This piece explores the intersection between the photography of physical textures and the algorithmic distortion of contemporary screens. Rodrigo Etem uses media hybridization to reflect on how we consume landscape and matter through digital interfaces. The work simulates a "rendering error" or glitch where dense layers of oil paint appear to melt, float, and blend on a reflective metallic surface. By freezing this dynamism through the photographic lens, the artist captures the time of virtual navigation and transforms it into an object of physical, analogical contemplation.
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*
Liquid chromatism resignifying net content—digital browsing experiences transformed into physical painting medium. Untitled VII from Medium by Rodrigo Etem. Available at The Art Design Project, Miami Beach.
Liquid Chromatism Painting – Untitled VII, 2024 by Rodrigo Etem
Untitled VII, 2024
From the Medium - Screen Time series
Mixed Media (oil, giclee print) on canvas
Dimensions: 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)
