ESP / ENG
“Hate me, mediocre” or Curriculum Vitae parody.
Personal mythical universe, altars, masks, characters, like a festival of color and life with roots in the soil and ancestors in the blood.
Painting murals with improvised designs, to generate total art.
Breaking the separation between art and daily life through applied art products.
Critical Memory based on lived experience and documents, to evidence that Peru has a tradition of alternative art.

The creative identity of Herbert Rodriguez is manifested inpainting, activism, design and theory.

PAINTING

THEORY

ARTIVISM

DESIGN

ART/LIFE

Herbert Rodriguez’s Art/Life proposal gives an account of the turmoil of violence and chaos in 1980s Peruvian history. The artist creates works in which he juxtaposes texts and photographs (graphic documentation of newspapers and magazines) to confront the authoritarian practices of Governments..

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