“I met Rodrigo Calderón at the beginning of 2021 and I immediately knew that he not only had talent, but a voice, a genuine style and was willing to make a collection to showcase his spectacular work,” says Héctor Díaz, curator and gallery owner, who presents in his gallery Héctor Díaz Gallery, in Zapopan, Jalisco, the first individual exhibition of this novel plastic artist of Oaxacan roots.
“The Fragmenta exhibition, made up of 11 large-format oil paintings on canvas, invites us to reflect on the pieces that together make us who we are: everything good, everything bad,” adds the art curator.
“We live in a fragmented society where chaos and resilience come together in an attempt to stay in balance in an endless cycle. Just as we are part of society, this is at the same time an essential part of us because it is the material that forms us”, says the artist.
In Rodrigo Calderón’s work, color is the fundamental piece among the pieces of the puzzle of the human entity that the artist completes from the fragments that make it up. It is the color, the tile that completes the mosaic.
With studies of architecture and philosophy and letters, Rodrigo previously ventured into sculpture to later develop as a painter in the current of abstract surrealism. His pictorial work comes from a vibrant palette of colors that refer to the most diverse human sensations and emotions: passion, eroticism, fall, emptiness, identity, belonging, freedom…
“Through introspection we can recognize the fragments that make us be and have a unique personality that is built over time. We are the analogy of a puzzle, our pieces are made of all kinds of experiences and emotions that we live and experience, with thousands of possibilities to expand and grow, reflects Calderón.
Fragments
- by Rodrigo Calderon
- Hector Diaz Gallery
- Santa Margarita 4099, Plaza D’Lucca, Int. C-20, in Zapopan, Jalisco
- From February 2 to 27, 2022
To know the work see:
https://hectordiaz.art/fragmenta-calderón
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