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RUBEN OCHOA
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RUBEN OCHOA
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BESTIARY (OR THE NEW DEADLY SINS)MEXICO CITY, MEXICOBRITISH AMERICAN MUSEUM, EX-COVENT OF SANTO DOMINGO
SERIES OF 7 PHOTOGRAPHS DEVELOPED ONTO STONE WITH XIX CENTURY FORMULAE MODIFIED BY THE AUTHORSTONE + CHEMICAL + CARBON INK91.5 x 152.5 CMS. EACH, 2011
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SIN I. EGOISMSIN II. CONSUMERISM
SIN III. IMPUNITYSIN IV. CRUELTY
SIN V. ABANDONMENTSIN VI. LIE
SIN VII. DEVASTATION
audacity: it is hoped that this audacity takes i ts own place in Ochoa's catalogue of vices, wheresoever the viewer chooses to situate it.
The p roduction of each i mage i n the series is t he result of m ore than f ifteen hours of photographic development. The seven images of Bestiary begin life as s ingle photographic exposures, untouched by Photoshop, and developed and p rinted d irectly onto slabs of amber-toned, fossil-rich Caliza stone quarried in Yucatan, Mexico.
The t echnique used i n their development i s unique and based o n the artistʼs m odification of several nineteenth-century photographic formulae, i nvolving months of preparation, chemical analysis and tests.
A product of both the material and scale of the work - each photograph measures 91 x 152 cm and weighs over 80kg - the monumentality of Bestiary (or the New Deadly Sins) i s palpable and entirely intentional: physical s tature m atches t he s tature o f the moral questions taken on by the series.
Bestiary ( or t he N ew D eadly Sins) i s artist R uben Ochoaʼs r edefinition of t he C atholic churchʼs i conic seven deadly sins, r econfiguring them for a modern age o f high definition moral decay. E ach s in i s represented i n the series by a n allegorical i mage deriving from a s ingle photographic exposure, developed and p rinted onto stone. E ach shot i s marked by the presence of an animal – some familiar, some exotic – making a modern-day fable out of each
profane act.
The bestiary as a genre has its roots in Classical and medieval compendia of animals. From the psalters of medieval F rance and E ngland t o the notebooks o f Leonardo D a Vinci and t he paintings o f Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, animals are a long-established artistic index of moral lessons. The literary bestiaries of Jorge Luis Borges and Julio C ortázar i n Latin America brought the genre into the twentieth century with t he description o f imaginary beasts. Continuing this tradition, O choa's Bestiary ( or t he N ew D eadly Sins) r aises t he genre to new l evels of m oral and
political critique for the twenty first century.
Redefining the deadly sins requires some degree o f
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SIN I. EGOISMSIN II. CONSUMERISM
SIN III. IMPUNITYSIN IV. CRUELTY
SIN V. ABANDONMENTSIN VI. LIE
SIN VII. DEVASTATION
audacity: it is hoped that this audacity takes i ts own place in Ochoa's catalogue of vices, wheresoever the viewer chooses to situate it.
The p roduction of each i mage i n the series is t he result of m ore than f ifteen hours of photographic development. The seven images of Bestiary begin life as s ingle photographic exposures, untouched by Photoshop, and developed and p rinted d irectly onto slabs of amber-toned, fossil-rich Caliza stone quarried in Yucatan, Mexico.
The t echnique used i n their development i s unique and based o n the artistʼs m odification of several nineteenth-century photographic formulae, i nvolving months of preparation, chemical analysis and tests.
A product of both the material and scale of the work - each photograph measures 91 x 152 cm and weighs over 80kg - the monumentality of Bestiary (or the New Deadly Sins) i s palpable and entirely intentional: physical s tature m atches t he s tature o f the moral questions taken on by the series.
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FLOOR 86MEXICO CITY, MEXICOESTACIÓN INDIANILLA CENTRO CULTURAL
SERIES OF 6 PHOTOGRAPHS DEVELOPED ONTO STONE WITH XIX CENTURY FORMULAE MODIFIED BY THE AUTHORSTONE + CHEMICAL + CARBON INK152.5 x 91.5 CMS. EACH, 2009
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JARDÍ de contemplaciÓBARCELONA, SPAINCENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORANI I SOSTENIBILITAT EL FORN DE LA CALÇ
INSTALLATION #1, SCULPTURE STONE + METAL160.0 x 60.0 CMS., 2011
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INVENTORY (ONE)MEXICO CITY, MEXICODEAR ART GALLERY
SERIES OF 10 PHOTOGRAPHS DEVELOPED ONTO WOOD WITH XIX CENTURY FORMULAE MODIFIED BY THE AUTHORWOOD + CHEMICAL + CARBON INK30.0 x CMS. EACH, 2013
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The function of everyday objects is their most convincing d isguise. I n the brief drama o f a human life, t hese o bjects serve a single and graceful purpose to which, with our patronage, t heir being devotes i tself full-time. Use is t he frequency t o which our senses a re
tuned, over and above all others.
