THE ARTISTS OF MOOH: ROLANDO PEÑA
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Rolando Peña is one of the most outstanding Latin American artists of the 20th and
21st centuries. His long and uninterrupted international career has been
characterized by seeking innovation, dialoguing with the fundamental concepts
of our time, and as a pioneer using technology in art.
His rich artistic career has led him to
participate in important universal waves of creativity throughout his life. He
began his career combining his training in dance and architecture with
“happenings” in the Avant Garde scene of New York in the 1960s. At the time he
collaborated with figures such as Allen Ginsberg, Timothy Leary and Andy
Warhol, in The Factory.
Starting in 1980 he begins the
development of a dense, continuous, and critical oeuvre on the topic of oil in
its different manifestations as a factor of economic illusion and power.
Through this line of work, encompassing drawings, engravings, photographs,
film, video, performances, and public space sculptures, he established a prime
political-ecological position, which pioneered the challenges of this century. His
work in this area earned him a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2009.
His pursuit of links between art,
science, and technology has led him to experiment with the most
state-of-the-art ideas in physics. He says his legacy in art is turning life
into the poem of infinity.
Rolando Peña has exhibited his work since
1963 in multiple museums and galleries in USA, Spain, France, Germany and
Venezuela, and participated in the Venice Biennial, 2008. A new anthology of
his work, “Welcome to My Art World” was published in 2022 and is
available through Amazon.
His series Photomatons begun in 1960, and of which the illustration for the vignette PURITY in Myths of our Humanity is part of, continues to this day.
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