Talking Culture Projections - Roger Grasas

Talking Culture

GridAKL Lysaght Building • 4 June - 7 June

Hours
10 - 6 Daily
Where
101 Pakenham Street West, Auckland Central, Auckland 1010
Yes
Artists
Roger Grasas
Theme

Grasas’s personal work consists of an examination of the meanings of the category of “strangeness" in a world of technological alienation. The project’s raw materials are the landscape of the postmodern city, the feeling of exile of human beings in digital society and the mark left by mass tourism.

Started academic studies in 1995 at the Photography Faculty of the Catalonia Politechnical University specializing in Landscape and Documentary photography. Later, in 2000, he enrolled at the University of Barcelona where he graduated in Philosophy with a Master in Aesthetics Contemporary Art .

Grasas began his professional career as a photographer around 2002 documenting cooperation projects for international foundations and for UNESCO. Since then, traveling becomes the core of his artistic work, translating his experiences and reflections into visual arts. Regular contributor to several international publications (Wired, National Geographic etc). Spanish agence Zoom represents his editorial work. Artig Gallery, the recognized online gallery specialized in emerging artist's, represents its author's work. From 2011 he has been living between Barcelona (Spain) and Riyadh (Saudi Arabia).

His body of work approaches the relationship between history and present, the role and importance that technology reveals within the post-modern digital society and the state of confusion that human being suffers in the contemporary landscape. Sociopolitical issues such as globalization and philosophical concepts such as the 'difference', 'hyperreality' and 'alienation' generated by the post-capitalist society are also common places of his series.

His works have been exhibited in galleries of Spain, France, Netherlands, Italy, Germany, USA, Mexico and UAE. In 2017 his latest projects 'Atenea' and 'Min Turab' have been published and distributed worldwide by the prestigious RM publishing house. Several international awards including Art Photo Bcn 2014, Photolucida 2017 Contest, LensCulture finalist at Exposure Awards 2018, Landscape award at Head-On Festival and PhotoEspaña Descubrimientos Award 2018.

Roger Grasas; Min Turab 1

Thanks to Creative Communities.

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