Carlos Aguirre

México

Carlos Aguirre

2023

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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47 x 126 cm

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: VII

2022

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80 x 110 cm

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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh señaló en Reificación Cósmica (Turner - Conaculta 2014) que uno de los cambios de la práctica fotográfica realizada por los artistas contemporáneos es el desarrollo de nuevas estrategias que forman colecciones de sistemas semánticos o arquitectónicos encontrados (p.ej. Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed. Ruscha). Por ello, asumiendo la imposibilidad del propósito original de la fotografía —de ser un reflejo fidedigno de una realidad en su conjunto— la fotografía contemporánea sólo podría documentar y representar una sobreproducción de objetos en expansión perpetua y cada vez más fuera de control. Así como László Moholy-Nagy concibió en los 1920’s sus photograms para retar a la llamada verdad óptica reclamada a los fotógrafos de entonces, las Metagrafías de Carlos Aguirre, aluden desde su título a la intención de trascender la producción artística disciplinar, insinuando una guía que es al mismo tiempo una provocación. Compuestas por una acumulación de fragmentos fotográficos, ensamblados meticulosamente en collages que parecerían maquetas arquitectónicas utópicas o el andamiaje de un metaverso cuyo basamento apenas que se construye en nuestros días; sus Metagrafías son intrínsecamente inclasificables. Estas obras, además de constituir una acumulación de fragmentos y materiales fotográficos, existen como objetos únicos que se rehúsan a la reproductividad ad-infinitum propia de la foto. En ellas coinciden el dominio de la técnica fotográfica, escultórica e instalativa. El espectador las observa dentro de una caja colgada en la pared, como si se tratara de una pintura que, sin serlo exactamente, súbitamente pasará de un plano bidimensional a la tercera dimensión; tal y como nos promete la realidad digital que será el futuro en un mundo virtualmente paralelo. Las Metagrafías de Aguirre por la forma en la que están construidas se revelan como esculturas o instalaciones encapsuladas para retratar un todo a partir de la fragmentación. En este cuerpo de obras accedemos a viajes completos, desde el despegue hasta el destino; a espacios domésticos vistos desde distintos planos; o al encierro y sus distintas posibilidades de libertad como una forma de paisajes digitales zen para orientarnos en el caos. Sus pliegues, imágenes, texturas y escalas generan sombras, trazos, ritmos y perspectivas con movimiento, como una imaginario vivo que se resiste al óbito. La larga y amplia trayectoria multidisciplinar de Aguirre, en la que ha desarrollado gráfica, dibujo, escultura, instalación y fotografía, se caracteriza por la constante búsqueda de experimentación formal y material, colocándolo como uno de los artistas más innovadores e influyentes para el arte conceptual en México. Arturo Delgado, fundador de ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: VIII

2022

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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110 x 80 cm

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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh señaló en Reificación Cósmica (Turner - Conaculta 2014) que uno de los cambios de la práctica fotográfica realizada por los artistas contemporáneos es el desarrollo de nuevas estrategias que forman colecciones de sistemas semánticos o arquitectónicos encontrados (p.ej. Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed. Ruscha). Por ello, asumiendo la imposibilidad del propósito original de la fotografía —de ser un reflejo fidedigno de una realidad en su conjunto— la fotografía contemporánea sólo podría documentar y representar una sobreproducción de objetos en expansión perpetua y cada vez más fuera de control. Así como László Moholy-Nagy concibió en los 1920’s sus photograms para retar a la llamada verdad óptica reclamada a los fotógrafos de entonces, las Metagrafías de Carlos Aguirre, aluden desde su título a la intención de trascender la producción artística disciplinar, insinuando una guía que es al mismo tiempo una provocación. Compuestas por una acumulación de fragmentos fotográficos, ensamblados meticulosamente en collages que parecerían maquetas arquitectónicas utópicas o el andamiaje de un metaverso cuyo basamento apenas que se construye en nuestros días; sus Metagrafías son intrínsecamente inclasificables. Estas obras, además de constituir una acumulación de fragmentos y materiales fotográficos, existen como objetos únicos que se rehúsan a la reproductividad ad-infinitum propia de la foto. En ellas coinciden el dominio de la técnica fotográfica, escultórica e instalativa. El espectador las observa dentro de una caja colgada en la pared, como si se tratara de una pintura que, sin serlo exactamente, súbitamente pasará de un plano bidimensional a la tercera dimensión; tal y como nos promete la realidad digital que será el futuro en un mundo virtualmente paralelo. Las Metagrafías de Aguirre por la forma en la que están construidas se revelan como esculturas o instalaciones encapsuladas para retratar un todo a partir de la fragmentación. En este cuerpo de obras accedemos a viajes completos, desde el despegue hasta el destino; a espacios domésticos vistos desde distintos planos; o al encierro y sus distintas posibilidades de libertad como una forma de paisajes digitales zen para orientarnos en el caos. Sus pliegues, imágenes, texturas y escalas generan sombras, trazos, ritmos y perspectivas con movimiento, como una imaginario vivo que se resiste al óbito. La larga y amplia trayectoria multidisciplinar de Aguirre, en la que ha desarrollado gráfica, dibujo, escultura, instalación y fotografía, se caracteriza por la constante búsqueda de experimentación formal y material, colocándolo como uno de los artistas más innovadores e influyentes para el arte conceptual en México. Arturo Delgado, fundador de ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: IX

