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Miguel Mitlag

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Fabián Bercic
Carla Bertone
Marcelo Galindo
Octavio Garabello Borus
Carlos Herrera
Adrián Villar Rojas
Roberto Conlazo
Raving Mad Carlos
Daniel Mirkin Frois
Julia Sánchez
Tandooris

Miguel Mitlag (1969, Buenos Aires, Argentina)
He studied Film Direction at the Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires. Attended phtography workshops with Juan Carlos Villareal (1990); Alberto Goldenstein (2000) and an art clinic with Jorge Gumier Maier (2001) During 1991 and 1992 he did several workshops at the International Center of Photography, New York. In 2000 he was awarded with the Artistic Creation Grant, given by the Fundación Antorchas, and in 2003 obtained a fellowship to attend the Programme of Visual Arts Workshops CC. Rojas, UBA-KUITCA. Among his individual exhibitions, the following are highlighted: Those he did in Braga Menéndez (2006) and the photogallery of the CC Rojas (2002). He took also part in several collective exhibitions, such as “Civilización y Barbarie” (Civilization and barbarism), contemporary Argentine artists, Brazil, Guatemala, Panama, Chile, Argentina (2004-2006); Folk, Daniel Abate Galería (2005), Barilaro-Mitlag, Espacio Vox, Bahía Balnca (2001), Argentine photography, with his work Art Detroy, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (MAMBA, 1999)
The work “Plataforma stripper” (Stripper platform) was selected in the ArteBA-Petrobras award, and in 2004, his work “Patio Interior” (Internal patio) took part in the Proyecto Red, ArteBA. At the same time, he was awarded with the 1st Prize, Bahía Blanca Art Biennial (2005), and the Leonardo da Vinci video award (1996) for his work “Art Detroy”, among others.

WORKS

Brown monument

Stripper platform

Experimental vehicle

04 - (Lithium) To put the gifts

#09

#10

#08

Day of the Virgin

Codex Platinum 1

(Installation view)

Codex Platinum 2

(Installation view)

Codex Platinum 3

(Installation view)

Empty white bag

VISION OF ART

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.

“Brown monument” is a C-print photograph. It's a work that I did back in 2003, at a moment in which I was thinking on how to develop a mental idea on a 3D dimension. First, thought as a real monument, a cynical monument, empty of all content, very acid. I added elements that I found particularly interesting or suggestive, such as, for example, a guitar, a flute or some cookies. I was [more]

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

First of all, it seems to me that a work of art, an oeuvre, needs to be read carefully, looking for connection points with previous works, with other artists with things outside the world of art, with philosophical ways of thinking, with science, cities and urban mythology. Without all that background, art becomes a little bit like fast food. No matter what, it's always been like that, no one [more]

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?

Tradition is a problematic concept that doesn't attract me whatsoever. Generally, people that interests me lives and produces from reality, from what they see on the streets, from the news, from what they have in their heads today. There are many people doing quality art in Argentina, risking themselves as they can, with enormous economic difficulties, because here the art market is a joke. [more]

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

Some works by Fabián Burgos seem very interesting to me in order to think the connection between aesthetics and what's more physical or mental. It's a very deep and committed work. Víctor Grippo managed to group all of that together and connect it to a social aspect in Argentina. Marcelo Pombo: his last exhibition in Benzacar was very powerful, with humor, sensibility, very compact, perfectly [more]

What tendencies or groupings from common elements do you see in argentine art of the last ten or fifteen years?

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