Allouche Gallery is pleased to announce “A SATISFACTORY PHILOSOPHY OF IGNORANCE AMID BARKING,” an exhibition of new works by Spanish artist Felix R. Cid. The opening will be on Thursday, March 6th with a reception from 6–8 PM, and will feature sixteen vivid and tactile works on canvas and fifteen smaller works on paper that transform uncertainty into a dynamic force of creation.
Cid grew up in Madrid and studied art and photography at a young age. He graduated from Yale’s MFA program where he first developed his playful aesthetic language and unconventional process. Cid’s latest body of work emerges from “El Canpo,” a name he coined as a playful distortion of “El Campo,” the Spanish word for “field.” Built within the Mediterranean landscape of Spain, El Canpo serves as a retreat from the relentless pace urban life, a sanctuary where nature dictates time.
The exhibition’s title takes inspiration from Richard Feynman, the theoretical physicist who described “a satisfactory philosophy of ignorance” as the foundation of scientific progress—an ethos Cid finds deeply resonant with his own practice. Cid’s work has always been preoccupied with problematizing notions of progress, especially within the framework of modernity.
“My work is a chase—a constant loop of finding and losing, trying and failing, moving forward without always knowing where “forward” is. My work is a pursuit—an endless cycle of discovery and loss, trial and error, movement without a fixed destination. Rather than resist uncertainty, I choose to embrace it. This way of painting—seemingly aimless at times—fuels my curiosity and, in turn, my humanity,” Cid explains.
