COLLECTION NAME:
Visiting Artist Lectures/Interviews
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Accessibility:
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Work Title (display):
Visiting Artist Lecture, Miguel Rivera
Image Title:
video
Work Dates (display):
March 16, 2021
Work Dates type:
lecture
Work Creator (display):
Miguel Rivera (Mexican, active USA, born 1967)
Work Creator gender:
male
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Work Creator notes (display):
In my work, images are manipulated, layered, and placed in combination with rendered drawings and prints in an environment that conveys a sacred space. The materials that are used serve as metaphors for the passage of time, memory and the human condition. The layering of the surface functions as a contemporary chaotic interpretation. Placing images in this manner helps to reconstruct, examine, and reinvent memories of my infant experience. At the same time, layering of these personal icons creates a double edge or ambiguity of related themes, ie., the beauty of pathos in suffering. This ambiguity relates to the experience of traveling, living in several environments, displacement while collecting a visual memory along this path. My core referential images have evolved into a series of abstractions from ephemeral experiences witnessing the pathos in Mexican culture. These works provide a platform for several inner experiences. Although these images are visually flat, they seek to engage the viewer in an installation setting by invading one´s space. Iconographic images of lethal viruses have become a base for some of my abstractions for the past two years; I have used the simple form of series and repetition of these viruses to represent their multiplicity and prevalent presence. The danger that viruses, such as Evian flu, H1N1, Bubonic Plague and Malaria represent, are in contrast with their microscopic yet fetishistic appearance. The integration of a viral pattern became the main driver after witnessing the massive death of birds in Arkansas this past year 2010. A fading image of a Peruvian pigeon was a metaphor for our collective damage to the environment. At the same time, a burned drawing using a laser on paper made a symbolic and significant statement of this act. https://studiosinc.
Work Creator UCB affiliation (display):
2021 visiting artist, Visiting Artist Program
Work Style Period:
21st century
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21st century
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Work Style Period:
Contemporary
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Contemporary
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Work Subject:
prints (visual works)
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prints (visual works)
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Work Worktype:
lectures
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lectures
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Work Category (VRC classification):
video
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Work Measurements (display):
running time: 01:02:12
Work Location (Repository or Site) name:
University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Location (Repository or Site) role:
repository
Work Location (Geographic) name:
Boulder, Colorado
Image Rights (display):
© University of Colorado, Department of Art and Art History
Work Rights (display):
© Miguel Rivera
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Holding Institution:
University of Colorado Boulder
Collection:
Art and Art History Visual Resources Center
Subcollection:
Visiting Artist Videos
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