Abraham / 24″ x 36″ / Oil on Mylar paper - collage - 2007

Cutting Edge Art Exhibit

Contemporary conceptually designed multimedia artworks by Houston based artist Rodrigo Aguilera are in an intense dialogue with art theory and philosophy as well as with the broader social reality.
Science and Art, both have the Kantian aesthetic interest when referring to the beauty of complexity in nature and to its creative and self-reflexive aspects. The notion of sublime in general pertains to that in nature which transgresses the capabilities of imagination and the life of an individual being. Art, in particular modern art, must be the most complex subject in the world to understand. To reach this comprehension we should use that ‘freshness of vision’ of a child, limiting adult perception subjugated by thinking.
Rodrigo is one of those artists who by ‘tricking’ the mind comes to break down its formatting, that is, avoids activating pre-formatted patterns and pre-formatted perceptions. Such paintings as “Abraham, “David Michael Angelo” and “Mona Lisa” present a non logical design of juxtapositioned elements of abstract collage and perfect academy style painting, unconventional perspective, and non-linear lines that helps to prevent set patterns from being triggered in the mind, causing the attention to focus at the painting and creatively assemble the parts anew. In particular, this aids integration of the parts into the whole picture rather than viewing a ‘framed’ subject set out and separate from the background.
Melting two art concepts: abstract and figurative… Aguilera paints a piece and then re-creates it using all of its original parts. Following the principal of nature that parts form a whole, with this rearrangement process he confirms that everything in creation has a place and a purpose. There is no question that we do see the presence of pictorial beauty, and harmony; we receive enjoyment from its viewing; we perceive integrity and wholeness and a sense of completion. The qualitative interrelationship is obtained through harmony of color, line and masses and good overall composition and design, and a consistency of technical rendering.

“Cutting Edge” opens February 9, 2008 at Art Rouge Gallery International Contemporary Art which is located in the Wynwood Art District, 46 NW 36 St., Loft 3, Miami, FL 33127. The opening reception will be from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and the art show will run until March 15, 2008. For more information please visit www.artrouge.com or call 305-448-2060.