Rodrigo Zamora. Nueva Ciudadela (ventanas eternas), 2022
A LINE DESTINATED TO VANISH
Rodrigo Zamora
From 25th November 2022 to 2nd February 2023
Isolina Arbulu Gallery
Urb. Cortijo de Nagueles 88D, Marbella. Málaga. España
By Studio Mónica Iglesias
The gallery ISOLINA ARBULU presents for the first time in Spain an exhibition dedicated to the Chilean artist Rodrigo Zamora.
The works by the Chilean artist Rodrigo Zamora (Santiago de Chile, 1970) offer a fragmented universe in which the artist invites the spectator to complete through his gaze the reconstructed elements that he presents to us, with our subjective perception completing the meaning of his work.
After the Zamora's participation during the last edition of the contemporary art fair Estampa (Madrid) at the stand of the Isolina Arbulu gallery, this artist is now exhibiting for the first time in Spain.
"In my work there is a constant tension between mimesis and abstraction. I conceive and elaborate my artistic pieces by means of multiple methodological operations that have direct effects on the result. Procedures of deconstruction and reconstruction (both of form and of colour) that allow me to create both figurative representations characterised by being fractioned, and abstract forms, always involved in a manual production".
Rodrigo Zamora. Courtesy of ISOLINA ARBULU Gallery
Zamora starts his creative process from observation, long searching walks allow his camera to capture objects and landscapes that will later become passive subjects. It is his feet that initiate the creative process where his gaze rescues everyday objects that go unnoticed in the immensity of the landscape, universal objects with no defined place. Thus a forest in China is confused with a traffic sign in Chile or a façade in Argentina, creating a universality without frontiers.
The artist surprises us with the use of watercolour as the main medium in an exhibition that presents fifteen large- format works on paper. The artist cuts out the initial image, which will be constructed under his brush in a random and disorderly manner, only coming together at the end of the process, and thus creating a universe of diffuse and confused lines that our mind tries to align. The exhibition brings together works from different periods but with the common link of the line that disappears but stubbornly remains in our imagination. The exhibition is completed by a cardboard sculpture that represents an everyday object whose usefulness is distorted by being represented in a very fragile material, and a cardboard installation that seeks confusion between real and imagined shadows.
Works by Rodrigo Zamora. View of the gallery’s stand at ESTAMPA 2022
Rodrigo Zamora's work can be found in numerous public collections, including: Abdalla de Sao Paolo, Fundación Centro Histórico de México, Colección Bass in Guatemala, CCU de Chile, Banco del Estado de Chile, Metro de Santiago, Banco BICE, Bank of America (Chile), FONDART of the Chilean Ministry of Culture. And in private collections in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, China, Colombia, Spain, USA, Mexico, Peru, UK.
ABOUT ISOLINA ARBULU GALLERY
A young space whose philosophy focuses on the commitment to Spanish art and contemporary Andalusian art, with an impact on international art as well. Integrated in the context of an architectural studio and located in the natural and cosmopolitan environment of the city of Marbella, the gallery has three flexible and excellently equipped spaces in which painting, photography, sculpture, installation and multidisciplinary projects are exhibited that respond to the demands and requirements of the contemporary aesthetic paradigm. We have in our gallery international artists, both recognised and new, as well as national artists, to whom we have an unavoidable commitment of support and follow up.