Biography
Born in 1968, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works in Buenos Aires.
From a formal point of view the work of Fernando Goin explores the territory of the anamorphous. Anamorphous or false analogy, as Roland Barthes calls it, consists of hiding images within the image itself provoking the viewer to discover them by changing his viewpoint. That that is not said directly is said anamorphously.
This is the central aspect of the work of Goin, to play with “the pause”, the out of focus and the construction of the point of view, and finally the paradox of "seeing what we see." In this work, the artist has made a series of installations and interventions in different locations of Buenos Aires (“The Tunnel", "Botanical," "How green was my valley", etc.) always in reference to the spectators’ viewpoint and their participation on stage.
Exhibitions (selection)
ArteBa / 2007
"Thaw".Calidris project. Video installation, The End of the World Biennal, Ushuaia, Argentina. April / 2007
"Suspended between time and space." Paintings. Bacano Gallery. December / 2006
“Sound experience for a contemplation state”. Monastery Santa Catalina de Siena. October / 2006
"The Tunnel." Sound installation in underground pedestrian passage. October / 2005
"How green was my valley." English Monumental Tower. June / 2004
“Atmosphere”, Botánico. September / 2003
"The Chair Game"participatory action with Polenta Group / 2002
"Room 102. Installation. Boquitas Pintadas Hotel (Private Museum) / 2002
"When Arriving." Paintings objects and installation. PABELLON IV. November / 2000
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.
"Botanical": first experiences taking over a public space. For one night, the doors of the botanical garden Carlos Thays were opened; sound hidden in the bushes, three greenhouses illuminated in green, a path. It was an experimental and ephemeral staging, a light and sound device, a pointing out of a "piranésic" space, open to the free decisions of the pedestrian.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
Rather than to read it, you have to experience it.
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 am delighted with works such as Painting by Gerard Richter, jime Dine, Horst Janssen drawings, Fluxus, The Bauhaus, Jorge de la Vega, Eva Hesse, Giotto, Gaston Bachelard, Olafur Eliasson, etc.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
"Images of the unconscious" at PROA. Work of Brazilian artists interned at psychiatric hospitals. Besides the formal aesthetic enjoyment of the works, it was the reflection it caused in me what impressed me the most. The “device” was based on their creators, people socially labeled as "mad". "Dark room" of Roberto Jacoby, Belleza y Felicidad Gallery.
