GUIDO YANNITTO (Mendoza, Argentina, 1981)

Guido Yannitto’s major interest is exploring popular cultures. He has been working with tapestries, exploring what they have to offer, and thinking about the sculptural aspects of this planimetric technique. He is also interested in what he sees as major characteristics within this representational system, aspects of communication and translation. Ideas like identity, dissolved identity, oral transmission,translation, genealogy, subjectivity and collective work are conceptual axes for his exchanges with weavers.

Yannitto has a Bachelor’s degree of Fine Arts in painting from the Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina. From 2005 to 2007 he lived in Mexico City where he continued his artistic training in different workshops. Since 2007 he has been living in Buenos Aires where he attended art clinic seminars dictated by Fabián Burgos, Mónica Girón and Tulio de Sagastizabal, among others. In 2009 he was selected to participate in the Artists’ Program of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
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He featured his work in numerous solo exhibitions such as: Laguna (Galería Gachi Prieto, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2019); Algo que siempre se escapa (SB34, Brussels, Belgium, 2019); Zonda (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2015); Tics Modernos (Zavaleta Lab, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2014) and Mientras (La Ribera, México City, México, 2006), among others.

Additionally, he participated in group exhibitions in various national and international institutions These are some of the most relevant: W139 (Amsterdam, Netherlands); Coral Gable Museum (Florida, United States); Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Centro Cultural Kirchner (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Museo De Arte Contemporáneo (Bogota, Colombia); Museu da Moda e do Design. Coleção Francisco Capelo (Lisbon, Portugal).

In the last four years he was selected to carry out different international residencies such as: Kiosko Galería (Santa Cruz de las Sierras, Bolivia, 2020); Oxenford Scholarship (Oaxaca, México, 2019); RAVI Résidences Ateliers Vivegnis International (Liège, Belgium, 2019); Pivo Pesquisa (São Paulo, Brazil, 2018); Jan Van Eyck (Maastricht, Netherlands, 2017); Beca Roberts Escuela Flora (Bogotá, Colombia, 2016) and residencia Sur Polar (Antarctica, Argentina, 2012).

Regarding awards, in 2019 he received the first prize in the Bienal Fulgor in Rafaela (Santa Fe, Argentina) and in 2018 the first prize for the category Textile in the National Salon of Visual Arts (Buenos Aires, Argentina). Moreover in 2013 the Italian Embassy in Buenos Aires granted him with the Lucio Fontana Award.

His work is part of renowned private collections and museums such as: Maastricht University (Maastricht, Netherlands); Banco ITAÚ (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Museo Castagnino+macro (Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina); Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa (Córdoba, Argentina) and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (Salta, Argentina).