaboration between the Barcelona gallery Bombon Projects and the Lima space Crisis: Bombon-Crisis. Located in the Malasaña neighborhood, this new space is part of a very dynamic cultural scene, where established and emerging galleries coexist.
Daniel Jacoby and Marie Zolamian are exhibiting together for the first time at the recently opened space in Madrid by Bombon Projects and CRISIS Galería. Zolamian presents paintings from 2025 alongside a set of drawings created between 2023 and 2025. His process in each series is extremely meticulous: first he prepares the linen canvases with rabbit fur glue and fixes them on wooden panels; then he frames them and, once back in the studio, he begins to paint. He uses the wet-on-wet technique, which allows him to work on several canvases simultaneously for long periods, while the figures emerge and define themselves through successive layers of color, revealing enigmatic images surrounded by a dreamlike atmosphere.
The Light Doesn't Need the Lamp More than the Desert Needs a Submarine (2019) Daniel Jacoby.
Jacoby usually designs and composes his installations digitally, but for this series he decided to intervene with his own hands, cutting the pieces with a band saw and then covering them with fabrics that evoke fragments of the human body. The textures and layered colors of the garments dialogue with the immaculate finish of the MDF, creating a three-dimensional drawing full of contrasts that opens up to the performative dimension thanks to the integrated LED lights. With this material poetics, Jacoby invites us to reflect on how Western consumption models have permeated the markets of Peru and South America, generating a desire for modernity that, despite its limits and contradictions, is transformed into a hybrid aesthetic and the construction of a singular identity.
Paradoxes, symbolism, dream and reality, aesthetics and constructions that explore ways of doing and living: this is how Pink specks of dust in a garden with no sun is presented, by Marie Zolamian and Daniel Jacoby.
The Light Doesn't Need the Lamp More than Easter Needs Santa Claus (2019) Daniel Jacoby.
