Artists

Luciano Calderon

Press release

Luciano Calderon (b. 1986, CH/BO, lives and works in Barcelona) presents his third solo exhibition Poemas De La Banda with Ruttkowski;68 in Düsseldorf. The works on view emerge from a position that is both personal and collective. They do not attempt to describe or represent, but rather to carry, transmit, and share what has shaped the artist's lived experience, his memories, and his cultural background. Collage becomes a method of immediacy. Images, texts, symbols, and slang come together without hierarchy, reflecting the layered realities of life in Latin America. Public transport, street wisdom, prayers, and autonomous aesthetics appear not as motifs, but as structures that organize everyday existence. These elements speak of movement and survival, of humor and contradiction, of a social fabric shaped by resilience and informal systems. The works remain open, direct, and grounded in an honesty that resists stylization. References to music, neighborhood identities, and collective histories unfold alongside personal inscriptions, forming a visual language that is both intimate and shared. What emerges is not a narrative of explanation, but one of presence. The exhibition traces a continuum between past and present, between individual voice and collective memory, allowing meaning to arise through the coexistence of its elements.