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G O N Z A LO R E Y E S A R A O SSELECTED WORKS
L O O K I N G T O T H E S O U T H
LOOKING TO THE SOUTH is a handmade device of the same size and shape of my cellphone. Pointing this piece against the light, it reveals some open holes shaping the exact proportions of the constellation “Cruz del Sur” (Crux) and its adjacent part of the sky. This constellation is only visible from the southern hemisphere of the planet, and sailors used it as a navigator’s compass indicating the south pole.
This work was made during an artist residency (H) in the desert of Atacama (where my mother lives), to be sent then to Berlin (Germany), reflecting in this way a symbol of communication of the place from where I am (Chile).
This piece is made in perforated inox plate, textured by hole patterns. Where Some of them were covered letting others open, thus alluding the nature of the binary code, a logic used by programmers as a form of architecture to create and structure spaces of human meetings and interactions in the Internet.
This work must obey a condition to keep its function: To remain in the Northern hemisphere of the planet.
LOOKING TO THE SOUTH2018
Perforated inox steel plate, industrial glue, acrylic lacquer.14,9 x 7,4 x 0,4 cm.
CRUZ DEL SUR (CRUX)
Constellation only visible from thesouthern hemisphere of the planet
D A W N E Y E - Z O O M
DAWN EYE - ZOOM is an video installation displaying the sky of sunrises of different points of the world happening in real time. Those images are broadcasted by live-stream webcams located in several countries of the world. These cameras pointing to the sky are extremely zoomed; as a kind of «macro-microscopes,» they reveal pixels and glitches highlighting the digital nature of the Internet when they broadcast natural phenomena.
The projection is displayed over a wood structure alluding to outer space communications aerials.
DAWN EYE - ZOOM2017live stream webcam video projection (Vancouver, Canada), wood structure, laptop(installation view)Foreign Sky, NON Berlin, Berlin
DAWN EYE - ZOOM2017live stream webcam video projection (Fairbanks, Alaska), wood structure, laptop(installation view)Foreign Sky, NON Berlin, Berlin
DAWN EYE - ZOOM2017live stream webcam video projection (Fairbanks, Alaska), wood structure, laptop(detail)Foreign Sky, NON Berlin, Berlin
DAWN EYE - ZOOM2017live stream webcam video projection (Wellingtong, New Zealand), wood structure, laptop(installation view)Foreign Sky, NON Berlin, Berlin
DAWN EYE - ZOOM2018live stream webcam video projection (Wellingtong, New Zealand), wood structure, laptop(installation view)detail, WASTING TIME Vol. 1 The Nature Edition, Objekte Unsere Tage, Berlin
W O R M H O L E
WORMHOLE is an action performed in June 2017 in the desert of Atacama in Chie. A laptop was placed in the middle of the desert, connected to the Internet displaying a webcam placed in Hong Kong, the diametral opposite part of the world.
WORMHOLE2017
UV Inkjet Diffused on Polyester, light box135 x 90 cm
view of the exhibition Foreign Sky, NON Berlin, Berlin
WORMHOLE2017
UV Inkjet Diffused on Polyester, light box55 x 36 cm
WORMHOLE2017
Screen shot of http://weathercam.gsis.edu.hk/axis-cgi/mjpg/video.cgitaken on July 4th, 2017 at 00:18:13 in the desert of Atacama
P I X E L
The main room of the exhibition space of Meinblau Projektraum has been immersed in a red, blue and green colored environment falling from the ceiling. This site-specific intervention turns the window of the main room into an augmented "pixel" by filtering the light of the sky through RGB colors changing the character of the space according to the conditions of the weather and to the position of the sun.
Red, green, and blue are the three colors constituting the pixels that structure digital screens; nowadays, the reality that, most the time, stands in front of our eyes. This functions as a representation of the filter of our perception, coming up through this ubiquitous contemporary form of communication.
This installation was presented at Thresholds, a duo show hosted by Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, with Juan Varela and Gonzalo Reyes Araos.
