Pacifico Silano reworks and collages imagery sourced from vintage gay pornography magazines and preserved in Plexiglas slabs, which thereupon become stand-ins for gay men lost to the AIDS epidemic. Featured in the traveling institutional exhibition Art AIDS America, which was shown locally at the Bronx Museum of Art last year, Silano’s Arrangements project is presented by Rubber Factory (New York, both C10).

 

Pacifico Silano, Embrace, 2016, Archival pigment print, 20 x 16 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.
Pacifico Silano, Embrace, 2016, Archival pigment print, 20 x 16 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.

 

 

Pacifico Silano, Wooden Stairs, 2016, Archival pigment print, 8 x 10 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.
Pacifico Silano, Wooden Stairs, 2016, Archival pigment print, 8 x 10 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.

 

 

Pacifico Silano, Roger, 2016, Archival pigment print, 15 x 12 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.
Pacifico Silano, Roger, 2016, Archival pigment print, 15 x 12 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.

 

Pacifico Silano, Boots & Aviators, 2016, Archival pigment print, 15 x 12 x 1 in. image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.
Pacifico Silano, Boots & Aviators, 2016, Archival pigment print, 15 x 12 x 1 in. image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.

 

Pacifico Silano, On The Radio, 2016, Archival pigment print, 20 x 16 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.
Pacifico Silano, On The Radio, 2016, Archival pigment print, 20 x 16 x 1 in. Image © of the artist and Rubber Factory.
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