Personal information

Javier Rodriguez was born in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1975 and studied at the Federico Brandt Art School, Caracas. He has lived in New York and Tel Aviv, and currently alternates between London and Berlin.
He has exhibited internationally at galleries and fairs including Galeria Fernando Zubillaga, Galeria Minotauro, Iberoamerican Art Fair (FIA), Caracas, Art Miami, Espace Meyer Zafra, Paris, The Mayfair Arts Club, 3 Fournier Street and 20 Hoxton Square, London.
He recently took 1st place in the City of Caracas Municipal Art Prize and was commissioned by Kings College, London, to create ‘Malinconia’, a one-off piece exploring the subject of depression.
He also has collaborated with Los Flamencos no Comen, an international Art review based in Berlin.

MELANCHOLIAE ANATOMEN







"Birth of Venus" (diptych)
Collage on paper. 2007. 32cm x 22cm (each)







"The stranger within" collage on paper. 2007. 60cm x 48cm








"La Mort de Dieu" collage on paper. 2007. 30cm x 20cm












"Pantin" Collage on paper. 2007. 35cm x 29cm









"Philautia" Collage on paper 2007. 60cm x 48cm









"Remorse" Collage on paper. 2007. 25cm x 19cm









"Love Enduring Beyond Death"
Collage on board. 2007. 32cm x 23cm
















"Morimur" Collage on board. 2007. 35cm x 28cm (each)








"Irresolution" Collage on paper. 2007. 49cm x 35cm









"By this one passion is my mind consumed"
Collage on paper. 2007. 60cm x 48 cm









"On mourning" Collage on paper. 2007. 25cm x 35cm








"Sequentia" Collage on paper. 2007. 40cm x 60cm








"Folia Moralis" Collage on paper. 2007. 45cm x 22cm









"Concupiscible Apettite" Collage on paper. 2007. 34cm x 25cm








"On Rupture of the Heart from Mental Emotion"
Collage on board. 2007. 50cm x 38cm










"Malinconia" Collage on paper. 2006. 34cm x 22cm








"Acedia" Collage on paper. 2007 . 35cm x 22cm








"The Winds & Waves that Waft to Love"
Collage on paper. 2007. 40cm x 25cm












"Unknowable, Unmentionable, Non-beings"
Collage on paper. 2007. 34cm x 25cm (each)









"Splendid Torment" Collage on paper. 2007. 35cm x 24cm








"Blind Love of Self" Collage on paper. 2007. 35cm x 28cm









"Vanita" Collage on paper. 2007. 40cm x 20cm








"Creation of man" Collage on paper. 2007. 35cm x 25cm







"The great confinement" Collage on paper. 2007. 50cm x 40cm








"Portrait of a young man" Collage on paper. 2007. 50cm x 40cm








"I must be slain" Collage on paper. 2007. 45cm x 35 cm







RECURRENCE




"Syneidesis" Collage on board. 2007. 50cm x 45cm







"Dissimilar parts" Collage on paper. 2007. 30cm x 50cm







"On memory and loss" Collage on paper. 2007. 30cm x 50cm








BOOK WORKS


















































































































































"7 Forms" book-construction,collage and mixed-media.
2005 40cm x 30cm(each)



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"The origins of all things"
Book-construction, collage, embossed paper. 2004 45cm x 35cm