Rogelio Baez Vega

Congratulations on this beautiful publication that is now available. Very honored to participate in this historic exhibition. Gracias a & .visitoreconomy por la invitación a este gran proyecto de exhibición. Santuce.

🔊Thanks to everyone who supported me during my recent exhibition 🇬🇧especially Maya Cuevas and Isabella Icoz 🥂, for supporting my work this years. #🇵🇷

Detalles de algunos de mis recientes trabajos para mi próximo show en . Folks in London hope seeing you there .🍾🥂

“I am sharing some of the works of a new series of painting I produced during my residency at the in New Orleans ⚜️...

In it, I address topics related to the treatment of enslaved africans and their descendants in Puerto Rico. Using as a reference the hacendados’ interior architectural spaces of the late 19th century, I allude to the lingering effects and current consequences of this shameful and inhumane practice.”

Mi estancia en esta hermosa ciudad fue de mucho regocijo pero también de mucha reflexión como consecuencia de experimental la dimensión del sufrimiento ocasionado por la práctica esclavista hacia las personas negras. Me hizo recordar a mi madre y las historias que me contaba de cómo ayudaba a su mamá de pequeña secando tabaco en rancho es de metal Práctica común de las plantaciones de tabaco . A su vez su mamá le contaba de cómo ella ayudaba a su abuela en estas duras faenas y así las generaciones que las antecedieron. Este pasado no fue muy lejano.

Bien contento con mi participación en la segunda edición de en la ciudad de Santo Domingo 🫶🏽. 🇩🇴Gracias por la invitación! 🙏🏽En esta edición participó con grandes colegas y nuestra querida
I Im arriving to the city tonight. Hope to see you come by the booth and say hi🥂

🌴Paisaje para un colonizador I, II, III, IV

[Landscape for a colonizer l,ll, lll, lV], 2024, oil on mahogany panel, 12”x 16”.

The Royal Palm or Roystonea regia is used as the main element in this series of paintings. It was previously known as Oreodoxa regia but was renamed in honor of General Roy Stone, a US Army engineer who served in the Caribbean. The Greater Antilles share an endemic species of Royal Palm, with a different taxonomy on each of the islands. Their silhouette in the Caribbean landscape is so iconic, that both Cuba and Haití have named the royal palm as their national tree.

In this series, I am interested in the semiotics of palm trees, their imminent connection to the historical Caribbean landscape, and their cultural context. The images were searched banally and randomly on Google Images, copied directly from transfers created meticulously with a brush, making a specific reference to Francisco Oller’s landscapes, particularly his Paisaje con palma real (ca. 1910). On the other hand, I intend to emulate the style of the landscapes sold in the street to tourists who are searching for handmade memorabilia or a tropical fe**sh of the moment. The context in which the series is presented accentuates with humor colonialism’s perpetual exercise.

Hoy abre al público mi primer solo show en mucho tiempo y el primero en un museo de mi país . Espero me puedan acompañar hoy. Si no , estará presentandosé hasta finales de agosto y nos podemos ver en otras actividades que el museo tiene programadas. Pendientes! Los abrazo. 🫶🏽💛🥂

✍🏽🫶🏽I am very happy to share that I was selected and invited to participate in the prestigious artistic residency Joan Mitchell Center , named after one of the greatest painters of the 20th Century. The residence located in the city of New Orleans offers studio spaces, but also a rich experience in cultural diversity, intellectual interaction, and human understanding.
I thank the for this great honor, as well as my family and everyone who has supported my career so far.
I congratulate all the colleagues who were selected, especially my compatriots and . Congratulations, pa’lante!

Diverse Array of Emerging and Mid-Career Artists Announced as Joan Mitchell Foundation’s 2024 Artists-in-Residence
New York, NY — January 17, 2024 — The Joan Mitchell Foundation today announced its selection of a diverse and distinguished group of artists to participate in the 2024 Artists-in-Residence program at the Joan Mitchell Center in New Orleans. This year’s cohort of 37 artists includes a dynamic group of 16 artists from across the United States participating alongside 21 artists local to New Orleans.
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It is a great pleasure for me to participate on this edition of Untitled Art Fair Miami alongside Master artist who I greatly admire and I am extremely proud of her achievements.

Thanks to my dear friends and colleagues kilometro for making this beautiful experience happen.

On this occasion, I present three fictional landscape paintings in which I problematize historical conflicts originating in Caribbean modernity and Puerto Rico’s coastal environment. They are premonitory landscapes of our Caribbean existence, full of raw beauty and social injustice.

Gallery review:
Experiencing Paradise ̈, by the artist Rogelio Báez Vega, focuses on the representation of modern and iconic Puerto Rican hotels, abandoned in fictional coastal surroundings.

By presenting these selection of structures in ruins, exposed to the sea and erosion, the artist focuses his reflection on the exoticism of the Caribbean landscape as a tourist destination. It exposes the island ́s dependency of the tourism industry and the visitor economy by contrasting the idealized image of tourist paradise with the reality lived in Puerto Rico.

A change rooted in the violent clash between the exuberant tropical flora vs the abandoned structure in decay. Through the exposition and dystopic reinterpretation of these iconic hotels, Rogelio Báez Vega hopes to build an omen of future landscapes.

More info

1- ID Hotel Caribe Hilton, 1949, arq.Toro y Ferrer, San Juan, Puerto Rico,
2023, oil, beeswax, gold pigment on canvas, 4'x6' colección Macu Santiago

2-ID Biblioteca General, Universidad de Puerto Rico Recinto Mayagüez,1947, arq.
Hery Klumb, Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, 2023, oil, beeswax, gold pigment on canvas, 4'x6'
Colección Rafael Santiago

muy honrado de ser parte de la colección de estos grandes empresarios puertorriqueño .

Gracias especiales a mis compañeros colegas y ya me han ayudado grandemente en esta etapa de mi carrera.

ID. Centro de Estudiantes, Universidad Interamericana, Recinto de San Germán (Puerto Rico Arquitectos V. Muñiz-Núñez Sargent, Webster, Crenshaw, and Folley) from Henry’s Myth series, 2022, oil, beeswax, and gold pigment on canvas, 56” x 67”. Jackson Tang Collection.

This painting was exhibited as part of the collective show On sight presented at the new space in Tribeca NYC 7Lispenard with fellow artists and sponsored by the architecture firm Marvel.
Gracias a todos los amigos y colegas que asistieron🙏🏽
* No matter the natural disaster I've covered, whether it's a wildfire or flood, I always come back with a much greater perspective.

Ginger Zee