Mauricio Esquivel C.U.J.S.C. Edif. 397, Apto. 31 Mejicanos, San Salvador, El Salvador, C.A. mauricioelsalvador@gmail.com +503 22325726 Dispobible: 2-31 2015
Artist Statement My work as an artist uses the socio-political implications of the context. The medias or techniques always correspond to the idea; I have used performance, photography, drawing, painting and video. In particular I use the drawings to all my proposals like an expanded conceptual field. Depending on the project my work attempts to present a situations or representations about a specific theme. I developed the themes with groups in workshops, doing interviews or talks. The products obtained are just part of the research process. As a curator, my strategy for work consists in presenting a chronological and historical statement and the relationship between the young artist and the contemporary transcultural media mass moment. I m very interested in the ideas of Glocal * (Global-local) context where transnational relationships could change the culture of a specific place and how this affects its identity. Currently I am doing a investigation about the post war arts production with people born in the 90 s I come from a country with 6 million inhabitants and almost every family has one or more members in the United States (approximately 3 million Salvadorians live outside El Salvador). The trend towards emigration in El Salvador began in 1970 and was increased in the 80 s by the civil war. One aspect of my research is do reviews about postcolonial theory (I use some theories like the microphysics of power by Foucault) and the relationship between the develop countries and non develop countries (considered third world ) Furthermore I m interested in the strategies for entering and leaving modernity, and how it could be represented in popular culture. Garcia Caclini said what happens in the countries where the traditions have not yet gone and modernity does not arrive? Is it obligatory to modernize?
CV Mauricio Esquivel 1983 Bachelor in Visual Arts, for the National University in El Salvador. Tutor in the R.A.T. Non profit Residency Program in Mexico in 2011. Tutor in the Virtual Formation Courses in the Contemporary University Art Museum -MUAC- UNAM, Mexico in 2012. Art Teacher in 2012-2013 in the National University in El Salvador. Artistic and curatorial residencies in Nicaragua, Cuba, Costa Rica. Collective shows: 2009 X International Biennial in Cuenca, Ecuador 2010 XXXI International Biennial in Pontevedra, Spain I International Triennial from the Caribbean, Dominican Republic VI Central American Biennial in Nicaragua 2011 Change, Mundial Bank Program in Washington and Paris II Iberoamerican Show, in Spain Cultural Centre in Mexico Video Show Triangle C.S.C., Ex Teresa Actual Art, Mexico Central America Civic and Violence, Art Americas, Art Fair, Miami 2012 International Festival of arts in, Costa Rica -FIA-; Esfoto 12, El Salvador Photo 30, Guatemala 2013 First South Biennial in Panama 2014 XX Contemporary art and Design Anniversary in the MADC museum in Costa Rica; IX Central American Biennial, Guatemala. Solo Shows: 2012 Displacement Line, EDS Gallery, México City. 2015 (Upcoming) Adaptive design strategies, Contemporary Art and Design Museum -MADC-, Costa Rica
Curatorial projects: 2014 Catalysis, Collective show, Spain Cultural Centre in El Salvador Crazy Water Collective show, Spain Cultural Centre in El Salvador Escape Geographies Collective show, Spain Cultural Centre in El Salvador The Generation of Confinement, Collective Show in TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica Prelibri, by Abi Reyes, Spain Cultural Centre in El Salvador Body Parts by Sandra Leiva, Spain Cultural Centre in El Salvador Good Bye Horses by Gabriel Granadino, Spain Cultural Centre in El Salvador Grants: 2008 Artistic Residency winner in the Espora Program, Nicaragua 2009 Artistic Residency winner in the Batiscafo Program, Cuba Young Art Prize awarded by the Cultural Center of Spain in El Salvador 2010 Artistic Residency winner in the Iberoamerican Residency Program -FONCA- Mexico 2014 Curatorial Residency invitation in the Volcanic Context TEOR/éTica, Costa Rica Collections: -MARTE- Art Museum of El Salvador and TEOR/éTica in Costa Rica Co founder of the curatorial project in El Salvador In Site Art in collaboration with the Spain Cultural Centre. He has participated in the talks Central Themes coordinated by TEOR/éTica Foundation in Costa Rica in 2012 and in The day that we came contemporary in the Contemporary Art and Design -MADC- in San Jose Costa Rica in 2014 in the context of the X Museum anniversary. Selection Advisory Committee of the Marte Contemporary program in the Art Museum of El Salvador -MARTE-
adaptive design Research about informal commerce and how the people struggle against unemployment in countries like Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador. I look for objects created by industry but used for other purpose. For example baby coaches adapted to sell coffee or wheelbarrows for sell fruits.
