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Fabian Burgos

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Fabian Burgos' complex art philosophy always structures between opposites: reality and illusion, the true and the false, the empty and the full. Ideas are never complete; their opposites permanently inhabit them.

As the repository of an unknowable reason, the theoretical turn towards the body sometimes forgets something that these paintings remind us: that the mind is in the body. That perception is conceptual, and the concept is matter. In that thought of opposites, which inspired Mondrian's beautiful paintings, one never aspires to choose between one pole and the other but remain in equilibrium, on the edge of an abyss, where Burgos is, from where he lives and paints.

 

  • Fabián Burgos

    1962. Buenos Aires, Argentina

    EDUCATION

    1993-91 Beca de la Fundación Antorchas, coordinada por Guillermo Kuitca (Kuitca Fellowship) Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1988-87 Workshop with Ahuva Szlimowicz, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1987-85 Workshop with Felipe Noé, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

    2020 Fuera del cuerpo [Out of the body], Galería Vasari, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2018 Proyecto murales Miami [Miami Murals Project]. Brickell Heights y SLS Lux Brickell. Miami, USA.

    2015-18 Stay in Space, Alejandra Van Hartz Gallery, Miami, USA

    2014 Comiéndose a Raúl [Eating Raul], Galeria Vasari, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2010 Abstracta [Abstract]. Galería Dabbah Torrejón, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2007 Conferencia de prensa [Press conference]. Galería Alejandra Van Hartz, Miami, USA

    1997 Works on canvas, Annina Nosei Gallery, Nueva York, USA

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

    2019 Una Llamada Pertinaz [A Pertinacious Call], CABA, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    2008 Pintura Latinoamericana Contemporánea en colecciones de Guayaquil [Contemporary Latin American Painting in collections of Guayaquil], Museo Antropológico y de Arte Contemporáneo (MAAC) , Guayaquil, Ecuador

    2007 Orthodoxes-hétérodoxes [Orthodox-heterodox], Curator: Philippe Cyroulnik. Montbeliard, Francia. 2000

    Buenos Aires In & Out, Le 19éme Centre Régionale d’Art Contemporain, Montbeliard, Francia

    1998 Warm Traces, Consulado General de la Argentina, Nueva York, USA

    Group Show, Aninna Nosei Gallery, Nueva York, USA

    1997 El Tao del Arte [The Tao of Art], Centro Cultural Recoleta. Curator: Jorge Gumier Maier. Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1997 Arte actual Mexicano[Current Mexican Art], Galería de Memo Sepulveda, Monte Rey, México

    1996 The Rational Twist, Apex Space, Nueva York, USA

    1993 Dibujos [Drawings], Integração do Cone Sul, San Pablo y Río de Janeiro, Brasil

    Argentine Painters of the Nineties, GRN, N´Namdi Center for Contemporary Art Detroit, USA

    Pictórica [Pictorial], Art Museum of Americas, Washington D.C., USA

    1992 7 Artistas Contemporáneos [7 Contemporary artists], Galería Arte Actual Mexicano, Monterrey, México

    Urban Art, Michael Leonard Space, Nueva York, USA

    1991 Nadar sobre la superficie [Swimming on the surface], Gumier Maier- Burgos- Hasper, Galería Giesso, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    1990 Premio Braque [Braque Award], Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    FAIRS

    ArteBa (Galerías Dabbah Torrejón y Vasari de Buenos Aires), Pinta Art Fair (Alejandra Van Hartz Gallery, Miami, USA), ArtBo, Chicago Fair (Annina Nosei Gallery, Chicago)

    PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina

    Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA)

    Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MACBA), Argentina

    Museo Castagnino+MACRO, Buenos Aires, Argentina

    The SPACE Collection, Los Angeles, USA