OSCAR AGUIRRE
Derramando - "Spill"

The squandering of the planet seems to be a favorite theme today - to find a solution and at the same time, maintain a critical position, sometimes hyper-critical. Visual artists reproduce, reformulate and recreate visions of the great contemporary catastrophes. Art is not really political, it just is.

Oscar Aguirre deals with the spilling of Black Gold, petroleum, and its industry, the largest in the world. He also undertakes the themes of globalization in the era of corporations, attributing the fundamental cause of ecological disasters to those transnational businesses.

As in other occasions, Oscar utilizes recycled materials which he manipulates and assembles with other elements to create new images. He reproduces maps and images of death in the face of destruction by the consumer industry. His images are reproduced in a truly projected formulation, influenced by the reproductions of the Pop Art era of the 70s. The maps are used to indicate territories conquered, destroyed, or about to be conquered. The countries or states constructed with a type of tar, which implies oil money.

He manipulates photographs digitally to create new scenarios that criticize U.S. policy and consumerism of all societies. The language of his work is of narrative character, linking icons that belong to all the communications media to the globalization of the world. Whether installations or photography, the work of Oscar functions like a rebuke and a constant alert against the consumer society.

"Spills" represents a constant movement, contamination that moves, the seas that transport it and the irremediable death.