Rodrigo Illescas
Argentina | B. 1983
Rodrigo Illescas was born in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, in 1983. He is an architect and professional photographer. He has published the poetry books “Asimismo, todo aquello” (Likewise, Everything), declared of Cultural Interest by the National Secretariat of Culture, and “Razia,” which won first prize at the Reunión La noamericana de Voces. He currently teaches at the University of Buenos Aires FADU-UBA. He gives seminars at the National University of Villa María, Córdoba. Among his awards are the Global GFX FujiFilm Award; 1st prize Felix Schoeller Photo Award; Leica Finalist, Oskar Barnack; Grand Prix, PhotoDays Fes val, Rovinj, Croatia; 1st Prize, Portraits, PoyLatam, Mexico; 1st prize, Best Portfolio, Transversalidades, Portugal; Honorable Mention, Florencia Molina Campos Provincial Visual Arts Salon. Throughout his career, he has exhibited at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Rome, Italy; Somerset House, London; Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück, Germany; CCK, Argentina; Fotogalería Teatro San Martín, Argentina; Museo de Bellas Artes Peorú, La Plata, Argentina; Museo Palacio Dionisi, Córdoba, Argentina; among others. His work is part of the collection of the Palacio Dionisi Museum, Córdoba; Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb; National University of Villa María, Córdoba; and private collections in London, Buenos Aires, Madrid, and Andorra.
CREDENTIALS
2021
Fujifilm GFX Challenge Global Award, Japan
1st prize, Best Portfolio, Transversalidades, Portugal
2nd Prize, Festival International Photography Festival, United Arab Emirates
Honorable Mention, Municipal Visual Arts Award “Salón Litoral,” Argentina
Honorable Mention, Florencia Molina Campos Provincial Visual Arts Salon, Argentina
Selected, National Visual Arts Salon, Argentina
2019
1st Prize Felix Schoeller Photo Award, Germany
2015
Leica Finalist, Oskar Barnack Grant
Grand Prix, PhotoDays Festival, Rovinj, Croatia
1st Prize, Portraiture, POYLATAM, Mexico
1st Prize, Portrait Category, Photodays Fes val, Rovinj, Croatia
Shortlist, Portrait Category, Professional, Sony World Photography Awards, London
1st Prize, ORDINO JARDINS D'ART Art Fair, Ordino, Andorra
2014
1st Prize Mark Grosset, Festival Promenades de Vêndome, France
People's Choice Award, Festival Promenades de Vêndome, France
1st Prize IILA, Fotografia, Rome, Italy
Beca MACRO-IILA Scholarship, Rome, Italy
Selected Finalist for the LENS School Master Scholarship, Madrid, Spain
1st Prize in Photography, University of Belgrano Awards for Artistic Creation, Argentina
Honorable Mention in the Eurostars Grand Marina Photography Award, Barcelona, Spain
Finalist, Williams Foundation Young Art Award, Argentina
Phuyu Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Solo Show)
2023
Dionisi Palace Museum, Córdoba, Argentina (Solo Show)
Emilio Pe oru Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, La Plata, Argentina (Solo Show)
OEI Cultural Space Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Solo Show)
2018
Museum of Cultural History in Osnabrück, Germany (Solo Show)
Pilar Riberaygua Gallery, Andorra (Solo Show)
2017
OEI Cultural Space Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Solo Show)
Museum of Arts and Crafts, Zagreb (Solo Show)
Galería Astarté, Madrid, Spain (Solo Show)
PhotoArt Festival, Torrelavega, Spain
Museo Caraffa, Córdoba, Argentina
2023
Alcalá, 4th Edition of the Alcalá City Awards 2023, Alcalá, Spain
2022
X Summit NYC 2022, New York City, September 2022
Tokyo Photo Exhibition, Fujifilm Square, November 2022
Osaka Photo Exhibition, Fujifilm Osaka Gallery, December 2022
National Visual Arts Exhibition, Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK), Argentina
Municipal Auditorium of Vila do Conde, Portugal
Landskrona Photo Festival, Scandinavia
2018
PhotoDays Festival, Croatia
2015
Festival Promenades de Vêndome, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome, 14th edition of the Festival Internazionale di Roma
Somerset House, London
University of Alicante Museum, MUA, Alicante, Spain
EFTI Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Luminaria, Usera, Madrid, Spain
National University Villa María Photo Gallery, Córdoba, Argentina
Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, Italy
Festival Promenades de Vêndome, France
Tatent Latent, Festival International Festival, Tarragona, Spain
Mar del Plata Museum of Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Benito Quinquela Mar n Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Timoteo Navarro Provincial Museum of Fine Arts, Tucumán
2014
University of Belgrano, Museum Night, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Contacto Foto Fest, La Plata, Argentina 2014, ¿Están Ahí? (Are You There?), Screening of El Borde II, Villa Victoria Ocampo Museum, Audiovisual photography exhibition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Photography exhibition, La Ciudad y La Luz (The City and the Light), Plaza Las Heras, Más de Mil Buenos Aires
¿Están Ahí? (Are You There?), El Brote Photography Encounter, second edition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
¿Están Ahí? (Are You There?), El Brote Photography Encounter, second edition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
¿Están Ahí? (AreThe City and the Light," Plaza Las Heras, More than a Thousand Buenos Aires
Are You There?, El Brote Photography Encounter, second edition, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lo Dado, Auditorium Hall, Sanatorio Trinidad Mitre, SAC Pre-Congress Symposium, Buenos Aires, Argentina
National University of Villa María, Córdoba
Private Collections, London
Private Collections, Madrid, Spain
Private Collections, Andorra
“Fotografia Argentina Contemporánea” (Contemporary Photography in Argentina), together with Giorgio Malfa di Monte Tre o, Secretary General of IILA, Torcuato Di Tella, Ambassador of the Argentine Republic in Italy, at the Italo Latinoamericano Institute, Rome, Italy.
