Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio
OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE
In a moment when cryptocurrency has swiftly become a global phenomenon, this exhibition considers the ways in which dematerialized currency and the ostensible abstraction of value still have tangible impacts. Requiring access to the internet, smart devices, and various software and hardware, the digitization of finance is presented as a seamless, worldwide network, but it in fact has roots in both Wall Street and Silicon Valley.
EDDIE RODOLFO APARICIO: ESPINAS AMOROSAS
For Aparicio, rubber itself exudes the symmetry between the commodification of indigenous material culture and the exploitation of Latin American countries for labor and resources. Restored to its natural function, it also suggests a salve: dressing the wound, repairing the broken, displaced, and dispossessed. Throughout «Espinas Amorosas/Loving Thorns», entwined threads lead back and forth between El Salvador and Los Angeles, relays along which Aparicio is a spore.
Una Familia de Artistas Explora el Impacto de la Guerra en el Salvador
La exposición se concibe como un retrato de familia que es a la vez íntimo y mundano. Al reunir el trabajo de Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio (Los Ángeles, 1990), su padre Juan Edgar Aparicio (El Salvador, 1954) y su abuela María de la Paz Torres de Aparicio (El Salvador, 1917), esta muestra investiga la herencia cultural de la Guerra Civil Salvadoreña, rastreando su impacto en el presente y abriendo la puerta a una parte poco conocida pero vital de la historia del arte de Los Ángeles arraigada en los inicios del movimiento de Derechos Civiles de América Central.