Installation
shot of Chemi Rosado-Seijo 's Untitled #1 (2017)
from the series: One Thousand
Four Hundred and Seventy One Rides (2017)
Photo: Raquel Pérez Puig and courtesy
of Embajada Gallery
The Pérez
Art Museum Miami (Pamm) has acquired a large work on masonite by the Puerto
Rican artist Chemi Rosado-Seijo of tracks left by skateboards from the Nada
fair . Untitled #1 (2017) is from the artist’s series One Thousand Four Hundred
and Seventy One Rides. The purchase, from the San Juan gallery Embajada, was
made possible by the Nada acquisition gift fund for Pamm, which the fair’s
organisers launched this year. “We are very excited for the partnership with
Nada, and even more delighted to acquire Chemi’s work—an artist we have been
following for a long time. It was a unanimous decision,” says María Elena
Ortiz, a curator at Pamm.
History on
Wheels (1999-Present), consisting of works inspired by his ongoing engagement
with skateboarding. Chemi began skateboarding as a teen and upon entering art
school he quickly drew parallels between what he was learning in art history courses,
architecture history lessons, and his skateboarding practice; an investigation
that developed into the oeuvre which continues today. A series of masonite
skate ramps and canvases will be on view, their surfaces exposing the scratches
made through its use, evoking aesthetics of abstract expressionism.
One Thousand Four Hundred and Seventy One Rides, 2017, installation view at Embajada
Also, on
view will be a selection of Rosado-Seijo’s books on wheels sculptures made with
books relating to art theory, history, politics, and economics mounted with
skateboard wheels to the back covers echoing a theoretical and visual analogy
between art, knowledge and skateboarding's history. Each book on wheels
contains interventions of stickers, inserts, and provocative plays with the
text, making each one of them a unique work and artist book.
Born in
Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, Chemi Rosado-Seijo graduated from the painting
department of the Puerto Rico School of Visual Arts in 1997. In 2000, Rosado
had his first solo show at the Joan Miró Foundation in Barcelona. He
inaugurated the ongoing project El Cerro in 2002, working with residents of the
El Cerro community, to present public art projects, workshops and other
community initiatives. Seijo has participated in numerous exhibitions and
biennials including The Whitney Biennial (2017, 2002), Havana (2015), and
Pontevedra (2010), Prague (2005). In 2011 he received the Joan Mitchell
Foundation grant, in 2013 he participated in the Creative Time Summit with a
presentation on his socially engaged practice, and in May of 2015, Rosado-Seijo
was granted The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Artist as Activist Fellowship
for El Cerro, honoring artists pursuing ambitious creative projects with a
social purpose.
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