Andrés Denegri
Bio
Andrés Denegri (Buenos Aires, 1975) is a visual artist working mainly on film, video, installations and photography. He graduated at the Universidad del Cine, Buenos Aires. Among his awards stands out the Grand Prix from the National Salon Visual Arts (Buenos Aires, 2015). He is also co-director of the Imagen en Movimiento Biennale (BIM) and guest film and video curator for the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. He has completed artist residences in Colombia, Serbia, Canada and the USA.
Statement
Andrés Denegri approaches the visual arts combining film, video, installations and photography. His projects generate dialogues between different formats, addressing them poetically and conceptually, creating tension in the classic uses of audiovisual technologies. Vintage film projectors are the protagonists of many of Denegri’s installations: from portable family devices to powerful industrial machines are combined in the production of kinetic objects where celluloid leaves the projector and travels through the space transited by the viewer.
Additional information
Cubo de acrílico con iluminación interna que contiene 800m de película de cine de 16mm. La imagen del film es la primera filmación realizada en Argentina (La bandera argentina, 1897). Al mirarla con atención se observa que la mayoría de los fotogramas han sido quemados.
Acrylic cube with internal illumination containing 800m of 16mm cinema film. The image of the film is the first film made in Argentina (The Argentine flag, 1897). Looking at it carefully shows that most of the frames have been burned.