Adrián Guerrero
Adrian Guerrero Castellanos (1975, Guadalajara, Mexico)
Adrian Guerrero Castellanos has been continuously reshaping Art and Philosophy in terms of process, gesture and interpretation, as well as expanding dialogues towards the phenomenology of perception and spatiality while both conceptual and subjective interpretations operate a seminal transfiguration of mundanity in order to restore those ideas beneath a specific topic in the visual discourse.
Expanding outside the confines of pure philosophical notions to create tensions and make the spectator’s experience of forms conceptually distinctive, Guerrero’s work never “hangs together” enunciation and representation. In such state, the pieces are distributed within a perceptive space in which our singular relation to the context itself forms a distinctive tie to the objects in terms of distance, dimension and volume. Even if in Guerrero’s work philosophy is somehow the focus, ideas become forms and not just concepts in a process that contests the very possibilities of ideas to exist under different states of determination and literal representation: the physical object transfigures any mental abstraction or absolute thinking to impose alternative categories of interpretation and understanding derived from the partition between objects and ideas. The objects he creates meld the restrained formal qualities of a limited variety of materials such as ceramics, bronze or copper as a trick to never overemphasize on the idea itself in a way that is rather difficult to perceive the physical object as essentially mental or as a pure thought.
Exhibitions
Selected solo and collective exhibitions: El tiempo no es nada (Cabañas Museum, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2023) [mid-carreer retrospective], Construcciones Primeras (Palazzo Bembo, Bienale di Venezia, Venecia, Italia, 2012), 5ta Bienal de Ceramica de Gyeeonggi (GICB, Korea, 2011), Contemplacion (Museo de Arte de Zapopan, MAZ, Jalisco, Mexico, 2007), Formas del pensamiento (Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, 2006).
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CONTEMPLARIO
Lost-wax bronze
194 x 65 x 55 cm
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MINUTOS DIBUJADOS
Ink on paper
70 X 100 cm
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ABORDAJE I
Acrylics on canva
160 x 140 cm
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PARTIR DEL COLAPSO II
Glazed Ceramic
20 x 20 x 20 cm (each piece)