Fernando Brizuela
Bio
He wins the grant for the creation of the FNA for the realization of the 2107 “Psychoactive Bicycle” and the grant for the training of the FNA to study with the artist Carlos Ginzburg in Paris 2018.
In the 90s, together with the Ø Group, he held exhibitions in various cultural centers and art spaces; Furthermore, in 1999 they presented Tabla Rasa at the Borges Cultural Center. He also works with Beto de Volder and Mariano Dal Verme in the La Re-collection project, selected in the 2004 ArteBA Networks call and presented at MALBA Fundación Costantini and at the Timoteo Navarro Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in San Miguel de Tucumán in 2005 and at the MACRO in Rosario in 2006.
As of 2016, he created and directed the National Museum of Hallucinogenic Plants (MUNPA).
Statement
His best known work is made up of a series of threatening beasts charged with blind and irrational brutality that coincides with the paradigm of associating psychoactive substances with addiction and crime, a global campaign sadly known as "the war on drugs" that resulted in a resounding failure. These pieces covered with pigmented and plasticized marijuana flowers introduce an illegal substance into the field of culture that functions as an uncomfortable sign and as a banner of the cannabis counterculture
Additional information
In this work Fernando Brizuela makes a crown uniting different psychoactive and psychotropic plants. The crown represents the vision of death on the one hand and the celebration or enjoyment of the cannabis user on the other.
