“To make it vital — to live it myself!" Kierkegaard
“To make it vital — to live it myself!" Kierkegaard
When we speak of graffiti, calligraphy, glyphs, and archaeology, we picture painted stones, designs of illegible letters, bones buried in the earth, or a series of scribbled walls without any sense or coherence. With this in mind, and to be more precise, we start from the processes that contemporaneity generates and the appropriation made by the Ecuadorian artist ACHE as a process of research and questioning of the spaces that are inhabited and those that are not; architecture, walls, parks, and streets are spaces that are constantly speaking.
The pictoglyphs, or "pichoglyphs" as the artist calls them, consist of leaving symbols of pichação on materials such as stones, marble, and glass. This is how ACHE, during his stay in the Minuto de Dios neighborhood, the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo and its surroundings, created isotypes that respond to this questioning and stem from a rereading of the places and non-places that are usually forgotten or condemned. In this way, we can understand it as a new appropriation of the surrounding space and, in a struggle against the homogeneityimposed by modern urbanization, offers a different reading.
This show brings together his most recent artistic output with a series of prints, sculptures, installations, and the intervention of a mural that brings into view the issue and debate that exists around the appropriation of space.
Juan David Quintero Arbeláez
Curator