Miguel Angel Rojas

mural-sized digital print, front-mounted to Plexiglas, signed, titled, and editioned '3/5' in ink on a label on the reverse, 2005 (Arcadia, November 2006, p. 20; Arte al Día, February - April 2015, p. 65)

Galería Alcuadrado, Bogotá, 2003

This impressive mural-sized digital print is in generally excellent condition. The colors remain bright and saturated, with no apparent fading. There are some scattered swipe and droplet deposits on the Plexiglas front-mount. There is a small crack to the Plexiglas at the lower left corner and a small white deposit at the lower right corner. The signed, titled, and editioned label is peeling slightly at the edges on the reverse. There is an aluminum mounting wall bracket on the reverse of the backing.
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In 2005, Miguel Ángel Rojas installed a sequence of twelve photographs at a crumbling and abandoned Hilton Hotel in Bogotá, Columbia.  The photographs were variations of the present print. The subject of the photograph is recognizably related to Michelangelo’s celebrated sculpture of the same name.  Although the subject’s pose resembles the classical sculpture, Rojas's David is a Columbian soldier whose leg was amputated after an encounter with a landmine, making this monumental photograph a commentary on beauty, destruction, life, and death.