PV: THURSDAY 5 OCTOBER 6-8PM
Cooke Latham Gallery is delighted to announce our third solo exhibition with Francisco Rodriguez. The exhibition will be accompanied by a publication of the same title with a text by Tom Jeffreys (excerpt below)…
‘…Taken together, Rodriguez’s works may be read as sustained explorations of the power of images. Not only does he draw upon a wide range of influences but he also plays with ways in which his own works exist as material objects in the world. One example is his use of posters. These provide opportunities to repeat the same motifs, like the artist of a graphic novel, but they also show how images occupy the world and, in doing so, influence the way we see. Some drawings are framed on walls. Others lie scrumpled across the classroom floor. Some works of art are valued. Others are not. Rodriguez tells me that several of the drawings scribbled on graph paper depicted within the paintings are actually cartoons that he drew at school. Apparently, his classmates have saved them for all these years. What this means is that, in the world of the paintings, the scribbled drawings are often actually real, while the apparent reality of the surrounding world is in fact a carefully composed fiction. The result is a dizzying mise-en-abyme of game-like world-building…’
