Incomplete Trajectories: Ernesto García Sánchez & Roger Toledo
Incomplete Trajectories presents new work by Ernesto García Sánchez and Roger Toledo, who push the traditional limitations of painting by dismantling its formal elements, transforming them into dynamic structures. These metaphorically reflect the shifting boundaries of perceived realities.
Thomas Nickles Project is pleased to announce Incomplete Trajectories, an exhibition of new work by Ernesto García Sánchez and Roger Toledo, on view from March 27 until May 11, 2025. Both artists push the boundaries of traditional painting by breaking down and reassembling its core elements to create fresh perspectives on form, color, and meaning. Moving beyond narrative representation, they experiment with structure and composition to challenge expectations of how we see and understand art.
García Sánchez deconstructs the form of painting by isolating its essential elements – color, line, shape, form, texture, space – only to reconstruct them in new and unexpected formats. Some pieces incorporate hinges, allowing for movement and transformation, while others juxtapose contrasting colors and textures to subvert conventional pictorial space. His practice interrogates the rigidity of medium, reframing painting as a dynamic system of shifting relationships rather than a fixed image.
Toledo, on the other hand, engages the cube as a formal constraint, exploring its permutations as an “incomplete structure.” His practice evolved from landscape painting into a systematic study of color by meticulously isolating individual hues that built his palette. Over time, this inquiry into color became increasingly granular, culminating in the pixel, which he conceives as the fundamental building block of color. Represented through the cube, the pixel becomes a site of ongoing exploration, with each iteration remaining deliberately unresolved yet moving toward new possibilities. Through various mediums, Toledo’s evolving practice navigates the tension between form and flux, challenging existing notions of completeness.
Together, García Sánchez and Toledo engage in an intellectual exercise that challenges not only the parameters of visual representation, but also the constructed realities we take for granted. By investigating the formal components of visual art, their works suggest that just as artistic elements can be rearranged, so too can the systems and norms that shape our world.
Incomplete Trajectories invites viewers to embrace uncertainty and the potential for change. Through relentless experimentation, García Sánchez and Toledo remind us that perception is fluid, making space to push boundaries until they become new realities.
