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Since the early 1990s, Ruben Gutierrez's work has revolved around the creation of a conceptually-based sociopolitical series of drawings, paintings, digital images, videos and interventions in public spaces. Using this as a point of departure, he began working with text on images, employing these texts to provide clues to content and interpretation.

In his work, Ruben Gutierrez appropriates and deconstructs movies, television shows, texts, political discourses and the information of mass media and the entertainment industry that pervades his enviroment. His work also addresses human loneliness, mental conversations, the fragility of family dynamics, urban/border violence, social instability, repetition of history, economical crisis, the search for meaning and other matters related to Latin American societies. He usually works on several bodies of work concurrently using many kinds of media; these various bodies of work inform and cross pollinate one another.

Ruben's show for Yautepec consists of the exhibition of a video and a series of monumental drawings that play with the facts and fictions around the decline of human civilization. Through these documents, the spectator will be immersed in a narrative about deception, chaos, love, sadness and violence.

Desde principios de los noventas el trabajo de Rubén Gutierrez ha girado en torno a la creación de series de dibujos, pinturas, imágenes digitales, videos e intervenciones en espacios públicos basados en conceptos sociopolíticos. Utilizando esto como punto de partida, comenzó a trabajar con textos sobre imágenes, usándolos como pistas de contenido e interpretación.

En su trabajo, Gutierrez se apropia y deconstruye películas, programas de televisión, textos, discursos políticos así como información que prevalece gracias a los medios masivos de comunicación y la industria del entretenimiento. Su obra también revisa temas como la soledad humana, las conversaciones mentales, la fragilidad de la dinámica familiar, la crísis de la urbe y la frontera, la inestabilidad social, la repetición de la historia, las crísis económicas, la búsqueda de significado y otras cuestiones relacionadas con las sociedades Latinoamericanas. Su trabajo es multidisciplinario y generalmente trabaja en varios grupos de obra que se sobreponen unos a otros.

La exposición titulada "To Crumble the Crust of this Damn Planet Earth" muestra un video y una serie de dibujos monumentales que juegan con los hechos y las ficciones alrededor del hundimiento de la civilización humana. A través de estos documentos, los espectadores estarán inmersos en una narrativa de decepción, caos, amor, tristeza y violencia.

  • Hopeless in the Bath of Fire. Video. 2008.
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  • Madness (Star Wars version). Video. 2008.
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  • Upset the Order. Pencil on paper. 2008.
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  • To Crumble the Crust of This Damned Planet Earth. Pencil on Paper. 2008.
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  • Cage of Fear. Pencil on paper. 2008.
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  • After Armageddon. Video. 2007-?.
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  • After Armageddon (still). Video. 2007-?.
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Upcoming Exhibitions

Coming soon.

Past Exhibitions

Oil on Canvas

Gretel Joffroy

21 Feb 2013 - 30 Mar 2013

YAUTEPEC DF

ALAC Solo Projects: Ryan Perez

24 Jan 2013 - 27 Jan 2013

The Barker Hangar
Santa Monica, CA

NO/EXPO

Ciler, Anibal Catalan, Ramiro Chaves, Natalia Ibañez Lario, Gretel Joffroy, Annie Lapin, Txema Novelo, Ryan Perez, Joaquin Segura, Marion Sosa, Misael Torres

13 Dec 2012 - 16 Dec 2012

GUANAJUATO 84 COLONIA ROMA

Find Finding ing

Annie Lapin

13 Sep 2012 - 20 Oct 2012

YAUTEPEC DF

De ida y vuelta: un paseo por las artes plásticas y visuales

Calixto Ramírez

30 Aug 2012

YAUTEPEC DF

Don't Say Goodnight

Ryan Perez

28 Jun 2012 - 11 Aug 2012

YAUTEPEC DF

Sergio Bromberg

14 Jun 2012 - 15 Jun 2012

YAUTEPEC DF

A Brief History of Breakdown

Joaquin Segura

18 Apr 2012 - 02 Jun 2012

YAUTEPEC DF

Supremat

Anibal Catalan

01 Mar 2012 - 07 Apr 2012

YAUTEPEC

HEY MAN / AMEN

Txema Novelo

17 Nov 2011 - 04 Feb 2012

YAUTEPEC DF

Huele a Muerto

Alexis Mata ("Ciler")

03 Nov 2011 - 12 Nov 2011

COLIMA 174

shotgun and targets

Robert Lazzarini

08 Sep 2011 - 22 Oct 2011

YAUTEPEC DF

RAT PISS VIRUS GIVE IT TO ME

Justin Bochek, Rachel De Joode, Dosha Devastation, Cédric Fargues, Radamés “Juni” Figueroa, Parker Ito, Jeffrey Joyal, Martin Kohout, Duncan Malashock, Carlos Laszlo, Ilia Ovechkin, Artie Vierkant

