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ANTONIO CORTEZ DESIGN IS

THE OFFICIAL DESIGNER FOR:

Festival Ballet Providence, FBP, Festival Ballet

Rhode Island International Film Festival, RIIFF

ArtZone 461 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Creator of:

Mathematical Formulations in the Service of Art

Contributor for:

GET RI Magazine

Creative Producer & Photographer for:

www.teama-d.com

www.antoniocortezdesign.com

Assisting Director & Web Designer

www.artzone461.com

ANTONIO CORTEZ

Contents Copyright © Antonio Cortez | all rights reserved | 1995 - 2012

ELLIPTICAL FIELDS | 2010 1 | 2
This series of prints on aluminum panels explores the geometry of original written abstract mathematical equations. In this case, I wrote the equations responding to the physics of magnetic fields in space. The prints were prepared at Magnolia Editions. The series also includes video of the animated 3-dimensional object.

TOWERS | 2010
This series (in progress) of renderings features the geometry of original written abstract mathematical equations that respond to the architecture of towers. I wrote the equations inspired by the architecture of Antonio Gaudi and imagining how he would use today’s technological advances to finish his iconic buildings.

STRINGS | 2010
This series of prints on paper and aluminum panels depicts the geometry of original written abstract mathematical equations. I was inspired by the physical structure of bridges and pyramids. Some associate these prints to the architecture of Santiago Calatrava.

OBJECT ONE | 2007-2010
This series of prints explores the geometry of original written abstract mathematical equations. I was inspired by the curvatures of metal panels found in the architecture of Frank Gehry. This is the very first original abstract mathematical equation I wrote.

EARLIER WORK

PUBLISHED WORK

FACETED | 2006
This series of prints explores identity and the multiple facets of the personality of an individual. Inspired by the history of film and Andy Warhol’s celebrity portraits. The series was featured in the cover of Get RI Magazine August 2006 issue commemorating the 11th edition of the Rhode Island International Film Festival.

PHOTOGRAPHIC HYPER-REALISM

VISUAL ARTS

San Francisco, CA

OBJETS DU JOUR | 2010 - 2011
With a modern approach to Trompe-l'œil eighteen century painting techniques, this series of prints features medium format capture of the most vivid detail from functioning tools and artifacts of the past century. Captured with a Hasselblad H3 digital system.

EN GEOMETRIE | 2010 - 2011
This series of prints (in progress) explores physical symmetry of reflecting objects. The digital photomontages are the result of superimposing multiple views of a single object. Captured with a Hasselblad H3 digital system.

ART DECO CAFE | 1999
I created this series of physical photographic collages using original experimental color photography printing techniques. The series was exhibited couple of times and I have lectured twice on the printing process originally developed to create them.

METROPOLIS | 1995 - 2000
This series of photomontages explores concepts of symmetry, asymmetry and tessellation through the creation of a fictitious Metropolis from real photographs from Paris & London. The resulting landscape is usually associated with the layout of Rome. Originally captured in 35 mm black & white film.

STUDIES | 2007-2010 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5
This series of renderings features the geometry of original written abstract mathematical equations that forms toroids, colloidal systems, objects and even orchids. These series are more anthropomorphic and were inspired by biological forms and the proportions of the golden mean.

QUANTUM EVOLUTION | 2007-2011
This series of photomontages features a mythical character experiencing an alchemical transformation of his nature and identity. Inspired by Greek Mythology, the Renaissance and atmospheric phenomena. Original capture was in digital 35 mm and the series was published in GET RI magazine cover of January 2011.

EVENING AUCTIONS | 2011 - 2012 1 | 2 | 3
In this series I explore the landscape of everyday life through the clusters of objects that surround me and give meaning to pop culture. The personal objects and recent Sotheby’s auction catalogs emerge as metaphors about the many daily rituals that we participate or are exposed to in modern society.

LOVE IS IN THE AIR
EVERYWHERE WE LOOK AROUND, 9:11 min | 2011
Michael Layefsky’s images (projected from the balloon he uses for his series Aerial Photography), are juxtaposed with images from Google. Love is about our eternal quest for the bird’s eye view, the technologies developed to that end and the fear that they instill.

CONCEPTUAL INSTALLATIONS

BUT I STILL HAVEN’T FOUND
WHAT I AM LOOKING FOR, 6:00 min | 2011
Rosa María Alfaro’s images, from her series Urban Trash, are juxtaposed with excerpts from the opinion pages of The New York Times and it’s reader’s comments about new powers of surveillance in the decade after 9/11. Two channel video mounted on trash cans. Unveiled for Keeping and Eye on Surveillance at PAI.

MATHEMATICAL FORMULATIONS IN THE SERVICE OF ART

3D I CHING PROJECT
THE DYNAMIC BOOK OF CHANGES
SFCB | FEB. 17 to MAY. 12, 2012
Art Critic Kennet Baker writes in the San Francisco Chronicle:
“In composing music and making or staging visual art, Cage frequently used the I Ching, the traditional Chinese divination system, as a means to give randomness to decisions. Several pieces here make explicit reference to it, notably a work by Antonio Cortez in both static and digital display.“
January 7, 2012

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