2022

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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110 x 80 cm

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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh señaló en Reificación Cósmica (Turner - Conaculta 2014) que uno de los cambios de la práctica fotográfica realizada por los artistas contemporáneos es el desarrollo de nuevas estrategias que forman colecciones de sistemas semánticos o arquitectónicos encontrados (p.ej. Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed. Ruscha). Por ello, asumiendo la imposibilidad del propósito original de la fotografía —de ser un reflejo fidedigno de una realidad en su conjunto— la fotografía contemporánea sólo podría documentar y representar una sobreproducción de objetos en expansión perpetua y cada vez más fuera de control. Así como László Moholy-Nagy concibió en los 1920’s sus photograms para retar a la llamada verdad óptica reclamada a los fotógrafos de entonces, las Metagrafías de Carlos Aguirre, aluden desde su título a la intención de trascender la producción artística disciplinar, insinuando una guía que es al mismo tiempo una provocación. Compuestas por una acumulación de fragmentos fotográficos, ensamblados meticulosamente en collages que parecerían maquetas arquitectónicas utópicas o el andamiaje de un metaverso cuyo basamento apenas que se construye en nuestros días; sus Metagrafías son intrínsecamente inclasificables. Estas obras, además de constituir una acumulación de fragmentos y materiales fotográficos, existen como objetos únicos que se rehúsan a la reproductividad ad-infinitum propia de la foto. En ellas coinciden el dominio de la técnica fotográfica, escultórica e instalativa. El espectador las observa dentro de una caja colgada en la pared, como si se tratara de una pintura que, sin serlo exactamente, súbitamente pasará de un plano bidimensional a la tercera dimensión; tal y como nos promete la realidad digital que será el futuro en un mundo virtualmente paralelo. Las Metagrafías de Aguirre por la forma en la que están construidas se revelan como esculturas o instalaciones encapsuladas para retratar un todo a partir de la fragmentación. En este cuerpo de obras accedemos a viajes completos, desde el despegue hasta el destino; a espacios domésticos vistos desde distintos planos; o al encierro y sus distintas posibilidades de libertad como una forma de paisajes digitales zen para orientarnos en el caos. Sus pliegues, imágenes, texturas y escalas generan sombras, trazos, ritmos y perspectivas con movimiento, como una imaginario vivo que se resiste al óbito. La larga y amplia trayectoria multidisciplinar de Aguirre, en la que ha desarrollado gráfica, dibujo, escultura, instalación y fotografía, se caracteriza por la constante búsqueda de experimentación formal y material, colocándolo como uno de los artistas más innovadores e influyentes para el arte conceptual en México. Arturo Delgado, fundador de ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: X

2022

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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110 x 80 cm

