Alfio Demestre
Mentioned by
Mentioned
- Victoria Colmegna
- Rita Hampton
- Silvina Romero
- Javier Alonzo
- Rubén Borre
- Martín Corujo
- Iván Galliusi
- Andrés Leitner
- Li
- Lio
- Sophie Merry
- Santiago Rey
Biography
For some years I’ve been developing objects and installations, almost all of them following one same leading thread which is light and technological components that are discarded. It would be like giving a new meaning or a recreational approximation that takes the light out of its context to recycle it and articulate new meanings. All this begins when my studies somehow merge -electronic mechanics on one side and art and sculpture on the other side-, and I begin to design a sequence of objects more related to design, as lamps and sculptures made of resins. After some lighted garments, that have leds appropriately placed, they gave way to some lighted acrylic sculptures, engraving devices and matrix (tacos de grabado) similar to etching and pendants of acrylic and light with parts in silver. All these revealed something that later was developed more thoroughly, it was an exhaustive study of anatomy and the energy processes of living beings.
I’m also part of a group of artists called Oligatega Numeric. Together we usually work with images, texts, video, music and installations. The group’s researches inquire in technology, fictional stories, language and thinking processes in general.
I’ve assisted to Antoni Muntadas in the presentation of his work in the Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires, 2003.
Rojas Cultural Center/UBA BECA KUITCA workshops program for visual arts, 2003/2005.
Sculpture in National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón”,
2008 MTV cliks Rosemblum Foundation.
2008 The Huge, Ghosts [El enorme, Fantasmas] Torcuato Di Tella University.
2007 The Huge [El enorme] ESC. 5 ArteBA.
2006 Sudmamoune DA galería.
2006 Modular Silence [Silencio Modular], Daniel Abate gallery.
2005 Ghost Train [Tren Fantasma], ArteBA-Petrobras Prize, 2005.
2004 mobo 6 Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires.
2004 Proyecto Biblioteca en Red, Sonoridad amarilla, ArteBA 2004.
2004 The Huge [“El enorme (esc3)”]. Experimentation Center Colón Theatre (CETC)
2004 Konex Cultural City, Summer Festival Porteño, hall 7 1/2 The Huge ["El enorme"]