The Show “Delikatessen” by Federico Rosa Suazo, opened the doors to a new movement in latin american art, aptly christened “Art That Does Not Suck and is Not Made With or Depicts Tortillas And/Or Beans”, whereby Rosa attempts (and to a degree fails) to give bureocratic institutions and ideologies in Tegucigalpa a stiff middle finger up the stinker. 

This was the first show ever at the X Cube, way back in January of 2008 (ok, not that faraway),  and was highly attended, that is, before Rosa started being an asshole to everyone, arrogant as ever, especially after his demonically suspicious solo show in Bruxelles (At the European Union no less! The term Nepotism was used by a pesky, down-on-his-luck “reporter” from an unknown blog;needless to say, nobody gave a shit).  Thus, not one of the man-purse wearing, patchouli smelling, cheap wine drinking, Che Guevara loving pseudo-intellectual lefties show up to the X-Cube shows anymore, short -circuiting Rosa´s  subconscious desire to be popular like Jesus and accepted everywhere like MasterCard. In response, Rosa stated that “those assholes were slagging off my Dad while eating his fucking snacks and drinking his liquor. Fucking hypocrites. You know who you are. And you are still not invited!”. Temper tantrums of the artistic elite? Rosa has few friends in the honduran art world these days, not surprinsingly.

But, to his more humanitarian credit, Rosa has given shows to artists that otherwise do not fit so clearly into the mainstream avante-garde clique (for kafkianly unclear reasons) and still intends to, he informs us. In a year, he has grouped three artists full time (not including himself), held several shows always inviting guest artists to contribute, set up this wonderful website of free speech, and has finally established the X Cube as a space to experiment and formalize  the art thing; ideology, charge, and burocreacy free.  He still makes his own version of aesthethics, which can sometimes be difficult to digest, but is a healthy opposition to the heavily politicized and overly dogmatic art currently regarded in the region as important, while not switching over to the art-as-decoration or easel painting school of Latin American Art. His intentions, he says, are sincere.

Rosa declares:  “I make art, not statements. Fuck the people.”

Can I get an Amen?

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