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Benjamin H. D. Buchloh señaló en Reificación Cósmica (Turner - Conaculta 2014) que uno de los cambios de la práctica fotográfica realizada por los artistas contemporáneos es el desarrollo de nuevas estrategias que forman colecciones de sistemas semánticos o arquitectónicos encontrados (p.ej. Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed. Ruscha). Por ello, asumiendo la imposibilidad del propósito original de la fotografía —de ser un reflejo fidedigno de una realidad en su conjunto— la fotografía contemporánea sólo podría documentar y representar una sobreproducción de objetos en expansión perpetua y cada vez más fuera de control. Así como László Moholy-Nagy concibió en los 1920’s sus photograms para retar a la llamada verdad óptica reclamada a los fotógrafos de entonces, las Metagrafías de Carlos Aguirre, aluden desde su título a la intención de trascender la producción artística disciplinar, insinuando una guía que es al mismo tiempo una provocación. Compuestas por una acumulación de fragmentos fotográficos, ensamblados meticulosamente en collages que parecerían maquetas arquitectónicas utópicas o el andamiaje de un metaverso cuyo basamento apenas que se construye en nuestros días; sus Metagrafías son intrínsecamente inclasificables. Estas obras, además de constituir una acumulación de fragmentos y materiales fotográficos, existen como objetos únicos que se rehúsan a la reproductividad ad-infinitum propia de la foto. En ellas coinciden el dominio de la técnica fotográfica, escultórica e instalativa. El espectador las observa dentro de una caja colgada en la pared, como si se tratara de una pintura que, sin serlo exactamente, súbitamente pasará de un plano bidimensional a la tercera dimensión; tal y como nos promete la realidad digital que será el futuro en un mundo virtualmente paralelo. Las Metagrafías de Aguirre por la forma en la que están construidas se revelan como esculturas o instalaciones encapsuladas para retratar un todo a partir de la fragmentación. En este cuerpo de obras accedemos a viajes completos, desde el despegue hasta el destino; a espacios domésticos vistos desde distintos planos; o al encierro y sus distintas posibilidades de libertad como una forma de paisajes digitales zen para orientarnos en el caos. Sus pliegues, imágenes, texturas y escalas generan sombras, trazos, ritmos y perspectivas con movimiento, como una imaginario vivo que se resiste al óbito. La larga y amplia trayectoria multidisciplinar de Aguirre, en la que ha desarrollado gráfica, dibujo, escultura, instalación y fotografía, se caracteriza por la constante búsqueda de experimentación formal y material, colocándolo como uno de los artistas más innovadores e influyentes para el arte conceptual en México. Arturo Delgado, fundador de ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: I

2022

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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83 x 98 cm

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“…just like László Moholy-Nagy conceived in the 1920's his photograms to challenge the socalled optical truth requested to the photographers of that time, the Metagraphs of Carlos Aguirre, allude from their title to the intention of transcending disciplinary artistic production, insinuating a guide that is also a provocation. Composed of an accumulation of photographic fragments, meticulously assembled in collages that would look like utopian architectural models or the Metaverse’s scaffolding whose basement is barely built today; his Metagraphs are inherently unclassifiable. These works, in addition to constituting an accumulation of fragments and photographic materials, exist as unique objects that refuse the ad-infinitum reproductivity proper to the photo. In them the domain of photographic, sculptural and installation techniques coincide. The viewer observes them inside a box hanging on the wall, as if it were a painting that, without being exactly one, suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane to the third dimension; just as the digital reality promises us that the future will be in a virtually parallel world. Due to the way in which they are constructed, Aguirre's Metagraphs reveal themselves as sculptures or encapsulated installations to portray a Whole from fragmentation. In this body of work we have access to entire trips, from takeoff to destination; to domestic spaces viewed from different planes; or to confinement and its various possibilities of freedom as some kind zen digital landscapes to guide us in chaos. Its folds, images, textures and scales generate shadows, lines, rhythm and perspectives with movement, like a living imaginary resisting to be captured.” Arturo Delgado founder of ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: IV

2021

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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121 x 82 cm

