Miguel Angel Rios

In this exhibition Miguel Angel Rios presents his recent video works and multimedia installations.

Miguel Angel Rios (1953, Catamarca) received worldwide appreciation when he first showed his work A Morir (‘till Death): a ground-breaking work of audacious ambition about spinning tops. Rios made several works in the series of spinning-top videos in which he expresses social power struggles and violence. In his videos White Suit and Crudo Rios continues to compose a power metaphor about hunger and manipulation, combining control and coincidence to represent the uncertainty and temporariness of the human condition. His latest work Mecha is a struggle between two gangs or armies, one that repeats ad infinitum without ever reaching a truce. Though there are no victims here, there is never a moment of peace; the problem at the core is never resolved and at the same time, presence is marked by constant absence. While OPUS320419311905911317116 can be considered as a requiem to violence of our days in general, but subtly hints at New York, Madrid, London and other places of acts of terrorism.

Rios has had solo exhibitions at Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (2009), Maison Européenne de la Photographie MEP, Paris (2009), Fries Museum, Leeuwarden (2008), The Art Museum of the University of Houston (2007) and Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington (2005). He participated in group exhibitions at Liverpool Biennial (2011), the Biennale of Sydney (2010), Daros Exhibitions, Zürich (2009). Upcoming museum shows are: Museo Carrillo Gil, México DF and in 2012 Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, USA

Miguel Angel Rios