As a “toy soldier†collector, José Luis Rojas has given out the task of gathering these
tiny characters who evoke adventures starred by the new military hierarchies.As a bad joke, maybe, but definitely building scale representations, Rojas recreates the
symbolic act of invasion. A series of ceramic shepherd originally conceived to worship
God on behalf of the faithful, are ripped off its original belongings just to be provided with
less modest items: tanks, machine guns, grenades, pistols.Action figures, miniatures that, paradoxically own the strength and shrewdness of shy
alter egos are willing to make evident too, the battered concepts of honor and pomp.The eclecticism seems to obviate the less persuasive purist speeches on behalf of
Good turn out.
Carmen Cebreros
samples of my work
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