Gustavo Castillo

My name is Gustavo Castillo, I'm an artist from Mexico and all of my artwork goes by my nickname "Oglinda", which, in romanian means "mirror". The word represents, simultaneously, everything that can be seen through the eyes of whom creates the piece and the one who appreciates the work of art, in this sense, the viewer, and the art object transmute into a mirror that reflects the constitutive aspects of cultural conditioning, as well as the person's own nature, which, in the face of the upcoming paradigm changes in current humanism, resulting from the developments of 4.0 technologies (such as bionic engineering, genetic engineering and artificial intelligence), may or may not be a fully human person.

In this way, I'm looking foward to be more a symbolic idea in art than an artist, and, consequently, my main goal is to develop Oglinda as a future project that may represent the aesthetic diversity of the ever changing twenty-first century

I studied engineering and nanotechnology, and during my time at the university I took all elective subjects focused on fine arts and then studied art history on my own.

My art has been exhibited at the Museum of Tecnológico de Monterrey (2014) in Puebla city, Mexico, and private galleries in Mexico City (2015 & 2016). In September 2018, my first individual exhibition "Synthetica" took place at the Nopalix films facilities.