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EXHIBITION
Expo Chicago 2025 - Rodrigo Ímaz 24 April 2025 - 27 April 2025 / Navy Pier, 600 E Grand Ave. Chicago IL, 60611

Expo Chicago

This collection unfolds a profound exploration of artistic reflection and practice, integrating elements of popular culture from the vibrant streets of Mexico that, together, articulate a distinctive identity of the Global South.

While Ímaz's artistic language has already disrupted traditional museum and gallery spaces, he delves into themes of hybridity, employing bricolage as a dynamic creative force. His work explores the tension between the materiality of art and conceptual discourse. For example, objects often considered waste, such as deflated soccer balls or recycled tires from informal economies, are reimagined as exquisite marble sculptures, while archaeological monoliths are creatively adorned with wrestler masks.

Through a series of pictorial, graphic, and sculptural exercises, imbued with incisive humor and thoughtful depth, Ímaz cultivates an artistic practice that embodies social critique. This work consolidates a popular and functionalist aesthetic that resists conventional academic doctrines. Each piece emerges from a creative inquiry, driven by play and the recovery of informality, tropical elements, and the roots of Latin American identity from a global perspective.

Ultimately, this exhibition invites a dialogue between local and global artistic languages, inviting viewers to reconsider the intersections of culture, identity, and artistic expression in an increasingly interconnected world.

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