Biography
I was born in Buenos Aires, October 26, 1974. I grew up in the city, often traveling to the country and the south. This has given me a very close experience of nature all throughout my life. My observation of the natural environment is influenced by the heightened sensitivity of my father's eyes in his dedication to the field and the influence of my brother, naturalist ever since. I entered the art world by the hand of my French teacher who through his library of unique books and travel accounts I spread of his passion for ancient art. Then I had the opportunity to travel and see those places. The appearance of my dog Godiva, his partner Perseus and then their pups, led many of my works.
Parallel to my high school I attended several workshops in drawing and painting. In 1993 I began studying sculpture at the ENBAPP, continuing my training in the ESBA Ernesto de la Cárcova. My approach to contemporary art was in 2002 when I started doing workshops with Tulio de Sagastizábal. In 2006 I was assistant to the workshops given by Fabian Burgos.
From 2004 on I started showing my work in various solo and group exhibitions highlighting "Eye of magnifying glass", Baltar Contemporary, Mar del Plata 07; "Sentinels / guardians of the world," The Edge Gallery, 06; "Visions furtive" casa13, Cordoba, 05, "The arrival" hall Prometheus, CCRecoleta, 04/05.
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 "Guardians", a large digital editing, for considering it a convergence point of many of my interests which continue up to date. It was during its construction that I understood, recognized and explored vast range of traditional resources, with emphasis on hyper-visibility of the Holland school. In this work, as in "The Voyage" made in the ecological reserve of the Querandí Lighthouse and as in "Pending" the scene is constructed from a photo shot of my dogs. The story comes from the spirit they manifest and the management of the scales is governed by an affective assessment of reality, calculated from all the characters. Linking dissimilar space-time situations created a landscape - scene composed of several planes of reality, where space is developed through the interplay between the huge and tiny, between generated reality and recognizable reality. In this work, unlike its predecessors, the landscape is generated from the fusion of a multitude of disparate geographies, but carriers of a common spirit. I Kept until the end a certain tension between the characters and their world, trying to keep them weightless, stolen from the context. Feeling that was intensified both by the contrast between the integrity of the characters and the diversity of the miniaturist topography they inhabited, as for the contrast between their ecstatic state and the unstable fluctuation of the landscape. The intention dormant for the entire construction process was that the resulting image, at first sight presented as an organic whole, may transparent this strangeness and artificiality contradicting the apparent integrity of the whole.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
With easy spirit, patient and rigorous.
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 joined and I recognize into the landscape tradition, I understand the "landscape" as a cultural construction and form of knowledge. My work is strongly rooted in my experience of nature as ways to strengthen and challenge perception. I care deeply about the historical dimension of art and while the construction of a work I reinterpret descriptive and narrative methods of ancient art. As a contemporary references, I’d especially note my colleagues, whose work I follow avidly, maintain a fluid dialogue and share concerns, Leila Tschopp, Lorraine Green, Maja Lascano, among others. As concerning the vast ocean of contemporary art, I will mention among my dearest: Louise Bourgeois, Doris Salcedo, Kiki Smith, Annette Messager, Tacita Dean, Diana Thater, Anish Kapoor, Richard Deacon, Bill Viola. As concerning whose work studies related to my development, Andy Goldsworthy, Giuseppe Penone, Ana Mendieta, Jeff Wall, Thomas Struth, Bae Bien - U, Michel Francois, Karen Knorr, Noriko Furunishi, Jean-Luc Mylayne, Torbjorn Rodland. As reference points, the most watched The Giotto, Fra Angelico, Hieronymus Bosch, Dürer, Friedrich, Turner, Constable, and nearby, Bacon, Giacometti, Aurebach and others.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
The retrospective exhibitions of Victor Grippo, De la Vega and Kuitca at Malba, Lucio Fontana and Liliana Porter Bow at the CCRecoleta. "Nothing happens twice" by Tulio de Sagastizábal, Rubbers gallery, Fabian Burgos at Dabbah Torrejon. Sebastian Gordin at Ruth Benzacar, Esteban Pastorino, in Dabbah Torrejon. From the recent ones: "Material for an époque" by Leila Tschopp, 713 Arte Contemporáneo gallery and the collective exhibition "Wild Museum" at the CCEB.
