Nicanor Aráoz : sueño sólido / curaduría, Lucrecia Palacios ; edición general, Gabriela Comte.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aráoz, Nicanor, 1981- artist.

Comte, Gabriela, editor.

Palacios, Lucrecia, organizer.

Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires, Argentina), issuing body, host institution.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Aráoz, Nicanor, 1981---Exhibitions.

Aráoz, Nicanor.

Installations (Art)--Argentina--21st century--Exhibitions.

Installations (Art).

Sculpture, Argentine.

Argentina.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

123 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portrait ; 25 cm

Edition:

Primera edición.

Other Title:

Sueño sólido

Place of Publication:

Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires : Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2021.

Language Note:

Texts in Spanish and English.

Summary:

Nicanor Aráoz (born 1981) is a central figure in the landscape of contemporary Argentinian sculpture. Aráoz's works, which as well as sculpture include photographs, video and performance, explore the forms of the human body through images that decompose and recompose it in the face of violence, abandon and eroticism in various metamorphoses. The transformation of matter is a pivotal element in his work: evolving over time, his exhibitions have featured humanoids, larval forms and organic references of every kind, which the artist sets in scenes that approach the logic of science fiction, retrofuturism or cyberpunk. His work encompasses a vast range of images and possibilities, from early works incorporating forms from comics, cartoons and cookie brands, to his latest exhibitions that focus on trauma and foreground crime as spectacle, and the martyrdom and arousal of the body. In Aráoz's works and scenes, we witness a fundamental concern for how human beings suffer, inhabit and relate to a strained, unstable world. "Salons of strong emotions, as they have been called, his exhibitions feature references to the world of electronic music as a ritual space of social communion.

Contents:

Entrevista con Mariposa Di Giorgio = Interview with Mariposa Di Giorgio

Ultramundo foxígeno

Mi cristo roto

El más allá como hecho industrial = The beyond as industrial fact / Alejo Ponce de León

Hombres salmonela en el planeta porno = Salmonella men on the porn planet

Nebulosa rata frita

Calabaza: rata frita

Interface fantasy / André Nusselder

Hamlet in the holodeck / Jane Horowitz Murray

Suavemente, como se apoba la flecha

A Historia Universal do after / Nicanor Aráoz: sueño sólido = Nicanor Aráoz: solid sleep / Lucrecia Palacios

Biografía = Biography.

Entrevista con Mariposa Di Giorgio = Interview with Mariposa Di Giorgio - Ultramundo foxígeno - Mi cristo roto

Hombres salmonela en el planeta porno = Salmonella men on the porn planet - Nebulosa rata frita - Calabaza: rata frita - Interface fantasy / André Nusselder - Hamlet in the holodeck / Jane Horowitz Murray - Suavemente, como se apoba la flecha - A Historia Universal do after / Nicanor Aráoz: sueño sólido = Nicanor Aráoz: solid sleep / Lucrecia Palacios - Biografía = Biography.

Notes:

Title from cover.

Chiefly illustrated.

Catalog of an exhibition held at Moderno de Buenos Aires, October 30, 2020-July 31, 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

9871358814

9789871358816

OCLC:

1319170520