Catalina Aranguren’s work is a dialogue about the modern world and our place in it. Light is the foundation and sets the tone of the conversation. Because of the diversity of cultures in which she grew up, her work explores the relationship between perception and cognition. The idea of the “perceived” and the “actual” are rapidly shifting cultural concepts, though their ability to elicit reactions of fondness or fear remains a constant. As an artist she has the unique opportunity to exemplify, subvert, and redefine these concepts, adding her voice to a dialogue between the viewer and their history.

Catalina Aranguren’s work is a dialogue about the modern world and our place in it. Light is the foundation and sets the tone of the conversation. Because of the diversity of cultures in which she grew up, her work explores the relationship between perception and cognition. The idea of the “perceived” and the “actual” are rapidly shifting cultural concepts, though their ability to elicit reactions of fondness or fear remains a constant. As an artist she has the unique opportunity to exemplify, subvert, and redefine these concepts, adding her voice to a dialogue between the viewer and their history.

Catalina Aranguren’s work is a dialogue about the modern world and our place in it. Light is the foundation and sets the tone of the conversation. Because of the diversity of cultures in which she grew up, her work explores the relationship between perception and cognition. The idea of the “perceived” and the “actual” are rapidly shifting cultural concepts, though their ability to elicit reactions of fondness or fear remains a constant. As an artist she has the unique opportunity to exemplify, subvert, and redefine these concepts, adding her voice to a dialogue between the viewer and their history.

The Print „Rana #1“ is part of the „Rana Series #1—5. This series contains five prints. These series is part of the project called „Evolution Of Shape“. This project is an artistic visual research by Bollo. It is a collection of forms, shapes, objects, visual experiments, random stuff, accidents and visual spectacle.
„Rana #1“ is a risography print, designed in three layered colors: blue, bright red and fluorescent pink.

As a taxonomy research, Pauline observes and collects hundreds of hematomas pictures of her own and foreign bodies. The colors, the lifetime’s transformation, and the imperceivable characteristics of bruises are the fascination of the project.
She recontextualizes them and transmits us a new perception, by exhibiting them as tangible objects printed with Risograph and Silkscreen. These print techniques are bringing color intensity, depth and unexpected outcomes. In addition, the four-color printing on latex, the layer’s superposition of the printing process remind the reaction of the body after a shock.

Compositions with lines that stand free in the pictorial space. These are painted on the back of a completely polyester fabric with white and then in the neon colours red, yellow and blue. The lines seem to float freely in the air. The viewer perceives the colours on the back only as reflection. The view of the colour is completely denied. As if out of themselves, the lines shine and reflect light from apparently unknown origins. The white lines become a light source. The neon pigmentation – neon pigments are larger than other colour pigments and therefore create a real inherent luminosity in the room – form an additional illusory space, which opens up a further level of objecthood.

A bucket list is what we still want to do in life. My list is too long yet not refined, and some items are too personal to share or might change. That’s why the type is destructed and obscured, except for the very top: ‘new work.’ With the silkscreen printing process, I created a vibrant bright green by overprinting a blue with yellow.
This print is the second poster in a series of 12×12″ silkscreen printed typography posters that will be released, similar to a vinyl EP. The fonts and posters will have several variations like remixes. I am always interested in inviting other visual artists to remix a design just like musicians do. This print is the start.

The well-known Swiss author Franz Hohler has written a play for the Bernhard Theatre in Zurich entitled “ÖV” (= public transport). Anyone familiar with Zurich’s main means of transport – the tram – will immediately notice that all the colors of the tram lines have been included in the campaign. Each tram number has its own color. The one or two-digit number is in Helvetica, just like the word “ÖV”.

It was essential that the design of the book be sympathetic to the work of this contemporary artist. The halftone dot was chosen as an approach for the cover as this technique has been one constant in the artist’s multifaceted career. The yellow color sleeve was incorporated as a way to reference the many layers in this artist’s practice, and the use of one of the Chorus faces on the cover was a humorous nod to the visitor experience. A spot-UV varnish was used on the cover to give the image a three-dimensional quality similar to his works.

“Clear formal language, high contrasts and always trying to put as little as possible but as much as necessary on paper. Every line and every surface has its home. Sometimes they meet – by chance – other times they face or repel each other. Colours can further support or break these situations. The most difficult thing is to recognise and force these interactions. This is not always successful, but when such a moment arises, it is like a rush. “

This is a detail of a construction that layers found and generated print materials, randomly revealing elements through hand die cutting.

Illuminations sind eine Serie abstrakter Bilder, Malerei in Öl bzw. Fotografien.
Der Ausgangspunkt der fortlaufenden Bilderreihe ist ein fotografischer. Bereits der Titel Illuminations verweist auf deren Ursprung: Licht, Beleuchtung, Inszenierung, Feier, – auf in Licht-setzung. Abstrakte Lichtspiele mit einem realem Hintergrund aus dem urbanen Leben .

The ‘Emergent’ series begins where a separation between elements ends. The formal transitions occurring to blend the feminine and curvilinear subjects reveal similarities that imbue the human portraiture with corresponding layers of depth. Built upon the sometimes-blurred edges of distinction, the work strikes at a place between communication and ambiguity, where the viewer can feel a story beginning to coalesce.

Made in the past, arrived in the new normal. Season brochure for a public theatre: talent and passion meets confidence and optimism. Nearly 200 pages with all informations about the artists, the programm and the common targets of companions.

The artwork is a collection of the everpresent marketing symbolism in our everyday life. I took these symbols out of their context to give them a place of their own. These symbols are so common to us that we tend to not see them and realize their artistic beauty. Inspite of their artistic beauty these symbols also represent the consumerism everyone is confronted with on a daily bases.

minerals fall into bourgeois worlds as if from nowhere.
and bring destruction and beauty.

Hi! We are a visual studio that started out in the middle of a pandemic. To say hello to the world, we thought it might be nice to start off with something warm and cozy and tbh who doesn’t need a bobble hat? Also we thought something colorful on your head makes enduring, grey, long winters easier.

What does Victoria Park mean to you? I replied with just a word. Sunset.
The artwork has been selected for the All Points East Gallery 2019 and it has been displayed on the Festival perimeter wall.

Even if violance has a strong pull on humans, when again and again we react with “proportionate responses” and see diplomatic measures as if at all complementary, we failed ourselves.

Breathe was a project I started whilst in lockdown late 2019. It was getting to the point I was really struggling with being in the house every hour of each week and the affects of the events on family members and close friends was apparent also.

I was working around some designs that focused on the current events of the coronavirus pandemic and how lockdown was affecting everyone in one way or another.

Breathe was an idea that resolved around these vibrant colours streaming from the word Breathe. It was a gentle reminder to breathe, whether this be in the form of yoga, meditation, rest or any form of day to day life that would help you through those dark days.

We are the yeast in a petri dish…