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av. sáenz peña 129, barranco , lima | telefax 247 4685 | www.wugaleria.com | [email protected] omar rodríguez-graham / agustín gonzález ráfagas / la caída del sol negro
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av. sáenz peña 129, barranco , lima | telefax 247 4685 | www.wugaleria.com | [email protected]
omar rodríguez-graham / agustín gonzález
ráfagas / la caída del sol negro
ráfagasomar rodríguez-graham
Ráfagas by Omar Rodríguez-Graham advocates the premise that everything is in a constant develop-
ment. The present stands over the rumble of the past, which distorts memories, shatters narratives
and creates renewed ones.
The artist´s work champions the concept of disintegration. Based on iconic pieces from western
painting, the artist appropiates Tiepolo, Breughel or Watteau´s compositions to reassemble its
figurative compositions into abstract paintings. By applying contemporary parameters (digital
disassemble) to old masters compositions , the artist transcends figurative boundaries which be-
come unrecognizable in its final work.
Nevertheless, the artist does not transgress the pictorial essence nor moves away from a transcen-
dental idea of art: that which admits that every “destructive” act is considered to be a creative
one.
view of the exhibition
view of the exhibition
Brightness Falls From the Airoil on canvas
ø 150 cm2015
Pieter Brueghel the ElderThe Tower of Babel
oil on panel114 x 155 cm
1563
Warbirdoil on canvas150 x 130 cm
2015
Giovanni Domenico TiepoloA Dance in the Country
oil on canvas75.6 x 120 cm
ca. 1755
Interferenceoil on canvas
ø 100 cm2015
The Abyss Gazes Alsooil on canvas150 x 130 cm
2015
Giambattista TIEPOLOTime unveiling truth
Oil on canvas259 x 350 cm
ca.1743
Crysalisoil on canvas150 x 130 cm
2015
Giambattista TIEPOLOThe Triumph of Virtue and Nobility
over IgnoranceOil on canvas
320 x 392.4 cmca.1740 - 50
Stellar Raysoil on canvas
ø 100 cm2015
Oro en Paz. Fierro en Guerraoil on canvas
ø 150 cm2015
In The Valley I Met My Kingoil on canvas
90 x 80 cm2015
A Momentary Lapseoil on canvas
ø 100 cm2015
la caída del sol negroagustín gonzález
Under the title La caída del sol negro (The set of the black sun), the Mexican artist AgustínGonzález (D.F., 1978) presents his last series of paintings in Wu Galería. Inspired by a brief ex-tract by Eduardo Galeano of Las palabras andantes, 1993 by Eduardo Galeano on the concept of utopia: “Utopia is in the horizon. I go two steps closer, and it goes two steps further. I walk ten steps and the horizon moves ten steps away. As much as I walk, I shall never reach it. What is the use of utopia, then? To keep on walking.”
The show is organized in a series of small format oils paintings of 50 x 40 cm, which depict the landscape, the road, the horizon and unrecognizable pedestrians. These isolated scenes, are painted with a pervasive feeling of solitude. Characters who disappear under the last rays of an almost extinct sun, the diffused light which filters the sceneries painted and blurs recogniz-able individual features.
exhibition view
exhibition view
La caída del sol negro 1oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 2oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 3oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 4oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 5oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 6oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 7oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 8oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 9oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
La caída del sol negro 10oil on canvas
50 x 40 cm2015
omar rodríguez-graham1978 / ciudad de méxico
EDUCATION
2005 M.F.A. Painting, Tyler School Of Art, Philadelphia, P.A. United States / Rome, Italy2002 B.A. Art, Drew University, N.J. United States
SOLO SHOWS
2014 Eternal Return, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, México, México2013 Myse en Abyme, Galería nueveochenta Bogotá, Colombia Carmen Araujo Arte, Caracas, Venezuela2012 Pintura Construida, Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Mexico2011 Variaciones Sobre un Tema, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City2008 Reposo, Museo de la Ciudad de Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico La Muerte Reina Bella y Melancolica, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City2005 Tesis: live.work, Temple Gallery, 2005, Philadelphia, United States
GROUP SHOWS
2014 100 Painters of Tomorrow, BEERS CONTEMPORARY, México, México Creacion en Movimiento, San Pedro Museo de Arte, México, México El hombre al desnudo. Dimensiones de la masculinidad a partir de 1800, Museo Nacional de Arte, México, México Superficie en Tension, DIAGRAMA, México, México2013 Abstraccion, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, México, México Rudimentum, Christinger De Mayo, Zürich, Switzerland Yo.Contenido, CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico After the Object, Y Gallery, New York, United States
Ensamble: Alejandra Laviada & Omar Rodriguez-Graham, DIAGRAMA, México, México 2012 Lo común y lo colectivo, Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Mexico Sugar and Wood: New Paintings by Anna Membrino and Omar Rodriguez-Graham, Marty Walker Gallery, Dallas, United States Casa de Empeño, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City Espacios Quebrantados, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City2011 Creacion en Movimiento de Jovenes Creadores Generacion 2006 - 2007, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, México. Bella y Terca, Nueve Argumentos Sobre la Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City2010 Jovenes Creadores Generacion 2006 - 2007, Biblioteca Vasconcelos, Mexico City Bella y Terca, Nueve Argumentos Sobre la Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City2009 Luna: Una expresion artística 5a Edicion, Auditorio Nacional, Mexico City There are false problems more than there are false solutions more than there are false solutions for true problems. Or The First time is already the second. Or Being must have a fundamental lapse of memory, Proyectos Monclova at NRML, Monterrey, Mexico IMPERIVM Capitulo I: Que Viva Mexico!, Galería Hilario Galguera at the Spinerei, Leipzig, Deutschland.2008 Bienal de Querétaro, Julio Castillo, Galería Libertad, Querétaro, Mexico Index 2 : Pulsional, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City The U.S. Contemporary Artist in Mexico, Museo Británico, Mexico City Una Imagen, Dos Interpretaciones, Obra de Oscar Rodriguez y Omar Rodriguez-Graham, Salon de la Plástica Mexicana, Mexico City Artistas Por El Medio Ambiente, Galería Metropolitana, Mexico City 2007 Index: Esperando A Los Bárbaros, Galería Hilario Galguera, Mexico City Creacion en Movimiento de Jovenes Creadores Generacion 2006 - 2007, Museo Francisco Cossio, San Luis Potosí, Mexico Realidad: Pendiente, Galería 13, Mexico City
GRANTS, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES
2013 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture2009 Banff Center Residency, FONCA Mexico / Canada2006 Young Creators Grant, FONCA Mexico
agustín gonzález1978 / ciudad de méxico
EDUCATION 2001- 2006 B.A. at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda”, Mexico City. Former Graphic Design student at UNAM, ENEP Acatlán.
