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Alberto Perera

ALBERTO PERERA

Lo personal es patético OMR 9 May–29 June 2024 Mexico City
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Alberto Perera, a multidisciplinary artist born in Barcelona, makes his debut at OMR with an exploration of the grotesque and vulnerability. Through oil and pastel drawings, performances, and ceramics, he delves into themes like identity formation, the notion of ruin, and naivety. Drawing inspiration from Hitchcock and Ed Wood films, Spanish TV shows like “Crónicas Marcianas”, self-critical humour, and kitsch aesthetics, Perera constructs a universe of characters navigating between reality and fiction.

Lo personal es patético, originates from a 2020 video by the artist, translated into various mediums. In his performances, he embodies alter egos reminiscent of the cabaret world and trash TV. Influenced by Angelyne, the Billboard Queen, the first self-made celebrity, he creates Bettie Tiniebla, merging the name of Bettie Page, a 1950s American pin-up model, with “El Tinieblas,” a popular Mexican wrestler. Bettie Tiniebla embodies sensuality, absurdity, and the DIY aesthetic, standing out as one of Alberto Perera’s most distinctive characters.

The gallery is enveloped in wallpaper illustrated by Perera, brimming with references that nourish his work, intertwining the mundane with the supernatural, horror, and artificiality. Through his work, Alberto Perera questions our existence amidst failure, uncertainty, and criticism of social norms. Lo personal es patético is an eclectic exhibition that celebrates the frivolous and challenges the traditionally dysfunctional, using irreverence as a means to grapple with the world’s incongruities.

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OMR is a contemporary art gallery in Mexico City, founded by Patricia Ortiz Monasterio and Jaime Riestra in 1983. Over the past four decades, the gallery has fostered and developed the careers of numerous emerging and established artists throughout Latin America and globally; OMR has established itself as a pioneering Mexican contemporary art space, presenting over 400 exhibitions across all media and genres, and participating in art fairs around the world.

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Córdoba 100
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Mexico City Córdoba 100, Roma Norte
OMR contemporary art gallery in Mexico City Mexico
OMR
Córdoba 100, Roma Norte, Mexico City, Mexico
+52 555 207 1080
http://www.omr.art

Opening hours
Tuesday – Friday: 10am – 6pm

Saturday: 11am – 4pm
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