Manuel Ameztoy
Bio
Born in La Plata, 1973. Lives and works in Buenos Aires. He studied at the “Prilidiano Pueyrredón” National School of Fine Arts and at the “San Carlos” National School of Plastic Arts (Mexico City). He has exhibited since 2001 in museums, institutions and galleries. He has carried out projects for Faena Arts Center and Fundación Proa. Is part of the collections of the Museum of Latin American Art (Los Angeles), the Museum of Modern Art (Buenos Aires) and the Museum of Contemporary Art (Rosario).
Statement
With the papers that are already printed, in the form of books, almanacs or paper money, I build my “teselados”, large collages that are an attempt to simultaneously look at the entire story. Every page of the book, every quadrant of the city map, and every sheet of the almanac, are digested and reconfigured into a single, enormous cloth. The narrative freezes, the geographical space is atomized, and the days of the year are suspended in a single image. There is no before, there is no after, there is no here and there. Image and text fade.
There are also my most intimate works: openwork paper boxes. Constructed with the noblest papers, which due to their pulp dyeing offer a fine palette of colors, they are a kind of painting that the gaze recomposes from an overlap of openwork papers of different colors. The profusion of the draft, where the void is greater than the full, generate an image halfway to its dissolution.
Additional information
This piece is a historical work by Manuel Ameztoy, in which the painting is worked in layers, which in his later works will become openwork sheets of paper
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
