Biography
Artist and stage director. He also directs La Baulera, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (Tucumán, Argentina). He was born in Tucumán, Argentina, in 1965, where he currently lives. An actor and stage director, he founds the group La Baulera back in 1993 as a group devoted to artistic production and research. With its artistic productions he takes part in numerous festivals and events, both nationally and internationally, and was awarded with numerous prizes. He directs the Teatro Estable de Tucumán. In 2003, the Group initiates the management procedures for the creation of a Contemporary Arts Center, which he currently directs, and that was opened on March 2004. He is the President of the Civil Association, also founded by the group, and co-author of the draft for the Complejo Cultural El Abasto, which was presented to the Municipality of San Miguel de Tucumán. He takes part, as tutor, in the Regional meetings of analysis and cultural management for artists initiatives, which is coordinated by TRAMA. He also participates in Contexto I project (Tucumán) and Contexto II (Mexico), a proposal that TRAMA has thought of for Rain. He took part of the Tennor Grasso art collective and is part of the San Jorge y el Dragón artist duet, next to Natalia Lipovetsky, with whom he has obtained the 2nd Petrobras award in ArteBA 2005. He is a theater professor at the Arts School of the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, participates as an artist in the 1st edition of the International Artists Residency of Argentina (RIIA), back in 2006. As an artist, he takes part in several exhibitions locally and internationally. He curates numerous exhibitions, such as Pertenencias, organized by the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Interfaces, Tucumán Río Gallegos –organized by the Secretaría de Artes Visuales de la Nación and Envío, La Baulera – ArteBA 2006.
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 search for Freedom.
The search for the utopian gesture as a daily exercise and the influences of context, or better yet, the influences of the street as a stage for everyday action, gave, as a result, the search for freedom.
For such a search, I set out the wrong question and obtained a wrong answer. I asked people on the street for ‘freedom’, and they point me to a certain street by that name/concept.
The search is focused on provoking in people the accurate gesture that points out to the highly utopian value of freedom, a concept that, within our geographical and historical context, generates so much tension. In this way, the action acquires its artistic potential and transforms itself into a work of art, and the artist, absolutely exposed, vanishes into everyday world.
When I eventually find a street by that name, Libertad (Freedom), I ask people if this is freedom. When they say 'yes', I stay in Freedom for an hour.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
I distinguish three central themes within my work. Gesture, as a key element for the performer or the actor, Ephemeral installation as a form of monument, and the everyday object as the conveyer of a highly symbolic content
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?
Action art, in all his variants, is the referential field of my work. There are many artists that interest me or influence me as from such a concept: Gutai (specially Murakami), Fluxus, Fontana, and closer: Alys, Claudia Fontes, Amorales, Geli, Adriana Bustos and many others.
