Fantasy in Reality

Enrique Gómez de Molina

Exhibition Dates: March 7–May 30, 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, March 7 from 6–8 pm
Gallery Location: 434 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
Hours: Tuesday–Saturday, 10 am–5 pm
Contact Info: 504.522.1999; arthurrogergallery.com

Enrique Gomez de Molina creates an exotic hybrid fauna of flamboyant dancers, mutants, freakish feathered creatures. Gomez de Molina uses actual taxidermy work to assemble his sculptures. Through his surrealistic surgical labor, Gomez de Molina pushes an aesthetic paradigm shift about beauty and monstrosity in the ordinary daily realm while at the same time imposing the bizarre fantasy that comes from devastation.

“The impossibility of my sculpture brings me both joy and sadness at the same time. The joy comes from seeing and experiencing the Fantasy of the work but that is coupled with the sadness of the fact that we are destroying all of these beautiful things.”
-Artist Enrique Gomez

Galleries

Work

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Guardian
2017

Beetle wings, peacock feathers, vintage Persian lamb fur, mixed media

62 x 34 x 36 inches

Enrique Gómez de Molina

McQueen
2018

Peacock feathers, pheasant feathers, turkey feathers, rooster feathers, resin hornbill skull, emu feet and mixed media

94 x 14 x 38 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Blue Boy
2016

Pheasant feathers, fallow deer antler, dyed goat fur, mixed media

48 x 23 x 23 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Art Vark
2012

Beetle wings, vintage dyed hyena feet, vintage dyed donkey ears, mixed media

22 x 14 x 55 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Inevitable Impact
2017

Rabbit fur, rooster feathers, resin hornbill skull, mixed media

42 x 24 inches left
32 x 24 inches right

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Pharaoh
2017

Goat horns, goat fur, rooster feathers, beetle wings, peacock feathers, mixed media

39 x 12 x 15 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Ralph Lauren
2018

Peacock feathers, pheasant feathers, resin parrot beak, mixed media

28 x 25 x 14 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Venus
2017

Opossum hands and feet, rooster feathers, pigeon feathers, seashell, mixed media

24 x 12 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Birdlesque Feather Dancer II
2017

Rooster feathers, ostrich feathers, squirrel fur, pigeon, mixed media

17 1/2 x 14 x 14 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Birdlesque Feather Dancer I
2017

Rooster feathers, ostrich feathers, squirrel fur, pigeon, mixed media

17 1/2 x 14 x 14 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Venetian
2017

Rooster feathers, pigeon feathers, skunk fur, rooster feet, wood cane, mixed media

20 x 7 x 6 inches

Enrique Gomez de Molina

Thierry Mugler
2018

Rooster feathers, sea urchin, pigeon feathers, resin parrot legs, cypress knee stand, mixed media

24 x 12 x 12 inches

Installation Views