With his airbrush Rüedi draws and conjures shapes as if from smoke. Multiple dimensions appear compressed onto a single surface, forming a kind of quark soup. Clusters of half-articulated forms take shape, like incomplete thoughts, teetering between imagery and state.
The works on canvas are matte and saturated shadowy images. They read like LHC observations of quantum phenomena projected onto the walls of Plato’s Cave. The new paintings on wood contain the same apparitions, dissolving before one's eyes, but here encapsulated in beeswax and resin forming an encaustic vault. The technique produces a glass-like surface – a luminous threshold like a window onto the Phantom Zone (see 1978 movie Superman). The once-liquid resin drops remain suspended on the sides, cured mid-flow. Sealed and hermetic they preserve the fleeting within a hardened skin, like a Jurassic mosquito, preserved in time.
Jerónimo Rüedi (b. 1981 Mendoza, Argentina) lives and works in Mexico City, Mexico.
Recent solo exhibitions include Preaesns, Bureau, New York, NY; And Between us Occurs the Following Conversation, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany (2025); Yanhuitlán, Museo del Ex-Convento de Yanhuitlán, Oaxaca, Mexico (2024); Tabula Rasa, Museo de arte contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico (2024); Systems, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City, Mexico (2024); Khora, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, Sweden (2023); To see through all things clearly is to see through all things dimly, Galerie Nordenhake, Mexico City, Mexico (2022); Drawing the Boundaries of a Fire, Galería Karen Huber, Mexico City, Mexico (2021); In the Beginning the World Was Completely Real, Colector Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico (2020). Recent group exhibitions include Works by Colección Jumex, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2024); Tiempo compartido, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico (2023); Tamayo Bienal, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (2019); Tamayo Bienal, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico (2019). Rüedi will exhibit at Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico City, Mexico later this year.
Rüedi’s work is held in the collections Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Museo de Arte contemporáneo de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, and Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, as well as with prestigious private collections across Europe and the Americas.
In recent years, Rüedi has been a resident artist at Casa Wabi (2023), the Museo Experimental El Eco (2016), and produced stage scenery for the play Jazz Palabra by Juan José Gurrola (LA Theater Center, Los Angeles, California, 2015 / Casa del Lago, Mexico City, 2014). Rüedi has published three books: TUNING THE SKY, Zolo Press (2024); Colorless green ideas sleep furiously, Gato Negro Ediciones (2020); and The stuff dreams are made of, Macolen (2017). He is one of the co-founders of Aeromoto, the public library for contemporary art and culture in Mexico City, Mexico.
