Vicente Rojo Almazán

VICENTE ROJO ALMAZÁN (Barcelona, 1932- Mexico City, 2021).
"Jardín de piedra", 2000.
Gouache on paper.
Signed, dated and titled in the lower area. Signed, titled and dated on the back.
Measurements: 35 x 35 cm; 47 x 47 cm (frame).
"Jardín de piedra" by Vicente Rojo Almazán, reflects the artist's mastery in the conjunction between geometry and color, fundamental characteristics of his visual language. His style combines constructivism with an abstract poetics that plays with spatial perception and texture. In this piece, Rojo explores architectural and organic forms, integrating repetitive patterns and volumes that create a metaphorical space where the rigidity of the structure contrasts with the chromatic vitality of the sphere, generating a visual tension that invites reflection on matter and emptiness.
Vicente Rojo was trained in Barcelona and arrived in Mexico in 1949, where he began his career and furthered his studies. From 1958 onwards he exhibited on numerous occasions both in Mexico and abroad, and in 1991 he was awarded the National Prize for the Arts and the Mexico Prize for Design. In 1980 the Museum of Modern Art of Paris invites him to reside for a year in the French capital; this stay will result in the work "Four series", which will be exhibited at the same museum. However, it was not until 1984 that he received the recognition he deserved in Spain, when the National Library held a retrospective exhibition of his work. Finally, in 1993 he was awarded the Gold Medal for Merit in Fine Arts in our country. Vicente Rojo has held solo exhibitions all over the world, and is represented in the Museum of Modern Art, the National Institute of Fine Arts, the University Museum of the UNAM and the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Bogota, the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, the Würth Museum in Germany and the Museum of Modern Art in Paris, among others.