Biography
Lives and Works in Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina).
He is a Visual Arts’ teacher with orientation on Painting and Carving. Guitar player of the pop punk band “Loquero”, with which he records “Fear to public exhibition” [Temor morboso a la exposicion publica], in 1997; “Lonely Club” [Club de Solos], in 1999, “Fantasy”, in 2001; “Cosolation” [ Consuelo ], in 2003: “Black”, in 2004, and the short records “Low strike” [Golpe bajo] in 2000; “Atlantida”, in 2002; "Demos 91/94" in 2005 and "Suicidal Football Club" in 2008.
He attends the following art work analysis courses: with Valeria González, Santiago García Navarro, Nacho Iasparra and Patricio Larrambebere, at the Rojas Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, Argentina) in 2007; with Rafael Cippolini in 2006; with Pablo Siquier in 2005; with Claudia del Rio, Tulio de Sagastizabal y Fabian Lebenglik at Antorchas Foundation, between 2001 and 2002; with Eduardo Medici in 1999 and Eduardo Hoffman in 1998.
Presents the following solo exhibitions: Happy City [Ciudad Feliz], Auditorium Cultural Center (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires),2008; Happy City [Ciudad Feliz], Rojas Cultural Center (Buenos Aires), 2007; Fantasy [Fantasy], Appetite gallery, 2007; Tinderbox [Tinderbox Appetite gallery, 2006; Contemporary Baltar [Baltar Contemporaneo], Mar del Plata, 2005; I love trash [I love trash], Victoria Ocampo’s Country House (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires),2004; Recoleta Cultural Center (Buenos Aires), 2001.
Participation in collective exhibitions: Modern Sheraton 08[Sheraton Moderna 08], 2008; Truce 01[Tregua 01], Neuquén, 2001; Open Studio[Estudio Abierto]; War Club [War Club], 2007; Love Hurts II [Love Hurts II], Sendrós Gallery; Chandon Hall [Salon Chandon], MNBA (Neuquen); Modern Sheraton 07 [Sheraton Moderna 07]; 23 Photographers 60-06[23 fografos,60-06 ] Rio Gallegos’ Museum (Santa Cruz); MAMA Project [Proyecto MAMA], Salvador University and Caras y Caretas Cultural Center; Fatal Photography [Fotografia Fatal], Audiovisual Institute, (Parana, Entre Rios), 2006; Beating Group [Grupo Palpitando], Young Art Biennale (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires) 2005; Self-portrait [Autoretrato], Appetite gallery; Recollection [Recoleccion], Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires –Malba-; Season [Temporada], Borges Cultural Center (Buenos Aires); Marine Varnish [Barniz marino], Borges Cultural Center (Buenos Aires); Ete chic [Ete chic], French Alliance, 2004; Object and representation [Objeto y Representacion], Castagnino Museum (Rosario, Santa Fe), Mar del Plata and Museum of Modern art in Mendoza, 2003; Gauchos GUemes [Gauchos GUemes], MOTP, 2001; 22 meters [22 metros], Auditorium Cultural Center (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires); With Fund [Con Fondo], Contemporary Art International Fund; Engraving Mention at the Castagnino Museum Award; 2000 Holiday In Painting Biennale, Cuix Art (Córdoba); Spaceship Space[Espacio Nave], Auditorium Cultural Center (Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires); Encouraging Award Buenos Aires Province’ Bank, ArteBA 2000; VII Chandon Bienale, Palais de Glace (Buenos Aires).
Vision of art
1. Choose a work that represents you, describe it in relation to its format and materiality, its relation with time and space, its style and theme; detail its production process.
“Tinderbox” [Tinderbox], is an installation realized in the Appetite Gallery in the year 2006 in a room that was approximately 3x3m. Walls and ceiling were covered with pictures of women with no faces in their own rooms and cinema posters in which the principal character’s faces where covered with red paint. A bed in which I slept during the five days that in took to prepare this show, an old intervened light table, small objects from a time between childhood and some kind of psychotic adolescence some cheap amplifier and electric guitar, with really bad sound, a tape recorder with techno punk music, general mess climate, a deep and intense sensation, some really bad light source, to sum up, an obsessive psycho-teenager fiction. Regarding the pictures, at some point, when I gave up painting, I was interested in working with bodies, they were objects to me, I felt no interest on their faces. I tell this to some of my female contacts in my MSN Messenger and they become interested in my proposal, and I slowly start with my current work, which is based in taking pictures of female bodies in separate striptease situations, with the explicit condition, from both sides, that no face will be included in the final production. Models are not professional, and no one got paid for posing. I meet them through MSN Messenger and I rarely see them ever again after the shooting day, I explain my working process and then I take the pictures in their homes or pre-established places, some times in punk rock concert’s backstage, or bathrooms or any private place. I use cheap cameras, a digital, 4MP Sony and an analogical camera that my mother got in the supermarket for buying some soda. I carry no equipment.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
I let it be in the subjectivity of the one observing.
3. In reference to your work and your position in the national and international art fields, what tradition do you recognize yourself in? Who are your contemporary referents? What artists of previous generations are of interest to you?
I’m interested in the amateur tendency, Internet pages where you find photos of people themselves, cheap porn pages, photos with too much flash, wrongly taken, I don’t no which tradition I belong to. Fotologs as well, where you find many many pictures with no pretentions and there is interchange between participants generating interesting virtual relations through posts. Ramones, The police, Crass, The Clash, Riff, The Cramps, may be the rock esthetic is what has influenced me the most, new wave bands and punk, porno videos, lp's covers, posters, comic’s magazines, fanzines and the collage punk esthetic.
