Adolfo Patiño "Frames of Reference"
Galeria Ramis Barquet (Chelsea)
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“When in 1976 Adolfo Patiño Torres (México City, 1954-2005) became interested in photography and design, he proclaimed an anti-elitist stance that stimulated his creative vitality. His first public presentations were made that year. He would install a clothesline at different places around the city where he would hang his images and those of other young artists. He would call these traveling exhibitions Photographs on the street. At the same time began his search for new languages, new forms and contents without taking any formal studies or taking patrons, teachers or tutors into consideration. A self-taught artist, he decided his teachers would be Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Francis Bacon and Andy Warhol. He learned from these artists but never imitated them because his experimental impulses came about through other means, at first culminating in works on paper, experimental films, installations and assemblage. It was in 1983 when the Salon Nacional de Arte first acquired a work by Patiño, from the series Frames of Reference. The Frames of Reference were constructed using a type of wooden ruler then in common use in elementary schools. These Frames proposed an objective measure of the halting and death of tradition in the face of the marketplace and its interests.
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from January 21, 2010 to February 27, 2010