Rafael Pirez is a photographer who graduated from the Faculty of Arts.

His profession is press photography, but his true artistic expression comes through digital collage. A lover and collector of images, comics, illustrations, photographs, letters, paintings, lines, textures, etc., these elements serve as triggers for creating new ideas and new works.

His art reflects events close to him. Generally, there is a central figure, characters that convey intense emotions, driven by a constant, mutating energy. Each cutout interacts with the others. Nature is a recurring theme in his work, as he believes we are part of it.

The prominent themes in his work include nostalgia, sadness, sexuality, identity, indifference, loneliness, and the neutralization of religion.

Sometimes multicolored, other times monochromatic, his work shifts between complexity and simplicity.

Selected in the First Call for Exhibition Projects, he is showcasing his work at RAG.

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Coronita

Trained at the Academy of Arts in Havana, his work takes the values and canons of classical proportions for figurative art (specifically portraiture) and intervenes them with a form of tachisme, something he calls “Conscious Portraits, Identity, Mirror or Reflection.”

His message is obscured by smudges that violently or intentionally interrupt the figures, as if carelessly applying a layer of bitumen spread over the work.
The artist provides us with only partial information, provoking a sense of absence. There are details hidden from the viewer, but not from the artist who conceived the piece.
But why would he do something like that? Perhaps it’s a work that asks or challenges us about all that we can know from what we cannot see.
He has a strong command of oil and acrylic techniques on large formats and is influenced by new-generation artists as well as American abstract painters such as Kline, Pollock, and especially Rothko.
Many of his works are held in private collections abroad

Nacimiento

Luciana Guerra was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, in 1977, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (UNR).

Triptych “No Garden, No Paradise” (Honorable Mention in Painting at the Manuel Belgrano Salon, Buenos Aires, 2023)

“Here, I combine geometric and organic elements, exploring the transition between matter and spirituality. Inspired by the works of Bosch, the piece was reinterpreted both physically and digitally without the use of AI. Techniques such as oil, spray paint, airbrush, and digital tools were used to abstract forms and colors, creating a new visual narrative. As a woman, I am interested in reclaiming the works of great masters from a time when women were denied the opportunity to study painting, and adding my own identity to them.”

Selected in the First Call for Exhibition Projects, she is showcasing her work for the first time at RAG.

Sin jardín no hay paraiso (Triptych)

Nahuel Cano was born in Montevideo in 1986.

“Globalized darkness, naturalized death, monopolized control. And yet… amidst the shadows, magic and friendship remain alive.”

Selected in the First Call for Exhibition Projects, he is presenting his work for the first time at RAG.

Shout loud

Instructor in the Textile Area at the University School of Design (EUCD) and Costume Design Workshop (EMAD). Costume designer for national theater companies and involved in exhibitions and scenic design.

The canvas becomes a stage dramatizing a curious geography through the tile. The square multiplies into endless images that duplicate, disassemble, and reassemble, transforming the landscape. A twenty by twenty tiled floor opens to a textile world, navigating endless movements and transformations. Miniature wheels traverse swirling designs and checkered patterns in patios and homes, spaces of secret pleasures. In the solitude of rooms, it plunges into labyrinths projecting dreams and fading thoughts. The tiles hold untold histories, accumulating secrets beneath the surface. The floor becomes an artificial concept, distant from its horizontal origin, exploring visual “appearances” through surreal thoughts.

En busca del pasado pisado

Leho De Sosa is a visual artist, cultural manager, and Uruguayan activist currently residing in Paris.

His work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally. He describes himself as immersed in “marica and sudaka art,” a personal conception of decolonial queer art. His projects and works reflect his commitment to human rights, with a special focus on the visibility of LGBTQI+ communities.

Winner of the Painting category at the 2024 Federico García Lorca Ibero-American Award. “I decided to paint a piece inspired by Blanes’ ‘Rest,’ using gay iconography, with elements of wonderart, superflat, and neo-pop, as the rebirth of a queer xatria without art.”

Selected in the First Call for Exhibition Projects, he is showcasing his work for the first time at RAG.

Descanso

Carlos García Ortega was born in Mexico in 1971. He is a communications expert, designer, and visual artist.

He trained at the National School of Visual Arts, San Carlos Academy, UNAM, earning a Master’s degree in Arts. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Sciences from the University of the Valley of Mexico and studied professional photography at the Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana.

He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in printmaking, painting, and photography in Mexico, the United States, and Uruguay.

