Today we are talking with Henry (Ache) Rojas, a Venezuelan artist who has a particularly fun style full of many barks.
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Astrid: What artistic work have you developed throughout your life?
Ache: There have been many artistic tasks or crafts that I have found in my plastic work, to name a few I was an analog photographer of a performance collective, digital photographer and director of contemporary collection registration in a museum, curator and museographer, editorial illustrator, graffiti artist and muralist, event producer, I have also given workshops and conversations as a speaker, advertising designer, among others.
Astrid: What branch of art do you identify with the most?
Ache: Illustration and muralism are the areas in which I have developed a more personal language, together with an exploration in painting. However, design and graphic arts are present in the professional area.
Astrid: Can you relate photography to painting and achieve an artistic fusion?
Ache: Yes, even in my thesis I relate painting with screen printing, translating the language and technical process of graphics with pictorial possibilities, emulating textures, layers, transparencies and situations that happen on the canvas, These results are part of the practical research and daily exercise of the artist, relating two or more disciplines in favor of the production of pieces and expanding the content and generating new fusions.
Astrid: Have you participated in events, exhibitions, forums, nationwide? Tell us about that and what artistic work you participated with.
Ache: During the period 2007-2015 I had an active participation in various collective exhibitions, Biennials, Competitions, Seminars, Festivals and conversations where urban art, painting and illustration had a call.
Individually I was in the 69th Arturo Michelena Visual Arts Biennial, SuperCable Youth Hall with FIA XVI, 66th Arturo Michelena Hall Biennial, XV Luisa Palacios Graphic Miniatures Biennial.
As recognitions I have obtained several awards, include Best Photography Award National Salon Dycvensa, 3rd place Mention Painting Salon de Carúpano, 3rd place National Exhibition of graffiti Zulia and Honorable Mention National Book Award Comic Area.
Astrid: Are you an independent artist or do you develop within a crew or collective?
Ache: I was a founding member of the collective Los Silenciadores, a multidisciplinary team of artists and creatives, which resulted in a work of plastic works and large-scale urban interventions. It is worth mentioning our participation in Por el Medio de la Calle and La Velada de Santa Lucía, as well as appearing in several national publications, two degree theses and many interviews and records of urban art during our active time.
These collective participations led us to obtain various national and international recognitions, I even went to represent the country in international events such as the Street Of Styles International Graffiti Meeting Curitiba, Brazil and the Atacate in Cúcuta, Colombia.Also be producer of the 2nd Meeting of Styles, the most important international event of this category worldwide.
I currently work as an independent artist, individually and co’working with various professionals and colleagues inside and outside the country, remotely as Ache Estudio Creativo.
Astrid: What personal message do you try to project when you express yourself artistically?
Ache: I express my plastic language through the various disciplines and techniques with which I capture my murals and in the graphic vision with which I carry out my studio. I try to project the vision of my social environment and its visual needs, of specific situations, demonstrate artistic skills integrated into pieces and projects, that I think would be my personal stamp.
Astrid: Do you have any upcoming projects to do?
Ache: I am currently working on several international identity and co-worker printing projects, which has expanded the field of work a bit. An NFT collection of my work as a plastic artist is also in preview.
Astrid: What social impact do you think your work as an artist can have?
Ache: Through muralism and advertising graffiti, services that I offer from my freelance agency, I have involved the client or viewer in graphic pieces of artistic quality, where advertising, architecture, urban art are integrated together with a concept and a practical function and of greater social scope.
Astrid: Between digital and manual tools, which is more comfortable for you?
Ache: Obviously in drawing and manual illustration I have more skill, I have had more practical approach and artistic participations. In the same way, the digital area is fundamental in the projection, organization of ideas and in the labor possibilities.
Astrid: Would you do this for the rest of your life?
Ache: I joined the Reverón at the age of 17, I thank him for my passion and knowing today that I chose a career with enough possibilities for growth. I had an excellent academic background with professors and artists of international level, together with high-level colleagues that today I admire and follow their work and vice versa.
I hope to continue creating a good time, thanking this and all the opportunities to express and share part of my work. Thank you.
Social media:
Instagram: @ache_ccs
Behance: HenryRojas