Updated up to september 2018

Bio Info

He had a master's degree in Visual Arts, at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. He studied a Bachelor's degree in Graphic design with a major in Illustration in the Autonomous Metropolitan University. He had Professional Photography studies in the Active School of Mexico City and got certified on digital illustration at the UAM in 2007. He has made studies on web design, video, digital image edition. As well as studies on different visual software in institutions dedicated to the preparation and specialization in such tools. Since 2001, he's been part of many collective and solo exhibitions. Since 2011 he decides to exhibit his continuous work online. He abandoned the generalized Motus, the ordinary foments stipulated by the culture sector. His work is related to the invention of mythologies, chance, vacuum, irony linked to ridicule, appropriation- modification of images. Treats about the poetry of the impossible. He works with different media such as experimental photography, digital graphics, collage, drawings, photomontage, writing, video, animation, and typographies. He currently lives and works in Mexico City/ He is currently based in Mexico City.

Work statement

Gustavo A. Rodríguez Nava explores themes as the invention of mythologies, irony, chance, and emptiness. A fundamental part of his creative process is the wander, the recollection of images and the encounter of situations that turn into visual and written documents. His job relates to the poetics of the impossible. Through experimental photography and digital graphics, he makes use of an unpredictable methodology with which he transforms his iconographies through technologies, collage, montage, drawing, and essays/writings. The principal motif of his work is to generate a transference to the observer and to cause a lecture, the other piece of art, the one made by the lector. His recent projects have the only purpose of being spread on the internet. Since 2011 he works exclusively for and from the internet.

CV

                                                                              

Gustavo Adolfo Rodríguez Nava
Mexico CDMX 10 de mayo de 1981
Mobile Phone: 5532226157
E-mail: larocadeltiempo@gmail.com 
WEB page: https://www.larocadeltiempo.com

Individual Exhibitions

2009-2019 Show, spread, and promotes his digital art, texts, on the web media.
He has a laboratory online multimedia art: The rock of the time.
2011 Horsie´s of god, “LAC” “Laboratorio de Artes de Chiapas”, Tapachula Chiapas, Mexico.
2010 The exquisite exhibition, Frissac House Art Gallery, Mexico City.
2009 Horsies of god, Scrip Cultural Space, Las Palmas Gran Canaria.
2009 Horsie´s of God, Cultural Center Gallery Incognito land, Bern, Switzerland.
2008 Absurd illuminations, Boxing Willow,  Mexico City.
2008 My Bloody Fear, Metropolitan Casino Gallery, Mexico City.
2007 Performance, 355 ml, “UAM” Xochimilco, Mexico City.
2007 Experiential maps, Passage Gallery, “UAM” Xochimilco, Mexico City.
2005 Performance Frustration, “UAM”, Mexico City.
2003 Performance Powder, “EDIMBA”, Mexico City.
2001 Performance and installation, The suicidal cord, “I.E.” Mexico city.
2003 Common transition, Gallery of the cultural center “UVID”, Mexico City.

 

Collective Exhibitions

2018 Lumen Bienal- Parameter 03, “Partenón”, Black on black, Museo de la Ciudad de México, Mexico City.
2018 Dreaming landscapes, Panóptico, Black on black, Galería 66-5, Mexico City.
2013 I’m the enterprise, page 58.701, The white notebook, House of the lake, Chapultepec, Mexico City.
2013 X Monterrey Bienal “FEMSA”, page 42.221, page 33.110, The black notebook, National Museum of San Ildefonso, Mexico City.
2012 77 Gallery, “cuaderno41.777”, Mexico City.
2012 X Monterrey Bienal “FEMSA”, page 42.221, page 33.110, The black notebook,(MARCO), Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico.
2011 Show Room Art Talent, The red notepad Veins, “CAD”, Mexico City.
2011 Procedure Project, Performance, Target Shooting ¡Shit! , 5 Dogs, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
2010 El bebé está loco, Gati Cultural Center, Mexico City.
2010 Ciencia Ficción, Fantasía y Psicodelia, Casa Particular, Mexico City.
2009 Vulgarities, Che Guevara Auditorium Gallery “UNAM”, Mexico City.
2007 The design in the art, “OLLIN YOLIZTLI” Cultural Center, Mexico City.
2003 Day of the Death, Stusenbaum Gallery, Bern, Switzerland.
2003 “Muertas de Juárez… ni una más”, Zentrum 5, Bern, Switzerland

 

Studies

2013 Master’s degree on Visual Arts, Autonomous University of Morelos State. CONACYT Grant.
2009 Degree on Graphic Design, Autonomous University of Mexico, campus Xochimilco.
2003 Photography “Escuela Activa de Fotgrafía”.

2006-2019 Courses of software on several schools and via the internet. Image editing, illustration, video, animation, programming.

 

Prizes Awards Grants

     

2013 Internal grant of UAEM for the printmaking of the project The black notebook, on its object book version.
2012 Preselected of 32 artists for production support grants of the Museum of Art Carrillo Gil-Bancomer Foundation. (Work that passes to be part of the artists' archive of the institution and other international museums.
2011 CONACYT Grant for the master’s studies in the UAEM.
2008 Digital Graphic Mention on the contest 39, with 10 drawings of the project “My bloody fear”, in the review Punto de Partida of the publications of the UNAM.

 

Publications

Publication of the graphic works on the online review “Punto de Partida”, collaboration on the review “Picnic”, graphic collaboration on the review “Los Suicidas”, publication of visual works on the online Fanzine “3d2”, interview about my work on the online review “Apolorama”, front cover on a book of the Editorial “Tierra Adentro”, interview about my work on the online review “Animal Político”, collaboration on the online review Incendios and the publication of the project The black notebook (visual poem - digital graphic).

Texts

Published online…
Diaries. 2009-2015. Narrative literature book.
Trap for bears. 2016-2019.
Shaving. 2015. Collection of notes about art I.
The spur, the wave, the crest. 2017. Collection of notes about art II.
Hunger. 2018. Collection of notes about art III.
The dispersion, the death, the eternity, the eyes. The desire. 2019. Collection of notes about art IV.

 

Teaching experience

2011-2012 Imparted a course workshop on history and technic of photography, basic level, approximately for 1 year and a half, in the “Centro Cultural del Pedregal”, Mexico City.
2014-2015 Imparted the licensed on editing images assisted by computer, for as long as 1 year and a half, in the “Escuela Activa de Fotografía”.
2015-2019 Imparts the licensed on editing images assisted by a computer to particulars and technical knowledge at photography.

 

Other activities

2014-2019 Freelance on Photography, Video, Design, Web Design, and Illustration. Sell visual works in an independent way.
2003-2019 Freelance on Photography, Design, and Illustration.
2012 Rotoscope Animation for production national enterprises.
2011 Graphic design of all a planetary museum in Tuxtla Gutierrez, on the enterprise DCL.
2007 License on drawing and digital illustration in UAM Xochimilco.
2003-2005 Photography for animated time lapse, on the realization of the movie “On the pits” by Juan Carlos Rulfo.
2002 Course on drawing and photography manipulation in the school Folder X.
1999 Creativity workshop in the “Centro de la Imagen”, given by Daniel Weinstock.

Alternative works in the art ambient:

2009-2019 Digital Art on the Internet. Web page on the internet in charge of spread and distribute author digital art. Poetry, Literature, Photographic Image, Graphic, Video, Animation. www.larocadeltiempo.com

 

Work:

Graphic design, Web design, Illustration, Photography. Freelance way, and on design and photography offices.

 

Languages

English medium-high level. French medium level.