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Summering from the past - Veraneos del pasado

Texts in English and Spanish - Textos en inglés y en español The experiences with photographic film were stimulating and generated in me a growing enthusiasm for the possibilities that arose from the use of these materials and the different techniques that I was exploring through their use and manipulation. I decided to visit my grandmother's house to look for more photographic films to continue with my experiences. I found an important amount of material, part of what I found was almost totally deteriorated, but I also found some frames in good condition and others with great deterioration, but that still allowed me to recognize -at least partially- the image captured many years ago, at the moment when those photographs were taken.  I then began to clean, sort, classify and digitize this new found material.  After selecting and digitizing the recovered photographs, I began to work with the ones I found most interesting, making different tests on them by manipulating and digit...

Strage landescapes – Paisajes extraños

 In English and Spanish - En ingles y en español Strage landescapes The second series of NFTs that I will mint in HEN was: Strage landescapes - Paisajes extraños. For this series I continued to work, as I had been doing with the found photographic films. To arrive at the final works I made numerous attempts and tests. I digitized and manipulated a significant number of frames, until I was able to obtain images and compositions that I considered interesting. Strange landescape 1 - Paisaje extraño 1 The first work Strange landescape 1 - Paisaje extraño 1, was will mint without its title by mistake. For the realization of this image I started from a rather deteriorated 35mm color frame that was digitized and manipulated in its contrast, saturation and other variables using Gimp, the digital editing software that I have used for all my NFTs. To that base image was added, via digital collage, the windmill, which was digitally cropped from an image obtained from a black and white photogr...

Presentation - Presentación

Text in English and Spanish - Texto en inglés y en español In English I i ntroduce myself: I'm Rodrigo, throughout my life I have felt the need to make plastic works, objects, drawings, paintings, photographs, etc.. I try to produce works of art with intensity and I try to reflect that in my works. Sometimes I carry out almost exclusively aesthetic, playful searches, but in general, most of the time I produce works elaborated around themes that I consider relevant and transcendent, such as the issue of diversity (sexual, ethnic, cultural, etc.), the need to deconstruct hegemonic models or at least dispute with them, time and space, space-time, .... As for the modes of realization I am particularly attracted to the mixture (of techniques and materials above all), I believe that the mixture, the combination adds, enriches, multiplies, expands. The works that I will mint in NFT seek precisely that mixture of the analogical with the digital, of the material with the virtual? Drawings, ...

Collages and interventions on photographic films - Collages e intervenciones sobre películas fotográficas

In English and Spanish - En inglés y en español Text in English A few months ago I learned about the existence of NFTs and from conversations with a friend Leceste -whose work I recommend to take into account- I decided to try to enter this new world of crypto-art. The question then arose as to what kind of work I could offer in NFT format, and I decided to resort to a series of tests and experiments I had been doing, manipulating old photographic film. In August 2021 I will mint my first NFT in Hic Et Nunc, Profiles: Profiles - Perfiles With Profiles I started the first series of works in which I worked from collages and analog interventions on photographic films and slides. Profiles is a small analog collage, made with fragments cut from 35 mm color photographic film, which have been cut, assembled and intervened with inks, "stained glass" paintings and scratches made with different sharp elements. The result was a small slide that was backlit and captured by a digital pho...