The i mages t hat f ollow show t hese quotidian objects in repose: objects that have forgotten themselves, relaxed into breakage or disuse, and in doing so, in that s ilence beyond t he noise o f use, begun t o speak anew. T hese o bjects are residues of the intimacies, banalities and discoveries in w hich t hey participate unheard. Their ghost-life is the life of objects when we are not thereto use them, when objects – we imagine
here – simply remember.
Inventory (one) is a catalogue of these buried i ntimacies, paying tribute to t he unmarked service of ordinary objects to
the human soul.
INVENTORY (ONE)MEXICO CITY, MEXICODEAR ART GALLERY
SERIES OF 10 PHOTOGRAPHS DEVELOPED ONTO WOOD WITH XIX CENTURY FORMULAE MODIFIED BY THE AUTHORWOOD + CHEMICAL + CARBON INK30.0 x CMS. EACH, 2013
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THE WALKING SALVATION TOOLOUDENAARDE, BELGIUMSHOES OR NO SHOES MUSEUM
INTERVENED AUTHOR’S SHOESSHOES + METAL + CARDBOARD + PAPER + FABRIC50.0 x 50.0 x 20.0 CMS., 2009
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THE WALKING SALVATION TOOLOUDENAARDE, BELGIUMSHOES OR NO SHOES MUSEUM
INTERVENED AUTHOR’S SHOESSHOES + METAL + CARDBOARD + PAPER + FABRIC50.0 x 50.0 x 20.0 CMS., 2009
hoy como nuncaRICHMOND, CA, USACODEX INTERNATIONAL BOOK FAIR
ARTIST BOOK, EDITION OF 10019 CYANOTYPE PHOTOGRAPHS CAFÉ ESPRESSO TINTED + CARDBOARD + GLASS + PAPER15.0 x 34.0 x 3.0 CMS., 2012
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METROMEXICO CITY, MEXICOAUTHOR’S COLLECTION
SERIES OF 8 PHOTOGRAPHS DIGITAL PRINTDIFFERENT SIZES., 2011
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360ºEUROPELONDON, BERLIN, STUTTGART, COPENHAGEN, BUCHAREST, PORTO, DUBLIN, KOPER, CAMBRIDGE, CORK, KAZAN, CALARASI
SERIES OF 36 PHOTOGRAPHSDIGITAL PRINT60.0 x 60.0 CMS. EACH, 2006
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360ºEUROPELONDON, BERLIN, STUTTGART, COPENHAGEN, BUCHAREST, PORTO, DUBLIN, KOPER, CAMBRIDGE, CORK, KAZAN, CALARASI
SERIES OF 36 PHOTOGRAPHSDIGITAL PRINT60.0 x 60.0 CMS. EACH, 2006
Suffice it to start walking, with no intentionof stopping, to someday come back to the
same place.
In 360º Ruben Ochoa ventures from one point t o another, i n a chain of r elations between objects, people and places that will take him invariably back to the place he started. He sets out t o prove t hat chance has a n order o f sorts; t hat everything i s subject t o a web of relationships that, in i ts w orking, is
common to all of us.
The exhibition has no beginning. Like an endless conversation, each image opens up t he possibility of another, tracing t he circular forms of memory. The object or person loses its singularity and becomes the document o f a s imple exploration. Beyond aesthetics, t he e motions 360º invites are in a sense t he point – t he destination – of t he j ourney. A s in a conversation, each new i mage is a pretext for m ore images, a search for conclusion t hat, naturally, never quite
gets there.
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THE VALISE PROJECTSAN DIEGO, CA, USALUX ART INSTITUTE
INTERVENED WOOD VALISE WITH SERIES OF 9 PHOTOGRAPHS AND OBJECTSWOOD + OBJECTS + DIGITAL PRINT70.0 x 40.0 x 20.0 CMS., 2007
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TESTAMENTIRALEIGH, NC, USALULU PRESS INC.
