Dialectic of forms.
Rational. Irrational
Time denial, space alteration.
Dreams and memories of black holes.
Intangible space.
The work of art is adrift, seeking, roaming, erring and not even reaching a final meeting. The end itself is a random ride. Changing the coordinates, mutating, exploring, destroying, beginning a-new, changing the starting point. Changing the axis. It is no for everything to be indifferent, it is for new possibilities to arise. New states, new alterations, new us, strengths, us.
Singularity that evolves into plurality.
Shape of life without shape, no thirst for shape, no thirst for truth, no thirst for judging or being judged.
To become invisible in order to be.
Let it happen and live with the outcome. A game between tension and liberation.
Work as space of struggle, space of permanent revolution, going beyond things because it is knowledge, it is avant-garde and therefore is a void.
Within the twilight of the form the tension of the shapeless is hidden.
Totality has been lost.
Dialéctica de la forma.
Racionalidad. Irracionalidad.
Negación del tiempo, alteración del espacio.
Sueños y recuerdos de agujeros negros.
El espacio imperceptible.
La obra es deriva, búsqueda, deambular, errar; no es un encuentro final. El propio final es un andar errante.
Cambiar las coordenadas, mutar, explorar, destruir y comenzar nuevamente, cambiar el punto de partida. Cambiar el eje. No para que todo sea indiferente, simplemente para ver emerger nuevas posibilidades. Otros estados, otras alteraciones, otras fuerzas, otros nosotros, + fuerzas + nosotros.
Singularidad que deviene pluralidad.
Forma de vida sin forma, sin sed de forma, sin sed de verdad, sin sed de juzgar y ser juzgado.
Volverse invisible para Ser.
Dejar que el acto suceda y convivir con lo sucedido. Un juego entre tensión y liberación.
La obra en tanto espacio de lucha, espacio de revolución permanente, un ir al más allá de la cosas porque es conocimiento, es vanguardia y por ende es vacío.
En el ocaso de la forma se esconde la tensión de lo informe.
La totalidad se ha perdido.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- Self-taught.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2006: Beca Nacional en Artes Plásticas del Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013: :Untergehen”, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, USA.
- 2011: “Naturaleza Muerta”, Braga Menéndez Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2011: “La posibilidad de un vacío”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario Trama.
- 2010: Solo Project, Pinta art, Nueva York, USA.
- 2010: “Un silencio aparente”, KBK Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2009: “Timeless”, Dot Fiftyone Gallery, Miami, USA.
- 2007: “Estudios para óleo y grabado”, Zavaleta Lab / Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- 2004: “Serie”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano (MACLA), La Plata, Argentina.
- 2004: “Serie”, Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Group Exhibitions
- 2010: “Abstraction Revisited”, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA.
Publications
- Poéticas contemporaneas, Apuntes y aproximaciones, Itinerario de las artes visuales en Argentina de los 90 al 2010, Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
Collections
- Alan Mitchell, Chicago, USA.
- Alejandra and Alberto Poza, Miami, USA.
- Alejandro Castaño, Bogotá, Colombia.
- Ana Milena de Gaviria, Bogota, Colombia.
- Angel Junquera Sepúlvera, Mexico City.
- Arie Genger, NY, USA.
- Beatriz Savatierra de Giardinella, Miami, USA.
- Brett Robertson, Dallas, TX, USA.
- Cota Cohen, Miami, USA.
- Daniel Oks, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- Daniel Yankelewitz, San Jose, Costa Rica.
- Familia Dascal, Miami, USA.
- Felipe Greenberg, México City, Mexico.
- Hilda Brillembourg, Washinton, USA.
- Joana Solomon, Miami / Bogotá, Colombia.
- JoAnn Gonzalez-Hickey Collection, NYC, USA.
- John & Heidi Hassenfeld, Nashville, TN, USA.
- Maria Fernanda Campos, Bogota, Colombia.
- Micaella Mila Vacarel, Barcelona Spain.
- Michel Amsellem, Geneve, Swizterland.
- Natalie Barth, New York, USA.
- Rafael y Rosa Kalach, Mexico City, Mexico / Medellin, Colombia.
- Raúl Cervantes, Mexico City, Mexico.
- Royal Caribbean Collection, Miami, USA.
- Sayago & Pardon Collection, California, USA.
- Simona Mishaan, Caracas, Venezuela.
- Susana Gottieb, Miami, USA.
- Tanya Capriles de Brillembourg, Miami, Madrid and Caracas.
- Thomas W. Bark and Phillip Battaglia, NY, USA.
- Veronica Bonta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
- William Escalera, LA, USA.
- Luis Miguel Mercado – La Paz, Bolivia and Miami, USA.
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (MARCO), Argentina.
