Nada Miami 2021 : Miami

1 - 4 December 2021 
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For its first participation to NADA Miami, N.A.S.A.L. is pleased to present Modos de Aguante, by Armando Rosales (1987, Venezuela). 

 

Armando Rosales  is a sculptor and percussionist based in Mexico City since 2015. He studied Graphic Design at the University of Zulia and later completed the Soma program (2016) and the Art & Law Program at AAP Cornell (2019). A co-founder of the art space Al Borde—recipient of a Fundación Cisneros/CPPC grant—Rosales has received several distinctions, including a PAC curatorial grant (2017) and the AICA Emerging Artist Award (2011).
 
His work is held in collections such as the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection and in private collections across Venezuela, France, the U.S., Spain, and Mexico. Recent exhibitions include Masa de Avance at N.A.S.A.L. (Mexico City), I Wouldn’t Be Here Without You at Westwerk (Hamburg), and Cabilla at TEA Tenerife.

 

Armando Rosales’s work fluctuates between the conscious and the intuitive as tools to question the relationship between the intimate, the institutional, and the political. He uses sculpture and installation to confront the viewer while exploring form and synthesis, seeking insights into how the mechanisms that shape our behavior operate within a given context and how they connect to the body as a vehicle for learning. In this presentation, Rosales shows a body of work created within the confines of his domestic environment, assembling objects from accumulated materials. Modos de aguante stems from an effort to bypass language: a material essay where form links directly to physical distress, pressure, and inflammation as signs of a body in trouble. Scars and indentations run across varied materials, highlighting decay and a forced sense of togetherness. Fabric versus metal, plastic versus stone, soft tissue hardened—racing and pacing—these pieces embody frozen actions, untranslated interpretations of the unknown. An exploration without a machete to clear the dense forest ahead.

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