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“The reproduction of reproduction here allows the creation of new realities, invites us to the action of looking out, searching and looking again”. María Jose Chavarría. Curator of the Museum of Costa Rican Art

“Creating through what is unseen. "Metadata" refers to a group of data that describes the informational content of other data. In this case, the artist used all the information collected in various photographs captured over the years to make a mixture of objects and characters. These works constitute a reflection on the passage of time. The moments captured and juxtaposed on another create multiple and complex images, which invite us to decipher them from our experience and memory.” Musarco Wordpress

"Luciano Goizueta's work is not easy to embrace. It contains blueprints of an architect, features of a designer, and the sharpness of images captured by a photographer. However, his field of action captivates him and identifies immediately”. El Nacional, Pamela Olavarria

“Luciano Goizueta's works are visually powerful; they are presented to the viewer as carefully constructed labyrinths of images that are both familiar and foreign to us. Without a doubt, he is one of the most innovative voices of his generation”. Sofía Soto Maffioli, Director of the Museum of Costa Rican Art

Interview: https://ticotimes.net/2016/08/21/5-questions-costa-rican-artist-luciano-goizueta

BIO

Luciano Goizueta is an interdisciplinary artist based in San José, Costa Rica. He is primarily known for his paintings, but also works with drawing, photography, assembly, video and other techniques and is looking for ways to combine them.

Already as a child he showed interest in science and art. The scientific method with its observations, hypotheses, predictions, experiments and analysis of the results informs and lays the foundation for his artistic work. Ever since his first exhibition in 2004, he has explored several themes that are divided into series that he returns to regularly. When these themes are examined, the illusion of "return" can be revealed. In this way, memory, time and everyday life are elements that he uses to reflect on the core aspects of his production: metadata of images that support his production.

During her productive career, Goizueta has had more than eighty solo and group exhibitions at galleries, museums and art fairs in Costa Rica and abroad, including at Pinta 09 Art Fair (New York), Shanghai Art Fair (China) and SCOPE (Basel, Switzerland ). His work has been included in important public and private art collections.

He currently spends the majority of his time with his family, on his art and as director of _temporal, a non-profit artistic organization that promotes dialogue and artistic production in the city of San José.

Luciano Goizueta's artistic technique has been developed with the intention of reconstructing memories. Through his works, Goizueta tries to save the inaccessible and returns to photography as a time machine for our memories. He sees images as microscopic capsules that are flashes of an infinite sea, fragments of seconds disconnected from a reality that has ceased to exist. Goizueta uses photographs to anchor these memories and to prevent them from disappearing into oblivion.