Alejandro Pintado
Bio
(b.1973). Studied at La Esmeralda and Goldsmiths College. He has been awarded by the Centenario Award at the Art fair ZONA MACO and the special prize Arte Laguna in Venice. He has obtained grants such as: Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Skowhegan School of Painting, National System of Art Creators and BBVA Foundation. His work has been shown in numerous exhibitions at: the ICM (Berlin), Museo Nacional de Arte (Mexico), Museo Nacional de San Carlos (Mexico), Museo de Arte Moderno (Mexico), the Smithsonian Arts and Industries Building (USA), Mexican Pavillion at The World Fair EXPO 2015 (Italy), the Museum of Modern Art in Moscow (Russia), at the Tamayo Biennial (Mexico), the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), the Monterrey Biennial (Mexico).
Statement
Pintado´s research has developed around the historical memory of landscape and its transformation over time. He has been in the task of studying, editing, transforming and some times intervening the work of artists such as Claude Lorraine, Mortitz Rugendas and José María Velasco. Pintado research is not only in the aesthetic assessing these landscapers, his interest is on the cosmogony of the time in which these artists worked. Pintado takes certain aspects of these views, selecting pristine landscapes that are unattainable at present, then intervenes them with contemporary objects. This confrontation of dissonant elements allude to the notion of modernity in which all periods of past history coincide at one time: now.
