This multiple project integrates many disciplines and explores the aesthetic of spiritual practices and magic rituals, discriminated by dominant established Christian religion and the positivist trends in western culture. Including discussions, performances and other experiments which analyze the problematic of “otherness” for people who practice rituals related to Candomblé, Umbanda and Quimbanda originally carried by African slaves and later practiced by its descendents in Brazil, Uruguay, Cuba and Haiti among other Latin American countries.

In ”24 hoursdontstopaint” Arrosamena has broadened from the analysis of meaning of body as an object to an investigation of their spatial dimensions.

Images are revealed through light; darkness transforms reality and allows the image to be open and suggestive. Arrosamena let´s an open door to enjoy relax inside his installations

The result is surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can transform a space.

24 hours dontstopaint installation/performance installation/performance

Alvaro Arrosamena

Interdisciplinary visual, projects, archives galleries and publications.

Unic books on sale

The dense imagery that permeates Arrosamena's collage books can be sourced to a trove of visual material that the artist has collected over the years. This includes his own photographs and paintings, as well as clippings from magazines, journals and newspapers or even small objects.

The perceived horizon of reality is the horizon of present time, which has the same limits as the space of life. The dimensions of time and space are not differentiated, only when people moving around the "Transitional Territories"

Alvaro Arrosamena catching real life moments

Nomad project in Bangkok

Secretos Ritos

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Perceived realities

Transitional Territories

Video installation

Duration: 5,50 min

Where are the criteria for the narration of a given theme? How does an act of documentation relate to perception and the moodalities of storytelling?

Arrosamena investigates the narrative conditions of culture and the nature of reality. The subject matter is structured around sequences of life

3 publications online

Selected galleries

Ciledi

Pruebas

Planos 3D illustrations

New media.

An important realization that permeates the collected Avant-garde movements of the twentieth century is the close relationship between innovations on technical procedures and new forms of artistic expressions and contents, and that of the interference of genres to a synthetic art, especially in the early 1910s as well as in the 1920s. After witnessing the developments of Futurism and Dada, sound poems, new typographies, and devices for creating color music, what proves to be a decisively new step in the 1950s and 1960s is that, with electronics, these medial approaches find their adequate means of expression for the first time.

Computer art