Biography
I was born in La Plata, and then moved with my family to Paraná. I studied Visual arts and also some music. In 2002, I was selected for a fellowship by the Fundación Antorchas in Santa Fé, and it was there that I grouped with Lucas Mercado, Marco Bainella, Agueda Guarneri and Cinthia Romero, and we started working together, specially in management projects but also doing joint works. We had a Saint that protected us, “The Mártir” (The Martyr), dulled due to a blow with a ball, she would endlessly repeat recipes by memory and bake her cookies, arghhhh!!! We followed her instructions and showed our devotion until… well… it was with them that I coordinated our meetings with the Fundación Antorchas for artists located in Santa Fé and Entre Ríos. I worked as a curator for the cultural hall of the Nuevo Banco de Entre Ríos, organized seminars and art workshops in Paraná and Santa Fé, invited Remo Bianchedi a couple of times, Esteban Álvarez too, among other things. Last year I was selected to take part in the Visual Art workshops of the Centro Cultural Rojas, in charge of Diana Aisenberg, Rafael Cipolllini, Eva Grinstein, Gachi Harper, Marina De Caro and Roberto Amigo, among others. I currenly live in Buenos Aires. In 2005 I attended Marina de Caro’s workshop and currently, Diana Aisenberg’s art workshops. I’m part of an art collective called “Pariente del Mar”. Some exhibition: Pariente del Mar (Relative of the sea), ArteBA, Buenos Aires, 2006; Fin de Semana Salvaje (Wild Weekend), Casa 13, Córdoba, 2005, Pariente del Mar, Periférica, CC Borges, 2005, Calco (Replica), CC La Hendija, Paraná, 2005, Bienestar (Wellbeing), with Lucas Mercado and C. Romero, La Baulera, Tucumán, 2005, En Caja (In box), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Santa Fé, 2004, Cuente hasta cuatro (Count to four), Sala Cultural Nuevo Banco de Entre Ríos, Paraná, 2004.
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.
I choose an untitled work, from 1999. Drawings and texts on glued papers, and these on a black canvas. They told the story, almost as if it were a comic strip, of a character named Mingyar, and the recurrence of his astral journeys. It’s about 120x80cm. Ink drawings were quite baroque, done on black and white. Texts and drawings were connected with each other almost by chance. Suddenly, I noticed there was a story, made out of images and text.
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 don’t if it’s a tradition, but I recognize myself in those artists that expand their work to other areas, painting, music, management and so on. Of contemporary artists, I like Bas Kosters, Mike Kelley, Julian Opie, Stanley Donwood, Illya Kabakov, Francis Alys, David Bowie, drawings by Wayne Coine, Nara, etc, etc… From Argentina, I like Lucas Mercado, Marco Bainella, Jorge Gutiérrez, Rosalba Mirabella, Natalia Lipovetztki, Cintia Romero, activities by La Baulera, Aníbal and Belkys (Casa 13), Oligatega Numeric, Mateo Amaral, Flavia Da Rin, Marina de Caro, Rosario Bléfari, Diana Aisenberg, Esteban Alvarez, Tamara Stuby, Gabriel Baggio, etc.
