The work of Mauro Giaconi, 45 years old, takes place in the field of sculpture, the installation and mainly in the drawing, which currently works as axis of all his production and from which he starts to generate spatial interventions and images that go through the aesthetics of chaos and procedural investigation.
It turns out that architecture, the body, memory and the environment are elements keys in the work of this Argentine that focuses on proposing experiences that seek to be in tension between opposing concepts: construction and destruction; birth and death; confinement and freedom; depth and surface; dream and wake up.
In 2001 he graduated from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires, Argentina, with the title of National Professor of Painting.
He has received the first Philips Award for Young Talents, jury mention and honorable mention at the National Drawing Show. In addition, he was selected for the First and Second ArteBA-Petrobras Prizes, and was a fellow in 2010 of the Center for Artistic Research (CIA).
Giaconi's work is part of collections such as the SPACE Collection, in the United States; the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, in Argentina and the Miami Art Museum, in the United States, among others. At the moment he lives and works in Mexico City.
Currently Mauro Giaconi is one of the great artistic talents of The Arroniz Gallery in Colonia Roma, in Mexico City, so we invite you to get to know it a little better through Bio FAHRENHEIT°.
Did you study art or are you self-taught?
I studied art at the Emilio Porredón National School in Buenos Aires.
Describe your profession in one sentence.
It is a profession that seeks to symbolically transform reality.
What was the first work that marked you to start your path in art?
More than a work, it was a situation, it was a trip to the South of Argentina, in Patagonia, where I met a group of art students who were drawing and talking about drawing under a tree (a very hippie moment), it was That moment when I realized I don't think it was a particular work.
Place of inspiration or reflection.
Inspiration is a difficult thing to understand, but one place would be Mexico.
What is your favorite meeting point with friends?
Obrera Centro, it's my studio, it's a project that we put together as a meeting point. It nourishes me a lot.
What was your first work?
The first thing I did that meant enough to me to believe that there was something there was an exercise at school, in the Carolina Antoniadis chair. It was a drawing that I made with varnish, the varnish made the paper translucent and revealed a series of texts that was a medical prescription derived from morphine (it was a period in which I had many pain problems). I think it was a place where I understood that this was a means of communication that I could explore, I can't consider it as work because I still wasn't so clear about what that meant; although it was already the end of the race. But it was the first solid gesture in which I understood that there was something to explore.
Three creators you admire.
I pass because I never had the ability to choose. The ones I admire are my friends, the people I talk to about what we do.
What does creating mean to you?
Being able to build the autonomy to decide what to do with my time
In three words, how do your close ones describe you?
I wish that if they were asked they would say that a good friend.