» Pablo Siquier

Pablo Siquier Argentina, 1961

Translated from Spanish

-The different ways in which a cultural emanation is developed by different peoples or communities (for example, the constructive utopias of Brazil, Europe, Venezuela, or Argentina).

-The process through which a more specific answer is emptied out from the ideological content that generated it, and is used for different or even contrary purposes (the influence of Bauhaus in serial industrial production).

-The transformation experienced by style when it is transplanted to another physical and social reality (Vitruvius’ model of religious architecture in Spanish colonies in the American continent).

These sentences are some examples of what has always fascinated me sensually and intellectually: the impure condition of culture and the visual expressions of that complexity.

In a young country such as mine, this is an elemental everyday condition. Buenos Aires’ architecture is a proof of that.

I intend to register all of this in my work. If I have to summarize in two words the themes that inspire my work, these would be disease and contamination.

-Las diversas formas en que una emanación cultural es desarrollada por diferentes personas o comunidades (por ejemplo, las utopías constructivas en Brasil, Europa, Venezuela o Argentina).

-El proceso por el cual una respuesta formal específica, se vacía de los contenidos ideológicos que le dieron origen y se utiliza para fines diversos y aun opuestos (la influencia de la Bauhaus en la producción industrial en serie).

-La transformación experimentada por el estilo cuando se trasplanta a otra realidad física y social (el modelo de Vitruvio en la arquitectura religiosa en las colonias españolas de América).

Estos enunciados son algunos ejemplos de lo que siempre me ha fascinado, a la vez sensual e intelectualmente: la condición impura de la cultura y las expresiones visuales de esa complejidad.

En un país joven como el mío esto es una condición cotidiana y constitutiva. Buenos Aires y su arquitectura son prueba de ello.

Tengo la intención de registrar todo esto en mi trabajo. Si tengo que sintetizar en dos palabras los temas que inspiran mi trabajo serían enfermedad y contaminación.

Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

Escuela Superior de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, 3 years in 1980s, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Prizes / Fellowships

2002: Fundacion Civitella Ranieri, Fellowship, Umbertide, Italy.
2000: Fundación Costantini, Honorific Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1998: “Young Artist of the Year” by the Argentine Art Critics Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997: Novartis Awards, First Prize, INET Awards, Honorific Award, Costantini, Honorific Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1996: Nominated “Best Solo Exhibition” by the Argentine Art Critics Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1995: Nominated “Young Artist of the Year” by the Argentine Art Critics Association, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1995: National Endowment for the Arts, “Grant for Creation in the Visual Arts”, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1995: Gunther, Honorific Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1992: Nomination for the Konex ’92 awards (Installation), Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1991: Ministry of Cultural Affairs from Spain, Fellowship, Spain.

Solo Exhibitions

2013: “Structure”, Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
2012: Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010: Museo Pedro de Osma, Lima, Peru.
2009: Baró Cruz Gallery, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2008: Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
2007: Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Palacio Velazquez, Madrid, Spain.
2003: Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2001: Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
2001: Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997: Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1997: Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, New York, USA.

Group Exhibitions

2011: “Southern Identity”, Smithsonian Institutions, The Smithsonian International Gallery, S. Dillon Ripley Center, Washington, D.C., USA.
2010: “Beuys y más alla”, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2010: “Painting With a Hammer to Nail the Crotch of Civilization”, Manila Contemporary, Makati City, Philippines.
2010: Sicardi Gallery, Houston, Texas, USA.
2009: “Slow Paintings”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverksusen, Germany.
2009: “Geomtrías dislocadas”, Sala Mendoza, Caracas, Venezuela.
2009: “Talismán se busca Parte II”, Ruth Benzacar Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2009: “Argentina hoy”, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2009: “All Boys”, Museo Provincial Rosa Galisteo, Santa Fe, Argentina.
2009: “White Noise”, DePauw University, Greencastle, Indiana.
2008: School Gallery, Paris, France.
2007: “La espiral de Moebius”, Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario, Argentina.
2006: 9ª Bienal de La Habana, Havana, Cuba.
2005: “Arte abstracto (hoy) = Frafilidad + Resiliencia”, Centro Cultural de España, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2005: “Contrabandistas de imágenes”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago, Chile.
2004: 26ª Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil.
2003: Project Artgentina, Miami, Florida, USA.
2002: “Ultimas Tendencias en la coleccion del Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires“, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2002: “The city of temptations”, Ediciones Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
2002: “Ballesteros Siquier”, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Posadas, Misiones, Argentina.
2002: “Los amigos de Cippolini”, Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Publications

2010: Battistozzi, Ana María y Alberto Giudice. Un recorrido por el arte contemporáneo argentino, Buenos Aires, Papers Editores.
2009: Sarlo, Beatriz. La ciudad vista, Buenos Aires, Siglo XXI.
2007: Civale, Cristina. Industria argentina: Arte contemporáneo en construcción, Buenos Aires, Civale + Maravillarte.
2006: Arestizábal, Irma, Olivier Debroise, Ticio Escobar et al. 100 Artistas Latinoamericanos, Madrid, Exit.
2005: López Anaya, Jorge. Arte argentine: Cuatro siglos de historia, Buenos Aires, Emecé.
2000: Golonbek, Claudio. Guía para invertis en el Mercado de arte argentine, Buenos Aires, Patricia Rizzo Editora.
1999: Benedit, Luis F., Jorge Gumier Maier y Marcelo E. Pacheco. Artistas argentines de los 90, Buenos Aires, Fondo Nacional de las Artes.
1997: López Anaya, Jorge. Historia del arte argentino, Buenos Aires, Emecé.
1997: Escher, Joris y Martijn Kielstra. Platform 1: 70 Young Modern Artists from Asia and Latin America, Amsterdam, Canvas World Art Foundation.
1992: Glusberg, Jorge. Del constructivismo a la geometría sensible, Buenos Aires, Centro de Arte y Comunicación.

Collections

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
The Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA.
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina.
Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Gobierno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Additional Links

: Pablo Siquier, “9809”, 1998, Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 72 in. (203 x 182 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “9808”, 1998, Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 72 in. (203 x 182 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “9807”, 1998, Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 72 in. (203 x 182 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “0803”, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 73 x 106 in. (185 x 270 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “0817”, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 150 x 160 cm (60 x 63 in.). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “0823”, 2008, Acrylic on canvas, 25.5 x 47.25 in. (65 x 120 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “0804”, 2008, Vinyl wall installation, 110.25 x 126 in. (280 x 320 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “1104”, 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 55 x 104.33 in. (140 x 265 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “1110”, 2011, Acrylic on canvas, 31.5 x 31.5 in. (80 x 80 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “1215”, 2012, Charcoal on paper, 43.3 x 53.125 in. (110 x 135 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “1301”, 2013, Charcoal on paper drawing, 57.1 x 68.875 in. (145 x 175 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “1302”, 2013, Charcoal on paper drawing, 78.375 x 57.1 in. (199 x 145 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.

: Pablo Siquier, “1304”, 2013, Charcoal on paper drawing, 47.25 x 90.5 in. (120 x 230 cm.). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist and Sicardi Gallery.