NICOLÁS MASTRACCHIO

 

ARTIST STATEMENT

Nicolás Mastracchio recovers a remarkable tradition whose effects on the art world are the appropriation, as a sensory experience of art, of the philosophies of well-being.

Visual aesthetic functions as a vehicle for the awakening of consciousness.

This approach, which made a fascinating transnational journey in the 1960s, reborn in the 1980s, reached a contemporaneity full of new meanings in his work.


  • Nicolás Mastracchio

    1983. Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works in Berlin, Germany

    EDUCATION

    2010-11 Beca Kuitca (Kuitca Fellowship), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires

    2009-10 Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Program for Visual Arts, Buenos Aires, advisor Jorge Macchi

    2004-06 Instituto Universitario Nacional de las Artes

    SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

    2022 Untitled, Galería Sendros, Buenos Aires, Argentina (forthcoming)

    2021 Constant Becoming, MM Gallery, Berlin, Germany

    2018 Pulso [Pulse], Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires

    2017 Untitled, Galería Mite, Buenos Aires

    2015 Nicolas Mastracchio, Centro cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires

    Nicolas Mastracchio, Una Cadena (Azul y Rojo) [NM, One chain (Blue and Red)], Proyecto Alimentación30, Madrid

    2014 Nicolas Mastracchio, Galeria Zavaleta Lab, Buenos Aires

    Red Negra [Black net], Cartel, Prisma-KH, Buenos Aires

    2013 Nicolas Mastracchio, Galeria Pilar, Sao Paulo, Brasil

    GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

    2019 Portadores de Sentido, Colección P. Helps de Cisneros [Sense Bearers, P. Helps Cisneros Collection], Museo Amparo, Puebla, México

    Premio Braque [Braque Award], Muntref Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires

    2018 Latinoamérica: Volver al Futuro [Latin America: Back to the future], Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires

    Lunds Konsthall Ute, Videokonst från Argentina, Lunds Konsthall, Lunds

    2017 El Ejercicio De Las Cosas [The exercise of things], Argentina Plataforma ARCO, Biblioteca Nacional, Madrid

    Via Viva, Los Angeles

    2015 Alimentación30 Archivo 2014-2015, Cruce, Madrid

    2012 Adquisiciones, Comodatos y Donaciones, MALBA [Acquisitions, Grants and Donations, MALBA] , Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires

    Get a Mentor, Flute Douce, Frankfurt am Main

    2009 Tigre Celeste [Light Blue Tiger], Y Gallery, New York, USA

    PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

    Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

    Permanent collection of Museo Universidad de Navarra, España

    MALBA- Fundación Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires

    Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires

    Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires

    AWARDS AND RESIDENCES

    2019 Djerassi Resident Artist Program, Woodside, CA, USA

    Banff Center for the Arts, BAIR, Canada

    2018 Fondo Metropolitano de la Cultura, las Artes y la Ciencia, línea creación, Buenos Aires (Grant)

    Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires (Grant)

    2017 Headlands Center For The Arts, AIR

    2016 AMEXCID, Becas de Programas Especiales, Ciudad de México

    Yaddo Artists Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA

    2013 Premio Lucio Fontana, (Grant and Residence in Torino, Italy)

    2012 Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, Maine, USA (Awarded by the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros)

    Beca Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Grant)

    2010 Beca Kuitca, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires (Fellowship and Production Grant)