Carlos Rodal

He received his training from painters and architects in his native city, including his father by profession architect. 197-1981 Travels through Mexico focused in the popular architecture, art, handicraft, and Colonial period and Pre-Columbian civilizations. During the 80s and 90s traveled extensively in Europe, studying its art history, architecture and culture. Since 1997 he keeps studios both in New York City and Guadalajara, Mexico. In 1980 met architect Luis Barragán (Pritzker Prize),…See all

He received his training from painters and architects in his native city, including his father by profession architect. 197-1981 Travels through Mexico focused in the popular architecture, art, handicraft, and Colonial period and Pre-Columbian civilizations. During the 80s and 90s traveled extensively in Europe, studying its art history, architecture and culture. Since 1997 he keeps studios both in New York City and Guadalajara, Mexico. In 1980 met architect Luis Barragán (Pritzker Prize), and in 1986 the painter and sculptor Juan Soriano, with whom establishes friendship. They like their parents and his mentor architect Ignacio Díaz-Morales, have been inspiration in their life and artistic activity His work can be recognized for its brightly-colored and synthesized compositions, abstract and figurative, characterized for their celebration and praise of life. He is located in a contemporary global/local culture, incorporating the expressions of both native and distant civilizations, past and present, with a deep connection to the roots of millenarian societies. Since young, Mr. Rodal has approached the execution of his art as his life’s calling, which has driven him to use the “corpus” of his work as a way of expressing his personal visions, that come as a result of observation, thought, intuition, the subconscious, and imagination. One of his motivations has been to push the structure and systems of the visual arts language to their very limits, in harmony with the transfiguration of formal elements. He had lived in Guadalajara Jalisco, Ciudad de Mexico, Monterrey, Nuevo Leon, Comala, Colima, New York City and Paris. Rodal´s work has been exhibited in the four continents. His works is included in public and private collections, among others, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Pinacoteca y Universidad de Colima, Universidad de Colima,Colima, Universidad ITESO Guadalajara, Grupo Vitro, Grupo Cemex, Grupo Alfa, Monterrey, NL, Fundación Hermes, Paris, Museo Claudio Jimenez Vizcarra, Museo de las Artes de la Universidad de Guadalajara, Lalit Kala Akademy, Nueva Delhi, Universidad de Nueva York, NY, Sarl Edelestein Conseil, Paris, Secretaría de Administración Tributaria, Financiera de Occidente, Guadalajara.See less