César Vázquez
Cuautla, 1986
César Vázquez has a degree in visual arts from the Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, Tijuana campus. He has been awarded the APROART artistic production grant by the Centro Cultural Tijuana (2018). He obtained the acquisition award of the 9th Biennial of University Arts Biennial of Contemporary Art (2007), Spotlight Artist at the Art San Diego art fair (2011), Spotlight Artist at the Spectrum Miami Contemporary Art Show (2014), Best in show at Latin American Art Fair (2018). She has been part of multiple selections in biennials, residencies, auctions, art fairs and group exhibitions. Her most recent exhibition is titled Fencescape: Representations of delimitation in the urban landscape at Espiral Espacio Creativo (Tijuana, 2018). He was also part of the group exhibition Method & Chaos, at the Athenaeum Art Center (San Diego, 2019). His work is characterized by the use of drawing, collage, animation and digital illustration. He lives and works from Mexico City, Mexico.
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His artistic practice has developed in two clearly distinct stages, marked by his personal and professional evolution. The first stage was influenced by drawing, collage and installation with everyday objects. During this period his work focused on figurative drawing and minimalist collage. Which served him to explore the relationship of the individual with his surroundings, thus creating three-dimensional drawing pieces. Eventually he decided to close this stage of creation, which he had been doing for ten years, to continue in another direction. In the second stage, his artistic approach has now evolved to using digital media to produce illustrations and animations themed on Mexican roots and create a dialogue with the present day. He has also experimented with sound and video installations. Although these two stages are different, there is a common thread between them, which is the relationship between human beings and their surroundings, from the personal to the social. His work reflects a natural development where at each stage is enriched by personal and professional experiences, to create a body of work in constant evolution.
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