1950’s Tetsujin 28-GO Miura

Of Argentine descent, Luciano Goizueta (b. 1982) lives and works in Costa Rica. He has had more than 30 solo and group exhibitions and has received awards such as First Prize and honorable mention at the Valoarte Fair in San José (2008), as well as First Prize in the three-dimensional work category at the National Visual Arts Salon (2017). He recently completed a residency at the Vitlycke – Centre for Performing Arts (CPA), in Sweden.  photographic in nature, his paintings tend to be large canvases upon which explosive colors are mixed with hyper realistic painting to address contemporary urban phenomena. This painting refers to the 1956 Japanese manga "Tetsujin 28-GO," in which a giant robot is featured. The work is part of the "Inside Out Series," which seeks to deconstruct the modern city through the juxtaposition of images, at times incoherent, that appeal to fragments of the urban landscape, transportation vehicles, and organic forms. Goizueta superimposes the images and tinges them with a post-modern atmosphere strongly influenced by pop culture, thus generating new contradictory realities.