Adrián Caldera

The Confluence of Extremes

* Zulma Y. Mendez

Translation: Gabriela Pascual

To photograph is to create and recreate the world as the artist has imagined and / or desired to be. In essence, this is the last task in which the border artist Adrián Caldera is engaged. A task, which would remain if the search routine in which Caldera is involved remain within the confines aesthetic.

However, the interpretation / representation of reality Caldera is well reflected the concern of the artist marginality, social and cultural subjects and spaces, which are central to its present production. Marginalization, which he recognizes as his own. Possessing an unusual ability to manage and manipulate media and alternative elements to produce picture. Caldera comments on each piece about the limited social context from which arises their production.

Inhabitant of a place of contrasts, Juarez, a Mexican city along the US-Mexico border. Caldera portrays the use of a pinhole camera (Caldercam) his fascination with the ambiguity and tension. In this sense, urban space that he represents is inserted into a past that never fades and no further refuses to receive the present, past imperfect.

Thus, in his work in the urban landscape of Juarez Caldera imagine a city that oscillates between the old and new, the provincial and the cosmopolitan. Decline and completion. However, these points are just devices that make the junction, a central concern in the artist's work. Moreover, as these poles represented in what is in the Caldera photography, they construct and reconstruct the identity of space and the subjects who populate Juárez.

Undoubtedly, this Adrián Caldera is a clear spirit of inquiry, which is unusual in the local photographic scene. His caldergramas, as he called them, they incorporate the same techniques used to produce frames but with the innovations added to Caldera, which give different effects to work. While the issues he represents are consistent with his previous picture, is the latest production of Caldera which is more intimate and has a change in his address to a socio-documentary artistic experience at this point in its production seems to privilege form.

* Zulma Y. Mendez is a sociologist of Juarez, Mexico / El Paso region

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Gabriela Pascual is a graduate of Systems Engineering Technology

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