J.F. Videla Print

Claudio Rojas was born on February 26th, 1978. Buenos Aires, Argentina. In 2000 he started as an Art Director and began his creative advertising career. In 2004, and after a short period of time in the National School of Fine Arts Manuel Belgrano, he entered at the Maestro’s Edmund Valladares studio. He became a researcher, visual artist, sculptor, filmmaker, writer and educator working along with Astor Piazzolla and Héctor Cartier among others. Claudio Rojas, don´t have a traditional academic background, but managed to enter into the world of painting by studying the first modern school: cubism. From 2004 until 2008 he carried out different theoretical and practical researches/studies based on the graphic, the analytical and environmental cubism, which allowed him to develop a solid theoretical base on modern painting and post-cubist schools. In 2009, he left Argentina to experience during 8 months the pre-Columbian culture and to learn from within, the social situation of an entire continent and to connect with his beloved Latin America. The same year, he arrived in Europe and moved to Reggio Emilia, Italy, where he became part of a group of artists called, Via dei Due Gobbi 3. There he set up his studio and participated in several group art shows until the end of 2011. At the beginning of 2012, he decided to leave Italy and moved to Barcelona, where he currently lives and works. There he co-created with other artists: “Estesia”, a group of multi-disciplinary artists, with whom he performed various national and international exhibitions. Claudio’s base is cubism, and from that base he structures and organizes his expressivity through the study of his own patterns. This is the way he manage to get organic paintings with his own identity. Paintings that find its roots in the Goyesque expressionism and in the abstract energy of Kandinsky’s colors. The message of his paintings had always moved through the path of social speech, the voice of the neglected. He seeks a faithful commitment between his work and his ideology, to avoid turning into a satellite observer of reality.