One begins to paint when
Matisse
you don’t set foot in the sea,
not when you swim ashore.
Bio
My first drawings came to light in my home town of Maria Susana, in the south west of Santa Fe province, Argentina. In those small streets I painted and in 1983 my mural won first prize at “Mariano Moreno” school and in 1988 another mural took first prize during the Golden Jubilee of the town. The aroma of my mom’s home cooking filled the air every day.
In Rosario (1993) at Moro’s studio my oils took the form of Still Life. Between 1994 and 1997 I painted using acrylics with “El pintor de las islas “ ( The island painter) Raul Dominguez in Rosario city on the banks of the Paraná river. I am obsessed by acrylics and at the same time they help me relax.
I am passionate about mathematics and art, playing around with them, I graduated as an engineer from the UTN-FRR in Rosario which allowed me to travel the world managing projects but always coexisting with both as Fibonacci in ‘Las Meninas’. I have traveled. I have lived in Paris and back in 2013 in Mario Gurfein’s studio I messed around with the transparency of watercolour their contrasting colors and highlights. Since 2019 I have been doing clinics with Goyo Barja in Buenos Aires and San Carlos de Bariloche, Neuquén province which was a fresh take on myrtles and lakes. I discovered my passion for pastels with Alejo Musich, playing around with splashes of colour to see what can be achieved. Every Wednesday since 2018, using acrylic and and enjoying passionate social gatherings at German Gargano’s atelier trying to create “Mi obra maestra” (My Masterpiece). Delving into the analysis by Foucault “The Order of Things”, each Friday (2024) with Daniel Santoro we explore “La imagen y las cosas” (Images and things) and I draw my “things”.
In 2020 I was broken, I suffered a huge loss the most profound of my life and I could hardly breath….so picking up the pieces , in the side streets of Paris I remembered Matisse’s words “you start painting when you cannot touch the bottom of the ocean , not when you’re swimming along the shore “ so I allowed my ghosts to desist from holding me up and with my acrylics I converted my sorrow into a homage to “Her”. This series was exhibited in Palacio Paz by Magg’s Gallery in 2023. “ I left to rest my engineering career , my thing is to paint”. In 2023 I received a first mention from Argentinian Watercolors Art Prize.
I have taken part in several collective exhibitions: Watercolors in “Consejo Deliberante de Vicente Lopez (2024)”. In “ UBA-Faculty of Laws, Buenos Aires, Watercolors (2024). In Punta del Este, Uruguay, with Magg’s Gallery at Grand Hotel, with the serie “Reino en colores” , diverses techniques (2024). In Mar del Plata with exhibitions of prize winning watercolors (2023). In Punta del Este: Private exhibition of pastels (2022). In Tumbaya, Jujuy, private exhibition of watercolor (2018). Currently, I’m preparing a new exhibit for “Art on Paper” in New York City (September 2024).
Now, far from my home town, it is possible to view my works at my space on Uruguay and Juncal street in Buenos Aires.
Statement
The works I do have spills of colour. I maniacally engage in the mental landscape and I discover chaos, but it’s my chaos and I embrace it and release it… splash!
I’m obsessed with color and animals. I paint animals which do not pretend to be real but that seek an impossible or forbidden enjoyment from the gaze. I remember what Heidegger said “Das Ding”…the thingness of things… which has nothing to do with anything but has to do with everything.
I draw and paint using different materials that make up the scene, engaging in a conversation between things that appear and play, not knowing why it is right or wrong. I usually start drawing in charcoal, then I compose with pastel, acrylic or watercolour and the figures or animals and the planes that contain them begin to appear. I love Degas’ pastels, if he had chosen Sennelier to create a series of non existent colours I would gladly follow. I prefer all my materials to be Sennelier.
