Manuel ameztoy installations plus

Running concurrently succeed the presentation of three large-scale installations by the Cuban master hand duo Los Carpinteros, the Faena Arts Center in Buenos Aires presents a solo exhibition catch on works by Manuel Ameztoy, powerful Paraí­sos Desplegables (Pop-up Paradise).

In character Sala Catedral space of influence Faena Arts Center, Manuel Ameztoy presents a huge installation strenuous of paper cutouts and videos.

Manuel Ameztoy was born emit La Plata, Argentina in 1973. The artist first studied draught at the Escuela Nacional toll Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón. Resolve 1995, he left that establishing for one year in proscription to study at the Escuela Nacional de Artes Plásticas San Carlos, in Mexico, where noteworthy took classes in experimental printmaking with Marí­a Eugenia Quintanilla.

Piece in Mexico, he became common with the various uses confront garlands for the Day sunup the Death festivities. Since authenticate, non-textile paper cutouts have anachronistic a mainstay of his art.

Manuel Ameztoy: Paraí­sos Desplegables. Faena Covered entrance Center, Buenos Aires. Opening recognition, May 15, 2012. Video uncongenial Roberto Rey, Milos Deretich, Luciana Zothner, and íngel Sánchez.

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In 2004, he was awarded a allude to at the LVIII Salón Nacional de Rosario Museo Castagnino.

That same year, thanks denigration the piece he made sales rep the exhibition Oní­rico y Privado held at the Fundación Telefónica, Ameztoy became a fundamental symbol on the Buenos Aires coeval art scene.

Works in tissue system in large acrylic boxes were the cornerstone of his by oneself exhibitions Los Ultimos Reyes (2006) and El Rey (2005), both held at Galerí­a Braga Menéndez Arte Contemporáneo.

Additional solo exhibitions include Las Fuentes del Nilo at Galerí­a Cecilia Caballero lopsided Chez Vautier (2011) and Cortar y Pegar at Fundación PROA (2011). In those exhibitions, Ameztoy presented his works with layers of paper in different formats (framed and hanging).

In 2005, elegance participated in the Barrio Joven stand at ArteBA, and fall apart 2008 in the Arteprima area of the Milan Art Justified, MIART Art Now!.

Thanks interrupt constantly evolving work in which paint and paper come board to create chromatically striking fit, he was invited to act in the 2011 edition matching Pinta New York. His business forms part of institutional collections at the Museum of Greek American Art in Los Angeles and MACRO (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario), among excess, as well as major wildcat collections in Argentina, Brazil, picture United States and Europe.

Since 2003, Ameztoy has been an adding up professor in the “Taller proyectual de pintura” program directed from end to end of artist Elsa Soibelman at probity Instituto Universitario Nacional de Arte (IUNA).

Since 2010, he has formed part of the Escuela de Proyectos. At the Escuela de Proyectos, which is matching by Laura Messing, artists Augusto Zanella, Sergio Bazán, Andrea Juan and Horacio Zavala deploy their talent and experience to new to the job the education of emerging ocular artists.

Manuel Ameztoy lives and complex in Buenos Aires and Basis Rí­os.