Vicente Grondona
Bio
VICENTE GRONDONA was born in Buenos Aires in 1977. He is a painter, draftsman and sculptor. He studied for a few years at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón School of Fine Arts. He participated in the founding staff of the Beauty and Happiness project, a cornerstone and oasis of contemporary art in the 90s. He lived in Paris for five years and participated in exhibitions around the world, settling in Buenos Aires in 2008 to present his work at arteBA. “Library of Man”, an installation of sculptures made of quebracho charcoal. He has held individual and group exhibitions both in Argentina (Malba, ByF, C.C. Borges, Fondo de las Artes, Museo de Arte Moderno de Mendoza, Estudio Abierto, and abroad (53 salon Montrouge, Paris, Fernelmont, Belgium, Miart, Milan , VVVgallery, Madrid, Argentine Consulate in NYC, USA, Proporción y Raíz, Salón ACME, Mexico).
Statement
Emancipated from its condition as fuel, charcoal and pigments preserve both their vegetal vestige and the memory of fire. Exploration of a brittle and fragmentary sediment, the entirety of its fragments brings to life primitive faces and silhouettes in which we recognize the mythical dimension of monumental sculpture, a forest of strange trees and juxtaposed visions of an imprecise region within a united continent by the proportion of their asymmetries and the root that fertilizes and nourishes them.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
