Jose Luis Rojas
Mexico, Mexico
1975, Mexico City. Sculptor and photographer interested mainly on working with manufactured objects....
About the artist
Jose Luis Rojas
Joined In 2010
(4 Followers)
About the artist
Jose Luis Rojas
Joined In 2010
(4 Followers)
ABOUT
EDUCATION
EXHIBITIONS
1975, Mexico City. Sculptor and photographer interested mainly on working with manufactured objects.Jose Luis Rojas practice started simultaneously to the conformation of the artistic group Los Lichis (Gerardo Monsivis, Manuel Mathar and the artist himself), an alliance whose aspirations were not as much artistic as collective. Since the late nineties their clearest gestures were the playfulness, mischief, informality, teenage ease, along with the progressive vandalising of the property located in Andador 20-1 at Fovissste-Miramontes state housing. This could be read now -ten years later- as their highest ongoing piece. The long-life sessions together, in such specific conditions as being forced to remain chained with handcuffs during five days in a hotel room, led improvisation in the music field and in the fine arts as well.In the video and photographic series Pumpin Barbie (1997) realized by Los Lichis, thecharismatic doll and her friends are expelled from the closet of navet, and they are shown as sexed, violent, and excessive subjects. Their organs and fluids are exposed as grotesque prosthesis of plasticine, in the best Paul McCarthy style. These images are a parody of melodrama, but equally of pornography.Throughout his pass...
Graduated on Fine Arts at the National School of Fine Arts (UNAM-Mexico)
Solo Exhibitions
2011 The Warring States / Los Estados Beligerantes. Don Apolonio Cultural Centre, Puebla, Mexico
2009 Stranded. Border Cultural Centre, Mexico City
2006 Li'l mess / pequeo desastre. City Museum, Queretaro, Mexico
2005 Arena Mexico Gallery Conflict. La Bodeguita del Medio Restaurants, Mexico City
2005 Pastiche. Arena Mxico Contemporary Art Gallery. Jalisco, Mexico
Group Exhibitions
2010 Constant, The New Babylon.(Los Lichis Collective) Zapopan Art Museum, Mexico
2010 , Los Lichis Live@SOMA (Los Lichis Collective) Soma Mexico, Mexico City
2010 . Subastarte 2010 (Auction) Sinaloa Art Museum (MASIN), Mexico
2010 . Broken, intimate reflections. X-Teresa Arte Actual, Mexico City
2010 . Los Lichis Live@MUAC(Los Lichis Collective) Contemporary Art University Museum,UNAM, Mexico City
2009 . All for nothing. La Madriguera Cultural Centre, Mexico City
2009 . Kit de Survie Artistique. Border Cultural Centre, Mexico City
City’s House, Oaxaca, Mexico
2009 . IX Monterrey FEMSA Biennale. Arts Centre, Monterrey, Mexico
Tijuana Cultural Centre, Mexico
2008 Evil vs Evil. The Study Cultural Space...
Current: Artemergente 2010, centro de las Artes, Monterrey, Mexico