Video: City Portraits by Jorge Rodriguez Gerada
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Not all art protects human dignity. Some even demean him. But here's a Spanish artist Jorge Rodriguez Gerada just one of those people of art who, with their creativity, exalt a person, and at the same time both literally and figuratively.
Jorge Rodriguez Gerada claims that every person is a Personality. Moreover, the Personality with a capital L. And this concept he develops in his work. Gerada draws huge portraits of people. These are not politicians, not stars of show business, not big businessmen, but ordinary city dwellers, people on whom their cities are held: teachers, doctors, workers.
He depicts them dozens of times their real size, placing these giant portraits, painted with charcoal, on the walls of houses, fences and other fairly large vertical planes. Thus, these paintings reveal the real face of the city through the faces of its inhabitants.
But in his recent work, Jorge Rodriguez Gerada has deviated a little from his usual style. In the summer of 2010, as always, he created a huge portrait, but not on the walls, but on the ground, and not with coal, but with the help of colored sand. depiction of a Catalan architect named Enric Miralles Moya, commemorating the tenth anniversary of his death.
After the completion of the work, Gerada removed the fences and the wind almost immediately dispelled the portrait, symbolizing the fact that the person depicted on it is no longer with us. But, nevertheless, the architectural masterpieces created by Enric Miralles Moya will define the appearance of this city for centuries.
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