Rodrigo Cacho (1993) | Bio
Statement:
In my work, I delve into three different themes: the present, the past and the future.
In the past, writing was an advantage, the one who writes is the one who transmits and as we know the one who communicates is the one who transcends. The problem comes when most people do not have access to this tool, not many people can transmit their perspectives and ideas.
The notion that history is literally something that “happened” is an idea I find interesting, complicated and somewhat ironic because none of us were there to witness it and judge it, to write our own perspective of what happened. We don't know if the person describing these events to us is doing it through an objective lens… in the end, this thing we call "history" is simply a perspective, a celebration of one side of the many involved, a small part of the puzzle...
I translate this into my works through four elements, the first is the ancient sculptures, the Greco-Roman sculptures were originally painted with very vivid colors, over time they were degraded and transformed into what we see today, very pure, very white or pale-colored; For a long time we thought we knew what was the message that these sculptures wanted to convey but we were wrong. Time distorts history. I reproduce these sculptures on canvas and then intervene them, for example with confetti, an ephemeral material which is used to celebrate and immediately loses meaning after being used, over time, like these ancient sculptures, loses its color until it becomes a distant image of what it once was.
The other two elements I use are blue and gold, blue is a religious element, an element of status, of royalty, it was a very expensive pigment to produce, made of lapis lazuli, a pigment that very few people could commission artists to use, a very easy way to say "I am important", next to blue, gold, which is still used as a status symbol, you can generate an immediate reaction with this precious metal.
Now we jump to the subject of the present, the present is the only place where the actions that will cause real consequences are generated, the only place with the ability to transform what is going to be translated and captured in real history, in this case, I use photographs of anonymous contemporary characters, I use their mind as an element in the composition and an element of change, everything comes from the mind, it is a universe in itself; the strokes I use emulate clouds, expansions, ideas.
Speaking of the future, as we know the future does not exist in itself, the future is an idea, a possibility, a potential that never really materializes, we cannot live in the future.
We never experience it, but despite all this, it will always be there for us as an abstract element, an element of uncertainty and longing.
To represent this I use materials that transform uncontrollably, such as polyurethane foam, to which I give a path, I guide it, then it expands and decides its final form when it reaches its destination, because of its shape, texture, and volume, it creates the illusion that it will always be in eternal change.
Studies
2012-2016 - Diseño Industrial / Ibero – Ciudad de México
2015 - Diseño de Transporte / ELISAVA - Barcelona
2011 -Diseño Automotivo / Rigoletti – Ciudad de México
EXHIBICIONES INDIVIDUALES Y DE DOS PERSONAS
2022 - “Reinvention of self”- Solo show - Galeria Alfredo Ginocchio | Los Cabos - Los Cabos, Mexico.
2019 - Sacred Grounds – Ciudad de México, Mexico
2018 - Cacho & Cacho – Ciudad de México, México
2018 - SOMOS – Lima, Perú
2017 - Subasta GOR – Ciudad de México, México
2017 - Encuentro Oaxaca – Oaxaca, México
EXHIBICIONES GRUPALES
2020 -In my Dreams - Ciudad de México, México
2019 - Un sueño surrealista – Ciudad de México, México
2019 - Paralelas Doce – Ciudad de México, México
2018 - Grupo de los 16 – Ciudad de México, México
2016 - Subasta GOR – Ciudad de México, México
2012 - See Me – Nueva York, USA