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I found my characters by accident six years ago, when
trying to express my views on the society that surrounded me.
I’m from a small town called Chilecito which is in the west of
Argentina. When I moved to Buenos Aires to study, the change
enriched my work: the crowds, the spaces, the busy paths and
streets, the relationships and behaviors that I constantly observe
here are the inspiration to my images. I believe that these little
characters are not only all around us but also inside us, as if, somehow,
we were “made out of them”.
The concept that most often appears in my work is the way a
single man faces up to a crowd and how he deals with it. I’m only working
with black and white, everything and nothing: I’ve found an unlimited
world of possibilities by just using two colors, and I’ll still use these two
colors until my work claims more.
What I show are concepts, ideas; the way of expressing them may
change, but the essence will not. I am currently trying to bring my characters
out of the canvas or paper, by making my little people out of cold porcelain.
If I was asked to define a personal mark in my work, I would say that it’s
the way my characters transmit tension: I’ve been told many times that people feel
identified by my little men in trouble. Read Less

My life began in Santa Fe, Argentina, in 1988. At a young age, I moved to Chilecito,
La Rioja, a place in which I would grow up surrounded by infinite mountains and very
starry skies, which, with the help of the many books and canvas that filled every corner of
my house, allowed my child imagination to expand limitlessly. My characteristic little men
made their first and shy appearances among the one-and-a-half-inch margins of my school
books and notebooks. When my mother, Alicia Alba, noticed these tiny yet distinctive characters,
she started incentivizing me to using professional materials such as acrylics and ink.

In 2006, I graduated from High School at the ‘Joaquin V. Gonzalez’ School in Chilecito and moved to Buenos Aires, where I started studying Sound and Recording at Universidad Nacional de Lanus. That same year I obtained an art scholarship at Proyectarte (a non-profit organization which creates, develops and supports innovative art projects in America). Here I got the opportunity to exhibit my drawings and paintings in many occasions and therefore started making my way into the city’s art circuit.

Nowadays I take classes with several important Argentinean artists as Leonel Luna and Jorge Gonzalez Perrín. My work has been exhibited in many artistic events and art galleries in Chilecito, La Rioja, Cordoba, La Pampa, Buenos Aires, at the Argentinian Consulate in NY and in the Zentral Bibliothek in Zurich, Switzerland. These works are currently displayed at Espacio Mazal (www.espaciomazal.com.ar) and ProyectArte (www.proyectarte.org). This year I received a scholarship “School of Projects” at Isidro Miranda Gallery (www.isidromiranda.com.ar). I’m planning mi fist solo exhibition for 2th July, at Prima Gallery (ProyectArte, Buenos Aires) with the artist Lux Linder as curator. This month i´ll represent La Rioja in the exhibition Argentina Pinta Bien, at the Centro Cultural Recoleta. Also I’m participating in a project of installation “La BOX” with Emiliano Iglesias. Read Less