From: Adaptive Design Strategies Bike sharper model Function: Sharp knifes Scale: 1:6 (aprox.) 14.5x12x11.5cm Year: 2014 Original model from: Galicia, Spain The idea to make models is use it in workshops with people that their economy depends of the informal commerce; with the little models they can do new models. This part of the project have a user manual with drawings of models of different places in the world
From: Adaptive Design Strategies. Pirate movies Function: to sell illegally movies on the street Scale: 1:6 (aprox.) 13 x26.5x16.5 cm Year: 2014 Original model from: San Salvador, El Salvador
From: Adaptive Design Strategies. London UK research Rastafarian outside the Tate Modern
From: Adaptive Design Strategies. Banana wheelbarrow Function: to sell to sell fruits on the street Drawing on vellum drafting film 28x35.6cm Year: 2014 Original model from: San Salvador, El Salvador
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reference lines In 2009, between 10-12 young people died by the violence, this project is an attempt to anticipate the death in a young body. The year 2014 closed with 2,594 deaths due to violence in El Salvador; country whose territory covers 20,742 km²
OCTOBER 2009
Reference Lines Performance 2009 I
IRON MAN Iron Man: Research about violence in Mexicali, Baja California México, 2010, sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development -AECID- As a part of this program I used the found to change my physical shape to get a strong body for jump illegally to the USA previous to this project I did Reference Lines where i got a tattoo in reference to the violence stadistics in El Salvador
OCTOBER 2010
Talk in Taller Multinacional, Mexico DF, September 2011
documentary research respect to illegal immigration research As part of the process of documentary research on illegal immigration. I traveled to different cities and border towns collecting information which was then engraved in stones
Search sites of information: International Red Cross and NGOs to protect migrants. From Tijuana to Nogales
The documental information was engraved in stone with oxid removed of the border wall between the US and Mexico.
Workshop with arts students in the State Institute of Arts in Baja California, November 2010
Talk about illegal emigration process in State Institute of Arts in Baja California, November 2010
displacement line In 2001, El Salvador adopted a bi-monetary system that introduced the United States dollar along with the colón. This foreign currency infiltrated in transactional experiences throughout the country. Toying with this historical reference, Esquivel reinvents this 25-cent coin locally known as Cora, a phonetic version of the American quarter by laboriously hand cutting the distinctive eagle out of its center. As a symbol of perspicacity and strength, these eagles are arranged to depict the map of Central America and Mexico breaking up into the United States over an ocean-color wall. On the one hand the eagles are set free from their casing and on the other their removal renders the coins useless and therefore valueless, shedding a satirical light on the notions of exchange. These notions of exchange and movement are symbolic of themes of migration that Esquivel views as a nonphysical political phenomenon an idea that infiltrates Esquivel s drawings, objects and installation. Ironically, the final action of transforming these coin parts in to a cultural property re-infuses it with value. Claire Breukel Chief Curator Contemporary Program -MARTE- Museum El Salvador
Untitled, 2009 Presented in Washington DC in the World Bank Art Program Change
Untitled, 2009 Presented in Washington DC in the World Bank Art Program Change
Untitled, 2009 Presented in X Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador
Untitled, 2009 Presented in X Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador
Conversation between Washington and Martí Batiscafo Cuba 2009
displacement line Proccess and other pieces. All the proccess for Displacement Line is hand made. I use the currencies of different countries to make installations, photographs, and sculptural objects that change the transactional value for a symbolic representation.
Map 1750 cutted coins (US 0.25) 2014 MARTE Museum Collection
Central America Inverted Guatemala version 1 Quetzal coin hand modified 2014
Central America Inverted Guatemala version 2500 Quetzal coins hand modified. Intervened wall 2014
talks 2014 MADC Museum TEOR/éTica Contemporary art centre MARTE Museum
2014 MADC Museum
2014 TEOR/éTica Contemporary Art Centre in San Jose, Costa Rica
2014 MARTE Museum El Salvador
Relevant Documents Displacement Line Text by Claire Breukel, chief curator in the Contemporary Program in MARTE Museum in El Salvador. Please Check on line: Raw Material and Manufacture: Its Implications on Art. Essay by Adán Vallecillo IRON MAN Sponsored Superheroes (About Iron Man Project) Interview for the FronteraD digital Magazine by Juan José Santos Mateo Check on line https://www.artsy.net/artwork/mauricio-esquivel-line-ofdisplacement-linea-de-desplazamiento http://dawire.com/2010/03/29/raw-material-andmanufacture-its-implications-on-art-essay-by-adanvallecillo/ http://www.fronterad.com/?q=superheroes-becados-ironman-mauricio-esquivel Among other printed: Lapiz Magazine Art Media Magazine Art Nexus
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