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ALFREDO ROMERO
b. 1974, Barcelona, Spain
In the last decade of my career, I have made various collections, experimented with different techniques and languages; developing research in creative processes motivated by the places, experiences and sensations experienced.
Currently my work focuses more on the research: Between the limit of the past and the contemporary, that which is in constant transition and encapsulated within a workpiece. This process has led me to focus on the façades of neighborhoods in different cities of Mexico, walls that promoted advertisements, currently deteriorated and with their own character. Trapping it, appropriating it and endowing it with transcendence and perpetuity.
My proposal goes beyond recovering these icons of anonymous lettering that are part of the identity and memory of the 60s and 80s community, with a pop of character to intervene and convert them into a work of art.
The collection "Vestiges of our Times" is a proposal for restoration and conservation, its aesthetics emerges from the convergence of the modern and the old, resisting a categorization within a genre, and inviting the observer to return to a not too distant past.
BIOGRAPHY
Mexico-based artist Alfredo Romero is best known for his collection VESTIGES OF OUR TIMES, a project of artistic experimentation that sets the dialogue between social memory, ephemeral architecture, advertising signs and the passage of time.
He was born in 1974 in Barcelona, Spain, where he studied Fine Arts, Architecture and Art History. Throughout the years, he has held numerous conferences around the world, as well as classes of Interior Design, Window Dressing and Visual Arts. He has a keen interest in translating traces of history in relation with the present and future time. He is in a constant creative quest, without any limits or boundaries that has led him to become the recipient of multiple prestigious awards.
To this day, two books and four DOCUMENTARIES have been made about his creative process. Romero's artwork is currently exhibited in leading museums and art galleries in Europe, Asia, North America and South America.