PIXEL2017LEE color filter foilsSite-specific installation at Thresholds Meinblau Projektraum
PIXEL2017
LEE color filter foilsSite-specific installation at Thresholds Meinblau Projektraum
wiew of the exhibition
PIXEL2017
LEE color filter foilsSite-specific installation at Thresholds Meinblau Projektraum
wiew of the exhibition with Path 295, work of Juan Varela
PIXEL2017
LEE color filter foilsSite-specific installation at Thresholds Meinblau Projektraum
wiew of the exhibition
PIXEL2017
LEE color filter foilsSite-specific installation at Thresholds Meinblau Projektraum
wiew of the exhibition with Path 295, work of Juan Varela
R G B PA I N T I N G S
RGB Paintings, a series of paintings on paper inspired by the forms of human relationships
through contemporary means of communication.
The process giving rise to these paintings seeks to analogize algorithms composing
images in LCD screens. The paper is manually painted, cut and glued in order to arrange
a raster structuring the painting.
The composition is created by technical accidents or “glitches” occurring during the
process. Some “bits” of papers fall, unglued from the support resulting in a random
lack of data, which is supplanted by the background, creating new colors and flecks of
information on a monochromatic (or three-chromatic) surface.
Red, green and blue are the colors that constitute the pixels of the digital screens;
a representation of reality, that today is most of the time in front of our eyes. These
colors function as a filter of our perception that arises through contemporary forms of
communication.
RGB+#FFFFFF2016
oil on paper cut and glued, mounted on aluminium composite sheet78 x 57,2 cm
YOUR IMAGE 12’560 KM AWAY (Cristina in white) 2019oil on paper cut and glued, mounted on aluminium composite sheet150 x 114 cm
YOUR IMAGE 12’560 KM AWAY (Cristina in black) 2019
oil on paper cut and glued, mounted on aluminium composite sheet150 x 114 cm
YOUR IMAGE 12’560 KM AWAY2019
view of the exhibtion BEHIND THE SCREEN,KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
RGB PAINTINGSview of the exhibtion BEHIND THE SCREEN,
KINDL - Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin
RGB+#0000002016oil on paper cut and glued, mounted on aluminium composite sheet78 x 57,2 cm
RGB #2f4f4f2018
acrylic on paper, mounted on aluminium 34,5 x 28 cm.
RGB+#FFFFFF (detail)2016
oil on paper cut and glued, mounted on aluminium composite sheet78 x 57,2 cm
M O T H E R P N G
This book contains the whole png code that a computer reads in order to display the image on its cover. This image is a screenshot taken during a conversation between the artist, who lives in Berlin and his mother who lives in Chile.
MOTHER PNG2014
book, 440 pages27,8 x 21,4 x 3,3 cm
MOTHER PNG2014
book, 440 pages27,8 x 21,4 x 3,3 cm
MOTHER PNG2014
book, 440 pages27,8 x 21,4 x 3,3 cm (detail)
N U N C
Nunc is a web-based artwork displaying the real date, time, city, country, and coordinates where the observer finds himself.
The act of observing this work results in an "infinite" collection of png images as a testimony of its existence.
http://gonzalo-ra.net/works/now.php
NUNC2017collection of png imagesweb-based artwork
C A L A M A’ S D A W N
This live video installation showed the sunrise in Calama, Chile, where my mother lives. It was screened during 2 hours every day along the exhibition final_draft.mov at Geumcheon Art Space ( Seoul, South Korea ), showing the exact moment when the sun rises for Chile and sets for Korea ( 6:19 am Chilean time and 6:19 pm Korean time).
Given mother and child are related by strong biological bonds and being in the opposites parts of the world, I shared physical and emotive moments in a parallel temporal and ubiquitous dimension generated by contemporary forms of communications.
CALAMA’S DAWN2015
live stream Skype videophotogram
final_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Space Seoul, South Korea
CALAMA’S DAWN2015
live stream Skype videoinstallaton view
final_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Space Seoul, South Korea
FA C I N G T H E S U N
This project is a 24 hours scanning of the sunlight on several places around the world, displaying a selection of open source stream webcams, broadcasted through the Internet.
Facing the Sun is an ongoing research project that attempts to "eternalize" the sunlight through the systems of contemporary forms of communication. It represents a vision of a globalized world constantly "connected" erasing boundaries of time and space.
