statement
My artistic practice is based on finding a new meaning to what has been established, through the deconstruction and reconstruction of original universes with its own rules and logic.
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There is an analysis of the main participating elements and based on it , I give a new concept to my work. I modify the pre-existing elements and ideas, I express them through a totally different concept, as a mean to express my concerns. I'm talking about territories, gender identity, belonging where we want to belong.
We should be able to look into ourselves to find out who we really are, what we believe in and so we can fight for our ideales.
It is through the questioning that this dichotomy between the known and the new reconstructed that can trigger in each person different interpretations.
bio
Santiago Estellano was born in 1977, in Montevideo, Uruguay. He studied Art and Digital Animation at Montgomery College, Washington DC (1999), and is a technician in Graphic Design from the Universidad del Trabajo del Uruguay (2001).
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Since 2008 he has lived in Buenos Aires, he took photography and design courses at the University of Buenos Aires. and Rojas Cultural Center, painting and work clinic at the Guillermo Roux Foundation (2009 - 2011) following the teachings of Alejandra Roux, Marina Curci, Teresa Durmuller and Matias Ercole. During 2015 and 2016 he attended the Construction Clinic at Fundación Cazadores with Alejandra Roux and Sergio Bazán. In 2020, he participated in the "Training and Management Program for Argentine Artists" taught by Cecilia Medina. He won the 2021 Group Training Scholarship from the National Fund for the Arts. In January 2022, the work "Estado de Situación" received an honorable mention in the "Federal Cultural Competition for Environmental Action".
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Awards and Mentions:
Honorable Mention Painting - Federal Competition for Environmental Action 2021, Bs.As. Argentina.
National Fund for the Arts, Group Training Scholarship 2021, Bs. As., Argentina.
Acquisition Grand Prize, Arteclásica 2010, Bs. As., Argentina
Special Mention Digital Photography, Mainz Museum 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Individual Samples:
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Lost in metaphors, CC Impar, Bs. As. Arg. Curator: Carolina Chocron
What if the pandemic were Gaia's Revenge? - Museum of Contemporary Art of Salta mac, Salta Capital, AR - 2022. Curator: Cecilia Medina
Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), Bs. As., AR - 2021
MissFusion - Colonia, UY - 2017
Invasion - mock gallery, Bs. As., AR - 2013. Curator: Maxi Jacoby.
Links - Buenos Aires, AR - 2012. Curator: Alejandra Roux
Collective Samples:
Grevy Gallery, Cologne, Germany, 2024
CC Impar, Bs. As. 2024. Curador: Carolina Chocron
C.A.C.A. - POPA Galería - Bs. As., AR - 2024
Engendered - Vichitra Desh - Delhi, India - 2023. Curator: Myna Mukherjee.
gran Salon LA BOCA - Bs. As., AR - 2023
Kim Yun Shin Museum - Buenos Aires, AR - 2022. Curator: Cecilia Medina
Korean Cultural Center - Bs. As., AR - 2021. Curator: Cecilia Medina
SAC is presented - Bs. As., AR - 2021
Connected by Telepathy - Modos - Bs. As., AR - 2017
E. Cabrera 3641 - University of Palermo - Buenos Aires, AR - 2017
Cazadores Fundation - Buenos Aires, AR - 2016
PHOS invites POPA - Pilar - Bs. As., AR - 2014
Master Plan - Bs. As., AR - 2013. Curator: Maxi Jacoby.
CASA FOA - Jacaranda - Bs. As., AR - 2012
Backroom - POPA - Bs. As., AR - 2012
Guillermo Roux Foundation - Buenos Aires, AR - 2009, 2010, 2011
The Second Look - Angel Guido Art Project - Bs. As., AR - 2010. Curator: Ma. Silvia Corcuera.
Grand Prix Painting - Classical Art - Bs. As., AR - 2010
Empty - Angel Guido Art Project, Bs. As., AR - 2010
Infantilism - Angel Guido Art Project - Bs. As., AR - 2009. Curator: Maxi Jacoby.
Digital Art - Mainz Museum - Buenos Aires, AR - 2009
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Art Fairs:
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MACba - Almacén de Arte - Cordoba - 2023
FACba - Almacén de Arte - Cordoba - 2021
ArteCo2021 - Almacén de Arte - Corrientes, AR - 2021
Another Fair - Almacén de Arte - Bs. As., AR - 2021
Pinta Miami Art Fair - mock gallery - Miami, US - 2015
Pinta Miami Art Fair - mock gallery - Miami, US - 2014
International Art Fair Los Angeles - Los Angeles, US - 2014
EGGO - Recoleta Cultural Center - POPA - Bs. As., AR - 2012
arteBA2011 - Angel Guido Art Project - Buenos Aires, AR - 2011
arteBA2010 - Angel guido Art Project - Buenos Aires, AR - 2010
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Sunset, ink and acrylic on canvas, 83x118cm, 2010
Acquisition Grand Prize,
Classical Art 2010, Bs. As., Argentina
Situation Status: Level of Nitrogen Dioxide contamination over the region of the Province of Buenos Aires and CABA, Painting on digital collage printed on
250gr paper, 2021
Honorific mention on ECO Region Centro - Painting,
Federal Cultural Contest for Environmental Action 2021, Bs. As., Argentina
Untitled, digital photography, 2009
Special mention on Photography,
Mainz Museum 2009, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Publications:
Cults of Life #12 Saturation / Finland - 2023
Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI) // Bs. As., Argentina - 2021
UN//TITLED 2016-2020 // Balaclava.Q, United Kingdom - 2021
NNC Magazine March 2021 // No Name Collective Gallery, London - 2021
Uruguayan Journal of Anthropology and Ethnography // UdelaR, Uruguay - 2020
Balaclava.q Abstract-Activism // Balaclava.q, Europe - 2020
Press:
Hipermedula, Art and Culture, Buenos Aires, AR // 2023
Secretariat of Culture Salta, Salta, AR // 2022
Culzi - Communication and Art, Cordoba, Ar // 2022
Cooltivarte, Mvd, UY // 2022 Arteinformado, Bs.As., AR // 2022
News Iruya, Salta, AR // 2022
Federal Culture Competition for Environmental Action, Ministry of Culture, Bs.As., AR // 2022
Organization of Ibero-American States for Education, Science and Culture (OEI) // 2021
Ñ Magazine - Diario ClarÃn, Bs.As., AR // 2021
El Litoral - Corrientes, AR // 2021
Diario Norte - Chaco, AR // 2021
ArteOnline - Bs. As., AR // 2014
Pilar Diario - Bs. As., AR // 2014
Ramona - Buenos Aires, AR // 2012
Cooltivarte - Mvd, UY // 2011
Latinspots.com - Bs. As., AR // 2010