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“…just like László Moholy-Nagy conceived in the 1920's his photograms to challenge the socalled optical truth requested to the photographers of that time, the Metagraphs of Carlos Aguirre, allude from their title to the intention of transcending disciplinary artistic production, insinuating a guide that is also a provocation. Composed of an accumulation of photographic fragments, meticulously assembled in collages that would look like utopian architectural models or the Metaverse’s scaffolding whose basement is barely built today; his Metagraphs are inherently unclassifiable. These works, in addition to constituting an accumulation of fragments and photographic materials, exist as unique objects that refuse the ad-infinitum reproductivity proper to the photo. In them the domain of photographic, sculptural and installation techniques coincide. The viewer observes them inside a box hanging on the wall, as if it were a painting that, without being exactly one, suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane to the third dimension; just as the digital reality promises us that the future will be in a virtually parallel world. Due to the way in which they are constructed, Aguirre's Metagraphs reveal themselves as sculptures or encapsulated installations to portray a Whole from fragmentation. In this body of work we have access to entire trips, from takeoff to destination; to domestic spaces viewed from different planes; or to confinement and its various possibilities of freedom as some kind zen digital landscapes to guide us in chaos. Its folds, images, textures and scales generate shadows, lines, rhythm and perspectives with movement, like a living imaginary resisting to be captured.” Arturo Delgado founder of ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: II

2022

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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128 x 82 cm

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“…just like László Moholy-Nagy conceived in the 1920's his photograms to challenge the socalled optical truth requested to the photographers of that time, the Metagraphs of Carlos Aguirre, allude from their title to the intention of transcending disciplinary artistic production, insinuating a guide that is also a provocation. Composed of an accumulation of photographic fragments, meticulously assembled in collages that would look like utopian architectural models or the Metaverse’s scaffolding whose basement is barely built today; his Metagraphs are inherently unclassifiable. These works, in addition to constituting an accumulation of fragments and photographic materials, exist as unique objects that refuse the ad-infinitum reproductivity proper to the photo. In them the domain of photographic, sculptural and installation techniques coincide. The viewer observes them inside a box hanging on the wall, as if it were a painting that, without being exactly one, suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane to the third dimension; just as the digital reality promises us that the future will be in a virtually parallel world. Due to the way in which they are constructed, Aguirre's Metagraphs reveal themselves as sculptures or encapsulated installations to portray a Whole from fragmentation. In this body of work we have access to entire trips, from takeoff to destination; to domestic spaces viewed from different planes; or to confinement and its various possibilities of freedom as some kind zen digital landscapes to guide us in chaos. Its folds, images, textures and scales generate shadows, lines, rhythm and perspectives with movement, like a living imaginary resisting to be captured.” Arturo Delgado founder of ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: V

2021

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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108 x 72 cm

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“…just like László Moholy-Nagy conceived in the 1920's his photograms to challenge the socalled optical truth requested to the photographers of that time, the Metagraphs of Carlos Aguirre, allude from their title to the intention of transcending disciplinary artistic production, insinuating a guide that is also a provocation. Composed of an accumulation of photographic fragments, meticulously assembled in collages that would look like utopian architectural models or the Metaverse’s scaffolding whose basement is barely built today; his Metagraphs are inherently unclassifiable. These works, in addition to constituting an accumulation of fragments and photographic materials, exist as unique objects that refuse the ad-infinitum reproductivity proper to the photo. In them the domain of photographic, sculptural and installation techniques coincide. The viewer observes them inside a box hanging on the wall, as if it were a painting that, without being exactly one, suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane to the third dimension; just as the digital reality promises us that the future will be in a virtually parallel world. Due to the way in which they are constructed, Aguirre's Metagraphs reveal themselves as sculptures or encapsulated installations to portray a Whole from fragmentation. In this body of work we have access to entire trips, from takeoff to destination; to domestic spaces viewed from different planes; or to confinement and its various possibilities of freedom as some kind zen digital landscapes to guide us in chaos. Its folds, images, textures and scales generate shadows, lines, rhythm and perspectives with movement, like a living imaginary resisting to be captured.” Arturo Delgado founder of ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

Metagrafías: III

2022

Tridimensional constructions made of author’s photographs fine art prints on cotton; assembled with wood sticks, modeling materials and magnets.