2022
“The Creative Act: From Image to Work,” Peruvian University of Applied Sciences (UPC).
2019
Workshop: Creative Process and Work Monitoring, National University of Villa María, Córdoba, Argentina.
Exposições Lumicroma
IN COLORS PROJECT | REACT!
The broadness ... Ler Mais
The broadness to which the theme is open is represented in this set of 50 artworks by photographers from 22 nationalities. React! to what, from what perspective? The possibility of endless interpretations is mirrored in an exhibition in which the reaction is as much in the photographed "scene" itself as in the impression of the person who photographed it, and also, and always, in the eye of the person who appreciates the photograph.
In this realm, there is the image of time and place, of many places and many qualities of time. There is the beauty of moments, spaces, cultures and traditions. There is a whole scale of emotions. There is the poetry of landscapes and the destruction wrought by war. There is fantasy in improbable scenarios. There are global concerns, personal instances. Sometimes the weight of existence; sometimes the lightness of laughter in the face of death.
There remains, still, the certainty of a kaleidoscopic world, in permanent change, so that stories repeat themselves. Because man repeats himself. The continuity of life is also maintained. It is in the faces of many. It is in the colors. It is in the light of black and white. It is in the instinct. In the will. In what is lost, in what is conquered. Ler Menos
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IN COLORS PROJECT | HOME
In 74 photographs, 32 authors from 14 nationalities give us the most poignant portrait of what we are, what we do and what we are failing at. Because HOME has smiles and exposed wounds. It shows a sense of belonging and an absurd lack of ground. It is the human cloak of a thousand patches to which we all belong.
This is our Home. And we can't close our eyes.
IN COLORS PROJECT - an initiative without borders by Lumicroma - reclaims the relevance of photography as a socio-cultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences, aesthetics and visions, it aims to trace, every year, the big picture of the times in which we live. Ler Menos
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AUSCHWITZ: TRACE(S) OF A LEGACY
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilanc ... Ler Mais
To keep the memory alive appeals to reflection and to vigilance and encourages the commitment of future generations, so that, through these, the voices of the survivors, which will soon no longer be heard, can echoe.
We know the history, we have seen the films and we have read the books. We have always been told that Auschwitz is the true symbol of Holocaust, since more than one million jews were murdered there. A factory of killing people! Gypsies, ho-mossexuals, Jehovah's Witnesses and political dissidents also suffered in this dark place.
We have read about the hideous experiments carried out by Mengele in Auschwitz. We have seen photographies of the survivors, of the corpses, of the crematoriums, of the abandoned personal belongings. We started our journey to Poland with the thought that we would be prepared to face the interpretative centre of the Holocaust and, through it, find the answer to our restlessness: how could this have been humanly possible?
During the journey, we revisited those with whom we had previously shared the feeling of the concentration camp. All the pages, testimonies and faces remained well alive in our memories.
We have arrived, the presence in Auschwitz overwhelms us!
No memory, read, studied, seen or heard can be compared to standing right there. In the deafening silence of that place, which carries within itself the imense loss of human sense, the question of Theodor Adorno gains strenght: How can poetry be possible after Auschwitz Ler Menos
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COURA'S PARADISE
Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget th ... Ler Mais
Alfredo Cunha's eye, attentive and sharp, documents this magic, this spirit of brotherhood, this collective happiness. The joy of the audience and the euphoria of the bands, who never forget that breathtaking human wall and the generous way they are received. It captures the sweetness, the serenity, the deepest peace, the shared love, the respect, the amazement, the unique energy of the Taboão river, contrasted with the exaltation, the apotheosis, the celebration and the joy, that sacred emotion that Almada Negreiros once said was "the most serious thing in life".
Year after year, we need the Paredes de Coura Festival to recharge the batteries of passion, to dispel the mediocrity of the grayest days, to cure the diseases of the sadness that makes us pale and to chase away the city carrion that burrows into our bones. To fill ourselves with beauty, euphoria and the deepest peace, in divine communion with nature. On pilgrimage, in a perpetual return to magic.
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IN COLORS PROJECT | JOY
Photography, as a device for representation and mediation, emerges as a territory for ideological, aesthetic, and poetic experimentation. The selected images map out visual strate- gies through which different cultures are encoded, ritualized, and transmitted. Encompassing a range of representational expressions – from collective celebration to intimate contemplation – each author presents a singular visual lexicon, revealing joy as a socio-anthropological and aesthetic praxis, while envisioning the creation of possible futures.
The curatorial approach is structured around the hypothesis that the photographic image constitutes a device for reconfiguring sensibility, for analyzing and interpreting reality, transfigured and appropriated into autonomous and individual realities, prompting us to question the conditions of possibility for pleasure, encounter, and transformation in contemporary societies.
Curated by Aníbal Lemos and Sandra Maria Teixeira
IN COLORS PROJECT – a borderless initiative by Lumicroma – reclaims the relevance of photography as a sociocultural record and artistic intervention. Through the convergence of experiences reflecting on the current world and through photographic creation, it aims to annually trace the grand image of the time in which we live. Ler Menos
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