The city, the modern urban space in its permanent process of change, rupture and re-creation, constitutes an object of permanent interest for the artistic eye.

The complexity of the modern cities with its combination of forms, spaces, places, individuals, times and histories becomes challenging for human understanding and a clear stimulus to create new ways of representation which, from a parallel perspective from those coming from the urbanite disciplines, try to explain, to capture the intensity of life and death in the human beehive with its permanent buzzing.

Time and space, the intuition of the human shapes and their constant and temporary actions are gathered in Rodolfo Edwards’ Works: artifacts, modified pictures and paintings all of which constitute an artistic corpus with its own identity and incisive view. 

The citizen with its own share of violence and frailty is the obvious antagonist of the rousseaunean man living in state of nature. This contradiction is reflected through the use of shapes, colors, textures and the sophisticated precariousness of his works.  The city, its construction is what it is, but simultaneously, much less than that, appearing as frail and mysterious, an unsuccessful intent, an act of order and confusion. Edwards has pictured the citizen and the urban space, as two live entities subject to a generative and degenerative process of birth, development and twilight.

As an artist and architect, Rodolfo Edwards doesn’t want to avoid the complex urban structure and the need of its understanding. Highways, architecture, cultural trends are all elements that create the urban dynamics, constantly interacting, creating relationships that give place to organic, harmonious and unique realities.

RODOLFO EDWARDS

Born in  1981  . Santiago. Chile.

2001-2007

Architect and Urbanism . Pontificie Universidad Católica de Valparaíso. Chile.

2010-Currently

Student international program in The Arts  Student League of New York. New York.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Impossibles Mapas . Trece Art Gallery. Santiago.Chile. 2011

Panorámica .  Modigliani Gallery. Mendoza. Argentina. 2010

Producción Urbana.  Juan Egenau Gallery. Santiago . Chile.2009

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Exquisite Corpse. The Historic Essesx Market. New York. USA.2012

Paralelos Imposibles. Abrazo Interno Gallery.New York. USA.2012

Most Wanted . Amy Alonso Gallery . Miami .USA .2010

Réplica.  Sala Santiago Nattino . Santiago.Chile.2009

Awards and Participations.

The Blue Dot Award, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York. NY. 2012

Merit Scholarhip Award . The Arts Student League of New York. NY. 2011

Art Basel Miami . Amy Alonso Gallery. Miami . Usa. 2011

C.H.A.C.O   Art Basel . Abeliux & Caorsi Gallery . Santiago .Chile 2011