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Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada is a Cuban-American Contemporary Artist. Born February 5, 1966, Cuba, he grew up in the United States. Rodríguez-Gerada predominantly creates his work in urban spaces on a large scale. He was a founding member of the early ‘90s New York Culture Jamming movement first with the group ‘Artfux’ and later with the 'Cicada Corps of Artists', during which he launched interventions upon billboards and public advertising. By 1997 he was beginning to move towards working solo. In 2002 Rodríguez-Gerada moved to Barcelona where he focused on the large-scale ephemeral charcoal drawings of his Identity Series. He then developed the Terrestrial Series; ephemeral earthworks so expansive as to be visible from space. Other ongoing projects include the Identity Composite Series, and smaller artworks he calls Fragment Series, Urban Analogies, and Memorylythics. Since 2009 he has curated the annual AvantGuard Urbano Festival; a small Urban Art Festival with big names, held in Tudela, Navarre, in Northern Spain.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Avant Garde Urbano - Tudela De Navarra, Spain - Sept 30 thru Oct 4 )〕 He also takes part in numerous shows and exhibitions. ==Early years== Jorge Rodríguez-Gerada immigrated with his family from Cuba to the US in 1970, to settle in North Plainfield, New Jersey. It wasn’t until his twenties that he realized that the move was because his parents had not wanted him and his two elder brothers to grow up under the then newly implemented system of control in Cuba. His father spent three years cutting sugar cane in order to gain visas. Rodríguez-Gerada was one of the first Hispanic immigrants to enroll in his local school system . This assertion is directly contested by a North Plainfield resident who attended the same schools within the district during the same time-frame. There he was bullied for being Spanish, so he rebelled against speaking it in order to fit in with the other children. His fascination with how we form our Identity is something he links to his experiences as a child. In the U.S school system he saw children from many different backgrounds thrown into the ‘melting pot’, which has been said to leave children from immigrant backgrounds lost in a cultural limbo as adults. Again, the North Plainfield resident cited above re-asserts that North Plainfield, NJ during the 1960s and 1970s was a typical American town. There was nothing unique about its assimilation to American culture. For immigrant Americans, regardless of origin, the environment naturally causes a clash between old and new culture that existed then and still exists. As a boy he was interested in creating things; he always had a love of drawing and got really involved in art whilst at high school. Since the age of sixteen he started hanging out in Manhattan. Speaking of his influences he said: ‘I was surrounded by theater, music and art that was breaking barriers and it seemed natural that I should want to do the same’ He went to study at Jersey City State College (now New Jersey City University) where he met the future members of ‘Artfux’. The media was very interested in their activity and so the group realized there were other issues that could benefit from this type of media attention. They decided to join as ‘Artfux’ and continue producing controversial artwork together. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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