Jorge Satorre

CRAC Alsace. Photo: A. Mole

Black jacket, gray sweatshirt is a book by Jorge Satorre published on the occasion of his exhibition of the same name at CRAC Alsace, Centre rhénan d’art contemporain, curated by Elfi Turpin in the summer of 2021.

The descriptions included in the book are the observations written by Jorge Satorre in Mexico City’s Bosque de Chapultepec one October day in 2019. Based on these texts, the artist made a series of drawings over the course of four months, only referring to these written descriptions for guidance. Seven and a half hours of that day are represented, with each image corresponding to twenty minutes. In addition to helping classify the vegetation, each section of the grid represents one minute’s time. A couple appeared in the distance around 13:45 and left as it started to rain.

The ideas outlined in the introduction are mostly culled from historian Natacha Seseña’s book El vicio del barro (Madrid: Ediciones El Viso, 2009).

Designed by Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier. Edited by Elfi Turpin and Thomas Patier.
Published by ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ and CRAC Alsace. Texts by Jorge Satorre, translated from Spanish by Anouk Devillé and Thomas Patier, and proofread by Laura Brown, María Emilia Fernández, and Richard Neyroud. Image corrections by Les Artisans du Regard. 800 copies were printed by Cassochrome and distributed by Les presses du réel, Idea Books and Temblores Publicaciones. This publication is typeset in Waggis Script and Waggis Regular.

Black jacket, gray sweatshirt was produced by CRAC Alsace.

Published in June 2021
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
22,5 × 31,2 cm (hardcover, cloth binding, dust jacket)
48 pages (ill.)

ISBN : 978-2-911660-21-4
EAN : 9782911660214

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27.06.2021 CRAC Alsace - Solo show. Altkirch, France. 

Jorge Satorre (Mexico City, 1979) Through manual processes and experimentation with different materials, my work usually starts off as a response to evidential traces that are part of historical moments of the contexts and subjects I relate to. After a brief incursion at the beginning of my career in the field of editorial illustration, drawing has remained my main medium, often produced by me, but also by colleagues I invite to collaborate from different areas like political cartoonists, and scientific and comic strips illustrators. The narrative possibilities of drawing allow me to make the objective record coexist with fictional elements, understanding this relationship as one of oscillation between different scales, between the individual and subjective and the general, hegemonic versions. Some of the venues where I have had solo presentations of my work are: CarrerasMugica - Bilbao (2020), REDCAT - Los Angeles (2018), Museo Tamayo - Mexico City (2017), Labor gallery - Mexico City (2017, 2014, and 2010); Statements - Art Basel (2014); Artspace - Auckland; Halfhouse - Barcelona (both 2013); Art Positions - Miami Art Basel (2011), Le Grand Café - St-Nazaire, France; FormContent - London; Centro Cultural Montehermoso - Vitoria (all in 2010) and La Casa Encendida - Madrid (2006).

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