Ana Roldán grew up in Mexiko-City. In the locksmith and carpentry shop of her father, a small manufacturer, she discovered her love of craftsmanship and designed furniture. After training as a caterer, she ran a restaurant, then studied history at the Escuela Nacionál de Antropologia e Historia. She was so inspired by the work of Mexican performance artist Elvira Santamaría,[1] that she began performing as a performance artist in Mexico City in the late 1990. In 2000, she moved to Switzerland and studied art at the Bern University of the Arts and linguistics at the University of Bern. After that, she devoted herself entirely to art. In 2007, she won the City of Zurich's studio scholarship for China and worked in Kunming for a year.
After long stays in São Paulo and Mexico City Ana Roldán lives in Zurich.
Careeredit
2023 Green hole
Ana Roldán's media are performances, sculptures, videos, collages, installations, photography and group exhibitions that she curates. Represented by galleries in Switzerland, Madrid, Mexico and in Colombia and the USA, it is just as present in Latin America as in Europe. Following Tropicalismo Hélio Oiticicas, Roldán often uses natural materials from Latin America such as coconuts,[2] palm trees, banana flowers[3] or jade. Many works oscillate between the austerity of European modernism and the softer forms of Latin American modernism, as seen in the work of the Mexican architect Luis Barragán findet, to whom Roldán refers on various occasions.[4] Thus, the rectangles of modernity become crooked and crooked which Ana Roldán's work for Rio de Janeiro Colección de Especímenes de un Nuevo Mundo I[5] reconstructs with the poor natural material bamboo. And instead of primary colors, she uses the palette of Brazil's skin tones.
Ana Roldán, Joe, 2008, Leather, Wood, 29 × 100 × 45 cm
Roldán's repertoire includes concrete objects that become abstract, often minimalist art. She folds state flags to create more complex abstract color images.[6][7]
Another recurring motif is anthropomorphic sculptures, which she first shows in 2004 with the work Joe, about which Pablo Müller writes: Two angled rolls of leather lying on top of each other are reminiscent of human limbs in their form and materiality. In this way, a performative quality of sculpture is hinted at in the works.[8] Hans Rudolf Reust says about a continuation of Joe, namely the work I thought it was impossible (2015): The separation between geometries and bodies, figuration and abstraction is completely dissolved in the emerging figurations of black round fabric snakes with partially skin-colored overlays. Like slightly schematized human bodies, they are familiar to us, until a small change of perspective abruptly tips them over into abstract lineatures.[9] A political reading is proposed by Thomas Haemmerli, who recalls the dismembered bodies present in the media of Mexico in the context of the civil war: The title I thought it was impossible then referred to cruelties that people do to each other - a diagnosis that applies today not only in Mexico, but globally in a world that has gone off the rails.
Ana Roldán, Truth, 2006, Wood, Lacquer, 105 × 56 × 36 cm
Roldán's interest in linguistics and the philosophy of language repeatedly leads to corresponding works. Exemplary is the sculpture Truth[10] from 2006, which depicts the lettering truth and its reflection in three dimensions. If one does not know that the word is mirrored at the center line, one cannot decipher it and, like children or illiterates, is thrown back on incomprehensible signs. Furthermore, the title of the work plays with the claim to truth that words claim for themselves. In a site-specific installation[11] for the headquarters of reinsurer Swiss Re, the terms Risk and Life become abstract chair backs. And in her multi-part bestiary,[12] Roldán works directly with texts,[13] and figures like the young curator and the female artist as beasts of the art world.
Exhibitionsedit
Single exhibition (selection)edit
2023: Tell Me What Red Is..., Instituto de Visión, New York City
Ana Roldán. Collection Cahier d'Artistes with an Essay of Burkhard Meltzer. Pro Helvetia / Edizioni Periferia, Luzern 2009, ISBN 978-3-907474-58-7 (PDF)
Matices del arte en América Latina Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo / Turner Libros, 2019 Madrid, ISBN 978-84-17866-03-7
Existiert die Schweiz? Lagebericht zur Schweizer Kunstszene der Gegenwart mit einem Ausflug zu Athene Galiciadis, David Renggli und Ana Roldán. Fanni Fetzer in: Gipfeltreffen. Junge Bildhauerei aus der Schweiz und aus Deutschland, Ausstellungskatalog, Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf.
Distant Memory edited by Kunstverein Solothurn, mit Texten von Fabienne Bideaud, Hélène Joye-Cagnard, Catherine Kohler, Sylvia Mutti, Marina Porobic und Roswitha Schild, Solothurn 2010.
