14—17/10 / 12:00—20:00
Visual art exhibition / GIBCA EXTENDED
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Luciano Goizueta (CR)
A final exhibition at …. in Gothenburg to dive into Goizueta’s work.
Luciano’s love for science, self-awareness and art combines in a variety of works that can be colourful texturised acrylic, inspired by scientific phenomena, or decontextualised objects that explores the idea of abandonment and decaying of cities; miniature environments in a box, or a suitcase, and detailed collages covering large surfaces. He observes, documents and archives events around him, constantly collecting metadata. For him “drawing is observing in details”, while re-enacting memories before they are lost.
"The interdisciplinary nature of Goizueta’s practice, and the use of photography in particular, allows him to not only contain and conserve fragments of his reality, but also process them in a particular manner. It is through these diurnal frames that Goizueta is able to study and reflect upon the transforming meaning of images; how an illusion occurs when we think we are able to experience those moments again, yet don’t realize how the passing of time alters these experiences, mimicking the memory process. Such is the case of “Archive 1111” (2016), a series of drawings based on photographs taken every day at the same time (11:11), revisited two years later, to reveal, with a voyeuristic eye, the artist’s experience and his interpretation of it. Other works focus on the study of an internal universe that, rather than express an individual experience, appropriate a series of images extracted from books , encyclopaedias and other sources in order to refer to a broader visual universe. The how we consume these images becomes the central subject in series like “Abductions” (2018), where the loss of logic is represented through clusters of images that remind us of oneiric scenarios where a distortion in content is evident. The concept of the Echo Chamber implies a vision filtered by a series of decisions (either conscious or unconscious), giving way to an image of reality that is separate from it. Aware of this censorship, Goizueta seeks to move away from some of the processes, gesturing , on occasions , towards abstraction, case of “Microcosms” (2010) — an abstraction that is, in fact, based on a specific image— and, in others, relying on chance as a means through which to arrive at a work that intends to be honest, freed from external influence, as an act of resistance towards this phenomenon.” Floria Herrero González
PRESS
“The reproduction of reproduction here allows the creation of new realities, invites us to the action of looking out, searching and looking again”. María Jose Chavarría. Curator of the Museum of Costa Rican Art
“Creating through what is unseen. "Metadata" refers to a group of data that describes the informational content of other data. In this case, the artist used all the information collected in various photographs captured over the years to make a mixture of objects and characters. These works constitute a reflection on the passage of time. The moments captured and juxtaposed on another create multiple and complex images, which invite us to decipher them from our experience and memory.” Musarco Wordpress
"Luciano Goizueta's work is not easy to embrace. It contains blueprints of an architect, features of a designer, and the sharpness of images captured by a photographer. However, his field of action captivates him and identifies immediately”. El Nacional, Pamela Olavarria
“Luciano Goizueta's works are visually powerful; they are presented to the viewer as carefully constructed labyrinths of images that are both familiar and foreign to us. Without a doubt, he is one of the most innovative voices of his generation”. Sofía Soto Maffioli, Director of the Museum of Costa Rican Art
Interview: https://ticotimes.net/2016/08/21/5-questions-costa-rican-artist-luciano-goizueta
BIO
Luciano Goizueta is an interdisciplinary artist based in San José, Costa Rica. He is primarily known for his paintings, but also works with drawing, photography, assembly, video and other techniques and is looking for ways to combine them.
Already as a child he showed interest in science and art. The scientific method with its observations, hypotheses, predictions, experiments and analysis of the results informs and lays the foundation for his artistic work. Ever since his first exhibition in 2004, he has explored several themes that are divided into series that he returns to regularly. When these themes are examined, the illusion of "return" can be revealed. In this way, memory, time and everyday life are elements that he uses to reflect on the core aspects of his production: metadata of images that support his production.
During her productive career, Goizueta has had more than eighty solo and group exhibitions at galleries, museums and art fairs in Costa Rica and abroad, including at Pinta 09 Art Fair (New York), Shanghai Art Fair (China) and SCOPE (Basel, Switzerland ). His work has been included in important public and private art collections.
He currently spends the majority of his time with his family, on his art and as director of _temporal, a non-profit artistic organization that promotes dialogue and artistic production in the city of San José.
Luciano Goizueta's artistic technique has been developed with the intention of reconstructing memories. Through his works, Goizueta tries to save the inaccessible and returns to photography as a time machine for our memories. He sees images as microscopic capsules that are flashes of an infinite sea, fragments of seconds disconnected from a reality that has ceased to exist. Goizueta uses photographs to anchor these memories and to prevent them from disappearing into oblivion.