Bio
Pablo Llana 1980. Lives and works in Tijuana, Mexico. Originally from the city of Tijuana.
He has a degree in plastic arts from the Casa de la Cultura de Tijuana.
From 2000 to 2002 he was a student of the "Artistic Professionalization Program for Visual Artists" (PROPAVIS) taught at the "Humanities Center of Baja California", with the support of CONACULTA, including prominent artists and professionals such as: Felipe Ehrenberg, others.
He has participated in more than 50 local and international collective exhibitions. Among his most recent solo exhibitions are: "Eye Candy" Article 123, Mexico City, "Trashformacion retrospective show" Gurza Museum, Durango Mexico, "Sweet Death" Art Virus LTD Gallery Frankfurt, Germany, "Oaxaca from Acá" Textile Museum from Oaxaca, Oaxaca, "MOUTHFUL" in the Institute of Graphic Arts of Oaxaca, "I code community" in the Museum Cultural Center Tijuana and among the collective ones are:
"Private collection selection" Vica Venice Institute Of Contemporary Art ", Los Angeles CA ,," Morton Auctions 2019 "," La Fonderia Gallery "Florence Italy," Southern Exposure Shining Lights In Contemporary Art From Mexico "Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles, "City of Ideas" Puebla Mexico, "Come and Sea" Atilla & Co. Milan Italy, "Arte Vivo" Modern Art Museum, Mexico City, "Group 16" Contemporary Art Auction, Mexico City, "Pop Up Experience "Ex-Convent San Hipólito, Mexico City," Emerging to Established "Krause Gallery, New York," Cruel Summer "CM Curatorial Gallery, San Diego California," Pink "Castelli Art Center, Los Angeles California," Involuntary Memory "Gallery K2, Monterrey Mexico, "Mexico" Frankfurter Volksbank Frankfurt, Germany, Participation in the project of Demian Flores shovels the Biennial of Havana Cuba, "The collage as an object found" Arterial Space, Ciudad d e Mexico, VIII International Banking Biennial 2014 Cultural Center of Tijuana CECUT, Tijuana B.C. Mexico, "Arrópame desde los pies" Traditional and current floor mats Former convent of San Pablo Oaxaca, Mexico, "Obra Negra: An approach to the construction of the visual culture of Tijuana" Tijuana Cultural Center Museum, "Tijuana Makes Me Happy. Multidisciplinarity in the Border "at the Consulate of Mexico in Los Angeles California and" La Frontera "in the Gallery Art Virus Ltd. Frankfurt Germany among others.
His work is part of the cultural heritage of the Tijuana Cultural Center Museum CECUT.
Curator at the exhibition "Southern Exposure Shining Lights In Contemporary Art From Mexico" Castelli Art Space, Los Angeles CA. January 2019
Co-curator at the show "Edge to Edge # 2" Vica Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA. July 2019
He has obtained honorable mentions in the following biennials: 3rd Biennial of Contemporary Art of Cancun, Mexico (2017), 14th Biennial of Visual Arts of the Northwest (2013), 5th Biennial National Biennial Looks (2012), 13th Biennial of Visual Arts of the Northwest ( 2011) and the XII Plastic Biennial of Baja California (1999), selected in the following biennials: XII Joaquín Clausell Biennial of Painting (2017), Monterrey Artemergente National Biennial (2015), Ninth Puebla de los Ángeles Biennial, Power today. Gallery of the University of the Ibero Puebla (2013) among others. Creditor of the first place in the 6th National Miradas Biennial (2014), his pieces are in national and international collections.
Statement
Since the year 2010 my work revolves around the capitalism-consumerism and obesity-identity binomials, as viewed from the micro or, as well the personal.
Using the wrappers of junk-food products as raw material, I point towards a political reflection, by tightly joining the critical and social senses.
The result: pieces rich in texture, whose colour palette comes from the plastic discards of poor nourishment; individual consequences of globalization and without doubt one of the scourges of the 21st Century.
Within my vision, in the global scenario there arises a future that points to the uneven conditions between health and the mass-production corporations, were social innovation and the benessere seem to be based on a cosmopolitan focus in the big-city, which, despite having a higher civilizing-technological development, continues to suffer such basic deadweights as housing, health, and human rights.
It is well worth saying that the great junk-food store chains and “big-city” lifestyles, that in modern times have come to be understood as an improvement for humanity, blind the individual in the face of junk-food industrial corporations and massive unintelligent consumerism.
We are victims of the out-of-proportion consumerist society.