Ana Roldán. Different Orders texts by Eveline Suter and Michael Pfister. Kunsthaus Langenthal, Langenthal 2011, ISBN 978-3-905817-33-1
Ana Roldán. Cocompositions, 2011, Editions Ready to Print, digital publication, Issue #11/2011
Blackboard – White Page, herausgegeben von Maud Châtelet und Ana Roldán, Zürich, 2014.
Interview von Rahel Beyerle mit Ana Roldán, 26. Dezember 2014, SIK-ISEA, Zürich, 2014.
2012 Beni Bischof, Manuel Burgener, Athene Galiciadis, Ana Roldán. Marianne Wagner. In: Madeleine Schuppli Catalouge: "La jeunesse est un art", Jubiläum Manor Kunstpreis, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau ISBN 978-3-906016-05-4.
contemporary art mexico Hossein Amirsadeghi, Thames & Hudson, 2015 London, ISBN 978-0-500970-64-5.
Ana Roldán – Die Moderne in Vanille, Hans Rudolf Reust in: Kunstbulletin 3, 2015.
Nuances of Latin American Art Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo, Turner, 2020 Madrid & Mexico, ISBN 978-84-17866-03-7.
External linksedit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Works by Ana Roldán.
Website of Ana Roldán
Video "Identity objects - Artist Ana Roldán", Swissinfo 22. December 2008
Instituto de visión, Ana Roldáns Galerie in Bogotá and New York City
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^Pablo León de la Barra. "Ana Roldán "Different Orders": Barragan meets Best Magaud in Bern". Blog Centre for the Aesthetic Revolution. Retrieved 23 March 2024.
^"Ana Roldán - Different Orders". annex14. Archived from the original on 20 February 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
^. edbprojects.com. Ellen de Bruijne Projects. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
^"Ana Roldán - As "The myth of the hole"". annex14.com. Archived from the original on 20 February 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2023.
^"Ana Roldán - Truth". annex14 (in German). Archived from the original on 22 February 2015.
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^ (in German). Bundesamt für Kultur. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015.
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Ana Roldan 1977 in Mexiko City is a mexican swiss artist Ana Roldan 2012 in madrid in front of a projection in her exhibition Espejo Negro Contents 1 Personal life 2 Career 3 Exhibitions 3 1 Single exhibition selection 3 2 Group exhibitions selection 4 Films 5 Recognition 6 Further reading 7 External links 8 ReferencesPersonal life editAna Roldan grew up in Mexiko City In the locksmith and carpentry shop of her father a small manufacturer she discovered her love of craftsmanship and designed furniture After training as a caterer she ran a restaurant then studied history at the Escuela Nacional de Antropologia e Historia She was so inspired by the work of Mexican performance artist Elvira Santamaria 1 that she began performing as a performance artist in Mexico City in the late 1990 In 2000 she moved to Switzerland and studied art at the Bern University of the Arts and linguistics at the University of Bern After that she devoted herself entirely to art In 2007 she won the City of Zurich s studio scholarship for China and worked in Kunming for a year After long stays in Sao Paulo and Mexico City Ana Roldan lives in Zurich Career edit nbsp 2023 Green holeAna Roldan s media are performances sculptures videos collages installations photography and group exhibitions that she curates Represented by galleries in Switzerland Madrid Mexico and in Colombia and the USA it is just as present in Latin America as in Europe Following Tropicalismo Helio Oiticicas Roldan often uses natural materials from Latin America such as coconuts 2 palm trees banana flowers 3 or jade Many works oscillate between the austerity of European modernism and the softer forms of Latin American modernism as seen in the work of the Mexican architect Luis Barragan findet to whom Roldan refers on various occasions 4 Thus the rectangles of modernity become crooked and crooked which Ana Roldan s work for Rio de Janeiro Coleccion de Especimenes de un Nuevo Mundo I 5 reconstructs with the poor natural material bamboo And instead of primary colors she uses the palette of Brazil s skin tones nbsp Ana Roldan Joe 2008 Leather Wood 29 100 45 cmRoldan s repertoire includes concrete objects that become abstract often minimalist art She folds state flags to create more complex abstract color images 