Museo Moderno
Arzuaga Andrés
Oil on canvas, 2022, 155x145cm

(Buenos Aires, 1984) is a Professor in Visual Arts, a career he studied between 2003 and 2008 in Junín (Xul Solar Institute) and Pehuajó (Carlos Torrallardona Institute). In 2010, he moved to the City of Buenos Aires to continue his training studies in contemporary art. He was selected by the Torcuato Di Tella University to monitor work under the mentorship of Eduardo Stupía for two consecutive years. After working for several years with Eduardo Hoffmann, he began to work as an editor and director of artistic productions such as La Menesunda by Marta Minujín and The Silence of the Sirens by Eduardo Basualdo, among others. He studied with Alicia Herrero and Marcolina Di Pierro. He is responsible for the assembly area of the MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires. In 2015, he opened his San Telmo workshop to the public with the group exhibition Picasso comes out everywhere. The exhibition has the participation of Fabián Burgos, with whom he also carried out a work clinic. His work has been awarded by the Manuel Belgrano Plastic Arts Salon (2013) and the Federico Jorge Klemm Prize (2016). He has participated in the open workshops of the La Ira de Dios gallery and exhibited collectively and individually in spaces such as FACA – Feria de Arte Contemporáneo Argentina (2017, Miranda Bosch Gallery), Espacio de Arte Embassy of Italy, Hotel Brick (both 2015 ), in the General Viamonte Historical Museum, Buenos Aires (2009, 2006), among others. At the beginning of 2019, he presented With the light, a solo exhibition of paintings and tapestries at Miranda Bosch Gallery New York, and as part of the group exhibition August at Durban Segnini Gallery, Miami.

The works of Andrés Arzuaga formulate a striking return to painting and its most essential elements, oil and canvas, in which a sustained interest in form and color is revealed. In this sense, while his poetics draws on the history of painting and the conceptual modulations of abstraction and minimalism, borrowing its language through full flat colors, gradients and grids, cutting devices and geometric compositions, his approach is absolutely contemporary. , in contact with graphic and industrial design. Arzuaga conceives his work as a constellation in which a dialogue is established between repetition and variation, between fixity and movement, between fullness and emptiness. The use of color seeks to explore the dynamics of light through a complex game of contrasts, of sometimes reflective effects emulating metallic surfaces and the large-scale design of its pieces force the viewer to oscillate between visual contemplation and sculptural journey. . In this sense, his formal investigations have led him to a wide variety of media and techniques that, starting from painting and drawing, have gone through urban frottages and the production of design objects and furniture.