Guillermo Gaiondo Solo Exhibition at AMoCA

March 28 - May 11, 2025

Artist talk and reception: Friday, March 28, 5:30 - 7:00PM

Public dinner for the artist to follow.

“In our quest for exploration, we confront the unfamiliar, naming and documenting discoveries to interweave them into personal narratives. This process helps navigate daunting experiences and shape comforting, familiar worlds. However, our perspectives, often influenced by desires and preconceptions, can distort our grasp of reality.

In capitalist societies, natural ecosystems are frequently reduced to exploitable commodities, paralleling historical colonialism where information is often fragmented into isolated facts, divorced from their original context.

Around 2005, right after the premiere of my work "Trade Routes" by the Oakland Symphony Orchestra, I began reimagining late 20th-century art and music.

Influenced by Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Yoko Ono, Pina Bausch, and composers like John Cage, Pauline Oliveros, Cornelius Cardew, and Karlheinz Stockhausen, I endeavored to forge a fresh artistic language in music, visuals, and performance, challenging the prevailing Western norms that had shaped my earlier training.

Inspired by Latin American artists such as Tarsila do Amaral, Enrique Chagoya, Guillermo Gomez Peña, Remedios Varo, Leonora Carrington, and Alejandro Jodorowsky, I embraced alternative cultural perspectives within conceptual art. Drawing from pre-Columbian and non-Western rituals, I cultivated a participatory approach in performance, diverging from conventional hierarchies.

My current creative pursuits push boundaries by blending music, composition, and diverse art forms to engage with themes of politics, humanitarianism, spirituality, gender fluidity, and social awareness. This exploration celebrates cultural diversity and richness, fostering an inclusive artistic dialogue with audiences that transcends constraints and cultivates immersive experiences.”

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