“Historically, societies build to inhabit, almost always ignoring that the ways of building also inhabit us.
In light of this argument it would be possible to tell the history of a society from the history of its constructions: the process in which the materials of the environment are transformed into the abode of man.
Far from developing a dialectic from the descriptive narrative of a social reality, my proposal aims to sensitize the view towards an urban plot worn out due to its socioeconomic condition, finding in the material that protects it an unpublished plastic content.”
Robert Montilla
Barquisimeto – Venezuela.
Petare.
Barrio Caraqueño, capital del Municipio Sucre del Estado Miranda.
El Avila.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2015
29.52 x 29.52 in.
Familia Sanchez.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2016
Familia Garcia.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
Familia Mejias.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2016
Familia Jiminez.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
Familia Pineda.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2016
Familia Escalona.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
Familia Navas.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2016
Familia Caldera.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
Familia Marchan.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2016
S/T.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
15.75 x 9.05 in.
Familia Perdomo.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x .315 in.
Familia Leal.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2016
Familia López.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x .315 in.
Familia Colmenares.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2016
Fachadas.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x .315 in.
Familia Marchan.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.49 x 31.49 x 3.15 in.
2018
S/T.
Serie Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
2016
31.49 x 31.49 x .315 in.
Familia Comunidad.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
33.85 x 31.49 x 1.57 in.
2018
Familia Mejias.
Sociedad de Hojalata.
Assembly, diverse materials (zinc).
31.46 x 94.48 in.
2018
About Robert Montilla
Robert Montilla, was born in Biscucuy, estado Portuguesa, Venezuela, in 1976. He lives and works in Barquisimento, Venezuela.
He graduated as an architect from The Universidad Central de Venezuela (UDE) 2009.
Photographer, Escuela de Artes Plásticas Martin Tovar y Tovar, Barquisimeto, 2009, and Centro Cultural Rector Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2011.
Between 2009 and 2013 in his performance within the design workshops of the Universidad Central de Venezuela, as a teacher his work was oriented to the conception linked to manufacturing, reinterpreting and exploring new uses of noble and conventional materials.
He began his exhibition career in 2010.
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