FRANCO AROCHA

Guatemala, 1992

Arocha works on a process inspired by the archaeology of recovery and conservation of the decorative painting of walls within the urban public space, where the materiality of the same as an object of analysis becomes a recomposition of the evidence of the passage of time in the aesthetics of the contemporary urban landscape. His pictorial works are shown as a collage of scraps of wall paint which the artist collects during extensive tours in different spaces within the city in order to concretise abstract landscapes that conceive the specificities of the use of colour in the contemporary urban landscape, each one representing a wall, house or building with its distinctive tonalities, textures and aesthetic gestures. Establishing the use of wall painting as a way of regenerating pictorial material that is considered disposable, Arocha's work involves returning painting to art by resignifying its aesthetic value and iconographic relevance in each urban context in which the artist works.

Arocha is self-taught, began his exploration of painting in 2011 and has been part of residencies at La Tunca Foundation in El Salvador, and NARS Foundation in Brooklyn, New York. His work has been exhibited at OCMA, Orange County Museum in California, Museo MADC in Costa Rica, Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art and Parsons School of Design in New York and in different galleries such as Galería Enrique Guerrero in Mexico City, Colector in San Pedro Garza García and Otto Zoo in Milan.

Lives and works in Mexico City.