21 Jul 2011 - 20 Aug 2011

YAUTEPEC DF

Pacific Theatre

Conrad Ruiz

19 May 2011 - 18 Jun 2011

YAUTEPEC DF

Replicant Memories

Alexis Mata (Ciler)

02 Apr 2011 - 30 Apr 2011

YAUTEPEC DF

The Philosophy of Misery

Tony Garifalakis

20 Jan 2011 - 26 Feb 2011

YAUTEPEC DF

Come Clean

Mallinali Rubalcaba

11 Nov 2010 - 11 Dec 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

God For Bid

Ximena Labra

30 Sep 2010 - 23 Oct 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

"X"

Gretel Joffroy

12 Aug 2010 - 11 Sep 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

Deep Cuts

Marion Sosa

01 Jul 2010 - 31 Jul 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

HYPER SHOW

Misael Torres

20 May 2010 - 19 Jun 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

Pickle and Purl

Daniela Edburg

08 Apr 2010 - 08 May 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

Deceive, Inveigle & Obfuscate

Joaquin Segura

27 Feb 2010 - 27 Mar 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

SHOOT

Thomas Jeppe, Jason Nocito, Ola Rindal, Paul Schiek

16 Jan 2010 - 13 Feb 2010

YAUTEPEC DF

Asesinos

Artemio, Ruben Gutierrez, Ximena Labra, Mark Powell, Joaquin Segura, Marion Sosa

11 Dec 2009 - 15 Jan 2010

Live With Animals Gallery
210 Kent Ave.
Brooklyn, NY 11211

Dysfunctional Fun

Abe Atri

05 Nov 2009 - 23 Jan 2010

E/S/P @ DRGN (Merida 109)

Inferno

Bijoux Altamirano, Artemio, Diann Bauer, Micah Ganske, Christopher Garrett, Evan Gruzis, Rubén Gutiérrez, Selena Kimball, Robert Lazzarini, Enrique Marty, Kembra Pfahler, Fay Ray, Colette Robbins

31 Oct 2009 - 19 Dec 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

The Gods We Are

Raul De Nieves, Cameron Michel, Rachel Nelson, Micki Pellerano, Vashti Windish, Eric Z

27 Aug 2009 - 26 Sep 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

Gesamtkunstwerk

Artemio

23 Jul 2009 - 15 Aug 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

CHPPDNSCRWD

Los Mediáticos, Joe DeNardo, Sam Ott, Leo Marz, Hazel Hill, Lázaro Valiente, Fat Mariachi, Daniel Habif, Taquitojocoque

18 Jun 2009 - 18 Jul 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

Glass Tower

Christopher Culver

16 May 2009 - 11 Jun 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

I Don't Do Crowds

Nini Blancq-Cazaux

23 Apr 2009 - 24 May 2009

E/S/P @ Gulie (Tamaulipas 45)

There's Nothing You Can Do That Can't Be Done

Ichiro Irie

09 Apr 2009 - 26 Apr 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

Home of the Brave

Mark Powell

26 Feb 2009 - 28 Mar 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

Noah Sheldon: Portrait Studio

Noah Sheldon

22 Jan 2009 - 14 Feb 2009

YAUTEPEC DF

Mummy Dearest

Marion Sosa

13 Nov 2008 - 13 Dec 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

Long Live the New Flesh

Ruben Gutierrez

18 Oct 2008

Videodromo (Monterrey, MX)

Death in the Open

Tatiana Musi

07 Oct 2008 - 01 Nov 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

To Crumble The Crust of This Damned Planet Earth

Rubén Gutierrez

03 Sep 2008 - 25 Sep 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

Candy

Moli Moli, Emily Ryan

31 Jul 2008 - 23 Aug 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

Tomorrow is a Highway, Fuck Your Sunset

Peter Hurley, Morgan Manduley

03 Jul 2008 - 24 Jul 2008

YAUTPEC DF

Stock Show

Metapong

28 May 2008 - 21 Jun 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

House as Speaking Organ

Daniel Perlin

08 May 2008 - 22 May 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

Lone Rider

Jorge Castellanos

17 Apr 2008 - 03 May 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

LIBR3

Colectivo E3

06 Mar 2008 - 05 Apr 2008

YAUTEPEC DF

Ashley Macomber

Ashley Macomber

17 Jan 2008 - 16 Feb 2008

YAUTEPEC DF