Javier Rodriguez
Works * CV * PDF portfolio
Javier Rodriguez’s practice spans the printed word, image, installation and video. His works both appropriate and generate content. The term ‘mixed-media’ aptly describes both the technical composition of the artist’s works and their thematic focus. Using newsprint, for example, Rodriguez brings together messages from a variety of sources, processing them with their own means of mechanical reproduction.
Rodriguez has staged large-scale media interventions, and by living in both the UK and Venezuela, he has been able to find unsettling parallels between the disparate social systems. In 2010, he created Último Mundo Universal, a guerrilla mash-up of Venezuela’s three largest tabloid newspapers, which was distributed alongside the original titles by street vendors and newsagents. In the UK, he has been creating a series of newspaper headline posters based on the titles of East London press.
Exhibitions:
Principal Peripherals of Storage
They don't know why, but they keep doing it
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
Javier Rodriguez, Multiplicity Within Unity, 2012
laser engraving on rubber
41x29x2cm each
Javier Rodriguez, Chronicas 3, 2012
paper prints, confetti
39x30x3cm
ROD039
Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracas, Venezuela
Javier Rodriguez, Mirror World, 2011
a publishing intervention distributed in London
collage on board, 74x100cm
ROD018
Javier Rodriguez, Biblioclasm, 2011
video, 11'
Javier Rodriguez, untitled (No Pudo Su Estado), 2010
newsprint on paper, 10 panels on MDF, 34x28cm each
ROD016
Javier Rodriguez, Chromatic Aberrations, 2009
DV video, looped
Javier Rodriguez, Principal Peripherals of Storage, 2009
prints, pallets
installation view at Waterside Project Space
Javier Rodriguez, untitled (principal peripherals of storage), 2009
overprint on paper, 165x135cm
ROD010
Javier Rodriguez, Chromatic Aberrations, 2010
ink on paper, pallets, ink on fabric
installation view at Hive Projects, London
Javier Rodriguez, La Voz (The Voice), 2009
site-specific inatallation in Quito, Ecuador
Javier Rodriguez, untitled (Behind All that Frost), 2008-09
from the series Anxiety Always, collage on paper
ROD009
Javier Rodriguez, Dissimilar Parts, 2008
collage on paper, 50x80cm
Javier Rodriguez, La Bete or The Object of Desire, 2008
collage on mirrorboard
Javier Rodriguez, Remorse, 2007
from Anatomia de la Melancolia, collage on paper
Javier Rodriguez, Still Rest, 2006
from The Seven Forms of Nature, book object