Enrique Figueredo:
Sigue Pasando Por Aquí
Zane Bennett Contemporary Art | March 2023
Sigue Pasando Por Aquí surveys recent works by Austin-based printmaker and educator Enrique Figueredo. Born in Venezuela and raised in the United States, Figueredo explores complicated notions of alienation and belonging in an image-saturated culture through experiments in relief printmaking and immersive installation. "The show is a literal and conceptual centrifuge, tumbling together complex experiences of timekeeping, placemaking, globalization and hybridization," says Gallery Director Jordan Eddy.
Anchoring the exhibition is a 15-foot zoetrope machine depicting idiosyncratic experiences of Caracas, Venezuela via rotating woodcut landscapes. This dizzying exploration of history and place continues through Figueredo's latest series of prints that examine the legacy of Spanish colonialism through imagery of mission churches and rubbings of conquest-era graffiti. From an immersive, moving apparatus to the double-sided griffins that serve as sentries and reference older cultural confluences, Sigue Pasando Por Aquí pushes the boundaries of contemporary 2D and 3D methods of art making.
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“Enrique Figueredo was on the trail, far from his studio, when he made one of the great discoveries of his life. Several years ago, the printmaker was hiking at El Morro National Monument, about 180 miles southwest of Santa Fe, when a park ranger hailed his attention.”
-Spencer Fordin, Pasatiempo
My contributions: Curatorial
Artwork: Enrique Figueredo
Photography: Marylene Mey & Byron Flesher
Marketing Writing: Delaney Hoffman