Artist
Biography
Arzuaga, Andres
Buenos Aires, Argentina 1984
Born in 1984 in Los Toldos, Buenos Aires, Argentina, he completed his visual art professor studies between 2003 and 2008 in Junín (Instituto Xul Solar) and Pehuajó (Instituto Carlos Torrallardona). In 2010 he moved to Buenos Aires to continue his artistic training. He was selected by the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella to further his art development studies under the mentorship of the artist Eduardo Stupía for two consecutive years. He continued his studies by working alongside internationally recognized Argentine artists such as Eduardo Hoffmann, Marta Minujín, Alicia Herrero, Fabián Burgos, and Marcolina Dipierro. In 2013, his work was selected by the Saloń de Artes Plaśticas Manuel Belgrano and in 2016 he was awarded the Premio Federico Jorge Klemm. His works have been acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts Houston (Houston, Texas, 2022) and by Espacio 23 (Miami, Florida, 2023).
His work is conceived through a return to painting’s most essential elements, oil and canvas. It is characterized by large formats, “cut-out” frames, and color gradients interrupted by full planes and shapes. His techniques allow the spectator to enter the territory of light, study the intermittent, its decomposition, the void, and the memory in the eye.
Arzuaga contemplates and addresses the relationship between the mystical and the sacred. Through the simplicity of the specific resources, what appears to be minimal is in fact, his premeditated and precise creations. What the viewers see, what is there, and what perdures, was carefully chosen: color, the absence of color, and lines. His paintings follow a strange state of temporary-ness, as if promising the viewer an image, yet the image is not seen. It is as if a pact of faith supports the promise that the image will come. Light disappears around the edges making his structures dissolve in the atmosphere and vice versa.
Works
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Arzuaga, Andres
2023
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Arzuaga, Andres
2024
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Arzuaga, Andres
2025