Biography
Buenos Aires (1965). Studied architecture (Buenos Aires University), Filmmaking ((Cyevic) and photography (EAF).
He took courses with Alberto Goldenstein, Fabiana Barreda, Juan Travnik, and Eduardo Gil.
Between 1996 y 2001 he was a staff member in La Nación newspaper and worked free lance in different magazines from Argentina and other countries.
He participated in Telefonica’s scholarship Intercampos II (2006).
Some of his exhibitions are: Muy Doméstica, Galería Arte x Arte (2008); La Construcción al contrario MARQ (2007), Rojas Cultural Center’s Photogallery (2006); Platt and OSDE Awards, IX Premio Klemm a las Artes Visuales y Premio Art +Trust (2006); Festival de la Luz, official show (2005); Pop Hotel Boquitas Pintadas (2002), Pueblo Fantasma, Faculty of Psychology’s Gallery (1998).
Dos Retratos-Dos Miradas Y Erotizarte II, Recoleta Cultural Center (1996). A.E.I.U.O Arte por correo Recoleta Cultural Center (1996)
Autorretratos III, Fine Arts Nacional Museum of La Plata (1996), Coca Cola in the Arts Contest (1994), selected in Ciudad Joven Biennial (1992) and special mention in Arte Joven Biennial (1991), Bar Bolivia (1990).
Collaborative Projects: Misterios de la Carne (1995) Recoleta Cultural Center with R. Schoijett, J. Ghersa, R .Cippolini, S. Paredes, L.Lindner, among others. Ultravioleta (1994) with Rosana Schoijett, Juana Ghersa and Rafael Cippolini.
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’m very fond of the picture with the little castle (Atlantica Series) taken in Santa Clara del Mar. It’s a tiny fortress in which its owner was able to stamp his dreams and the fantasies of his life, something like an epic movie with a happy ending.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
I don’t suggest anything. I believe in the no-fate of Random.
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 recognize myself in any tradition. I can only recognize myself through my friends, and to take pictures of certain things that annoy my perception. This effort makes me find sense and beauty in what’s traditionally ugly, fake, and supposedly, of bad taste. Like somebody said: “Unless what’s ugly is understood, what’s true won’t be understood. Even more: in understanding what’s fake, the truth emerges on its own”.
Artists that I’m interested in: Goldfrapp, Alexander Apóstol, Di Corcia, Alberto Goldenstein, Kosice, Diane Arbus, Mozart, Morten Nilsson, Martin Parr, Post industrial boys, Grete Stern, Philipp Weigl, Asian Punk Boy, Wolfgang Tillmans, Butt Magazine.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
I was interested in the exhibitions I’ve seen in Rojas Cultural Center, Belleza y Felicidad, Boquitas Pintadas, in a way they are places where many artists gave their first steps.