6 7 Another recurring motif is anthropomorphic sculptures which she first shows in 2004 with the work Joe about which Pablo Muller writes Two angled rolls of leather lying on top of each other are reminiscent of human limbs in their form and materiality In this way a performative quality of sculpture is hinted at in the works 8 Hans Rudolf Reust says about a continuation of Joe namely the work I thought it was impossible 2015 The separation between geometries and bodies figuration and abstraction is completely dissolved in the emerging figurations of black round fabric snakes with partially skin colored overlays Like slightly schematized human bodies they are familiar to us until a small change of perspective abruptly tips them over into abstract lineatures 9 A political reading is proposed by Thomas Haemmerli who recalls the dismembered bodies present in the media of Mexico in the context of the civil war The title I thought it was impossible then referred to cruelties that people do to each other a diagnosis that applies today not only in Mexico but globally in a world that has gone off the rails nbsp Ana Roldan Truth 2006 Wood Lacquer 105 56 36 cmRoldan s interest in linguistics and the philosophy of language repeatedly leads to corresponding works Exemplary is the sculpture Truth 10 from 2006 which depicts the lettering truth and its reflection in three dimensions If one does not know that the word is mirrored at the center line one cannot decipher it and like children or illiterates is thrown back on incomprehensible signs Furthermore the title of the work plays with the claim to truth that words claim for themselves In a site specific installation 11 for the headquarters of reinsurer Swiss Re the terms Risk and Life become abstract chair backs And in her multi part bestiary 12 Roldan works directly with texts 13 and figures like the young curator and the female artist as beasts of the art world Exhibitions editSingle exhibition selection edit 2023 Tell Me What Red Is Instituto de Vision New York City 2022 Air annex 14 Zurich 14 2019 Physical Structures annex14 Zurich 2019 Clear Opacity Formato Comodo Madrid 2019 Material Art Fair Mexico Solo Booth Instituto de Vision 2018 Physical Structures Instituto de Vision Frieze London 2016 No annex14 Zurich 2015 Solo Projects Focus Latinoamerica with Instituto de Vision Bogota Arco Madrid 2015 Take Position Bodies and Plants annex14 Zurich 15 2013 Drunk High and Exhilaration Florian Christopher a show room Zurich 2012 Espejo Negro Formato Comodo Madrid 2011 Blank Back Mirror 16 Kunsthaus Langenthal Langenthal 2011 Different Orders 17 annex14 Bern 18 2011 Forms of contemplation ideal forms in compositions Badischer Kunstverein Karlsruhe 2010 Cococompositions Dolores Ellen de Brunije Projects Amsterdam curated by Karin Hasselberg 19 2009 Words to be looked at objects to be read Kunsthalle Arbon 2009 Picking holy words from the perfect ghost homage to James Lee Byars Kunstmuseum Bern 2009 As the Myth of the hole annex14 Bern 20 2008 Observations on Modernity and Form Statements Kunst Zurich art fair 2008 The Actor Art Palace World Trade Center Beijing China 2008 Dance steps Garash gallery Mexiko Stadt 2007 Comical Magical Musical Black Box Marks Blond Project Bern 2006 Truth annex14 Bern 21 2006 God is red Gott ist rot Amberg Marti Zurich 2006 Fable Espace Libre Biel 2005 Debut Marks Blond project Bern 2005 Kill the beast Yellow Submarine Marks Blond Projekt bei Mark Divo Hauser und wir Zurich 2005 The mountain and the ground Kunst in St Peter und Paul Bern 2004 The letter O Gallery Kunstkeller Bern 2002 All is like all Stadtgalerie Bern 2001 Silver gelatine Gallery Kabinett BernGroup exhibitions selection edit nbsp Enjoy the silence golden sphere 2015 cemetery Eichbuhl Zurich2020 Material Art Fair Mexico Instituto de Vision 2019 Fifth Ural Biennial kuratiert von Xiaoyu Weng 22 2019 Portadores de Sentido Museo Amparo Puebla Mexiko 23 2017 Espejo negro elefante blanco curated by Fabiola Iza Quarto de Maquinas Mexiko City 2017 I was a wall and my breasts were like fortress towers Adam and Ollman Portland USA 24 2016 New Buenos Aires Corner College Zurich curated by Damian Christinger Dimitrina Sevova co curated by Silvan Kalin 25 2015 The Lulennial A Slight Gestuary curated by Fabiola Iza amp Chris Sharp Mexiko Stadt 26 2014 Blackboard White Page Kantonsschule Oerlikon Zurich curated by Maud