Nadia Guthmann
Mentioned by
Mentioned
- Lorraine Green
- Carolina Lockwood
- Lihue Pumilla
- Ingrid Roddick
- Josiana Beain
- Pablo Cortondo
- Viviana Dziewa
- Daniela Irigoyen
- Ingjerd Hansen Juvik
- Kike Mayer
- Tam Muro
- Mercedes Schamber
Biography
I was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1964 and with 12 years old, recently completed, I moved to Bariloche City (Argentina). Since very young, I always felt interested in nature, ecology and evolution, of living beings, feeling specially great empathy to animals. I relate with this themes using both hemispheres, reading and thinking contemplating and experiencing, drawing and making sculptures. The mountaineering practice became a center in my adolescence, allowing my longed contact with Nature and also an escape from the oppressive and repressive ambient of Argentina in those times.
I studied Biology in The Comahue's National University and I got my Doctorate in 1988, with a Conicet scholarship. In parallel I continued with drawings and sculptures, learning some techniques in local artists workshops and short curses given by artists from other cities.
Bariloche wasn't offering many opportunities to assist curses and not even to see art exhibitions and I was taking advantage to compensate when I traveled to Buenos Aires, sometimes with scholarships help like the Rio Negro's Culture Undersecretary scholarships in 1989 and the Trabucco Foundation in 2005. I didn't only visit visual art exhibitions, also theater, dance, cinema, music shows. In 1999 I won the Foundation scholarship for The Interior Artists Professional Training Program in Bariloche. More recently, my participation in Regional Inter fields (Entrecampos) in Gral. Roca City and Rosario City, both in Argentina in 2008, have been very stimulating.
I started to exhibit my work and to send sculptures to regional contests in 1983. I 1996 I got the first award of the XIII Annual Art Salon of the Bahia Blanca's Stock Market Foundation, with one of my first works in metallic fabric, which collects biological and sculptural concepts. In 2003 I won the first award in the XII Rio Negro Art Salon in Bariloche. That same year I've been selected to participate, for the first time in a exhibition in Buenos Aires: Open Studio in the ex Harrod´s stores. Then I was invited to participate in Artificial Nature in The Oliveras's Mansion. In 2005, the Rio Negro's Art exhibition, took part in the Recoleta Cultural Center, with the Argentina Paints Good Program (Argentina Pinta Bien), where I took advantage because I had some work already in Buenos Aires and it was at the same time when I've presented work at the Palais de Glace (Buenos Aires). To obtain an Honor Mention cheers me to keep presenting my work and at the following year I received the Third Award. I've started also to send work to the Manuel Belgrano Salon at the Sivori Museum, were I got a mention in 2005. In those years it was been organized, in the Cipolletti City, in Rio Negro, the unique National that exists in my region, and I got a mention in 2006 and the Second Price in 2008.