This project is split into two main parts; the virtual part represented by a website ( http://facingthesun.net ) and the physical part, materialized by an installation.
FACING THE SUN2015
livestream webcamsfinal_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
In collaboration with Lucia Jeesun Lee
FACING THE SUN2015
livestream webcamsfinal_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
In collaboration with Lucia Jeesun Lee
FACING THE SUN2015
livestream webcamsfinal_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, South Korea
In collaboration with Lucia Jeesun Lee
S C R E E N S H O T
This work shows a painting inspired by a screen shot of a Skype video conversation with my aunt. During the conversation, she was in the Chilean mountains and me in Berlin. Because of the precarious connection and signal interferences, the image was completely abstract.
The image is an oil painting on paper, painted nine times in different colors, cut, mixed and glued in order to be recomposed, simulating the methods of transmission of digital information by the Internet. After this process, the image was put back to a screen, highlighting the importance of the medium over the message, referring thereby to Marshall McLuhan’s statement “the medium is the message”.
SCREEN SHOT2013
oil on paper mounted on mounted on aluminium composite sheet, led lights63 x 89 cm
SCREEN SHOT2013
oil on paper mounted on mounted on aluminium composite sheet, led lights63 x 89 cm
GAPE - 02, Plateau gallery, Berlin
L I G H T H E A R T
Lightheart is an interactive installation displaying a circle of light projected on a wall. It reacts to the stimulus of the changement of light in the space and the movements of the audience on the spot. It is presented as an organism living on its own and made of a peculiar material, a digital material.
http://gonzalo-ra.net/works/lightheart.php
LIGHTHEART2014
interactive installation, beamer and video cameraSPARK, Kunst am Spreeknie, Berlin
LIGHTHEART2014
interactive installation, beamer and video cameraSPARK, Kunst am Spreeknie, Berlin
LIGHTHEART2014
interactive installation, beamer and video cameraCollaboration with the performer and choreographer Manon Parent
Gape - 02, Plateau gallery, Berlin
LIGHTHEART2014
interactive installation, beamer and video cameraGape - 02, Plateau gallery, Berlin, view of the exhibition
ARTIST RESUME
EDUCATION
2000 – 2004 Degree in Fine Arts, specialization in painting at the School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, CL2000 – 2003 Graduate Assistant Instructor in Fine Arts in painting at the School of Fine Arts of Valparaíso, CL
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2018 RGB PAINTINGS, solo show at Gallerie Gilla Lörcher, Berlin, DE2017 FOREIGN SKY, Asia Contemporary Art Platform NON BERLIN, Berlin, DE2014 GAPE - 02, LIGHTHEART, Plateaux Gallery, Berlin, DE2012 Matter - Light - Time, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, CN PrismeS, Kartüche gallery, Berlin, DE2011 Transmutation – Rencontre, Maison de l’Amérique latine, Brussels, BE2006 Dimensiones Abstractas, Balmaceda 1215 Cultural Centre, Valparaíso, CL Y Dios creó la célula…y la célula la imagen, Galería Antesala Viña del Mar, Viña del Mar, CL
GROUP / DUO EXHIBITIONS (Selection)