Chatelet und Ana Roldan 2013 LUPA curated by Abaseh Mirvali fur Art Rio Rio de Janeiro 2012 La jeunesse est un art Jubilaum Manor art price Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau 27 2012 Surplus Authors mit Falke Pisano curated by Defne Ayas and Philippe Pirotte Witte de With Rotterdam 2012 Popo de Paris curated by Beatriz Lopez for Sultana Paris 2011 Motiers Art en plein air 2011 Free Fall I with Dieter Meier Thomas Haemmerli Sitki Kosemen curated by Magda Guruli Georgian National Galery Tbilisi Georgia 28 2010 Distant Memories curated by Helene Joye Cagnard und Catherine Kohler Kunstmuseum Solothurn Solothurn 2010 Formal reiterations and the end of the world with Athene Galiciadis Garash Mexiko City 29 2009 Made in China Kunstmuseum Bern 30 2009 Turn on Tune in Drop Out 798 Beijing Biennale curated by Nicoykatiushka Beijing 2009 The Conspiracy Die Verschworung 31 with Falke Pisano Kunsthalle Bern 2008 Acting Joe George und Mr Seek 32 with Falke Pisano Wartesaal Zurich 2008 Mao Dupla Stopover curated by Evangelina Seiler and Sarah Zurcher SESC Pinheiros Sao Paulo 2004 Es war einmal Kunstmuseum Thun Thun 33 2004 Identitat Kunstraum Baden 34 Films edit2016 Bones and Bananas 35 2015 Dialog 2011 How to do Shakespeare 2008 Construction concerned with the relationship between dissimilar emotional values in a composition with black and white 36 2003 Flags 2002 Fortschritt 2001 Silver GelatineRecognition edit nbsp Ana Roldan Vanilla Overseas 2016 Silk 100 100 cm Installation view at Corner College Zurich Switzerland 2017 Competition art on building for the island Rheinau Structural engineering office of the Canton of Zurich Switzerland 2010 Work contribution of the Canton of Zurich Switzerland for Blank Black Mirror 2009 Work scholarship of the City of Zurich Switzerland 2007 Work contribution of the Canton of Zurich 2007 Studio scholarship of the city of Zurich in Kunming China 2006 Swiss Art Award 2005 Swiss Art Award 37 2003 Corti Aeschliman Stiftung scholarshipFurther reading editAna Roldan Collection Cahier d Artistes with an Essay of Burkhard Meltzer Pro Helvetia Edizioni Periferia Luzern 2009 ISBN 978 3 907474 58 7 PDF Matices del arte en America Latina Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo Turner Libros 2019 Madrid ISBN 978 84 17866 03 7 Existiert die Schweiz Lagebericht zur Schweizer Kunstszene der Gegenwart mit einem Ausflug zu Athene Galiciadis David Renggli und Ana Roldan Fanni Fetzer in Gipfeltreffen Junge Bildhauerei aus der Schweiz und aus Deutschland Ausstellungskatalog Kunst im Tunnel Dusseldorf Distant Memory edited by Kunstverein Solothurn mit Texten von Fabienne Bideaud Helene Joye Cagnard Catherine Kohler Sylvia Mutti Marina Porobic und Roswitha Schild Solothurn 2010 Ana Roldan Different Orders texts by Eveline Suter and Michael Pfister Kunsthaus Langenthal Langenthal 2011 ISBN 978 3 905817 33 1 Ana Roldan Cocompositions 2011 Editions Ready to Print digital publication Issue 11 2011 Blackboard White Page herausgegeben von Maud Chatelet und Ana Roldan Zurich 2014 Interview von Rahel Beyerle mit Ana Roldan 26 Dezember 2014 SIK ISEA Zurich 2014 2012 Beni Bischof Manuel Burgener Athene Galiciadis Ana Roldan Marianne Wagner In Madeleine Schuppli Catalouge La jeunesse est un art Jubilaum Manor Kunstpreis Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau ISBN 978 3 906016 05 4 contemporary art mexico Hossein Amirsadeghi Thames amp Hudson 2015 London ISBN 978 0 500970 64 5 Ana Roldan Die Moderne in Vanille Hans Rudolf Reust in Kunstbulletin 3 2015 Nuances of Latin American Art Andrea Hinteregger De Mayo Turner 2020 Madrid amp Mexico ISBN 978 84 17866 03 7 External links edit nbsp Wikimedia Commons has media related to Works by Ana Roldan Website of Ana Roldan Video Identity objects Artist Ana Roldan Swissinfo 22 December 2008 Instituto de vision Ana Roldans Galerie in Bogota and New York City annex14 Ana Roldans Galerie in Zurich Formato Comodo Ana Roldans Galerie in Madrid SIK Art Lexikon Entry von Ana Roldan Ana Roldan at IMDbReferences edit Seit die Krise da ist lauft es besser Der Bund in German Retrieved 2023 05 05 Primitive Arrangements decorated with Gold Leaf Archived from the original on 14 October 2012 Retrieved 17 February 2015 Installation with Banana flower and glass table Archived from the original on 1 February 2015 Retrieved 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