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Sunday, May 08, 2011

Rigoberto Gonzalez-Upcoming shows in El Paso



PRESS RELEASE :
Here are some links about my upcoming solo show in El Paso at the Rubin Center For The Visual Arts. May 26 - September 24
the first is a press release
http://academics.utep.edu/Portals/1749/Media%20and%20Press/Baroque-PR-4.20.pdf


This is a schedule of upcoming shows
http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=60201


This is an article and interview from borderzine an online news magazine.
http://borderzine.com/2011/04/artist-rigoberto-a-gonzalez-paints-mexico-drug-violence-baroque-style/

Thanks
Rigo

11 comments:

Anonymous said...

The artist / painter of the Tex - Mex border... some people call it Oppresive and Represive - due to their marginalized political and social status situation.
The educated eye can tell rigth away who artist will be famous in the long run, lets take Mr. Rigoberto Gonzales' artwork - He is one of the few true social - political messangers of this sad situation, he will be the one who will have to carry his cross / torch to the economic and cultural developed societies. He will trascend all these barries imposed to all Mexican - Americans by the Ruling Elite class.

Anonymous said...

only until recently, before that he was a trival painter

Anonymous said...

only until recently, before that he was a trival painter but even his trivial work was far superior to any of my best attempts at painting.

Anonymous said...

Well then you aren't very good, are you?

Anonymous said...

Why should I care? Chicanos are seen as maggots in time. The only hopes of a people that will correct the ills of this forsaken place are ill images of contemporary area trends. We are not gangsters, or drug pursers; we do not have ties with cartels or illegal forces. We are a simple voice that many in our area either are not aware of or simply live in darkness due to the madness of local petty social politics. So many sell out because they want to become part of the dynamic social presence and forgo what is important. The valley and Brownsville in particular have never had a chance to move forward due to the horrific influx of culture stealing identity. Why do so many cancel whom they are and adorn those who simply just use them. Chicano art might not be the mainstream fade or the idealistic local trend but it is the only salvation that the area has from the totally messed-up corruption of what the area can offer. 99.9 percent reflects the population. So why does .001 control? Just to get a minute of glory?...when mortality is on the horizon, and you know who you are basura. Chicano Art, viva la cuaza shivo!

Anonymous said...

you should illustrate mexican paperback novelas. I see a future there. the cartoony comic book effect and frozen postures of the figures work not as barocco, but more neo-classical, where do you get barocco? keep painting

Rigoberto A Gonzalez said...

To You should illustrate Mexican paperback novelas.
The weight of an opinion depends on the authority of the person expressing that particular point of view. I'm not saying you have none but....
I would like to refer you to someone who would disagree with you.

From Glasstire website Texas art online.

“Texas Biennial” at 816 Congress: Office Space
May 14th, 2011 – SARAH FISCH

In the second exhibition office I entered, I came face-to-face with a heroically-sized canvas by Rigoberto A. Gonzalez, a phenomenally technical, exacting and passionate Old Masters painter (under the age of 40) from Reynosa, Tamaulipas, Mexico, now residing in San Juan in the Rio Grande Valley.
I’ve been watching this artist from afar, always wanting to write about him. For some years now, Gonzalez has dedicated his figural painting to the ongoing brutality and complex moral landscape of the border, in which we’re all implicated. He depicts each act of violence and desperation with the gravitas of a major historical event, all the while knowing this is a daily order of business. The preoccupation with beheading is maniacal in Mexico’s drug wars, but has Biblical and Baroque underpinnings as well — think Judith and the Head of Holofernes.
An alum of the New York Academy of Art who once traveled to the Netherlands to make sketch studies of Rembrandt, Gonzalez harnesses his considerable power in The Zetas Cartel Beheading Their Rivals (Se Los Cargo La Chingada) via paint handling, expressive human expression, solid triangular composition, judicious saturated color and chiaroscuro — to make clear a viable, modern tragedy with Baroque gestures and techniques. He both depicts a murder scene semi-editorially, remarking on the 25,000 dead and millions in terror not so very far from this building on Congress, while making reference to what Velasquez and Goya and Orozco have reminded previous generations; life is fleeting, and cruelty, among other things, makes for a good picture).
That Gonzalez paints so masterfully and seemingly without irony, and that his near-devotional works (he’s also rendered commissions for several Catholic churches in South and Border Texas; this is moral cosmology he’s taking on, as well as historical technique) makes the Rutledge Biennial Show all the more innovative.

Anonymous said...

more rant, all opinions are valid. you are a good painter, but the person who wrote that really likes the sound of his key board. its like so many, it really is about them not you. let see what happens in 20 years. who remembers who was around 20 years ago? i personally don't see what the writer wrote. i agree with previuos;stiff and...

Anonymous said...

Very simple folks, Rigo kicks butt...in the end, the work speaks for itsself...cgg

Anonymous said...

And...?!?

Anonymous said...

I THINK YOU READ IT WRONG, ITS NOT AND..?/? IT IN THE END!!

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