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Alberto Rodríguez Collía
at odds with the world
With a stroke, at odds with the baroque and ally with the mundane, with the things that cannot be fixed, with the beauty of the roughness and the legacy of the time, for Alberto Rodriguez Collía the wrinkles, mold, deterioration, the forgotten things and the distorted are pencil made stitches that reveals that he grew up in a place where beauty exudes with dismay, because it didn´t exist at all or it aged.
And somehow it sneaks from her, and not as a protest but by conviction. In a city where beauty was from another era, now the walls smell like urine and stools while the sidewalk is collecting nightmares. At this instant, the ugliness and the brutal is what transpires. But with the benefit of provoking and expanding concepts. It causes a dialogue in the intestines that very few know how to share as Rodríguez Collía. His drawings are hard liquor that forces us to close our eyes for a few seconds to open them after with more fortitude.
To contemplate the praise of disharmony which is given by Guatemala City, the internet, the faces and the bodies that are not forgotten. Drawings on a small or large scale, drawings or rather scenarios from where he lives and portrays either for an exhibition or for a low budget film.
Julio Hernández Cordón
workThe “monkey” Sandoval, William Walker, Pedro de Alvarado, his son Alvaro Arzú and the Chapín “thunderbolt” against the Comunist Conspiracy and the Agrarian ReformDry point, 2013
Aleatory mix of historical characters and bizarre images from internet.
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Non PlaceDry point and transfer, 2013
Work in progress
Work developed with the support of ait.
Illustrated story of semi-autobiographical bizarre, melancholic and harsh situations.
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Hopefully the sun will hide meWork made together with Andrea Mármol.
Art direction developed for the Julio Hernández´s film of the same name, 2013
Oil on canvas, acrilic on wood, installation.
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Golden LawVideo, 2012
Work in progress
Story about the slavery, laboral abuse, racism and colonialism in Brazil. Work developed with the support of Cinemateca Brasileira, Pablo Saborido, Bandeirantes tv, and the Armando Alvarez Penteado Foundation.
This video speaks about the exploitation and its institutionalized discrimination (economic and racial) and slavery. The location is Brazil, because this one of the most unequal countries worldwide and was the last to declare slavery illegal (Aurea Act of 1898).
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The TruthVideo collage, 2012
Video-collage that mixes collection of videos and films produced and presented in Guatemala during its history, this includes music, documentaries, commercials, films, private, etc.
Work developed with the support of Bruno 70, Cinemateca Brasileira, University of Pennsylvania, Des.Pacio and the Armando Alvarez Penteado Foundation.
This video collage abruptly mix all kinds of video that have been recorded or presented in Guatemala. This rough mix was made in order to symbolically cover the historical and political situation in Guatemala, in which the atrocities go together with completely contradictory situations.
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StampedeInk on paper, 2012
Work developed in Des.Pacio and the Armando Alvarez Penteado Foundation.
“The excess has become an aesthetic itself, which offered a hypertrophied choreography the world through the screens”. The world of news, entertainment and advertising are mixed continuously among us, this situation saturate our senses, that creates new images and new relationships, that generates a new meaning for ourselves.
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VegetationScanned traditional photography and Super 8 film digitilized, 2012-2013
This is a photographic documentation of vegetation that has emerged unexpectedly in urban buildings. This vegetation has grown due to the tropical location, the nature´s strength and the neglect by the owners of the buildings. This creates an aesthetic accident and a improvised urban vegetation that supplies the lack of green spaces in the disorganized urban planning of the city.
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London CallingTransfer, 2012
Developed for the exhibition Both Ends.Bookbinding made by Lucía Menéndez.
This work explores the strange relationship between Belize and Guatemala, which began when both countries were colonies (of England and Spain respectively), specifically, during the most critical situation which was about to start an absurd war between England and Guatemala, in which Israel eventually would intervene. It is through transfers from images of British and Guatemalans newspapers, I try to generate a broad and cynical vision about it.
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CounterintelligenceOffset, 2011-2012
Collection of phrases from Guatemalan politicians.
Guatemalans conservative politicians during the 80’s had ample protection to avoid comply various international agreements, such as compliance and respect for Human Rights. Thus their policy was presented clearly and openly, which in many cases promoted the systematic killing of Indians in the country. The phrases were selected as if they were renowned for their intelligence or humanism.
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Natural HistoryBook, transfer, 2011-2012
Imitating the clash of images in printed media, this book was made with transfers from images from the newspapers during the Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996), with the objetive to express how the media misinformed people about the real situation of the country .
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Even the Sun has spotsMural made with chalk, for the Julio Hernández´s movie of the same name, 2011
Made from the Julio Hernández´s photographies.
In order to take advantage of the shooting location, save resources and experiment with the film aesthetics, these scenarios were designed for the Julio Hernández´s film “Even the Sun has spots”. These murals were made with chalk and the drawing was based in the director´s photographs. These ephemeral drawings relate to the film plot, which is an essay of the complex situation of filmmaking in Guatemala and how is to try to develop in this context.
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Without title (landscape)Mural, 2010
Work made together with Andrea Mármol.
This project was made for the exhibition “Our landscape” that was made with the goal of rethinking terms of landscape, regardless of the technique. In this case, I worked together with the visual artist Andrea Mármol. We decided to work with the mural technique, which has been used to represent many landscapes throughout art history, changing only two factors: to capture a contemporary landscape and to make a ephemeral mural which disappeared when exhibition ended.
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WeekendScanned newspapers photographies and worked digitally, frames and glass, 2009
The Guatemalan Civil War (1960-1996) led to a major split in the country’s population, largely due to ignorance of the war´s true background. Because of this reason, it have been always expressed as a protest in art, a single perspective, so I decided to express a cynical perspective, which has more in common with younger generations who have been born into a type of limbo, having lived a guerrilla, the Peace Agreements and corruption (corruption economic, political, social ...) that was around this facts. For that reason I worked this mix of images from newspapers of the crudest time from this war as if they were family photographs.
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The InvaisionInstallation, house made with engravings from reutilized metal sheets, 2008
Work developed in the fonca residency in Oaxaca, México, 2008.
This work was done with engravings from reused metal sheets, trying to imitate poor households. The goal of this work is a symbolically invasion to the museums and galleries (where this work will be exhibited). These spaces are usually related to economic elitism, which discriminates intellectually and are completely distant from the situation of their context (both physically and in content of exhibitions).
