Rodrigo Arteaga: Just as the daylight was fading
In his personal exhibition entitled Just as the daylight was fading, Rodrigo Arteaga revisits cabinets of curiosities, formerly owned by intellectuals and aristocrats who were motivated by intellectual curiosity, exploratory researches or desire to expound their erudition.
The artist borrows the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms from these private collections, wandering along knowledge paths : from the private collections to the formalization of knowledge. Presenting 芦 a dissection of the impetus to collect natural specimens at the root of cabinets of curiosities and museums 禄10, Rodrigo Arteaga points out the ambiguous relation between nature and culture. He reinterprets the ways to display plants and animals: aquarium, terarium, greehouse, cabinet, collections, illustrations鈥�
In his personal exhibition entitled Just as the daylight was fading, Rodrigo Arteaga revisits cabinets of curiosities, formerly owned by intellectuals and aristocrats who were motivated by intellectual curiosity, exploratory researches or desire to expound their erudition.
The artist borrows the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms from these private collections, wandering along knowledge paths : from the private collections to the formalization of knowledge. Presenting 芦 a dissection of the impetus to collect natural specimens at the root of cabinets of curiosities and museums 禄10, Rodrigo Arteaga points out the ambiguous relation between nature and culture. He reinterprets the ways to display plants and animals: aquarium, terarium, greehouse, cabinet, collections, illustrations鈥�
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