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano (MACLA). Colección patrimonial. Argentina.
- Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes. Argentina.
- Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Links
- Hernán Cédola, “Untitled Beginning”, 12/10/13, Acrylic on canvas, 245 x 190 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Ante lo invisible”, 2013, Acrylic on canvas, 245 x 190 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “un pasado”, 2012-2013, Acrylic on canvas, 190 x 135 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “No sabemos como llegar ahí”, 2013, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 252 x 190 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Estudio (sueños y lineas rotas)”, 2013, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 220 x 175 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Equilibrio del ocaso”, 2012-2013, Oil on canvas, 190 x 285 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Tech”, 2012, Acrylic, oil and collage on canvas, 190 x 135 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Ingrávido”, 2013, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 190 x 285 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Permanente invisible”, 2013, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Sin Título”, 2013, Mixed media on canvas, 40 x 30 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Azules encontrados”, 2012-2013, Oil on canvas, 40 x 30 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Geometria Im – Perfecta”, 2013, Oil on canvas, 60 x 50 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Vestigio”, 2012-2013, Oil on canvas, 190 x 135 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “La batalla de las peras”, 2012-2013, Oil on canvas, 190 x 140 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
- Hernán Cédola, “Flujos”, 2013, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 252 x 190 cm. Photo credit: Dot Fiftyone Gallery and the artist
Translated from Spanish
I have recently developed an investigation that proposes various relationships among concepts of space, time, landscape, sound, silence, memory, and perception. The idea of variation is understood as the metamorphosis and interaction that occurs within this glossary of concepts, and which merges a series of projects where experimentation with different media and processes function as central axis of my artistic practice, and which allows a sense of dynamics during the process of the work itself.
Based on this outline, I began an interdisciplinary project in 2013, titled Ghost Variations, which states an analogy between the evolutionary phases of a hurricane and the movements of a symphony, giving to each one of its phases a selection of formal elements and collaborative practices for its production.
Recientemente, he desarrollado una investigación que propone diversas relaciones entre los conceptos de espacio, tiempo, paisaje, sonido, silencio, memoria y percepción. La idea de variación es entendida como la metamorfosis e interacción que acontece entre este glosario de conceptos y que integran una serie de proyectos donde la experimentación con diversos medios y procesos funciona como eje de mi práctica artística, los cuales otorgan un sentido dinámico durante el proceso mismo de la obra.
Basado en este esquema, inicié en 2013 un proyecto interdisciplinario titulado Ghost Variations, el cual articula una analogía entre las fases evolutivas de un huracán y los movimientos de una sinfonía, otorgando a cada una de sus fases una selección de elementos formales y estrategias colaborativas para su realización.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
- Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado La Esmeralda, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2001 – 2006: Licienciatura en Artes Plásticas, Mexico City, Mexico.
Prizes / Fellowships
- 2013: Residencia Artística en CASA TOMADA, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2009: Residencia Artística en CAPACETE, Río de Janerio, Brazil.
- 2009: Beca Arte Actual Bancomer – MACG 2009.
- 2008-09: Beca Jóvenes Creadores 2008 – 09, FONCA.
- 2004-05: Beca Jóvenes Creadores 2004 – 05, FONCA.
- 2003: Segundo lugar, Premio Philips Art Expression, X Edición, Museo de Imagen y Sonido, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2003: Primer lugar, Premio Philips Art Expression, X Edición, Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2002: Mención Honorífica, Un espacio de 35 mm, Televisa, Centro de la Imagen, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2002-03: Beca Jóvenes Creadores 2002 – 03, FECAQROO.
- 2002-06: Beca Fundación Telmex.
Solo Exhibitions
- 2013: “1st Fugue”, Kunsthalle Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2012: “Half Day Closing”, Pinta Art Fair, NYC, USA. (Curator: Jacopo Crivelli)
- 2012: “Ghost Variations 1 (Prelude)”, Galería Arróniz, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curator: Christian Barragán)
- 2011: “Lapses”, Hermés Store, Mexico, DF. (Curator: Tobías Ostrander)
- 2010: “Reverb“, Museo Experimental El Eco, Mexico DF. (Curator: Tobías Ostrander)
- 2010: “Pautas”, Dot Fifty One Gallery, Miami, USA.
- 2008: “Estudio”, Trolebús Galería, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curator: Ariadna Ramonetti)
- 2008: “Suspensión, alineación y balanceo”, Galería Arróniz, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2007: “Axis”, Laboratorio Dzityá, Yucatan, Mexico.
