FELIPE DEL ÁGUILA – ‘Connection-Disconnection’
Location: WORM S/ash Gallery – Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam
Free entrance | Opening times:
Sat. 28.10, 18:00 – 02:00
Sun. 29.10, 13:00 – 17:00 (to be confirmed)
Mon. 30.10, 10:00 – 14:00
Tue. 31.10, 10:00 – 14:00
Wed. 01.11, 10:00 – 14:00
Want to visit the gallery later during the day? Make an appointment: info@worm.org, subject: visit expo Felipe Del Aguila. The artist himself will only be present during the opening on October 28th during Aloardi Festival – ‘Peruvian New Music and Arts’. FB event | FB Aloardi
See here the trailer!
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- Photo by Max van Dongen.
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- Photo by Max van Dongen.
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- Photo by Max van Dongen.
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- Photo by Max van Dongen.
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- Photo by Max van Dongen.
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- Photo by Max van Dongen.
FELIPE DEL ÁGUILA ‘Connection-Disconnection’
Bottle of mine, it’s you I’ve always wanted!
Bottle of mine, why was I ever decanted?
Skies are blue inside of you
The weather’s always fine;
For
There ain’t no Bottle in all the world
Like that dear little Bottle of mine.
‘Brave New World’, Aldous Huxley
Image: ‘El jardín de las delicias’ (‘The Garden of Delights’), painting-collage.
Photos by Ines Inico.
To mark Aloardi’s 19th anniversary, visual artist Felipe Del Águila (Lima, 1974) has been granted an artist-in-residency as part of the Aloardi Exchange Programme 2017. His solo exhibition, ‘Connection-Disconnection’ will conclude this residency. Felipe’s work often seeks a balance between art and activism. He will immerse himself within the context of Rotterdam, in order to understand and ‘hack’ the local dynamic.
He mainly works with performative interventions in the urban public space, collecting found materials and trash, using language and text within a social-critical approach. Growing up in the Piñonate district in Lima, located close to busy street markets, Felipe was inspired by the constant appropriation of public space within Peruvian cities in relation to street commerce something that is practised in Peru mostly by people with lower incomes. Since the mid-90’s he has been designing independent publications on the alternative circuit, with the publication studio Contenidos Mutantes. In 2001 he joined the Aloardi collective and remained one of its core members until 2009. Currently Del Águila runs his communication studio, AIRE COMMUNICACIONES.
ABOUT ALOARDI
Aloardi, one of the first labels and independent platforms in South and Central America, started in 1998 diffusing and producing experimental music, audiovisual art, sound related interventions, internet radio broadcasts and alternative acoustic research. Based in Lima Peru, Aloardis headquarters serves as venue for workshops, a residency programme, and a mediatheque.
Felipe del Aguila’s work is made during the artist-in-residency of the Aloardi Exchange Programme 2017, supported by City of Rotterdam, WORM, Idraola and CBK Rotterdam (Centre for Visual Arts Rotterdam). Thanks to ‘Residency … at the Waterfront – International Residency Program: State of the City#3 Rotterdam’ and galerie Gallery.
