Federico Rodríguez Páez
FedericoRodríguez Páez
Sculptor · Visual artist · Writer · Cultural impresario · Cultural entrepreneur
One is not enough.
Forms
Many forms, one substance. What you see changes; what lies beneath does not.
I work time and weight into iron structures that hold steady at the edge of imbalance. The mirror gives you back to yourself.
Eighteen hundred poems, three books. A spinning handkerchief: one half makes it up, the other half is a lie.
Hostels, a hotel, a Paseo de Arte. Building a world isn’t free. Neither is taking it apart.
I can stand on any plane, but I won’t stay on one that has nothing alive in it.
Work
Iron sculpturesOne motif keeps returning: the circle —the ring, the eye, the wheel— and the welded iron that holds it at the edge of imbalance.
Iron, mirror and rust: material that becomes presence. Two hundred works live side by side at Montepilatus, his Paseo de Arte in Punta del Este.
Emotion is the foundation of the work.
Federico Rodríguez Páez
Writing
BooksEl lugar que me guardaban
Poems on class, the gaze, fatherhood and presence.
ReadHijo del hombre del mar
The chronicle of an Atlantic crossing spanning several generations.
ReadTúneles
Intelligence and strategy: reading power and moving before the other side does. In preparation.
PreviewMore than 1,800 poems written.
Montepilatus — Paseo de Arte
Paseo de Arte
A cultural space and a collection to walk through in Punta del Este, in dialogue with the work of Federico Rodríguez Páez. Twenty-nine artists from four countries. Free entry, every day.
A walk through Montepilatus · YouTube
Press
MediaTiempo Argentino · Revista Siempre Punta · El Observador · Portada · Cooltivarte
The method
The same hand that bends iron to the edge of imbalance reads power on that same edge.
He doesn’t read what people say — he reads what they need. The distance between the two is the data. He commits, carries the error on his back and moves. Whoever waits for certainty acts too late.
He reads a president, a judge, a market or an adversary with the same tool and at the same speed. Geography, economics, culture, time. Structure outlives individuals — and speaks before they do.
What he shows is what he chose to show.
The rest goes untold.
The method for reading power and moving before the other side. 28 chapters. Thucydides with Machiavelli, Sun Tzu with Clausewitz, Taleb with Schelling — from the field, not from the lectern.
Sophia explains afterwards. Phronesis acts beforehand.
Notify me on publication“El tiempo es la sustancia de la que estoy hecho. El tiempo es un río que me lleva consigo, pero yo soy el río; es un tigre que me devora, pero yo soy el tigre; es un fuego que me consume, pero yo soy el fuego.”
Jorge Luis Borges