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This PArt of my Story......
Cristian Vega-Rojo was born in Vallenar, Chile, a little city in the middle of one of the driest desserts in the world. The Atacama dessert, where he grew up, is a fascinating place, with an explosion of color that occurs every August known as, “Desierto Florido". The sparse dry land explodes with beautiful colored flowers that transform the landscape.

At an early age Cristian began using pencils and crayons to tell stories and express his hidden emotions. At age six he created his first comic strip, which he would sell to his relatives. Another of his passions was creating “radio teatros", recorded stories of super heroes defending big cities in danger. A very turbulent childhood made him stay away from the rest and become something of an outsider. Vega-Rojo grew up during the cruel regime of Pinochet, a dictator responsible for the disappearances and deaths of many people during the 70's. Pinochet’s period was one of the bloodiest and dividing episodes in Chilean history.

Cristian graduated from high school in 1986 continued studying Advertisement and Public Relations and for the first time experiencing life in the big city, Santiago de Chile.

In 1994 he left his homeland coming to San Francisco. Where CVR became fascinated with the beauty of its architecture, culture, and the open-minded society, which he decided to explore. It was in California were Vega- Rojo discovered a true passion for art and the need to express his own journey with the eyes of an immigrant. Finding the love of his life, learning a new language, working as a mentor for high risk kids, and meeting people from every color of the rainbow. In the Bay area he attended and finished a Fine art degree at Foothill College, Los Altos hills, and also took Fashion and art classes at West Valley College in Saratoga.
Coming to L.A. in 2001, makes another epidode on in his life. He finds Cactus Gallery, a milestone on his carrer as an artist. On December of 2006, Cactus gallery was awarded being featured on the main page of Calendar from L.A. Times, the most important newspaper in the city of Los Angeles, and one of the most influenciable media in the nation.

He worked for 2 years at Cactus Gallery, having the opportunity to accomplish an active and productive endevour that allowed him to finish more than 200 pieces of artwork, highly motivated by the owners and supported by the community of Eagle Rock in L.A. This institution also give him the priviledge to promote the talent of hundreds of artists and artisans as well, participating on a plethora of shows around Los Angeles and at the gallery whithin.
On Jan of 2007 Vega-Rojo arrives to his native Chile after 12 years of an auto-exile. Here is where a new chapter beggins...
www.eclecticcactus.com
Cactus gallery in Eagle Rock , Los Angeles
J.Ferrari, Atwater, Los Angeles
www.jferrarigallery.com
Novel Cafe, Santa Monica
www.nelaart.org
www.cannibalflower.com

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SHOWS
2005
Cactus Gallery , Eagle Rock, Opening March
Amsterdam cafe-gallery, North Hollywood, April-Jul
6 Degrees Festival, Los Angeles, Agust
Caos Sudamericano, Cactus Gallery, Sept
Artemisia Art Show, Hollywood, Sept
Cornucopia Mayalook Gallery, Sept
Day of the Dead Show, Cactus Gallery, Oct
Arroyo Arts Collective, Nov
Avenue 50 Gallery, Nov
2006
Novel Cafe, Santa Monica, Jun
The Art of Being Gay, Cactus Gallery, Jun-July
JFerrari, Abstract Show, Atwater, Jul
NOHO art gallery, LatinFusion, Sept
Cannibal Flower , Infusion Gallery, Sept
Cannibal Flower, Infusion Gallery, Oct
Sourrounding Art Pasadena, Oct-Nov
Arroyo Arts Collective, Nov
Also part of NELAart.org, the art walk in the North East Los Angeles.
www.myspace.com/vegarojoart
Car0line Reitter made this vide0 ab0ut my leaving fr0m the US
es.youtube.com/watch?v=fYzn-3HtYSQ


*This is a video of my country made by one of the best filmakers in Chile
www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-L7uR-uX1w

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    .srge says:

    "Cristian nació en un lugar mágico. El desierto de Atacama.
    Eso explica mucho. Porque aquellos que originaron el nacimiento de su percepción en lugares no convencionales, lejos de las metrópolis, lejos de la vida moderna-cibernética, actualizada "up-to-date", son aquellos que logran configurar percepciones alternativas sobre este mundo.
    Y eso es lo que encontramos en su trabajo, en su expresión. Una configuracion del mundo desde el desierto -y de la manera de percibir ese mundo- muy particular, muy personal y muy mixturada con culturas citadinas.
    Me atrevería a decir, muy desértica. Pero eso solo se me ocurre a partir de mi experiencia con diferentes artistas que nacieron tambien en el desierto (no tan conocidos quizas, pero si conocidos por mi en el desierto patagónico de la Argentina).
    Configuran una relacion muy diferente con la obra de arte. La obra de arte no posee ese estatuto de objeto de consumo, con un nombre que la identifica, cual marca, ni tampoco con un valor predeterminado comercial y monetario.
    Encontramos tambien una mirada muy personal, mecanizada, metalizada o tecnológica, podríamos decir, sobre la ciudad de Santiago. Una mirada notoriamente de un extranjero de esa tierra, una tierrra que lo alberga y lo contiene, pero lo encierra alli. Ciudades rodeadas de lineas vacías, de desiertos. Ciudades donde todas las perspectivas confluyen.
    Pero un dia, cambiamos a una temática de historieta, con recuadros dentro del cuadro, cn personajes como astroboy o superman, configuraciones de las metropolis.
    Central a todo esto podemos percibir la expresividad del action-painting sumado a cierta abstracción (y digo "cierta" porque es dudoso el estatuto de abstracto en estas pinturas, donde creo que reina la expresividad). De la violencia sobre la tela, de la violencia de los contrastes; contrastes de colores, de texturas, de personajes, de culturas.

    Para concluír quiero decir que Cristan Vega-Rojo es un artista del encuentro. Del encuentro entre espacios, del encuentro entre temáticas, del encuentro entre ideas y culturas, simplemente, del encuentro entre contrastes.

    Y ese encuentro es muy grato de encontrar (valga, mas que nunca aqui, la redundancia)."

    1st July, 2007

Name:
Cristian Vega-Rojo
Joined:
September 2005
Hometown:
Vallenar, Santiago , Chile
Currently:
Los Angeles, California, Chile, USA
I am:
Male and Single
Occupation:
Abstract Fine Artist
Website:
www.eclecticcactus.com