Apolo Arauz

In a world ruled by the image of digital media, the boundaries between disciplines are blurred. Photography, painting and digital art touch and stick in dialectic. The similar information is diluted in a vibrant atmosphere of electronic signals to emerge with all the weight of technology. The resulting image generates hybrids that are not identifiable as a specific medium. The perceptible world fades to be intangible, harmless, disembodied electronic impulses. The essence of limitless space only exists through reality as part of our perceptions on experience and hybridization algorithms, allowing our language is even richer by expanding the tools with which it is made or analog image is constructed or digital. Walking into reality strategies, simulation, hyperreality unreality or allow us to reproduce or transform an indefinite number of times and change the function of the mark, icon, signs or indications, in their relationship with meaning.

With these simulation models aim to match, create or recreate the image. This is the way in which the image has changed its relationship with the reality of imitation or reference to the digital analogy.

The need to believe in certain forms of reality or a fixed target was transformed to...

1992 -1994 Escuela Activa de Fotografía (EAF)
1990-1994 Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas plantel Xochimilco (ENAP) (National School of Visual Arts)
2008 School of Visual Arts (SVA) New York City.
Tutores: Ken Shung, Kylie Wright, Peter Garfield, Nicolas Prior, and Malcolm Lightner.
2007-2008 Museo Centro de la Imagen (CM) México, D.F. Selected For Seminario de Fotografía Contemporánea. Ana Casas, Gerardo Montiel Klimt, Gustavo Prado, Armando Cristeto Patiño,
Charlotte Cotton, Humberto Chávez Mayol, Federico Gama, Mauricio Alejo, Eduardo Gil, Ana Elena Mallet, José Luís Barrios and Melissa Harris.
2008 "Arte y Comunidad" (Museo Centro de la Imagen) Tutor: Gian Paolo Minelli.
2008 “Fotografía de Producto” (Academia de Artes Visuales AAVI) Tutor: Roberto Toris.
2008 Luz Continua (AAVI)Tutor: Roberto Franco.
2008 Luz Artificial (AAVI) Tutor: Roberto Toris.
2008 Luz Natural (AAVI) Tutor: Roberto Toris.
2008 Fotografía de Moda (AAVI) Tutor: David Franco
2006 La Imagen Transgresora (Museo Centro de la Imagen) Tutor: Karina Alvarado.
2003 Retoque Digital (Laboratorio Mexicano de Imagenes L.M.I.)
2003 Manejo de los Perfiles de Color. (Laboratorio Mexicano de Imágenes L.M.I.)
1998 -1999 Tratamiento Digital de Imágenes (...

Nov 14th to 21st, 2008 APW Gallery, New York City “Small works big idea”
Nov 26th to 13stDic, 2008 Border Gallery, Mexico D.F. “Coleccionables”
Diciembre 5th to 12th, 2008 APW Gallery, New York City “NYC Graffiti Art Exhibition”
Feb 19th to May 17th, 2009 Museo Centro de la Imagen, Mexico city. “XIII Bienal de Fotografia”
Marzo 6th to 29th, 2009 APW Gallery, New York City “World of Imagination”
Abril 14th, 2009 Agora Gallery, Chelsea NY “Altered States of Reality”
Abril 13th al 17 abril, 2009 Biblioteca Benjamin Franklin, México D.F. “Throught the very Hart of It”