2019 BEHIND THE SCREEN, at KINDL - Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, DE ALL OUT «SMALL», at KWADRAT, Berlin, DE2018 DEMI-GROS, curated by Peter Ungeheuer, Safe Gallery, Berlin, DE H0, Proyecto SACO7, Salón Chela Lira, U. del Norte, Antofagasta, CL NO PLACE / LIKE HOME, at GLINT Berlin, DE WASTING TIME - Vol. 1 The Nature Edition, at Objekte Unserer Tage, Berlin, DE EXPERIMENT, Voodoo55, Berlin, DE2017 DIFFERENT SIMILARITIES, duo show with Carla Bertone, Pavillon am Milchhof, Berlin, DE THRESHOLDS, duo show with Juan Varela, Meinblau Projektraum, Berlin, DE SOCIAL GEOMETRISM, KASK 2017, Berlin, DE AUTREMER, Centre Socio Culturel Pôle Sud, Lausanne, CH2016 archiMEDIAL, Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, DE RENAISSANCE,LighthausBerlin,FunkhausNalepasetasse,Berlin,DE2015 Final_draft.mov, Geumcheon Art Apace Seoul, KR Velada Remix 2015, art festival, Hamburg, DE Zentralestation,KunstamSpreeknie2015-SchöneweideArtFestival,Berlin,DE
2015 Postinternetisdead,FisherGalleryatOberlinCollege,Ohio,US Losito Kustpreis 2015, final shortlist, Löwenpalais Lounge der Stiftung Starke, Berlin, DE2014 Swab Barcelona, International Contemporary Art Fair, Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, ES 1st Shandong Biennale, Mass Art Museum, Jinan, CN Umschalten, Schalterraum gallery, Berlin, DE Sunland, Pantocrator gallery at EBPC Free Trade Zone, Shanghai, CN Paint like you mean it, painting prize, Interviewroom 11, Edinburgh, SCO Spark, new medias art exhibition, Kunst am Spreeknie Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, DE Zentralestation, Kunst am Spreeknie Schöneweide Art Festival, Berlin, DE Digital zur Malerei Dialog der Medien prize, Sparkasse, Karlsruhe, DE2013 Screen Festival Barcelona, Pantocrator Gallery, Barcelona, ES Zendai Himalayas center, Pantocrator Gallery, Shanghai, CN Aktuelle Selbstportraits, Nachbarschaftsgalerie, Berlin, DE2012 Pantocrátor Gallery at Amsterdam Showcase, NL Retro-perspective, KARTüche gallery, Berlin, DE 2011 Artist Project, 15th anniversary of ILES, La Lustrerie, Brussels, BE P,P & F, Maison du Vallon, Lausanne, CH Art’page 2010, Glarey castel, Sierre, CH2010 International Painting & Mixed Media Competition, Lessedra gallery, BG2009 Viña del Mar – National Painting Prize, exhibition at Viña del Mar Casino, CL Juan Francisco González painting prize, House of Culture of Limache, CL2008 Dessinateurs de demain, BD-Fil Festival, Lausanne, CH Un espace dédié à l’art, Echanden’s Castle, CH2007 Exhibition tribute to José Maria Sert, Spanish Book, Unites Nation’s Palace, Geneva, CH2006 XXIV Valdivia y su río national painting prize, Valdivia, CL Corral y su bahía painting prize, Corral, CL2005 XXVII Arte y Poesía Joven art prize, Farol gallery, University of Valparaíso, CL Viña del Mar – National Painting Prize, exhibition at Viña del Mar Casino, CL Juan Francisco González, painting prize, House of Culture of Limache, CL 100 monedas de 100, action of public art on the Latin American Art Week (SELAI), Valparaíso, CL2004 Pequeño Formato prize, Balmaceda 1215, to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, CL Murales por la paz, meeting mural painting for the centenary of Christ Redeemer, Mendoza, AR2003 Mi Ciudad, painting prize, Municipal Gallery of Valparaiso, CL XXV Arte y Poesía Joven art prize, Farol gallery, University of Valparaíso, CL Casablanca…250 años de historia, painting prize, Casablanca, CL2002 Mi Ciudad, painting prize, Municipal Gallery of Valparaiso, CL2001 Pequeño Formato, art prize, Balmaceda 1215, to Valparaíso and Viña del Mar, CL
PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIP
2015 Art residency grant at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul Fundation for Arts and Culture, KR2011 Prix Découverte, Commission for Assistance to the comic book of the French community of Belgium2006 Honorary Award, II Corral y su bahía painting prize, Corral, CL2005 Honorary Award, VI Juan Francisco González painting prize, Limache, CL2004 First prize, mural painting competition Todos contra el muro, Ex-Cárcel Cultural Park, Valparaíso, CL
