Museo Moderno
Miliyo Emiliano
Mercurial, 2010. Resin, acrylic and tin, 19 x 9 x 9 cm.

(Buenos Aires, 1970) Lives and works in Buenos Aires. The influence of his father, a left-wing militant, publicist, great reader and very good cartoonist, was significant for his artistic inclination. As well as that of his mother, seamstress and potter, who instilled in him a love for crafts, manual labor and trades. In his adolescence he began his first formal studies in art. However, the eagerness for knowledge, shared among the group of students, was a determining factor in the search and inquiry about the artistic trends of the 20th century and the current expressions of art that showed new production strategies. He attended libraries, art exhibitions and was attentive to everything that was happening in the field of cinema, literature, the Rojas gallery (Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center), the Recoleta Cultural Center and the cultural scene of the late eighties in Buenos Aires In that context, he began his artistic production making comics and graffiti. He was part of the artist collective Mariscos en tu Calypso –along with Esteban Pagés and Sebastián Gordín, among others- with whom he participated in exhibitions for the Rojas gallery. Already in the nineties, there was a change in his artistic production, which brought him closer to the postulates of conceptualism. The author incorporated these aesthetic references creating works in which the limits between painting, sculpture, object and installation were blurred. Subsequently subsumed in a period of reflection, he made contact with traditions and spiritual teachings that, together with his artistic work, converged in the construction of a personal aesthetic with a conceptual tint that proposes a critical vision of artistic practice, reality, humanity and the values established by the company.