Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada

<div>This wall is curated by Mathgoth Gallery&nbsp;<br><br>Update 21/07/2022</div>

Jorge Gerada wall Paris 13

Byte the candy

Jorge Rodriguez Gerrada

<div><strong>&nbsp;Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada </strong><br>This was one of the projects that came to me through a contact of a friend where these people were looking for an artist that was already working on social themes and could do a very, very large scale piece. The fact that the project was based on child labor and child slavery was something that was actually very, very important to me. It’s the kind of project that I want to be involved in, so I was very excited with that. I wanted to find a way where I can do multiple layers of children and I figured that the best way to do this was to do a portrait that was so large that the eyes would give an iris area (that would be about 1,5 metres, 6 feet from side to side) to be able to paint within the iris the images of other children . So, we have this one child which is a white caucasian child and then we have other children from the 3rd world who were actually photographed in the moment when they were rescued. So, we have different layers to this situation. We have one child who is probably safe, but there’s actually child trafficking going on in NY city as we speak. We can’t assume that it’s just a problem from somewhere else, there’s also a problem in our own backyards. I think that’s how the final design came. The idea of the green, the grass and the flowers is this uthopic idea of what childhood should be and the fact that this isn’t always the case. And I like the fact that was a juxtaposition to the concrete jungle, to all the brick and cement in the city <br><br><strong>Funny anecdote:<br></strong>One evening when the artist's lift failed and he was stuck high he was rescued by a fire brigade patrol who reacted on a false alarm. If they weren't there Jorge was stuck up there for a long cold night</div>

Reflection 

<div><strong>Buenos Aires – 2015</strong></div><div>David is an 11 year old child studying at the Isauro Arancibia Education Center, located at 1318 Paseo Colón, in the San Telmo district of Buenos Aires, where two hundred children and youth who live on the streets or are in danger of becoming homeless attend kindergarden, elementary school and primary studies for adults. Knowing that no child would learn on an empty stomach the school also offers food to the students.</div><div>This institution was threatened by possible demolition to build the trace of the Metrobus that will pass through the area. The building, which still serves young people in marginal situation, has no heat and no maintenance tasks are performed by the State due to the new urban planning.</div><div>Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada made this mural to help visualize the problems of this School. Please give your support to help found the school to prevent more children to be on the streets, please contact the Centre. To make this mural Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada he had the support of friends Res Nonverba, a producer of art in Buenos Aires, Argentina who made a documentary record of the development of the work.<br>Source: <a href="https://gerada-art.com/project/david/">Official Gerada Art Website</a></div><div><br>Yo can check a documentarie of the making process of the wall <a href="https://vimeo.com/144583780">HERE</a></div>

David

<div>Gerada portrays a child who is looking at the world through the symbol of the ‘play’ button. The tones that run across the face encompass many skin tones to depict the universal effects of social media, its algorithms and viral video. My goal with this mural is to talk about how children are seeing this world through a mobile phone from such a young age, as it becomes more evident that parents use the screen as a new pacifier, without considering the effects on a young developing mind. The piece invites us to reflect on this phenomenon and its impact on society.</div>

Outsight

<div>&nbsp;At the center of the eye is Planet Earth, with the Amazon as the pupil and Chile clearly visible as a homage to the official COP25 host country. “Forest Focus” alludes to the eye symbol of Goal 13 for Climate Action with the image of the world as the iris. This mural has an artistic focal point that symbolize the values set forth at the COP25 conference being held in Madrid.”&nbsp;</div>

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