February 28, 1956.I am a Mexican artist who was born in the Southeastern of the country. I have been formed artistically in the Center of Mxico and lived in its North Border Tijuana since 1988.

I have more than thirty years of practice in the visual arts, I have been worked on Mural Art, Sculpture, Engrave and Installation Art, according to them are the necessity of the project which desire to develop, but the technique to which I resort with more frequency to express myself is the mixed media on a conventional supports (paper, wood, fabric), similarly my work has been explored in the geometric abstractionism and the figuration, it development in extensive series until finding the expression that characterizes it (although not always profit).

The possibilities to express itself in the art are infinite, for that reason, the change I consider it necessary since it allows to be always in constant exploration, before new challenges, with more probabilities of finding other languages and that, to at least please me.

My work of the last ten years supports their content in the appropiationism of images of the common media of communications (images taken of magazines, newspapers, television and the internet) to insert them in real histories that relate situations that we live on a daily basis, in order to proposing, from the art, other options for reflection around the solution of this problem.

As it is the example from among Entre la necesidad y el Escarnio, 2001 (Between the Necessity and Scoff), a series of works technically carried out with acrylic, ink and piroxilina on canvas whose history its happening in the metallic wall that divides Tijuana of San Diego, California and relates several episodes of the life of Mexicans or Central americans that seek to cross that barrier, jumping the wall in an illegal way to the United States with the hope of the American dream, the hope of a better life than never can be achieved in its country of origin given the incompetence and corruption that rules in its governments. In first term are the images of the illegals or immigrants with the harshness of their social reality on its faces and their background, behind the wall, I do appropriate the images of the world that conforms some of the American fantasies taken from the comics, characters as Batman, Superman, Donald Duck, Joker, Bugs bunny, etc. Images of the television cartoons as the Flintstones, the Rugrats, the Simpsons, etc. and that pursue to reflect that world of fantasy, that the illegals expects to find in North America a better way to live and that fact not always become true.

I have very clear my conviction as an artist, the commitment that I should assume in my social role, because of it the majority of my works they pursue to reflect the injustices and the errors of the society, that it become so common and unnoticed for all the people. Consecuencias, 2004 (Consequences) is another example of it, a series of works on canvas and/or wood that denounce the abuses of the guardians of the order, the vendettas of the mobster of organized crime and of the losses of life of the illegals as a result of its intent by crossing to North America. I do appropriate the photographs published in the red notes of the regional or international newspapers that describe those final acts with luxuries of details, more to sell the news that for denounce the all the injustices. Repeating or to copy part of the dramatic events in a canvas to expose them in cultural spaces has for spectator other readings and probably cause other reflections that help al understanding of this international problem and not focus on the possible solutions.

In memoriam, (Tijuana, 2004), is a sculptural piece of steel of 12 of height; that is adjusted also as a commemorative and accusation act. It is a composed work with three elements: an obelisk, in this case of a landmark stylized as the ones that demarcate the geographical division of the border, its an element that represents the place where they develop the events; the color red symbolizes the violence and the aggressions that they live trying to cross the border, the abuses to the fundamental rights of the human being suffered by the illegals or immigrants that seek other alternatives of life and finally the Croces, placed in a random way symbolizes the losses of life of those that challenged the laws of the man and of the nature, by the longing for better living conditions to become on individuals of well.
In another order of ideas, moving away of the art that denounces but continuing with using of images of the past, appropriating to confront them with those of the present, in the series that I called A Propsito de la Postmodernidad, 2005 (By the way the Postmodernism), I do not pursue to substitute their reality but yes to remaking it in the sense that each image has their own personality on its time, located in different situations, different citi

Roberto Rosique