Romero-Exam

=Arturo Herrera =



Arturo Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, and lives and works in New York and Berlin, Germany. Herrera’s work includes collage, works on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall hangings. His work taps into the viewer’s unconscious—often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with abstract shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection. The techniques used by Arturo Herrera are fragmentation, splicing, and re-contextualization, Herrera’s work is provocative and open-ended. Herrera’s wall paintings also meld recognizable imagery with abstraction, but on an environmental scale that he compares to the qualities of dance and music. I choose Arturo because I think he is one of the most complete artist in our times, he has a great talent with the painting and sculpture but also his photography works have a lot of quality.


 * Mark Dion **

Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1961. Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the natural world. Dion re-creates the categorization and exhibition practices of museums. Dion is known for making art out of fieldwork, incorporating elements of biology, archaeology, ethnography, and the history of science, and applying to his artwork methodologies generally used for pure science. Dion has a longstanding interest in exploring how ideas about natural history are visualized and how they circulate in society. I choose Mark because usually I like the artist that used science in their art and mark is one of the principals, he have studied a lot from different types of science. From the things he have learned, he always try to do art.

= Alfredo Jaar =

Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura. In photographs, films, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations. The art of alfredo is usually motivated by he faces of war or the globalized world, and sometimes with a certain level of viewer participation. I choose this artist because i think he reflects the things that more care to the world in his art, right now there is a lot of problems in the world and he is trying to help, doing art make people feel guilty and make them do something about it, i think that is a power you just can have doing art.



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