Dagoberto Rodriguez: MARS STORM
September 15 – January 28, 2023
Presenting for the first time, at Miami’s Fundación Pablo Atchugarry, Cuban conceptual artist Dagoberto Rodríguez, reveals MARS STORM, curated by Simon Njami.
Miami’s Fundación Pablo Atchugarry is pleased to announce MARS STORM, an inaugural solo exhibition by one of the most influential and widely recognized Cuban artists of the 21st century, Dagoberto Rodríguez. Curated by Simon Njami, MARS STORM, debuts a collection of never-before-seen satellite oil paintings that depict the remains of a fallen world. “After having colonized the world, humans are dreaming of colonizing the universe. Have they learned their lessons before envisioning such an adventure?” posits, curator, Simon Njami.
Positioning the exhibition space as an archaeological site, MARS STORM, reflects on the ineffable state of the human condition as Rodríguez sees it, taking a metaphorical and poetic approach to convey an archeology of the future, wherein the past, the present and the future are interwoven without any delineations.
DAGOBERTO RODRÍGUEZ, (Caibairién, Cuba 1969)
Dagoberto Rodríguez was born in Caibarien, Las Villas in 1969, and graduated from Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA), Havana, Cuba in 1994. In 1992 he co-founded the collective Los Carpinteros. His works have been exhibited in Museums and cultural institutions around the world such as MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art or Guggenheim in New York, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Modern in London, the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and the Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art, among others.
Dagoberto Rodríguez is currently based working between Madrid and Havana. Combining architecture, design and sculpture, his work employs humor and irony to comment on core topics in art, politics and society. Watercolor forms a very important part of his creative process, it is a way of collaborating, registering and revising his ideas. Often these reflect a fantasy of a possible conceptual situation.