Ya ves llaves is an aqua electrography consisting of 30 pieces (29 x 42 cm each), forming a work that measures 1.87 x 2.84 meters. It pays tribute to Mexican wrestling, depicting, in the style of collectible figurines, various wrestling holds performed with technique and precision in the ring. Through this work, the artist seeks to share the vibrant color and magic of lucha libre, a sport and cultural spectacle with deep roots in Mexico.

Ya ves llaves (Polyptych x30)

Nudehead is the anonymous alter ego of a renowned visual artist. He began posting posters in the late ’90s with the TTSA collective, known for “hit and run” urban interventions. His work first appeared in Uruguay at EAC in 2009/2010, addressing the contradictions of freedom in society. This project later became street art in poster format.

His style is characterized by bold black lines on white backgrounds, with nods to American comic pop art. His work conveys potent, irreverent, and ironic messages about societal issues like narcissism, consumerism, corporate oppression, capitalism, and political demagoguery. He also advocates for animal rights and core values, often using irony and contradiction. Nudehead’s art transcends galleries, living in the streets where the audience becomes part of the collective and ephemeral work.

In 2020, after returning from Berlin, he created a series of original works in color. He has been with RAG since its inception.

Eres feo adentro

COMPRA COMPRA COMPRA!

El otro lado de mi

Luciana Guerra was born in Rosario, Santa Fe, in 1977, and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts (UNR).

The diptych “Some Kind of Hell” was selected at the Felix Amador Salon, Buenos Aires, 2023.

“Here, I combine geometric and organic elements, exploring the transition between matter and spirituality. Inspired by the works of Bosch, the piece was reinterpreted both physically and digitally without the use of AI. Techniques such as oil, spray paint, airbrush, and digital tools were used to abstract forms and colors, creating a new visual narrative. As a woman, I am interested in reclaiming the works of great masters from a time when women were denied the opportunity to study painting, and adding my own identity to them.”

Selected in the First Call for Exhibition Projects, she is showcasing her work for the first time at RAG.

Some Kind of Hell, some kind of heaven (Diptych)

Martín Piñeyro was born in Montevideo in 1977. He is a graphic designer and visual artist.

For over 25 years, he has maintained a close relationship between the worlds of design and visual art. He founded his own design studio and served as president of the Uruguayan Design Chamber. Since 2020, Martín has expanded his artistic skills at Gustavo Tabares’ workshop, focusing on exploring memory and identity, both personal and collective, through an empathetic lens and Pop culture elements.

His work deconstructs childhood memories, evoking the 80s and 90s shared experiences of TV, magazines, and VHS. He plays with vivid colors and intentionally imperfect strokes, aiming to recreate the joy and nostalgia of those memories. It’s not about analyzing trauma, but revisiting shared generational memories, inviting viewers to see childhood differently and reconnect with that sense of play.

The work is part of a quadriptych, available individually as reproductions.

Infancia Deconstruida (Quadriptych)

1987

Lucas Scaglia was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1986. He holds a degree in Design and Visual Communication.

“Since 2015, I began to express myself artistically using tools acquired from design, private teachers, and a great deal of self-teaching. My priority is visual expression through various techniques or whatever arises spontaneously from the urgent need to sublimate. I feel most comfortable with markers and paper, although I sometimes add digital color, depending on the piece.”

About the work: “The consumption of alcohol missed the mark. Visual memory was influential in a drawing you won’t guess. The nostalgia of the plum is my childhood. Weaving everything together as a strategy. What seeps from within contradicts the technicalities. Life as camouflage. Adoration for the product of a pristine surface. The inequalities that hurt. Machinery and its dominance.”

Selected in the First Call for Exhibition Projects at RAG.

Mas fracasos que orgullos

Yudi Yudoyoko is a talented and multifaceted artist who graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts in Bandung (Indonesia).

He possesses a creative force that evokes the most poetic and sublime aspects of his expression, conveying deep feelings and thoughts. On his canvases, he masters both painting and illustration, with a personal and unique line that he has developed throughout his career. The themes of his work evoke pain, solitude, brutality, humanity, oppression, revelation, innocence, and irony.

However, he also has a phase of delicate abstraction, as well as illustrations that focus on erotic games, where he challenges boundaries around morality, the forbidden, and identity. He also employs scraping or “un-drawing” techniques to explore and express contemporary issues such as the loss of identities. His palette is rich in subtle and new colors, very different from what we are used to in the Americas.

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collection: Pop Art

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