Lucca Rodriguez

Lucas Rodriguez, Architect graduated from the University of the Republic of Uruguay, independent musician from a very young age and self-taught plastic artist. He was born in the small town of Salto (Uruguay), into a middle-class working family. From the age of 7 he felt a strong connection to drawing and the creation of imaginary worlds which led him to telling his parents that he wanted to be an architect. In his adolescence (14), after receiving a Spanish guitar from his grandmother, he dedicated himself to learning music in a self-taught and serious way where it then became a big part of his youth. After several years of underground music and recording an album in his hometown, he moved to Montevideo (Uruguay) to finish his studies as an architect. In Montevideo he meets various visual artists and begins to play in some bars again as a hobby. In the meantime he puts all his focus on his university studies while working for some time as an architect workshop assistant. In 2014 he finished his studies and graduated as an architect at the public university of Uruguay. In this period, he simultaneously begins to dedicate his whole time to his deepest passions, music ,art and architecture. After the company he worked for went bankru...

It is difficult to mix different arts in a single work and even while I create them, I keep experimenting, because I think it is possible to try to create a whole from different points of view, and involve different arts. Lucca is a representation of me and the different parts of myself trying to create new expressions, in different forms. For this, it is vital for me to see and to understand the sketches that I have developed from these different parts of my psyche as an exercise to then be able to create a unique expression of my inner world. I don't have any official artist training, but I constantly try to learn by looking at other artists, nurturing myself from movies, music and any form of artistic expression. For my paintings, I use any surface that I can scratch, draw and paint on. I think there is no perfect material and although I also use standard materials, I like the idea that a simple plane ticket can be transformed into a part of a painting, or the cover of a book. If my art depended on me, it would not only turn to paper, but it would be possible to use almost any surface.

2021
New Zealand / Wanaka-Recycling exhibition / Minimal Gallery
2018
France /Bouriège Commune in France
2015
Uruguay / Street under exhibition/ Montevideo
2010
Uruguay / Market 18