SERIES OF 100 PHOTOGRAPHS PUBLISHED AS A BOOKDIGITAL PRINT100.0 x 100.0 CMS. EACH, 2013
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UNA PIEDRA COMO ALMOHADABARCELONA, SPAINCENTRE D’ART CONTEMPORANI I SOSTENIBILITAT EL FORN DE LA CALÇ
INSTALLATION IN LIME KILN OF 2 PHOTOGRAPHS DEVELOPED ONTO STONE WITH XIX CENTURY FORMULAE MODIFIED BY THE AUTHORSTONE + METAL + CHEMICAL + CARBON INK60.0 x 60.0 CMS. EACH, 2011
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THERMOMEXICO CITY, MEXICOIV WORLD WATER FORUM
SERIES OF 5 PHOTOGRAPHS DEVELOPED USING AN INFRARED CAMERADIGITAL PRINT200.0 x 400.0 CMS. EACH, 2006
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THE LAND OF THE SUNMEXICO CITY, MEXICOMUSEO MEMORIA Y TOLERANCIAFORD FOUNDATION
MIXED MEDIAPHOTOGRAPHS + WOOD + METAL+ INK + PAPER30.5 x 22.3 x 9.5 CMS., 2012
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ANTERIOR CINGULADOPATAGONIA, ARGENTINACENTRO CULTURAL JOSE HERNANDEZ RAWSON
DIGITAL PRINT60.0 x 60.0 CMS., 2009
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OPERADIGITAL PRINT ON METALLIC PAPER
120 x 120 CMS., 2012
ANTONINUSPHOTOGRAPH DEVELOPED ONTO
STONE92 x 122 CMS., 2012
MARIN 8DIGITAL PRINT
167 x 125 CMS., 2010
EJEMPLARESMEXICO CITY, MEXICOAUTHOR’S COLLECTION
DIFFERENT TECHNIQUESDIFFERENT MEDIADIFFERENT SIZES, 2009-2013
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RUBEN OCHOA
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Ruben Ochoa has exhibited in Europe, North America and Latin America, with key shows in New York, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles as well as an ongoing cycle of exhibitions in his hometown, Mexico City. His collaborations include projects with master artists Leonora Carrington, José Luis Cuevas, Manuel Felguérez, Gabriel Macotela, Javier Marín, Vicente Rojo and Francisco
Toledo.
Ochoa is considered among the most importantartists currently working in Mexico. His work was commissioned for exhibitions of “20 Iberoamerican artists”, and he represented Mexico in the PhotoIreland Festival in 2010. Hetook 1st place honours at the Mercosur 12
International Fair in Buenos Aires.
Among his commissions are projects for the New York-based Art on Paper ('Diaries of a Young Artist', published as a book in 2009), magazines Monocle (London), FOLLY (New York) and Lenguaraz (Mexico), the SONS Museum in Belgium, the Lux Art Institute in California and a variety of corporate and privatecommissions. He was invited to the Editorial
Committee of the newspaper Reforma's Culturesection.
Notable exhibitions of Ruben Ochoa's work include the highly acclaimed touring exhibition 360º, shown in cities throughout Europe between 2006 and 2012 (and published as a book in 2010), and exhibitions of the projects Piso 86 (Floor 86, homage to Manuel Felguérez) and Road to Ayreshire (FranzMayer Museum, Mexico City), THERMO (images shot with an infrared camera, exhibited at the fourth World Water Forum), Bestiary (or the new deadly sins) which was exhibited at theBritish-American Museum and the Santo Domingo Convent in Mexico City, and shows atthe Patricia Conde Contemporary Art Gallery and Gallery 416 W, Texas. Ochoa's work has been featured in the Saatchi Online "New Photography" and "Black and White" collections, curated by the Director of the Saatchi Gallery, London.
In 2011 Ochoa completed an artistic residency in Barcelona. In 2014 his plans include a periodof work in London and a series of projects, some large format, to be presented in Europe.
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Ruben Ochoa has exhibited in Europe, North America and Latin America, with key shows in New York, Berlin, London, Barcelona, Buenos Aires and Los Angeles as well as an ongoing cycle of exhibitions in his hometown, Mexico City. His collaborations include projects with master artists Leonora Carrington, José Luis Cuevas, Manuel Felguérez, Gabriel Macotela, Javier Marín, Vicente Rojo and Francisco
Toledo.
Ochoa is considered among the most importantartists currently working in Mexico. His work was commissioned for exhibitions of “20 Iberoamerican artists”, and he represented Mexico in the PhotoIreland Festival in 2010. Hetook 1st place honours at the Mercosur 12
International Fair in Buenos Aires.
Among his commissions are projects for the New York-based Art on Paper ('Diaries of a Young Artist', published as a book in 2009), magazines Monocle (London), FOLLY (New York) and Lenguaraz (Mexico), the SONS Museum in Belgium, the Lux Art Institute in California and a variety of corporate and privatecommissions. He was invited to the Editorial
Committee of the newspaper Reforma's Culturesection.
Notable exhibitions of Ruben Ochoa's work include the highly acclaimed touring exhibition 360º, shown in cities throughout Europe between 2006 and 2012 (and published as a book in 2010), and exhibitions of the projects Piso 86 (Floor 86, homage to Manuel Felguérez) and Road to Ayreshire (FranzMayer Museum, Mexico City), THERMO (images shot with an infrared camera, exhibited at the fourth World Water Forum), Bestiary (or the new deadly sins) which was exhibited at theBritish-American Museum and the Santo Domingo Convent in Mexico City, and shows atthe Patricia Conde Contemporary Art Gallery and Gallery 416 W, Texas. Ochoa's work has been featured in the Saatchi Online "New Photography" and "Black and White" collections, curated by the Director of the Saatchi Gallery, London.
In 2011 Ochoa completed an artistic residency in Barcelona. In 2014 his plans include a periodof work in London and a series of projects, some large format, to be presented in Europe.
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