Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes

Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes is known for an inventive and itinerant practice that encompasses photography, sculpture, installation, and actions. As a whole, his work reveals an emphasis on the notion of experimentation and play through self-imposed rules and the multiple ways in which ideas, languages, and even everyday objects are displaced and encoded. Interested in chance and order, superstitions, and the magical value people give to objects, the artist intuitively represents his questionings through materials from his architectural workshop or found on the street, charging them with meaning and highlighting their insight. Díaz Cervantes' work offers an understanding of the fragility of life and everyday life, while maintaining a playful and didactic character. 

Rodolfo Díaz Cervantes studied at the Escuela Activa de Fotografía, and later at the Max Cetto workshop at the Faculty of Architecture of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. He obtained the FONCA Jóvenes Creadores grant in 2005, and in 2009 he co-founded the Vigueta y Bovedilla Collective, with which he participated in the 12th Venice Art Biennale in 2010. He currently directs Taller Tornel, generating design and architecture projects in parallel to his artistic practice.  

Among his most important exhibitions are: ¿Vamos al Parque? (Arredondo\Arozarena Gallery, CDMX, 2018), Tocar Madera II (Ta i trä) (Museum of Spirits, Elastic Gallery, Stockholm, 2017), Solo Project (ZONA MACO SUR, CDMX, 2016), Tocar Madera (Casa del Lago, CDMX, 2015), Solo project (ARCO, Madrid, 2015, curated by Chris Sharp and Luiza Teixeira de Freitas), Permutaciones y otras manías (Galería Arredondo Arrozarena, CDMX, 2014), Poisson d'Avril (Galería Desiré Saint Phalle, CDMX, 2011), El arte del hogar (Vigueta y Bovedilla, Galería Caja Blanca, CDMX, 2010), and Nehustán (La Vitrina, Guadalajara, 2009, curated by Patrick Charpenel). 

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