SOLO SHOWS
2015 Volver como un árbol, AFA galería, Santiago, Chile2014 Elbosque y el columpio, Galeria Arroniz. Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City Gala para la muerte, MUPO, Oxaca Mudanza de flores y cristales, Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City2013 Marcha Fúnebre, Galería AFA, Santiago, Chile2010 Desayuno del Tornado, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City Puño de Tierra, Ferenbalm Gurbrü Station Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany Labios Apretados, Arroniz Berrueta Arte Proyectos, Monterrey, MX2009 Montañas y retazos, Museo Pedro Coronel, Zacatecas , MX2008 La Piedra y el Cometa, F erenbalm-Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe, Germany2007 Topicos de evolucion, Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, October, Mexico City Bloques y piedras, Casa Vecina, Downtown, May. Mexico City2005 Héroes y Horizontes, Café La Gloria, March- May, Mexico City2000 Prácticas Inválidas, Diego Rivera Gallery, ENEP Aragon, UNAM. July, Mexico City
GROUP SHOWS
2015 V salon contemporáneo de gráfica, La Trampa, México D.F. Doce pintores contemporáneos mexicanos, Embajada de México en Berlín, Alemania.2014 XVI Bienal de Pintura Tamayo, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City Creacion en movimiento, 25 años FONCA, Biblioteca de Mexico, Mexico City Materia Abyecta, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City Doppelganger, Galeria Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, Michael Sturm, Mexico City2013 Tiro Cruzado, DIAGRAMA, MexicoCity Materia Sensible, Gabinete Grafico, Museo Carrillo Gill, Mexico City Colectiva Abstraccion, Galería Arroniz, Arte Contemporáneo Papeles Salvajes, Arroniz Machete, Colonia Roma, Mexico City2012 XV Tamayo Painting Biennial, Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, MX Lo común y lo colectivo. Galería Libertad / Arroniz. Querétaro, Mexico. Colectiva México, Baro Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil. A los que les gustan las flores, FGS Gallery, Karlsruhe, Germany. The name is Burroughs. ZKM Center for Art and Media. Karlsruhe, Germany. Colectiva de Pintura. Arroniz Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City.2011 XV Tamayo Painting Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, MX Tiempo de Sospecha. Museum od Modern Art, Mexico City. NOW. Works from the Jumex Collection. Curated by Víctor Zamudio, Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara, MX ReCover Project, Casa del Lago, Mexico City. La realidad como proyecto, Museum of Contemporary Art of Oaxaca, Mexico. Kamehameha, Orth-fûr aktuelle Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany2010 Efecto Drácula, Museo del Chopo, UNAM. Mexico City Open Studio + FGS, San Jeronimo 31, Col. Centro, Mexico City2009 Pulp Fiction, Papieraibeiten, FGS, Karlsruhe, Alemania
Como agua fría, Galería Caja Blanca, Mexico City. La ciudad, la montaña y la línea, Arroniz / Berrueta Arte Proyectos, Mty Mexico. Paréntesis, Museo de Arte de Oaxaca, MX.2008 Leinzell Open, Schloss Leinzell, Germany. Pedro Coronel First Painting Biennial, Museo Pedro Coronel. Zacatecas, MX.
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2008 -2009 Grant for Young Creators Grant, FONCA: Painting.2006 -2007 Grant for Young Creators Grant, FONCA: Graphics. 1st place award at Primera Bienal Pedro Coronel 2008, Zacatecas, Mexico. 1st place award at Segunda Bienal de Arte Universitaria, Toluca, Edo. de México. 2005.Instant Im age Category. The award was given out by a jury conformed by artists. 1st place award at Segunda Bienal de Arte Universitaria, Toluca Edo. de México. 2005. Instant Im age Category. This second award was given out by a jury conformed by curators.
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The British Museum Graphic Collection, London, UK Grafische Sammlung, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany Fundacion / Coleccion JUMEX, Mexico. Bank of Mexico, Mexico City. Museum of Contemporary Art Oaxaca, Mexico. Museum Pedro Coronel, Zacatecas, Mexico. Museum of Graphics José Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes, Mexico. Museo José Guadalupe Posada, Aguascalientes, MX.
