i.R. Bach

Mexico City 1966

The work of I.R. Bach integrates diverse media with philosophy into what he calls hyper-language; a possible next step to transcend the barriers inherent to social dynamics. He generates artistic circumstances through electronic and conceptual means to evoke reflections about the universe and the human experience. Worked out in the manner of metaphors that transfigure ideas into visual and sonic images, his projects integrate different types of knowledge: scientific, artistic and traditional. Convinced that the identity of the cosmos is based on duality as in the opposite directions of continua, which oscillates and therefore exists, I. R. Bach establishes that culture is characterized by ambiguity, pointing out that, contrary to the certainty that pertains to science, uncertainty belongs to the realm of art.

With the objective of creating alternative ways of thinking, he unbalances common knowledge and stereotype by creating ambiguities, which are themselves rooted in three coordinates: physics, life and culture. By centering each project in a specific coordinate, the artist poses relationships that could be perceived as contradictory. Based on images that belong to current and ancient scientific studies, every day objects, natural elements and traditional forms, his works surprise by pointing out the connection between the ordinary and the extraordinary. His work is developed in series that focus on seemingly diverse topics, but which form bridges and links between them, so an overall story arc becomes visible.

His work have been displayed in the Museum of Fine arts, MFA Houston (Lunar structures 2020) , The Spencer Museum in Kansas (The path of thought ,2016), Mexico City’s Zocalo (Contemporary Aztec Gods, 2008), the Chelsea Music Festival in NY, Museo Ex Teresa arte actual and Wynwood walls Miami (Asterismos 2012, 2013), 798 Beijing / San Ildefonso Museum in Mexico City (Holy Randomness 2009, 2010), the Cervantine festival (The Threshold 2007). Bach’s Think Empathy has toured more than 30 cities in three continents.

In 2011 he was awarded with grant by NASA’s Center for Chemical Evolution to elaborate on the origin of life. In 2016 he was awarded with LACMA’s Art + Technology Lab grant to work on his project I want to know. His Entitiy series was acquired by the Los Angeles Museum of Art collection.