Biography
Alejandro Pintado has been working professionally as an artist close to two decades, adding to his biography individual and collective exhibitions in both public and private institutions in Mexico, England, Spain, France and Russia. In recent years his research has developed around the historical memory of landscape and its transformation over time. For this he has been in the task of editing and then transforming the work of artists such as Claude Lorraine (1600-1682), Moritz Rugendas (1802-1858) and José María Velasco (1840-1912). Pintado research is not only in aesthetic and plastic assessing these landscapers, his interest is on the cosmogony of the time in which these artists worked. The historical distance allows us to have a broader vision of the socio-political events of the past and see more clearly the view of the period in which they were made. Thus Pintado takes certain aspects of these views, selecting pristine landscapes that are unattainable at present then intervenes them with contemporary objects. This confrontation of dissonant elements alludes to the notion of modernity in which all periods of history coincide at one time. In Pintado’s works the presence of nature in contrast to the artificiality is somewhat ambiguous, it is not clear if the landscape dominates the artificiality or if it is nature that has invaded these built spaces. These are some reflections presented to us by an artist who is not afraid to show his abilities to recreate aesthetic and conceptual challenging compositions with these views from the present, the past and the future.
Exhibitions
