Rodrigo Echeverría

JO-HS presents the exhibition ¡Qué Cholulada! by Rodrigo Echeverría.

Rodrigo Echeverría (Mexico, 1988) is a self-taught painter that, as stated by Nicolas Medina Mora, “follows a very different set of formal laws than those that govern much of contemporary Mexican art. His oeuvre is too diverse and too original to fit comfortably in one or another school and the omnivorous curiosity that nurtures his sensibility could well be described as [that of a] neobarroque painter.” Echeverria began painting from an early age within the context of a conservative and Catholic society. After graduating from university he saw firsthand that the most effective learning happens outside of institutions. As observed by Medina Mora, Echeverría “collect[s] gestures, colors and styles that he then makes his own, not through disrespectful appropriation, but rather by drinking from the countless fountains of human diversity. The fundamental effect that Echeverría’s canvases induce in the viewer is a sort of confusion that proves sometimes joyful, others disquieting, but always productive. Each successive viewing reveals new possibilities, new references, new readings.” His paintings are divided into figurative, portraiture and landscape. He has had important portrait commissions including a portrait of the second room of the Nation’s Supreme Court of Justice and his collectors encompass all levels of society.

— JO-HS