In a practice spanning nearly two decades, Jose Dávila has created an expressive body of work that explores the visual tropes and iconic symbols of art, architecture, and urban design. Initially trained as an architect and self-educated as a visual artist, Dávila creates sculptures, installations and photographic works that simultaneously emulate, critique, and pay homage to 20th-century avant-garde art and architecture, referencing artists and architects from Luis Barragán to Josef Albers and Donald Judd. Humor and melancholy co-mingle in works that often explore the tension between industrial and organic materials and the forces of compression and balance. This monograph assesses the full scope of Dávila’s practice in all media for the first time, and includes texts attesting to the historical and social dimensions of Dávila’s art. Essays address the artist’s early pieces, his exercises on balance, sculpture, graphics and paintings, and his works in public space.

The publication Zusammen / Together is a comprehensive recollection of the exhibition highlights of the years 2015 to 2022 at Museum Haus Konstruktiv and brings together what is separated in space and time. A series of insightful conversations with the artists Etel Adnan, Claudia Comte, Elisabeth Goldring-Piene, Brigitte Kowanz, Alicja Kwade, Dora Maurer, Amalia Pica, Tomas Saraceno, as well as in-depth texts on Imi Knoebel and William Kentridge are accompanied by numerous exhibition views. Many of the conversations and exhibition views have not been published before; some of the texts reprinted here in slightly modified form are taken from books that have long been out of print today and are given their well-deserved new visibility.