Max Gómez Canle
Bio
Max Gómez Canle was born in Buenos Aires in 1972. In the mid-90s he specialized in painting at the Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts. He worked as a carpenter, set designer, restaurateur, cook, craftsman, markmaker, lyricist and video artist, among other things. He copied paintings of all possible styles. He was awarded in the “10 years of Bola de Nieve” contest voted by artists and received the “Ignacio Pirovano” prize for young artist of the year 2007 awarded by the Argentine Association of Art Critics. In 2009 his work Ventana was selected to cover the façade of the Del Plata Building on 9 de Julio Avenue in Buenos Aires. He obtained the arteBA-FLORA scholarship to travel to Colombia and won the Andreani Prize in 2013 and the Klemm in 2014. He received the Konex Platino Painting Prize 2022. His latest exhibitions were La tregua del agua (Museo del Baro, Asunción, 2023), Combing the beach (Udagawa House, Urayasu, 2023), Cucchi Gómez Canle (The National Exemplar Gallery, Salsomaggiore Terme, 2023), Out of place (Casa Triángulo Gallery, San Pablo, 2022), Living like this: without words (Ruth Benzacar Gallery of Art, Buenos Aires, 2020), The room of whims (Museum of modern art of Buenos Aires, 2019), The distance ends in the ravine (Casa Triángulo Gallery, San Pablo, 2017), Condition and head (Klemm Foundation, Buenos Aires, 2016), Physiognomy of time (Flora ars+natura, Bogotá, 2014).
Statement
Build a work methodology that involves a local way of seeing, doing and understanding painting: finding in the history of art and Western visual culture an infinite reservoir of images that reinterprets, cites accurately and combines with each other and with its own forms. The artist reproduces fragments, backgrounds and characters, sometimes from paintings from the Italian Renaissance as well as from the Flemish school that he finds in old art encyclopedias. The practice of painting as a reflection on painting itself and the forms of visuality throughout history.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
