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RODRIGO VAZQUEZ AVILA

PEOPLEText: Gisella Lifchitz

He found the painting on the street and already made his own artwork of that piece. That’s what he usually does with every artwork. He works with constant intervention. Also, he’s been doing some kind of interventions on works with religious themes, he sometimes puts them on an altar, and in the center of the scene he puts his work. He believes the artwork is an act of faith, it’s like something in which you believe, it’s equivalent to a religion.

Rodrigo believes in his own artwork. Even when he feels some mistrust, there’s always some belief in one’s artwork, he says. On the other hand, he has fun when changing the artwork; he finds a certain logic on it. He doesn’t go and look for it, but waits until something appears in front of him, or on the street, for example.

He often chooses landscapes to intervene them afterwards, because the landscape speaks about him, it’s like a mental state where he wants to be, just looking at the horizon, open and solitaire, a topos he would want for himself. In the landscape of the game, for example, there’s a melancholic feeling and some atmosphere with an open sky that inspires him.

Rodrigo invites everyone into the small beautiful world he created in his head. You can just shut the door to the real world and spend some time there, inside these fantastic virtual windows, which can be opened or closed, as you wish.

Text: Gisella Lifchitz
Photos: Gisella Lifchitz

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