Rodolfo Edwards

Rodolfo Edwards (October 17, 1981) is a Chilean artist and architect renowned for his architecture and urban landscape paintings. He uses existing space and transforms and recreates it in novel ideas and designs. Edwards works include artifacts, modified pictures and paintings, all of which constitute an artistic corpus with its own identity and incisive view.

Education
In the early 2001 he studied architecture and urbanism in the Pontificia Universidad Catolica of Valparaiso, where he laid a strong foundation in architectural design, while being influenced by its beautiful ambience. Edwards is currently a resident artist in Fine Arts at the Art Students League of New York.

Style
Esthetically speaking, Edward’s work can be divided into two categories: the first his panoramic view, takes in urban growth and all the possible variations and forms that accentuate the already existing landscape. The second category, the square tracts of land given over the urban blight that he transforms, but in a contemporary way using ideas and form to accentuate humanity in its natural habitat, the city.

Regarding his painting, Florencia San Martin Ritourt, the art critic has said, “Edwards paints in a kind of a territoriality that seems to break with the maps and with the towns that once preceded the modernist advance and its expansionist practices which, since the beginning of the XXth century, replaced the decimonomic model in cities like Paris”.

Edwards expresses the territorial crisis as ongoing in eternal transformation, yet he points to the invalidation of local land tracts and territory in pursuit of the global and it seems that the dividing lines have been displaced by the model of globalization.

Finally, the large format of his canvases goes back to the origins of landscape painting with the horizontal extension. At the same time such a technique is reminiscent of Latin American contemporary artists such as Guillermo Kuitca and also the German Michael Wesely.

Solo Exhibitions

 * Paisajes Transitorios. Club Hipico, Santiago, Chile.	(2005)
 * Vertical Images. Carla Fache Gallery, Miami, USA.     (2006)
 * Words on Sky. Nu Concept Design Store, Miami, USA.	(2007)
 * Produccion Urbana. J. Egenau Gallery, Santiago, Chile.	(2009)
 * Panoramica. Modigliani Gallery, Mendoza, Argentina.	(2009)

Group Exhibitions

 * Pecados Capitales. San Cristobal Tower Hotel,Chile.	(2007)
 * Pasajero en Transito. Hyatt Hotel, Santiago, Chile.   (2007)
 * Codigos. Sheratton Hostel, Santiago, Chile.		(2008)
 * El Bosque. Palacio Cousino, Santiago, Chile.	       (2008)
 * La Leidelmono. CNC, Valparaiso, Chile. 	       (2008)
 * Dulce Deseo. Sheratton Hotel, Santiago Chile.		(2008)
 * Punk Remake. Casona Brasil, Santiago, Chile.		(2008)
 * Replica. Sgo. Nattino Space, Santiago, Chile.		(2009)
 * Color Society. Boulevart CE Gallery, Santiago.	       (2010)
 * Most Wanted, Art Basel exhibition.                    (2010)