Rodrigo Ruiz, MEXICO, in World Art Guide 2023 by Bellamonti Art

Rodrigo Ruiz, born in Querétaro, in 1978, is an Architect and artist, and focuses his artistic exercise on the production of paintings and sculptures with an outstanding emphasis on the use of raw materials. In his pieces, Ruiz projects his fascination for abstract expressionism, taking it to a tridimensional realm and commanding those materials to tell us a bigger story. Many layers of oil paint get torn to reveal what is beneath them, be it wood or metal, placed in impossible burning or fragmented patterns.

Ruiz sees a world of expressive possibilities as the layers of paint, materials and images appear before him in the same manner as internal struggles, contradictions, and the patterns hidden under our skin come to light. He forces himself to look at things from a different perspective, and his goal is to share that vision with the audience.

Rodrigo Ruiz’s pieces are unquestionably and foremost an exercise in confrontation. It is a series of random movements that result in a chaotic yet organic landscape, where sequences of orthogonal, clean, and precise drawings are skillfully planted and imposed. Order confronts chaos. It is almost like an aerial look of the earth with white houses superimposed on it. These pieces are much more than that. Upon looking at them carefully, these pieces are formed by layers of buried compositions. Sometimes they are thin glazes. Other times they are thick lumps that alter the geography of the canvas. Just like Russian dolls, two, three, or six pieces can coexist and live within each one of Ruiz’s canvases. It takes courage to do this.

• 2022 Group exhibition, “Abstract Duty”, Gallery Azur, Madrid, Spain

• 2022 Group exhibition, “Large Format”, Aguafuerte Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico

• 2021 Solo exhibition, “Russian Dolls”, Contemporary Art Museum, Queretaro, Mexico roruizn@gmail.com www.rodrigoruiz.art

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