RESIDENCIES
2018 H - Residency, in the framework of SACO7 Festival, Calama, CL2015 SASG (Seoul Art Space Geumcheon), Seoul Fundation for Arts and Culture, KR2012 Pantocrátor Gallery, Shanghai, CN2010 Art’page, Chalet à Goblet, CH
PUBLICATIONS
2019 Artatberlin.com, Jonathan Monk | Exhibit Model Four – plus invited guests + Behind the Screen, KINDL – Zentrum, March 2019.2018 Alejandra Villasmil, Gonzalo Reyes Araos | PORTAFOLIO, Artishock Magazine, Santiago, August 2018 Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Constelaciones en un cielo forastero, SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, December 2018, 142 - 145. GonzaloReyesAraos,HO, SACO7 Origen y mito, Antofagasta, December 2018, 66 - 68. Peter Ungeheuer, DEMI-GROS, Catalog, Berlin, August 2018. «Einblick (716): Gonzalo Reyes Araos, Künstler», Taz Tageszeitung, Berlin, 22nd March 2018. 15. NoemiMolitor,«Wunderbarer Zufall», Taz, Berlin, 21st March 2018. Galerie:«AnalogerGlitch:RGB-MalereivonGonzaloReyesAraos»,TazTageszeitung,tazplan, Berlin, 1st March 2018. 15.2017 KASK, Kunst am Spreeknie, Schöneweide Art Festival, December 20172015 Losito Kressmann-Zchach Foundation, Losito Kunstpreis 2015, Vernetzung, October 2015, Berlin ISBN 3-937155-15-5 7thGeumcheonArtsFactoryinternationalartistsexchange,webpublication. SchöneweideKreativ,MareikeLemmeandMarleneLerch,Berlin,July2015 DIEKUNST,MITVIELARBEITKEINGELDZUVERDIENEN,SchalterRAUM,SchöneweideKreativ, Berlin, July 20152014 Alexander Gumz, “Leistungsschau der freien Szene”, Berliner Morgenpost, Di Welt, Berlin, July 2014. Steffen Blunk, “Enine wirklich große Anzahl von gutter und bemerkenswerter Kunst!”, Kunst geflüster, Berlin, July 2014, 3.
2014 Daniel Eltinger, “Sieben Medienkünstler zelebrieren den Nachlass technologischer Innovationen”, Kunst geflüster, Berlin, July 2014, 10. “KaSK”, Kunst am Spreeknie, Schock Velag & Novilla, Catalogue, Berlin, July 2014. 54. Mirja Koponen & Scott McCracken, “Paint like you mean it 2014”, Catalogue, Interviewroom 11, Edinburgh, Scotland, May 2014. ISBN 978-1-32-001242-32013 Mazzocca Contemporary Paintings, “Galerie Mazzoca Catalogue 2013”, Catalogue, Berlin, March 2012 Commission for Assistance to the comic book of the French community of Belgium, ”Répertoire de 67 auteurs de bande dessinée en Wallonie et à Bruxelles”, Catalogue, Brussels, 2012. ISBN 2-930071-83-42007 Club del libro en Español “Exhibition tribute to José Maria Sert”, Catalogue, ONU, Geneva, December 20072006 Balmaceda 1215, “Sala Balmaceda 2005”, Catalogue, Valparaíso, July 2006. Carlos Lastarria Hermosilla, “Dos pintores en Viña”, El Mercurio de Valparaíso, May 2006. Virginia Vizcaino, “Y Dios creó la célula...y la célula la imagen”, Antesala Viña del Mar gallery, Viña del Mar, April 2006.2005 University of Valparaíso, ”XXVII Concurso nacional Arte y Poesía joven”, Catalog, Valparaíso2003 University of Valparaíso, ”XXV Concurso nacional Arte y Poesía joven”, Catalog, Valparaíso
COLLECTIONS
Shandong Art Museum, Jinan, CNCultural Corporation of Viña del Mar, Municipal Council of Viña del Mar, CLHouse of Culture of Limache, Municipal Council of Limache, CLPrivate collections in Switzerland, Germany, Chile, Belgium, United States, Netherlands and South Korea
Gonzalo Reyes Araos
GermanyTegelerstrasse 6 13393 Berlin+49 176 71732477
ChileYaru 1035Sector Cobija PonienteCalama+56 9 6507 2912
