Etem's grid format references digital browsing: multiple images viewed simultaneously like museum feed or map interface, each painting functioning as window into virtual-real meeting place. The works feature greens, pinks, oranges against soft backgrounds creating ambiguity between natural forms and digital aesthetics—are these bodily organs, biological specimens, or pixel-based shapes? This uncertainty materializes fluid condition Etem explores: daily experience increasingly occurring through screens where atoms and bits coexist. Set of 6 demonstrates how appropriating content from net resignifies narratives—digital browsing experiences (scrolling feeds, viewing collections) becoming source material for traditional painting medium, creating visual questions about contemporary existence mediated by screen time where virtual and real worlds meet in painted still lifes.
In this project, exploring the fluid condition between the virtual and real world, the artist seek to materialize my experiences in digital environments - whether browsing through Google Maps or in the feed of an art museum - generating images as a meeting place between the world of atoms and that of bits*
Digital cartography materializing screen experiences—six paintings as meeting place between atoms and bits. Set of 6 from Medium screen time by Rodrigo Etem. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Digital Cartography Paintings – Set of 6 by Rodrigo Etem
Set of 6 artworks: Untitled II, III, IV, V, VI and VII, 2024
From the Medium - Screen Time series
Mixed Media (oil, giclee print) on canvas
Dimensions:
Overall Frame size: 104 H x 124.5 W x 3 D cm.
Individual Frame size: 52 H x 41.5 W x 3 D cm.
Marupá wood Framed
Rodrigo Etem was born in 1977 in Mendoza, Argentina, he studied Administration at the Universidad del Aconcagua. He attended workshops with Fabiana Barreda, Esteban Álvarez, Ananké Asseff, Eugenio Echeverría (Spain). He received grants from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Fondo Argentino de Desarrollo Cultural, Fondo Provincial de Cultura, Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación. His work surreptitiously investigates and works on concepts that seek to disseminate questions about our daily experience. The artist held solo exhibitions such as: “Hasta encontrar otro amarillo” (Imagen Galería, Mendoza 2018), “Instrucciones para no hacer nada” (Espacio Rivadavia 645, Mendoza 2016), “Probable” (Casa Colmena, Mendoza 2016), “Ser Cosa” (Museo Pumapungo Cuenca, Ecuador 2015), “Ser Cosa” (Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo, Guayaquil. Ecuador 2012).He has also participated in numerous group exhibitions. Highlights: “La marca original” (CCK, Buenos Aires 2019), “Poéticas Políticas” (Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires 2016), “Dura lex sed lex” (Bienal Sur. Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario)