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128 x 82 cm

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“…just like László Moholy-Nagy conceived in the 1920's his photograms to challenge the socalled optical truth requested to the photographers of that time, the Metagraphs of Carlos Aguirre, allude from their title to the intention of transcending disciplinary artistic production, insinuating a guide that is also a provocation. Composed of an accumulation of photographic fragments, meticulously assembled in collages that would look like utopian architectural models or the Metaverse’s scaffolding whose basement is barely built today; his Metagraphs are inherently unclassifiable. These works, in addition to constituting an accumulation of fragments and photographic materials, exist as unique objects that refuse the ad-infinitum reproductivity proper to the photo. In them the domain of photographic, sculptural and installation techniques coincide. The viewer observes them inside a box hanging on the wall, as if it were a painting that, without being exactly one, suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane to the third dimension; just as the digital reality promises us that the future will be in a virtually parallel world. Due to the way in which they are constructed, Aguirre's Metagraphs reveal themselves as sculptures or encapsulated installations to portray a Whole from fragmentation. In this body of work we have access to entire trips, from takeoff to destination; to domestic spaces viewed from different planes; or to confinement and its various possibilities of freedom as some kind zen digital landscapes to guide us in chaos. Its folds, images, textures and scales generate shadows, lines, rhythm and perspectives with movement, like a living imaginary resisting to be captured.” Arturo Delgado founder of ALMANAQUE

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Carlos Aguirre

México

Carlos Aguirre is one of the most prominent and prolific visual artists in Mexico. Industrial Designer with a Master's degree from the School of Art and Design in London, GB; he represented Mexico at the Art Biennials of Paris 1982, São Paulo 1985 and 1998. In 1994 he received the prestigious Guggenheim Fellowship.

 

His long career as a visual artist which includes: drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and photography, is characterized by the permanent search for new languages, the questioning of disciplinary boundaries, as well as constant experimentation with materials and techniques. The common thread of the various stages of his work is the rigor to obtain a neat invoice, from the mastery of new processes, that has allowed him to maintain a production always aware of the present.

 

During his artistic career, his work has been presented in more than a hundred individual and group exhibitions in national and international museums and galleries. In 2015, the Museum of Modern Art of Mexico, organized the retrospective solo exhibition: "Risk Zone" and his work was selected for the exhibition: "Grupo Proceso Pentágono", curated by the art historian Pilar García, from the University Museum of Contemporary Art, MUAC. A member of the National System of the Arts of Mexico, he is currently preparing a book about his work.

METAGRAPHIES

Benjamin HD Buchloh pointed out in Cosmic Reification (Turner - Conaculta 2014) that one of the changes in photographic practice carried out by contemporary artists is the development of new strategies that produce collections of found semantic or architectural systems (eg Bernd & Hilla Becher, Ed. Ruscha). Therefore, assuming the impossibility of the original purpose of photography — of being a faithful reflection of a reality as a whole — contemporary photography could only document and represent an overproduction of objects in perpetual expansion and increasingly out of control.

Just as László Moholy-Nagy conceived in the 1920's his photograms to challenge the so-called optical truth requested to the photographers of that time, the Metagraphies of Carlos Aguirre, allude from their title to the intention of transcending disciplinary artistic production, insinuating a guide that is also a provocation.

Composed of an accumulation of photographic fragments, meticulously assembled in collages that would look like utopian architectural models or the metaverse’s scaffolding whose basement is barely built today; his Metagraphs are inherently unclassifiable.

These works, in addition to constituting an accumulation of fragments and photographic materials, exist as unique objects that refuse the ad-infinitum reproductivity proper to the photo. In them the domain of photographic, sculptural and installation techniques coincide. The viewer observes them inside a box hanging on the wall, as if it were a painting that, without being exactly one, suddenly went from a two-dimensional plane to the third dimension; just as the digital reality promises us that the future will be in a virtually parallel world.

Due to the way in which they are constructed, Aguirre's Metagraphies reveal themselves as sculptures or encapsulated installations to portray a Whole from fragmentation. In this body of work we have access to entire trips, from takeoff to destination; to domestic spaces viewed from different planes; or to confinement and its various possibilities of freedom as some kind zen digital landscapes to guide us in chaos. Its folds, images, textures and scales generate shadows, lines, rhythm and perspectives with movement, like a living imaginary resisting to be captured.

Aguirre's long and broad multidisciplinary career, in which he has developed graphics, drawing, sculpture, installation and photography, is characterized by the constant search for formal and material experimentation, placing him as one of the most innovative and influential artists for conceptual art. in Mexico.

Arturo Delgado, ALMANAQUE’s founder