CREATIVEPORTFOLIO
CREATIVE PORTFOLIO 2019
Collector of imaginary moments,
inventor of paranormal drama.
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Biography . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 06 Artist statement . . . . . . . . . . . . 08 Achievements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Production . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Visual arts . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Performing arts . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Collaborators . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Contact . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Biography Mauro Rojas is an artist and creator of brands and products in the creative industry sector, with a career of 17 years. He has participated in conferences, exhibitions, festivals and residences in Argentina, Bosnia and Herzegovina, China, Ecuador, Portugal, and Turkey.
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Winner of the Cultural Entrepreneurs Awards 2015 and Ecuador Triunfador Awards 2008, Mauro is CEO and Founder of ONOFFON, a platform for promoting creativity for socioeconomic development of Ecuador, through a brand of woven bags and a circuit of craftspeople; he is also Founder and Director of Eonminu, design and branding consultancy. The portfolio of Mauro Rojas includes a diverse offer of artworks, corporate design projects, and editorial products.
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Artist statement In my work, experimentation is inevitable, a canvas that integrates abstraction, informalism, and the development of disruptive thinking. I combine digital and traditional techniques to create graphic and interpretative artworks, weaving processes like an eternal laboratory. I am interested in developing and sharing a narrative aesthetic that promotes the deconstruction and evolution of human thought.
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The mental ship I enjoy exploring the different territories that creativity offers me. In my multidimensional journies, I am accompanied by imagination, proyection and conscious energy, as essencial elements of creation. I move through various disciplines, predominating in my work the development of creative processes from a sense of constant and revitalizing experimentation, causing the risk to overcome the parameters of conventional thinking. I am interested in building the future through art and design, sharing the possibility of reimagining the world to generate a creatively built society.
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Achievements Mauro has participated in various events inside and outside of Ecuador, sharing his creative vision and nurturing his experience through exhibitions of visual arts, residences on art, heritage and tourism, theatrical presentations, conferences...
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Visual arts / National events 2013. ONOFFON’s presentation. Arte Actual Gallery, FLACSO, Quito.
Visual arts / International events 2013. Open Doors - Eugenio de Almeida Foundation, Portugal. 2011. International Portrait’s Biennial INTERBIFEP, Bosnia & Herzegovina. 2010. Residency program on cultural heritage and tourism, Turkey. 2008. International Students’ Exhibition - Shanghai Biennale, China.
Performing arts / National events 2015. Palabra, performance presentation at ESPOL’s Art Festival. 2015. Palabra, performance presentation at MicroteatroGYE. 2015. El sonido del silencio, video exhibition at Almanaque de Cuerpos. 2014. Momentum, performance presentation at Almanaque de Cuerpos.
Awards 2015. Emprendedores Culturales. Ministry of Culture & Heritage, Ecuador. 2008. Ecuador Triunfador: Creativity. Consorcio NOBIS, Ecuador.
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Production The production of Mauro Rojas is transdisciplinary, visual elements and theatrical interpretation are interrelated in artworks that seek to create and transmit their own language, where experimentation is present as a fundamental axis, in his interest in developing codes and appropriating symbols.
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Visual arts
I try to respect the space of creation when developing a visual work, giving chance to any medium or format. I can start a work using paper or the screen of a mobile device, the type of canvas is not determinant, but it is the desire to imagine other ways of seeing the world. 14
Posters for a collective reconciliation
Installation exhibited at the International Students’ Exhibition, Shanghai Biennale 2008, China.
Tools for resonance 2017 Digital painting from the Resonance collection, experiment of imaginary instruments, pieces created on mobile devices.
Adolfo 2008-2011 [detail] This work was born with acrylic and ink on paperboard, later remastered in digital media. Adolfo took part at the International Portrait’s Biennial INTERBIFEP, in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 2011.
Demasiado humano 2008 Sculpture of wood and paper, a work that explores the emotional condition of the individual as an object-fetish of its own suffering. This work died in the flames of its relentless agony.
N/N 2004 Work done with the original pretext of being part of a disguise. Leather boots manipulated with fabric and painted with oil and acrylic, it generates clues towards a character with a psychedelic appearance.
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Performing arts
I live in the skin of my other versions, which are teleported between multiple dimensions, those that I allow myself to imagine. Developing stories and characters is a route that I walk motivated by the desire to experience contrasting perceptions, dystopian moments, and laberynthine thoughts. 22
Palabra
Performance presented at MicroteatroGYE, and at the ESPOL en sonido y movimiento Festival, in 2015.
Word* 2015 Experimental work, an essay on schizophrenia. David debates daily to scrutinize what facts of reality agree with the moments that appear in his imagination, mental struggle in which Bruno is a companion and absent witness, in whom David seeks support for sanity, trying to make sense of the words he collects in his bedroom.
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*Palabra, as its original title.
Momentum 2014 Inspired by texts of JuliĂĄn MarĂas in Three visions of human life, this work establishes the ability to materialize spatial abstraction: an interdimensional traveler takes samples of the deformed environment found on the planet he has arrived at. This work was presented in the first edition of the Almanaque de Cuerpos Festival, in Presley Norton Museum of Guayaquil.
The silence’s sound*
Production staff
2015
Palabra
Performance of contemporary
Acting and Direction: Mauro Rojas.
dance in video. Silence as a possibility of the soul for self-recognition and mental deconstruction. This work was filmed in natural environments, has participated at performing arts festivals in Guayaquil and Quito. Currently, it is been exhibited on the Youtube channel of Mauro Rojas. *El sonido del silencio, as its original title.
Production Assistant: Freddy Cruz. Photography: Enrique OrdeĂąana, Freddy Cruz, Yelena Intriago.
Momentum Acting and Direction: Mauro Rojas. Photography: Jorge Luis Gaibor.
El sonido del silencio Acting and Direction: Mauro Rojas. Camera / edition: Yelena Intriago.
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Collaborators Creating as a team is a delight when you have the collaboration of other talented and committed creatives. Thanks to these creative colleagues, some of my ideas have been able to enjoy greater strength with their contribution.
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Photography Jorge Luis Gaibor Enrique Ordeñana Yelena Intriago Freddy Cruz Jenny Carvajal
Video Yelena Intriago Freddy Cruz Jenny Carvajal
Art production Gabo Peña Luis Terán Marcelo Costa Carlos Piza Tamara Ortega Freddy Cruz
Performing arts cooperation Jenny Carvajal Aglae Febres-Cordero Tamara Ortega
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Contact Email · hola@maurorojas.art Whatsapp · (+593 9) 6180 0289 Guayaquil, Ecuador
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