Biography
I was born in Buenos Aires in 1981. I never really enjoyed drawing or painting. My approach to art was through Ana, my nanny. She was doing an art correspondence course. When I was 12, she started attending a painting workshop and I, since I always wanted to be with her, joined her. But that was just for a year. Only when I was 17, all of a sudden, I felt I wanted to paint. I started again the workshop I’d gone with Ana. Later on I tried to enter the Escuela Prilidiano Pueyrredón but failed at the entrance examination. I basically couldn’t paint, and plus they asked me how many edges are needed to make a cube. Since I didn’t know what an edge was, I assumed the question was different, and I answered: “You only need one edge to make a cube”. Then, when I no longer resisted wanting to be a painter, I learnt by myself how to draw.
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.
The work I choose is the debris installation that I’ve exhibited at ASGA back in 2004, and then sold at the Granja de Almagro greengrocer’s.
It was something like a river or a cloak of debris, made out of painted durlock. I’ve found, among those debris the perfect environment for my metamorphosis, so that I could paint (be) in many different ways and make them also coexist as a whole. Be one and multiple at the same time.
And I feel that, somehow, this work is like a source I always come back to, to find something new. It is, to me, a matrix.
