Kohn Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work in the solo exhibition Facts, contradictions, puzzles, an explanation and a few lies by Guadalajara-based conceptual artist Octavio Abúndez opening November 9, 2019. It will be the first solo exhibition of Abúndez's work at the gallery and in Los Angeles, following his inclusion in the group show Chingaderas Sofisticadas as part of the gallery's participation in The Getty's PST: LA/LA initiative. The exhibition further examines Octavio Abúndez's usual subject matter: language, text and popular culture. In four new series of work, he investigates utopias, dystopias, and idealized or dysfunctional societies, understood through the lens of Hollywood films, mass culture and literature. Image caption: Octavio Abúndez, Hi(stories): A Utopian History of Humanity, 2019, acrylic on 256 canvases, 6 x 12 x 1 inches each