Guillermo Bert
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The work of Guillermo Bert has been exhibited in the United States and South America and is included in the collections of numerous museums. He is the recipient of many awards and grants and has been commissioned to create a number of public art works.
Recently he participated in several important exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach CA, the San Diego Museum of Art in San Diego CA, the Fowler Museum at UCLA, the Museum of Tolerance and the Architectural Design Museum both in Los Angeles.
In the last few years he had solo exhibitions at Peter Blake Gallery in Laguna Beach Gallery, 415 Gallery in San Francisco and the and the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial at the Performance Art Institute in San Francisco.
Mr. Bert is involved with an on going series, “Bar-codes” which is based on the Universal Bar-Code symbols. This series has evolved from a comment on consumerism, to become a commentary on the issues of identity in today’s global culture.
The identity aspect led to the current series of textile pieces in which the indigenous stories from the Americas are encrypted on bar-codes and then woven by various native artisans from the same communities using their traditional loom techniques. These works are currently on exhibition at the Pasadena Museum of California Art in Pasadena California in 2012