Author: Rodrigo Valenzuela; Carmen Winant; Matthew Schum; Christian Viveros-Faune; Sharon Mizota
Title: Rodrigo Valenzuela, Journeyman
Description: Milan, Italy, Mousse Publishing, 2020. Hardcover. Hardcover with exposed spine sown in signatures and a halftone reproduction on front. 333 pp, generously illustrated with color reproductions. Text is in English. Contents as follows: Foreword / Carmen Winant -- Picturing ruin / Matthew Schum -- Journeyman -- Auratic workers -- Worker -- Here -- Still life -- The builder -- Going somewhere -- No place to start -- Esperando -- The picture builder: an interview with Rodrigo Valenzuela / Christian Viveros-Fauné -- Diamond box -- Goalkeepers -- Maria TV -- Civic duties -- Masks -- General song -- Barricades -- Prole -- Prole flages -- The unwaged -- Trophy room -- Sin héroes -- Animitas -- Instituciones : Future ruins ; Hedonic reversal -- El Sisifo -- Tertiary -- Ghost towns / Sharon Mizota -- Marginalia -- Zabriskie Point ; Work in its place -- American type -- Stature -- Journeyman/Stature. Abstract as follows: In all his work, Rodrigo Valenzuela positions contemporary art as an uprooting of superficial politics. If picturing ruins is as old as photography, then its many incarnations across the political spectrum are a starting point for the artist. Much of Valenzuela's work calls attention to photography?s affinity with destruction. It is a documentary mode and an embodied experience. The picturing of ruins is drawn out and contextualized in this first comprehensive catalogue of Valenzuela's Los Angeles-based studio artwork and photography. VG+ .

Keywords: Latin American Artists ; Valenzuela, Rodrigo ; ;