Biography
Christian Wloch (Buenos Aires, 1971). He trained in visual arts, film, video, multimedia and new technonologies. Through his work explores geometric interdimensional universes generated from the light,sound and perception.
Scholarships, residencies and awards: Visual Arts Clinic, Centro Cultural Rojas (2005) Experimental Hipermediátic Latinoamerican (2005) Selection Paradigm Digital Award (2007); Interactive Art Program IV, Fundación Telefónica (2008) Production Lab Media-Lab, Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires (2008), First Prize National Facility Onedotzero, Recoleta Cultural Center (2008) Honorable Mention Prize MAMbA-FT, Arts and New Technologies (2009), First Prize Biennial Kosice (2010 ) official competition selection FIVA (2011) Honorable Mention Prize Arnet Open Pit (2011) Cultural Itaú Finalist Visual Arts Award (2012), Second Prize MAMbA-FT, Arts and New Technologies (2012).
Exhibitions: MAMbA Award-FT (Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, 2012), Itaú Cultural Award Visual Arts (Auditorium, Mar del Plata, 2012); ArteBA (Renoir, Buenos Aires, 2012);3rd Edition Award Itaú Cultural (Space Cultural Itaú, Buenos Aires, 2012), Culture and Media 6 (Development Center Multimedia, Centro Cultural San Martín, Buenos Aires, 2011); Action Light (Law School of Buenos Aires, 2011) , Infinity Tower (City Park Buenos Aires, 2011);3rd Edition Award Arnet Open Pit (Museo Emilio Caraffa, Cordoba, 2011); Biennial Award Kosice (Object a, Buenos Aires, 2010); Award MAMbA-FT, 6th edition (Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Buenos Aires, 2010); Connection (Lordi Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires, 2010), Culture and half 4 (San Martín Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, 2009); Onedotzero (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2007-2008); Art Light (Luminous Garden, Buenos Aires, 2007); Mix 05 (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2005); Projection Wiggle (Experimental Center of Teatro Colon, Buenos Aires, 2005); urban Thought (Teatro San Martín, Buenos Aires, 2005), Modulations (Baltar Contemporary, Mar del PLata, 2005); Jurassic Fuga (Argentine Museum of Natural Sciences, Buenos Aires, 2003-2004), Bridges (Samples Garage, Buenos Aires, 2002/2004); Elevations (Tower City Park, Buenos Aires, 2002).
Website: www.christianwloch.com.ar
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.
“Link” is a audiovisual installation composed with three-dimensional video modules which are activated and modified with the visitors presence. Light nodes sounds and movements are created in this piece, which works like dynamics architectural instruments in the space. (“National Installation” Award during the “Onedotzero Buenos Aires” exhibition in the Recoleta Cultural Center.)
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
Attention and curiosity are good tools for an art work perception.
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?
Geometric Abstraction, sculpture, architecture, kinetic, minimalism, constructivism, concrete art, futurism, Kandinsky, Malevich, Russians vanguards, Miró, Xul Solar, Bauhaus, Niemeyer, Le Parc, Sotto, Stockhausen, Cage, Paik, Bill Viola, Fluxus, Kraftwerk, Santiago Calatrava, Carl Gustav Jung, David Bhom, Carl Seagan y Rupert Sheldrake, among others.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
Julio Le Parc at the MNBA, video and digital art Euro-Americans Exhibitions, Paula Rivas in ArteBA, Rogelio Polesello in Recoleta C.C., the Re-collection and Victor Grippo at the MALBA, among others..
5. What tendencies or groupings from common elements do you see in argentine art of the last ten or fifteen years?
Exhibitions and conceptual crosses generations, formals and spirituals realized by different disciplines artists.
