Artist Statement
In my photographs from the last few years, I have intervened upon the landscape, creating scenes or sets with a wide range of natural and manmade elements. In this way, amidst the sometimes oppressive vastness, I construct and photograph intimate spaces: some of them are metaphors for the painful desertification of the planet caused by man, while others work as ironic allusions to our relationship with the desert. The action I perform deals with reintegration: it’s a reflection on what the desert has lost, but also a way of restoring its ravaged memory through a personal intervention. Obviously, in the desert, this intervention is something ephemeral, but nonetheless transcendent in the photographic memory that has managed to lend substance to a desire.

 

 

Born in Monclova, Coahuila, Mexico, in 1961. He has a Bachelor’s Degree in Communication Sciences by the Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila. Since 1982 has participated in more than 90 individual and collective expositions, in Mexico as well as in United States, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa.

Among his expositions, we emphasize: 2012: Silent Infinity, Yvonamor Palix-Fine Arts-FotoFest 2012, Houston, Tx. USA, 2011: Onde o Horizonte Evapora, Galería de Babel, Sao Paulo, Brazil. 2010: GRID 2010 Photography Biennal, Amsterdam, 2009: Bienal internacional de Guangzhou, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou, China - “Sitee Seeing: Explorations of Landscape”, Center for Photography at Woodstock,Woodstock, N.Y.2008: “Breve Cronica de luz” GE galeria, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico 2007:”El Desierto configurado” FOTOLOGIA 5, Bogota, Colombia, “The desert: a place of illusion a space of silence” Perth International Arts Festival, Perth, Australia. 2006:”Mitos-Mitomanos”, PicassoMio Gallery, Barcelona, España 2005: “ Points of view – Photography in El Museo del Barrio`s permanent collection “ Museo del Barrio, N.Y. “ Breve cronica de luz Galeria Praxis, Mexico, D.F. “ Dialogos con la tierra “ , Galeria Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza, España./ ARCO Madrid. 2004: “ Breve cronica de luz ” Instituto de Mexico, Madrid, España, “Huesca Imagen “ Sala de exposiciones, diputacion de Huesca, Huesca, España ” Narration of nature “ Anne Reed Gallery, Ketchup, Idaho, “ Mexican report “, Blue Star Gallery / Instituto de Mexico, San Antonio, Tx. “Habitar el Vacio”, Luther Bean Museum, Denver, Col.. 2003: ”Habitar el Vacío” Universidad de Texas, Austin, Tx, ”Tunnel of Vision” Art Basel/ Miami, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, ”México Illuminated” Albright College/Freedman Gallery, Reading, PA, , “Focus” Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Fl., ”Contemporary Mexican Photographers”, Maria Torres Gallery, Tucson, Az., “Habitar el Vacío” CECUT, Tijuana, B.C. / Centro Cult. Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Oaxaca, Oax. “ Paradise Lost? Aspects of Landscape in Latinamerican Art”, Lowe Art Museum, Miami, Fl., “Stone” Institute of Mexico, Miami, Fl. “ Corps et Fruit “ Baudoin Lebon Gallery, Paris Francia, 2002: “Habitar el Vacío”, Centro de la Imagen, México, D.F. 2000: ” El Cuerpo y la Fruta”, Casa de Francia, México D.F., “El Arte del Riesgo/El riesgo del Arte”, Fototeca de Nuevo León, Monterrey, N.L., 1999: “Vibración del Vacío”, Galeria Emma Molina, Monterrey, Nuevo León, 1998: “Metáforas” Fotografía Construïda en México, Fundación Banco Centro, San José, Costa Rica, “21 Milioni” Sala de Consiglio Provinciale di Napoli, Napoli Italia, 1997: “Muestra de Fotografía Latinoamericana” Instituto de Cultura Puertoriqueña, San Juan de Puerto Rico, 1996: “Metáforas” Fotografía Construída en México, Monterrey, N.L., “El Paisaje Intervenido” Foto Fest 96, Houston, TX. USA, “Vestigios del Paraíso”, Museo Biblioteca Pape, Monclova, Coahuila, 1995: The 7 th International, Photographic Art Exhibition, Beijin, China, “The “Hasselblad Austrian” Super Circuit, Linz, Austria,