Claudio Rojas
Detail of La Maga, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm

11/Cortázar

10 works | collage on canvas | 2021–2022

Ten portraits of characters from Julio Cortázar's universe, from La Maga and Oliveira to Johnny Carter, and of the writer himself. Collage on canvas: the work is built from paper, the same material on which Cortázar left his words.

Works

Cortázar, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Cortázar2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
Oliveira, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Oliveira2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
Traveler, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Traveler2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
La Maga, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
La Maga2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
Bruno, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Bruno2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
Johnny Carter, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Johnny Carter2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
Ronald, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Ronald2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
La Pola, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
La Pola2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
Etienne, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Etienne2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm
Gregorovius, 2021. Collage on canvas, 97 × 130 cm
Gregorovius2021 · Collage on canvas · 97 × 130 cm

Artist's text

Cortázar

Linking words together, shaping them, chiselling them, searching in the corners of each letter for their most metaphysical side, Cortázar creates in my head images of captivating characters. His texts set free in my imagination a series of figures that I rebuild piece by piece until I find, at the bottom of my fantasies, the unique personality of each of them.

Collage as a technique and as the idea of a concept that shares the very support on which the writer leaves his work. The clay from which words, sentences and paragraphs are moulded, page after page, had to be the same on which this series would unfold, so that everything had a story. A meaning. A bond. So that everything was connected.

Excerpt.