BIO
Luis Rodriguez Naranjo
Artist, Designer and Architect
“There is an incommensurability between essences and facts, and that whoever begins his researches with the facts will never attain to the essences […] For indeed this understanding is not a quality that comes to the human reality from without, but is its own mode of existence.”
— Jean-Paul Sartre
The work is motivated by the combination of his everyday human life and his subjective reality in an imaginative pig world, where all he visualizes appears to become what he names piggable.
Luis’ artwork is a human catharsis. It is the record of the ecstatic experience of a creative outburst in the form of revelation. His characters became the very essence of memory and the architects of the vital sense of everyday life.
The composition of his work interweaves the interpretive narrative of the author’s philosophical effort to find a reflection of human existence as only the autonomy of artistic exploration can achieve in a non-consciousness of a collection of images, experiences, and emotions.
Luis Rodriguez Naranjo is a Mexican artist best known for the unique characters he has made his own, introducing them in every artwork since the launch in 2015 of his painting series, Cerdines de la Erre, pig characters.
Since his early years, he entered the graphic arts world searching for authentic art by experimentation with different techniques and methods.
Born in La Piedad, Michoacan, a small city in Mexico, on July 6th, 1989. The 32 years old artist completed his elementary and high school studies in his hometown. He went on to graduate from Universidad Iberoamericana in Leon, Guanajuato, with a degree in architecture. By his early adulthood and after became an architect, he settled for eight years in Leon, in this time, he worked extensively in the field of architecture and interior design.
His relationship with pigs dates back long before he was born. For more than 50 years, the family business was pig breeding and fattening, so he grew up around this environment; his grandfather started it in 1964. Then his father and uncle continued it until its closure in 2017. The pigs have been a bond with his family throughout his artistic journey. He currently lives in his hometown, La Piedad, Michoacan.
EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
February 2017
El Colegio de Michoacan, A.C. Cultural Diffusion / Casa de la Cultura de La Piedad Michoacan in La Piedad, Michoacan, Mexico
Paintings on display, 365 pieces: Collection No. 01 365 Cerdines de la Erre, Catarsis Humana
September 2017
Universidad Iberoamericana in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Paintings on display, 21 pieces: Collection No. 02 Veintiún Cerdines de la Erre, Covers Pictóricos
September 2017
LAPA Store Inauguration in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Paintings on display, 38 pieces: Collection No. 01 365 Cerdines de la Erre, Catarsis Humana
December 2017
Gallery 1910 in Leon, Guanajuato, Mexico
Paintings on display, 38 pieces: Collection No. 01 365 Cerdines de la Erre, Catarsis Humana
July 2018
Mexican Culture Seminar, Correspondent Lagos de Moreno / Casa de la Cultura de Lagos de Moreno in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico
Paintings on display, 21 pieces: Collection No. 02 Veintiún Cerdines de la Erre, Covers Pictóricos
COLLECTIVE
November 2016
Instant Icon. Photogenic Design
TRAPHOLT Museum of Art and Design in Kolding, Denmark
Painting on display, one piece: No. 273 (September 30, 2015) / Collection No. 01 365 Cerdines de la Erre, Catarsis Humana
April 2017
Una Noche de Arte (An Art Night)
Discovery Center de Alamar, Grupo Real del Mar in Cruz de Huanacaxtle, Nayarit, Mexico
Paintings on display, 21 pieces: Collection No. 02 Veintiún Cerdines de la Erre, Covers Pictóricos
July 2018
El Color de Lagos (The Color of Lagos)
Mexican Culture Seminar, Correspondent Lagos de Moreno / Casa de la Cultura de Lagos de Moreno in Lagos de Moreno, Jalisco, Mexico
Painting on display, one piece: Collection No. 08 Las Cersirenas de Tamayo
May 2022
The New Banqueter La Expo (The New Banqueter The Exhibition)
Casa de la Cultura de La Piedad Michoacan in La Piedad, Michoacan, Mexico
Cover prints on display, 2 pieces: Collection No. 16
August 2022
Casa Michoacan Region Bajio
Casa Michoacan in Morelia, Michoacan, Mexico
Paintings on display, 16 pieces: Collection No. 02 Veintiún Cerdines de la Erre, Covers Pictóricos; 5 pieces: Collection No. 16
