Biography
She was born in La Paz (Bolivia). Since 1967 she lives and works in Buenos Aires.
She studied engraving and lithography, and has participated since the 80’s in individual and group exhibitions at the National Engraving Museum (Buenos Aires), National Exhibition (Buenos Aires), Adriana Indika Gallery (Buenos Aires) and international biennales such as Intergrafik (Berlin), Washington Printmakers Gallery, IX Engraving Biennale of San Juan (Puerto Rico), Osaka Triennale of Engraving (Japan), among others. In 1984 and 1987 she obtained the National Prize of Engraving for foreigners. From the 90’s she begins to work with relief and volume pieces.
She made individual and group exhibitions of objects and installations at the Rojas Cultural Center (Buenos Aires), Recoleta Cultural Center (Buenos Aires), Contemporary Art Museum of Bahía Blanca, Parque España Cultural Center (Rosario), Diana Lowensteien Gallery (Buenos Aires), Luisa Pedrouzo Gallery (Buenos Aires), El Borde Gallery (Buenos Aires), Latin American Institute (Rome), Arco (Madrid), Art Basel (Basel) and Art Frankfurt (Germany).
In 1998 she obtained a scholarship from the National Arts Fund (FNA), and in 2001 she wins the Acquisition Prize at the Biennale of Contemporary Art in Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
In 2008 she has made these individual exhibitions: Installation in the Contemporary Art Museum of Rosario, and an installation in Florencia Braga Menéndez Gallery (Buenos Aires). She has made also these collective exhibitions: White in the Borges Cultural Center (Buenos Aires) and in the Tigre Museum (Buenos Aires province), and, in October 2008, The Cristina Schiavi Project, in the Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MALBA).
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 this scene, which has a lot of the form and the content of my work. It’s a set of relationships, scales and feelings of the material texture. The pieces are modeled and then made into paper pulp. The figure has an actual size and the hen is a bit enlarged. There is a silent space and an indefinite time between them both.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
A free choice, my thoughts, my presence in the work. I prefer it to be a key.
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?
In the tradition of sculpture. I could not specify particular reference, it is everything that surprised me, coming to some kind of excitement with a powerful sense of beauty. Some artists: Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Giacometti, Arturo Marini, Dame Elisabeth Frink, Louise Bourgeois, Mariko Mori, Kiki Smith, Marlene Dumas, Adriana Varejao, Marcia Schvartz, Pablo Suárez, Jacoby, Cristina Schiavi, Silvana Lacarra, Verónica Romano, Ana López, Gumier Maier, Román Vitali, Marcelo Pombo, Mitsuko, Liliana Porter, Liliana Maresca, Alicia Herrero, Magdalena Jitrik... and more.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
All the installations by Liliana Maresca, the installation by Magdalena Jitrik in the Argentine Libertarian Federation, León Ferrari at the Museum of Modern Art, the latest videos of Liliana Porter, the last exhibition of Pablo Siquier...
