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The work of Eduardo Rincón is based on biological, natural, and organic processes that propose a reflection on the natural forces manifested in the form and development of plants. He experimentally cultivates plants in his workshop and nursery, which he uses in installation, sculpture, drawing, and painting proposals. He has extended his research work with native trees to reforestation projects.
This artist’s work can be seen as object-painting because it incorporates objects produced by nature—flowers, seeds, and plants—integrating them into his pictorial techniques as real elements that contrast with the illusionism of the image.
Object Art elevates simple and everyday objects to the dignity of art as proof that art is, above all, a mental attitude that resides in the viewer, and that, through the exhibition of these painting/objects, aesthetic qualities are appreciated rather than utilitarian ones. His work makes us accomplices in a flirtation between the bi- and three-dimensional, technique and expression, and even more importantly, between nature and culture.
Eduardo Rincón
He holds a degree in Biology from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (1991). Among his solo exhibitions are *Tulpa* at Artana Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands (2011); *Terra virids* at Galeria Caja Blanca, Mexico City (2010); and *Musa paradisiaca* at Casa Lamm, Mexico City (2006). He has exhibited collectively at Glyndor Gallery, New York (2001), and in various venues across Mexico. He has been a grant recipient of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts (1997, 2000, and 2002) and won the National Young Art Encounter in 1992. He worked as an artist-in-residence at the Boreal Art/Nature Center in Québec, Canada. He is the founder of the group Amate arte/natura, which develops art projects in nature reserves.
Solo Exhibitions
1992 Del metate de la vida, Galería Sloane-Racotta, Mexico City, Mexico.
1992 Selva, Ixpujil, Campeche, Mexico.
1995 La casa Azul, Cuernavaca, Mexico.
1996 Homenaje a Vicente, Fundación Cante, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
1998 Polen, Casa Teherán, Aguascalientes, Mexico.
1999 Anima vegetalis, Casa Lamm / Librería Pegaso, Mexico City, Mexico.
2000 Amate, Museum of the Former Convent of Tepoztlán, Morelos, Mexico.
2001 Lucem, Galería Mexicana de Diseño, Mexico City, Mexico.
2001 Spagyria, Centro El Aire, Mexico City, Mexico.
2002 Stela Natura, Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico.
2003 Installation, Project Amate arte/natura.
2004 Via Sativa, Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico.
2005 Amate/arte natura, three installations in Morelos, Mexico.
2006 Musa paradisiaca, Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico.
2007 Recent Work, La Aurora, San Miguel de Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico.
2010 Terra virids, Galeria Caja Blanca, Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 Tulpa*, Artana Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands.
Group Exhibitions
1992 Jean-Louis Silve Gallery, Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
1992 Pinacoteca de Monterrey, Mexico.
1992 Diego Rivera Museum, Guanajuato, Mexico.
1992 Aguascalientes Museum, Mexico.
1993 Carrillo Gil Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico.
1994 Casa de la Cultura Jesús Reyes Heroles, Mexico City, Mexico.
1995 Jean-Louis Silve Gallery, Valle de Bravo, Mexico.
1996 UNAM Iztacala, Mexico.
1996 Galería Mexicana de Diseño, Mexico City, Mexico.
1997 CMA – FONCA Young Creators Exhibition, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
1998 Galería Mexicana de Diseño, Mexico City, Mexico.
1995 & 1998 Mayans Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA.
2000 Boréal Art Nature Center, Québec, Canada.
2001 In Search of Paradise: 250 Years of Mexican Landscape*, City Museum, Querétaro, Mexico.
2001 Sensing the Forest, Glyndor Gallery, New York, USA.
2002 FONCA Grantees Exhibition.
2010 Natural Findings, Galería Mexicana de Diseño, Mexico City, Mexico.
2011 Trámite cinco perros, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
2011 Cuernavaca City Museum, Trámite Museo.
Awards
1992 Award at the XIII National Young Art Encounter, Aguascalientes.
1993 Selected for the Diego Rivera Biennial.
1997 Young Creators Grant for Morelos, FONCA.
2000 Artistic Production Support, FONCA.
2000 Invited as artist-in-residence by the Boréal Art Nature Centre, Montreal, Canada.
2001 Selected by FONCA in the category of Promotion of Projects and Cultural Co-investments.