JORGE TRUJILLO

Lives and works in Mexico City

Jorge Trujillo, MFA, visual artist specialized in painting and photography by the Faculty of Arts and Design of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), and professor at the same institution since eight years ago. He also has studies in BFA in the Faculty of Fine Arts at the Polytechtic University of Valencia, Spain, after an academic – professional residency in 2009, and photography studies in the Active School of Photography (EAF) in México City. Since 20 years ago he has practiced the craft and profession of fine and visual arts in more than twenty collective and individual exhibitions. (Alive ashes, San Carlos Academy, Mexico City 2013), as well as been generated many collective proyects (audiovisuals, Tv programs, design) and have shown different cultural and artistic events in Mexico and outside his country.

In 2010 – 2011 he has been granted with the production grant on visual arts “Young Creators” of the National Found for the Culture and Arts (FONCA), now he has de PECDA 2024, as well as different honorific mentions and awards in video, film making and photography.Over this period of time he has given speeches, courses and participated as author, co-author and coordinator for some publications. His artwork belongs at a large number of private and public collections, as well as he has been interviewed by different media about his artistic production.

Some of the awards and distinctions include, Honorific Mention in the 4th Short film´s University Festival, with the short film called “Moneda al aire” México City (2009); Second Place in the 3th Malva-Rosa Short film´s Contest, proffesional category in Valencia, Spain (2009); Honorific Mention in the 10th International short cut Film Festival by the “Vivir de Cine” Association in Buñol, Spain (2009); Honorific Mention in the photography contest “Einstein, space and time: Paradoxes of the perception", Palacio de Minería, Mexico City (2005).

Selected exhibitions: ''Dr. Alfonso Pérez Romo Arts Biennal, Ags, Mexico,(2019), Mexican Biodiversity 1rst Arts Biennal, Mayan Museum, Cancun, Merida´s City Museum, Mexico (2019), Caribean Destiny, El Quito Piso Gallery, (2016), A Glimpse of Latin American Art, Latin América Art Gallery, Las Vegas, Nevada, EUA, (2016), ”Art seen by Poetry”, Nuevo Leon Gallery (2016), Museo Chihuahuense de Arte Contemporáneo, Chihuahua (2016), Cabañas's Hospice, Guadalajara, Jalisco (2016), El Carmen Museum, Mexico City (2015), “7th Art show by Reforma Group”, Polyforum Siqueiros, Mexico City (2014),”Sensible Science” Niza 72 Gallery, Mexico City (2013), “Creation in Movement” Vasconcelos Library, Mexico City (2013) – San Luis Potosí Art Center (2011), SLP, Mexico, 2nd Professional Panting Contest Royal Talens, National Museum of Art (MUNAL), Mexico City (2013), “Between utopia and distopia. Asian Palestra with Rikrit Tiravanija at University Museum of Contemporary Art (MUAC), Mexico City (2011), “Cyclic” Valencia, Spain, (2009), “A to B, Urban displacements, Brussels, Belgium (2007).

In the other hand, he has collaborated in the realization of scenery work in México and Spain, from independent plays and companies like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video.  Also, he was art assistant for artists like Cai Guo-Quiang, Rikrit Tiravanija and Tsuyoshi Osawa while they were working in their art proyects in Mexico City. Nowadays, Trujillo is also member of the Visual Arts Project, VAP''.

Statement

"Personally, I have looked for events incinerated to reinterpret them. Fire as a civilizing element, its perception linked to the alchemy of painting and its encrypted messages builds a broad interest in ways of seeing. Now from the optical and anaglyphic vision of stereoscopy , its bichromaticity and its three-dimensional perception from the outdated two-dimensionality allows me to expand a contemporary vision of what is the continuous game beetween composition and vision. The construction of the painting as the deconstruction of it, is fundamental to me. For that reason I start with one particular consideration in addition to compositional gaps, the ellipsis concept such as a auto-da-fé("act of faith") process. An auto-da-fé as well as the action of eliminate specific elements or to sustract them from a determinate structure… even to sustract from painting. To sump with, I try to let the materials to express themselves. The vestige ought to be alive, his facets, his times, his layers and his combustion. I prefer the idea of a semi - complete painting, which makes sincere his issues and body. To appreciate the vulnerability and corruption of painting, of the mimesis itself. To manifest with each stroke the made and unmade such as a continuous way of his existence and extinction. To paint like if every painting was one of the last ashes which would have ignited all around it, all… and would have carried with it the ideas, experience and the fallacious vision of a collective construction of what we call as reality and civilization."

Jorge Trujillo