(Posadas, Misiones, 1977)
In meticulous drawings made with pen on canvas or paper as well as in plasticine sculptures and through sound experimentation, Mauro Koliva unfolds a personal imaginative universe that is positioned between the monstrous and the excessive, the playful and the threatening. His works explore with depth and rigor two of the crucial dimensions of aesthetic thought and art: “the possible” – the imagination – and “the sensitive” – sensoriality, dimensions in turn crossed by the issues of science fiction, pop culture, vitalist philosophy and experimental music. His works represent organic scenarios and fictional landscapes, often starring shapeless beings and machines with their own logics that make up his personal bestiary.
Graduated in Fine Arts at the Universidad Nacional de Misiones, he attended workshops and clinics coordinated by Sonia Abián, Mónica Millán, Francisco Ali-Brouchoud, Pablo Siquier and Tulio De Sagastizábal. Since 2008 Koliva regularly exhibits his work individually and collectively. In 2004, together with the group La Pandorga, he promoted the project CAC (Centro de Arte Contemporáneo) in the city of Oberá. Since 2013 he has also had a sound project called “Bajobony”, a series of electroacoustic instruments/sound objects that, like the machines that occupy his drawings, were created with singular logics and with which he has participated in numerous performances, contemporary dance shows and rock and experimental music recitals.
He currently lives and works in Buenos Aires.