Planet Peace.

Where androgynous beings

greet you gently.

Carolina Rojas with ArtSpot

at Spectrum Miami 2013

by Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund, Art Historian

In the heart of Midtown Miami Wynwood Art District - alongside powerhouse art fairs like Art Basel, Art Miami, Scope and Miami Project  - SPECTRUM showcases innovative new art in an elegant, gallery-style exhibition space. The juried, contemporary art fair in the heart of Midtown Miami is featuring an international slate of artists and galleries.

Wynwood Art District is the home to more than fifty galleries, five museums, seven art complexes and many art fairs and studios. Global art lovers enjoy discovering this district and named it one of most stylish neighbourhoods in the world. SPECTRUM showcases the best innovative, contemporary art from 50 top galleries and 50 juried studios representing talented artists. It is an important event for all serious collectors, curators, museum directors and interior designers providing an intimate look at some of the most important work at the forefront of the international contemporary art movement.

Carolina Rojas will be exhibiting at ArtSpot International Art Fair, a stand-alone event hosted this year in Miami inside the Spectrum Miami Art Fair. ArtSpot 2013 replicates a model introduced to the Miami art community last year, presenting carefully selected modern, contemporary and cutting-edge galleries with strong curatorial programs and their represented artists. It is aimed at offering the best quality art to the Miami art community and worldwide collectors during Art Basel Week.

A lifelong fascination with multiple bodies, sculptures and site-specific installations made of fiberglass, resin, wood or bronze shapes the work of Carolina Rojas. The artworks are shown in her individual booth No. 135 at SPECTRUM Miami – as well as in the sculpture garden of RED DOT Miami. The works of her series Global Man and Golden Seeds were selected from the jury to display during Art Basel Week.They are reflecting Rojas’ intention, when she explains:

“My artwork is intended to create the awareness of how diverse we are physically but also how alike we are emotionally. This idea came to me as a dream, flowing figures with no gender floating towards me…white bright ones with a very peace demeanor followed by vibrant confused ones trying to find peace. For these series my main focus is in the interaction of cultures; so the style of my pieces reflects this. In my work I deconstruct the figure to create an “It” not man or woman,  not black or white.

Every day I connect with people moving from one part of the world to another, so their faces and culture just merge into my thoughts. This entity is a mix of cultures in one figure. I want people to see my pieces and imagine: “Where did they come from?”, “What does this piece want to say?”, “Does it  look like me?”, “What is it thinking?” I want to amuse them and make them think about what makes us different, but at the same time so alike.

My new pieces are part of the Global Man series. I am trying to find a unique face that will be recognized by many, but will not reflect any gender or race. I want to include the figure of the Global Man in my work to simply recognize a being, whether of this world or from another one. The Global Man is an imposing androgynous figure with a peaceful demeanor. I want people to look at him or her with a vision where they see themselves portrayed through their own culture or place in the world sending an optimistic message. My dream is to create a conscious and appreciate a different view of cultural awareness.”

Born in Venecuela, Carolina Rojas lives and works in Miami Wynwood Art District at Bake House Art Complex. She produced a large number of sculptures of great artistic vision, original content, and unprecedented style.

Carolina Roja’s statement makes perfect sense. There is a precision in her sculpture that is undeniable, a precision that is the very essence of her work. Like a scientist she analyzes the exact proportions and measurements of the formal idea, which she  is projecting into new manifestations. Every aspect of the form is important, the choice of the material, the look of the surface. For Rojas, the technical aspects of the sculpture are directed toward a sensory meaning that becomes a metaphor of existence in time and space.

In this sense, the precision of Rojas’s art is like a journey through some unknown metaphysical reality where the substance of life is explored and investigated, pulled apart and reconstituted. It is a purposeful equivocation poised between the physical and the metaphysical that endures in the sculpture of Caroline Rojas – welcome at planet peace.

LOCATION

Carolina Rojas with ArtSpot at SPECTRUM  Miami: Booth No. 315

Spectrum Miami Tent

Wynwood Arts District

3111 NE 1stt Avenue at NE 30th St

Miami, Fl 33137

info@redwoodmg.com

www.spectrum-miami.com

SPECTRUM Miami

Opening Party

Wednesday, December 4:                6pm - 10pm

VIP Preview : Access for VIP Cardholders & Press

Fair Hours:

Thursday, December 5:                    12pm - 8pm

Friday, December 6:                          12pm - 9pm

Saturday, December 7:                     12pm - 9pm

Sunday, December 8:                        11am - 5pm

General Admissions:

Opening Preview + Weekend Pass: $25

Trade/ General Admission: $10

Seniors over 60: $15

Children under 16: free

CONTACT ARTIST

art@carolinarojas.com

www.carolinarojas.com

Visitors are also welcome to view Carolina Rojas’ artworks at RED DOT Miami

 in the Outdoor Sculpture Garden.

CONTACT  AUTHOR

Source/ Copyrights

Art History Consulting

Dr. Barbara Aust-Wegemund

Krokusweg 6a

22869 Hamburg-Schenefeld

Germany

Phone +49.40.840 503 55

Mobile +49.179.460 5679

info@arthistoryconsulting.de

www.arthistoryconsulting.de

About the Author: 

PhD Barbara Aust-Wegemund, born in Zuerich/ Switzerland, is a German Art Historian and Managing Director at Art History Consulting (AHC). She studied Art History at Christian-Albrechts-University of Kiel (Germany), University for Foreigners Perugia (Italy) and London Guildhall University (UK).

In 2002 she earned her PhD from University of Kiel with a Dissertation on Modern Sculpture: “Sources of Inspiration.The Meaning of Nature in Henry Moore´s Late Work.” Barbara is an art historian who has written widely on modern and contemporary art. Her essays have been featured in monographs, exhibition catalogues, e-zines, journals and the online editorial department of Goethe Institute Inc.

Based in Hamburg since 2002, she has curated several exhibitions for collectors, commercial galleries as well as for non-profits, including the exhibitions of the Creative Womens Collective GEDOK.