Wednesday 3 July 2013

ONE: Aaron López C.


A challenge I overcame: To eat the worm from a bottle of Mezcal.
A dream for my future: To always have a present.
A hope for the global community: More love for the next person.

Aaron is an absolutely beautiful person and a really brilliant artist.  Based in Lima, Peru, Aaron is an integral part of the Zona 30 art collective and residency space, and is so highly respected in the international contemporary art world that he is often invited to artist residencies and to exhibit. 

One residency that Aaron was invited to participate in was the Summer Social Camp residency in Villa Alegre organised by Curatoria Forense, which is where we met each other back in February this year.  I remember being massively impressed by Aaron's portrait work that he presented on our first day of sharing portfolios:  he showed how he represented individuals he knew well with both a painting and a video - the paintings beautiful, very technical and realisitc oil works and the videos clips of the person behaving naturally.  Exhibited side-by-side in the same size-formats the two different ways of representing a person meet to provide a fuller portrait than wither could do as a stand-alone piece.  

Aaron also works with a of scepticism and irony to criticise the contemporary art world:

Miraflores 6.10pm cold Pilsen beer thinking about doing all the opposite what i think a pretty painting well painted with a lot of colours and shapes like a painting by Vassarez but cooler with loads of details and a lot of texture and that they'll buy from me for two thousand dollars.


Aaron, gracias por todo el tiempo compartido ahí en Chile!  Fue muy bacan conocer te, tengo arto respeto para tu tabajo, y adoré todo las días y noches tomando, bailando y hablando con tigo y con la tribu! 
Suerte en todos tus projectos actuales.
Un abrazo
:-) 

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