NEW YORK, NY.- Marlborough Gallery is presenting an exhibition of recent work by the Spanish-born artist, David Rodríguez Caballero entitled Vinyls. This is the first showing of the artist’s works in vinyl in the United States, a body of work that complements his established sculptural practice. Rodríguez Caballero is known for his compelling and rigorous methods of defining space, light and color using various metals in the way another artist might manipulate fabric or paper. The exhibition will remain on view through March 5th, 2016.

Rodríguez Caballero began his artistic career as a painter, but moved on from the medium to explore his pervasive and dynamic fixation on the impact of light. As a sculptor, he folds aluminum, bronze, copper, or brass in order to create planes which capture light as a multiplicity of gradients. These metal works, whether freestanding or wall-mounted, engage with their surrounding space and utilize light as an essential material element. The artist extrapolates this notion through these new works in vinyl, in which he allows light to permeate the complex arrangements of translucent polychromatic strips. Through this process, the works achieve varying depths encouraged by tone, composition and texture. They present a rich contradiction as they possess both a sense of reticence and immediacy. Seemingly understood at first glimpse, these works in vinyl reveal themselves to the viewer as arrays of distortions, as compositions of various depths. Each of these works becomes a play of its surrounding light.

Born in Pamplona, Spain, in 1970, Rodríguez Caballero currently lives and works in Madrid and New York. The artist most recently exhibited his diverse body of work in the Citadel of Pamplona, Spain. The exhibition, entitled Citadelle, showcased over 70 works ranging from wall-mounted pieces to sculpture of monumental scale. These works were displayed throughout the open spaces and the rustic chambers of the renowned 16th Century fortress. In 2011, the Museo Würth La Rioja in Spain organized Glaciers, a seminal exhibition that included the artist’s works in several formats: aluminum, Plexiglas, vinyl, paper and enamel.

Rodriguez Caballero’s work is represented by reputable museums and private collections throughout the United States, Europe, Central and South America. The artist has received numerous awards for his sculpture and his works on paper.