Marco Mojica
El Museo, Bogotá
A series of paintings and drawings, supported by photography, compose Marco Mojica’s last exhibition. Mediatization of the image both at the source and in the product continues to be the conceptual variable which configures the formal language of his artistic proposal in itself. Thus the artist − who draws upon a world of images ranging from the everyday ones, which include those from fashion magazines, catalogs for engineers, and Internet files, to the specialized ones, extracted from books or art magazines − has used these images transforming them into paintings or drawings, which viewed in the middle of the cadena de reproducciones (chain of reproductions), question the originality, and in certain way the veracity, of the image’s source.
The search criterion of these images that is generated in the “superimposition of images and meanings, capable of generating a disquieting and ironic tension in the reading of their contents”, in the words of the artist, awards him the capacity of subverting the content itself, already manipulated, of the representation, chosen with a high dose of humor and an infinite possibility of readings.
One of the examples of his appropriation of images found in the Internet, is that of the sculpture Puppy by Jeff Koons, installed at The Brant Foundation, Greenwich, as announced in the footnote of the photograph that accompanies the image, to which Mojica adds sorts of vultures flying around the sculpture, in a ritual in which he seems to take the death of the iconographic piece for granted.
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Oil on canvas, 43.3 x 84.6 in. Courtesy El Museo Gallery.
Óleo sobre lienzo, 110 x 215 cm / Cortesía: Galería El Museo.
