Vicente Rojo

Vicente Rojo Almazán (Barcelona, 1932-Mexico City, 2021) was an artist whose work is characterized mainly by a schematic and orderly style, based on the use of geometry. He studied painting and typography, working throughout his life as a painter, sculptor, printmaker, and graphic designer. His artistic language is closer to that of the European avant-garde of Klee, Mondrian, Nicholson, etc., in which geometry and abstraction are transformed into lyricism. The artist did his first studies in sculpture and ceramics in his hometown, before moving to Mexico - in 1949 - joining his father who lived there as a political refugee since the end of the Spanish Civil War. His work is characterized mainly by serial works such as: Signs, Denials, Memories, Mexico under the rain and Sceneries. In these series one can see the abstraction that makes the artist an innovator with respect to the Mexican tradition, dominated in those years by the great figurative muralists such as José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. The influence of Jean Dubuffet or Jasper Johns is noticeable in the treatment of material texture and color variations, as well as the influence of Antoni Tàpies for the inclusion of diverse and unusual materials (rubber, wood and various objects).