Jose de Rocco
© Jose de Rocco
Exhibition curator: Judith Rodriguez and Christian Diaz
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Curator Comment:
English
At first glance, each image appears as a tight space where everything seems to be chaotic, where billboards, strident colors, cars, buildings, traffic signs, and cut-out words coexist. Every now and then people, who play as one more element in the urban jungle. But one stops in front of the images and Jose de Rocco's gaze weaves a collage of different plots, colors and textures, strings together a system of signs that write and rewrite the city. It transform chaos into a text. An urban map made up of an innumerable set of singularities that thematize the very act of passing by, of walking the streets, of stopping and looking.
His walk with the camera produces fleeting and unrepeatable intersections, an urban fabric that offers itself to a polysemic untranslatable into words, a story of the street.
This experience is an experience of his relationship with the world, with the city that he walks and runs through and inhabits through his gaze.
Spanish version
A primera vista cada imagen aparece como un espacio apretado donde todo parece ser caótico, donde conviven carteles, colores estridentes, autos, edificios, señales de tránsito, palabras recortadas. Cada tanto personas, que juegan como un elemento más en la jungla urbana. Pero uno se detiene frente a las imágenes y la mirada de Jose de Rocco teje un collage de diferentes tramas, colores y texturas, enhebra un sistema de signos que escriben y reescriben la ciudad. Transforma el caos en un texto. Un mapa urbano formado por un innumerable conjunto de singularidades que tematizan el acto mismo de pasar por allí, de recorrer las calles, de detenerse y mirar.
Su andar con la cámara produce entrecruzamientos fugaces e irrepetibles, un tejido urbano que se ofrece a una polisémica intraducible en palabras, un relato de la calle.
Esta experiencia es experiencia de su relación con el mundo, con la ciudad que camina y recorre y habita a través de su mirada
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Artist Statement
Spanish
Esta es una selección de un grupo mayor de imágenes que forman parte de un trabajo en desarrollo, el cual intenta contextualizar la contemporaneidad de la imagen en respuesta a mantener el poder de asombro.
Soy un apropiacionista de estilos. Estudio e investigo artistas, intento entenderlos y aprehender sus modos de ver como los estudiantes de dibujo lo hacen por horas copiando una obra de Velázquez. Con esta información acumulada, mapeo un contexto de época donde se entrelazan signos, relaciones entre los espacios y las personas, gráfica publicitaria y monumentos. Inestables manifestaciones culturales que conforman la trama urbana de la ciudad de Buenos Aires contemporánea.
English
This is a selection from a larger group of images that are part of a work in progress, which attempts to contextualize the contemporaneity of the image in response to maintaining the power of wonder.
I am a style appropriator. I study and investigate artists, I try to understand them and grasp their ways of seeing as drawing students do for hours copying a work by Velázquez. With this accumulated information, I map a period context where signs, relationships between spaces and people, advertising graphics and monuments are intertwined. Unstable cultural manifestations that make up the urban fabric of the contemporary city of Buenos Aires.
Interview:Christian Diazand and Patricia Ackerman
About the Artist
Spanish
Nació en CABA en noviembre de 1979. Desde los 3 hasta los 20 años vivió en Pinamar, momento en el que regresa a CABA donde se radica hasta la actualidad.
A partir del año 2007 comienza su interés por la fotografı́a y la aborda desde una práctica autodidacta.
Se recibe de Diseñador Gráfico en la Escuela de Arte Multimedial Da Vinci.
Realiza talleres de estética fotográfica con Juan Travnik y Alberto Goldenstein.
En la actualidad trabaja en la Galerı́a de Arte Alejandro Bustillo del Banco Nación.
Recibe distinciones nacionales e internacionales, destacándose:
- 3er premio Sony World Photography Awards 2019/20 - Londres.
- 2do premio IPPAWARDS 2018 - New York.
- Mención Premios Ayerza de la Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes 2018 - Buenos Aires.
- 1er Premio 28° Concurso Nacional de Fotografı́a San Cristóbal Seguros 2015 - Buenos Aires.
- 1er Premio 1° Salón Verano 2015 Fotorevista - Buenos Aires.
- Finalista Smithsonian Photo Contest 2014 – New York.
- Finalista HIPA Dubai 2013 - Emiratos Árabes Unidos.
- 3er puesto Oasis Photo Contest 2012 - Italia.
- Mención de Honor Memorial Marı́a Luisa 2012 – España.
Participa en diversas exposiciones colectivas en paises como Chile, Italia, España, Emiratos Árabes, Inglaterra, Brasil y Argentina.
José de Rocco
IG @josederocco
mail josederocco@gmail.com
English
He was born in CABA in November 1979. From the age of 3 to 20 he lived in Pinamar, at which time he returned to CABA where he lives to this day.
Starting in 2007, his interest in photography began and he approached it from a self-taught practice.
He graduated from Graphic Designer at the Da Vinci Multimedia Art School.
He carries out photographic aesthetic workshops with Juan Travnik and Alberto Goldenstein.
He currently works at the Alejandro Bustillo Art Gallery of Banco Nación.
He receives national and international distinctions, standing out:
- 3rd prize Sony World Photography Awards 2019/20 - London.
- 2nd prize IPPAWARDS 2018 - New York.
- Ayerza Awards Mention of the National Academy of Fine Arts 2018 - Buenos Aires.
- 1st Prize 28th San Cristóbal Seguros National Photography Contest 2015 - Buenos Aires.
- 1st Prize 1st Salon Summer 2015 Fotorevista - Buenos Aires.
- Finalist Smithsonian Photo Contest 2014 – New York.
- Finalist HIPA Dubai 2013 - United Arab Emirates.
- 3rd place Oasis Photo Contest 2012 - Italy.
Honorable Mention Memorial Marı́a Luisa 2012 – Spain.
He participates in various collective exhibitions in countries such as Chile, Italy, Spain, the United Arab Emirates, England, Brazil and Argentina.
José de Rocco
IG @josederocco
mail josederocco@gmail.com
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