Claudio Rojas
Detail of La ira II, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm

08/Nosotros los toros

25 works | oil on canvas | 2016

Twenty-five oil paintings in three chapters (La metamorfosis, La ira, La muerte: metamorphosis, wrath, death), dedicated to his teacher Edmund Valladares. Bullfighting as a mirror of an animal turned into a beast and into its own executioner: like Goya's Saturn, the series lays bare a self-devouring behaviour.

Works

La metamorfosis I, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis I2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis II, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis II2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis III, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis III2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis IV, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis IV2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis V, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis V2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis VI, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis VI2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis VII, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis VII2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis VIII, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La metamorfosis VIII2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira I, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira I2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira II, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira II2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira III, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira III2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira IV, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira IV2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira V, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira V2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira VI, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira VI2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira VII, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira VII2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira VIII, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira VIII2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La ira IX, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La ira IX2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte I, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte I2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte II, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte II2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte III, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte III2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte IV, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte IV2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte V, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte V2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte VI, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte VI2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte VII, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte VII2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm
La muerte VIII, 2016. Oil on canvas, 70 × 100 cm
La muerte VIII2016 · Oil on canvas · 70 × 100 cm

Artist's text

Act 1. The Metamorphosis

A scream, but a muffled scream. Dry. The caterpillar eats the butterfly. A metastasis that transforms the flesh. Twists it. The skin turns cruel. It buries us. It holds us. […] And the body itself becomes a memory. Nothing throbs any more, nothing feels. Only the scream, but a scream of flesh. Soaked.

Excerpt.