Nicolás Mastracchio

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Andrés Aizicovich
Nicolás Bacal
Gala Berger
Alejandro Chaskielberg
Itamar Hartavi
Lucila Portabales
Cecilia Szalkowicz
Eduardo Costa
Valentina Liernur
Violeta Mollo
Mumi
Eduardo Navarro

Grille (2014)

Archival inkjet print, mounted on Sintra, framed.

52 23/64 x 34 27/32 in

“Science for a Better Life” (Corner Piece) (2013)

Two Archival inkjet print, mounted on Sintra, framed whit clear glass.

48 15/64 x 32 31/64 In. each.

One Chain (Red & Green) (2013)

Archival inkjet print, mounted on Sintra, framed

52 23/64 x 34 27/32 IN.

Emerging from the green screen (2013)

Archival inkjet print, mounted on Sintra, framed, 52 23/64 x 34 27/32 in.

Technologies to observe and camouflage (2012)

Archival inkjet print, mounted on Sintra, framed.

52.36 x 34.84 In.

Letter (2011)

C-print mounted on plexiglass and Sintra,

25.98 x 39.37 In.

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.

February of 2008. The work I choose is my last exhibition: I ♥ Your PICS “I wanted this exhibition to be like: seeing a daybreak in the beach, listening to electronic music, take a picture of yourself in that moment and send it to someone you love”. Is a photography exhibition. All the images has a high level of resource economy, I portrayed my self: hands, face, body parts; these works with some daily object; cellphones, CD's, thread, etc. The operations in every picture are minimum: a person slanting his eyes, fingers coming out the sand, a fragment of a song tattooed in a back. The design of each image and edition of the “staging” is based in observations of what I consume every day: magazines, flickr, the city, etc...My expression is affected by what I'm seeing in this moment. What I like most of my job is when the ideas little by little takes a shape and creates sense. In this pieces, the formal or conceptual decisions are: intuitive impulses and mechanisms mixes responding to a logic.

2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?

I try my works to be able for all kind of public, let's say, able to dialog with all people who goes watching the work, in an exhibition, a fair or Internet, I don't want to leave anyone aside. I would like my works to free the viewer to a full of sensations trip.

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 watch a COLORS magazine issue that I keep from march of 1995, I see it once and another. I have cork board in my room with a collection of different sea images. I like fashion magazines, and design. To watch movies and TV. In this last years I looked art works in Internet and books, I liked it a lot ( this list is an artists ranking): Damien Hirst, Jason Rhoades, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cattelan, Fischli & Weiss, Olafur Eliasson, Jeff Koons, Anne de Vries, Erwin Wurm, Tom Fidman, Edward Hopper, Gregory Crewdson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Christo, Matthew Barney, Dalí, Tobias Rehberger and Andreas Gursky.

4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why

Miguel Mitlag Cecilia Szalkowicz Marcelo Pombo: his '90 works with product boxes Gastón Pérsico: his exhibition at the French Alliance (2006) Eduardo Navarro: his next exhibition (2008) Valentina Liernur: the sculptures she have done for A.Y.Notdead, Golden Days (2007) and her paintings at Ruth Benzacar Flavia da Rin: the pictures I've seen between 2005-07, I want to see her next exhibitions Guillermo Faivovich: Park (2005) Macchi: the fretwork newspapers Lamothe: Maine in wood (2007) Diego de Aduriz: his exhibition at Appetite (2007) Diego Bianchi: My Summer Bunker Project (2006)