Group Exhibitions
- 2013: “Emmathomasteca“, Galería Emma Thomas, Sao Paulo, Brazil (Curator: Marta Ramos Yzquierdo)
- 2013: “Materia Sensible“, Gabinete grafico, Museo Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curator: Caroline Montenat)
- 2012: “XV Bienal de Pintura Rufino Tamayo“, Museo Tamayo, Mexico D.F. Colectiva Mexico, Galería Baró, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
- 2011: “Re Cover”, Casa del Lago, UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2010: Hecho en Casa, Fundación Ex – Molino, Mexico City, Mexico.
- 2010: “Arte Actual, Programa Bancomer MACG”, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico. (Curatoras: Ruth Estévez y Sarah Demeuse)
- 2009: “Trabajo de espacio”, Galería Arróniz, Mexico City, Mexico.
Publications
- 2012: MPBA, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes.
- 2011: ABSTRACCION TEMPORAL, Museo Experimental El Eco / UNAM / 2011.
- 2011: MEMORIAS, Casa del Lago / UNAM / 2011 + 2007.
- 2010: PROGRAMA BBVA BANCOMER – MACG.
- 2005-2009: TROLEBUS.
- 2004-2005:MEMORIAS JOVENES CREADORES 2004- 205.
Collections
- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Mexico.
- La Colección Júmex, Mexico.
- Jorge Pérez Collection, Miami, USA.
- Joahn Hickey Collection, NY, USA.
- Sayago & Pardon Collection, Los Angeles, USA.
Links
- Omar Barquet, “Suspensión”, 2013, Color pencil, marker and collage on MDF hanging structure, 240 x 180 x 20 cm (peso 40 kg). Photo credit: Adrián Villalobos
- Omar Barquet, “Filtros”, 2010, 6 Glazed and carved wood screens, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Mauro Giaconi
- Omar Barquet, “Division + Day After Day”, 2011, Partially sanded wood floor. Installation with letters made of carved and assembled wood, Variable dimensions. Photo credit: Adrian Villalobos
- Omar Barquet, “Reflection”, 2010, Intervened table, enamel and mirror, 120 x 70 x 150 cm. Galeria DotFiftyOne (Miami). Photo credit: Ramiro Chavez
- Omar Barquet, “Im Freien (Reverse)”, 2012, Series: Out Of Doors, Encyclopedia convers intervened with mixed techniques, audio cassette and record player with sound action and wooden ledge, 200 x 35 cm. Private Collection. Photo credit: Felipe Censi
- Omar Barquet, “Cuadrante 23 (The Nicht’s Music)”, 2012, Series: Cuadrantes, Acrylic on paper over canvas, 33 x 32 cm. Private Collection. Photo credit: Adrian Villalobos
- Omar Barquet, “Day After Day (high version)”, 2012, Series: Day After Day, Installation with brushes and carved wooden canes, 250 x 80 x 80 cm. Galeria Baró, Sao Paulo.
- Omar Barquet, “White noise + A lapse of silence (Diptico para ambos lados de un mismo muro)”, 2012, Encyclopedia convers intervened with mixed techniques, audio cassette and record player with sound action and wooden ledge, 150 x 10 x 40 cm. Photo credit: Felipe Censi
- Omar Barquet, “La Visión (Guillotina)”, 2012, Series: La Visión, Perforated, trimmed and glazed aluminum sheet. Diptych, edition of 5, 52 x 38 cm. Location: Galeria Arroníz. Photo credit: Luis Nava
- Omar Barquet, “Astilla”, 2012, Series: Ghost Variations, Fragments of a carved chair installed on wall, 15 x 30 x 45 cm. Galeria Arroniz. Photo credit: Luis Nava
- Omar Barquet, “La Chanson de la folle au bord de la mer”, 2012, Series: The Shining Paintings, Esmalte sobre puerta recortada, 108 x 74 cm. Galeria Arroníz. Photo credit: Adrian Villalobos
- Omar Barquet, “Darker Days Ahead”, 2013, Series: Horizounds, Transfer, tearing, sanding and enamel on wood, 28 x 42 cm. Sayago & Pardon Collection. Photo credit: Omar Barquet
- Omar Barquet, “Ghost Variations (Orange horizon)”, 2012, Series: Ghost Variations, Digital print, serigraphy and enamel on canvas, 180 x 370 cm (triptych). Photo credit: Adrian Villalobos
- Omar Barquet, “The song of the mad woman on the sea shore (prelude)”, 2013, Series: Ghost Variations, Mural paint, sound sculpture and action in collaboration with Fernando Soberanes y Javier Loyola, Variables. Duration: 12 min. Photo credit: Fabiola Aviña
- Omar Barquet, “Constellations hemispheres”, 2013, Series: Broken records, Vinyl record with intervened symphony through perforations. On-going project, Diameter 32 cm. Photo credit: Habacuque Lima