Artists
Argentina
Pablo Perez Torres
OPEN Buenos Aires 2023
16.06.23 20.06.23
Pablo Perez Torres is an artist graduated from the University of Arts (UNLP) with a degree in visual arts, with a focus on engraving and printed art. Master in combined languages (UNA), he is part of the research project “Expanded visuality and performance” (UNA). From his artistic practice, Pablo seeks to create a systematization of tests and experiences on materiality through actions of fusion, fragmentation, addition, superposition, and repetition, with the intention of producing a dialogue with the reality of a specific context and transform it. Through different procedures linked to the search and experimentation with materials, he chooses to put the meaning in the production of objects, attending to their transformation processes: it is a reflection that starts from the formal to make visible ways of thinking a diverse reality.
In his own words: “I am interested in the notions of: Action – Matter – Form, which, associated, operate and root the strategies to produce meaning. The action is to dominate: matter is subdued and form is the result that becomes work. The process is what allows to condense these concepts to explore how far and when the body, the matter, advances. The fragility of the bodies becomes evident through the attitude they take on in their assembly. The interruption is a temporary suspension of the execution in process, where one can find, in a closer state, an endless number of variables. This provokes, so to speak, an intimidating act for the spectator, a place where a system of artifacts is configured in the manner of simulacra that become a body per se, to discover scenarios that enable a theatricality.”
BIO
Pablo Perez Torres
1977 | La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in La Plata, Argentina
EDUCATION
Bachelor’s Degree and Professor of Fine Arts (Printmaking and Printed Arts). Facultad de Artes, UNLP, Argentina
Currently studying for a Master’s Degree in Combined Arts. UNA, Argentina
EXHIBITIONS
2022 | Propaganda: mecanismos y patrones. Roseum gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 | Propaganda: mecanismos y patrones. Pettoruti museum, La Plata, Argentina
2018 | Insterticios. SAETA, Benito Juárez, Argentina
2018 | Fuga. EC Tita Merello, La Plata, Argentina
2016 | Estados. Seguros Rivadavia, La Plata, Argentina
AWARDS
2023 | Salón Nacional Artes visuales. MACA, Junín, Argentina
2023 | Premio MACSUR. Lanús, Argentina
2023 | Premio Itaú. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 | Premio Itaú, mención del jurado. Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 | Premio Itaú. Buenos Aires, Argentina
Related Activities
Encounters, International Projects, Workshops, Exhibitions, Fellowships
OPEN 2023 | Activities
Workshops, talks and demos
17.06.23 20.06.23
From June 17th to June 20th, 2023, the OPEN Buenos Aires: International Encounter of Emerging Printmakers was held at the Casa de la Cultura–Edificio La Prensa in the City of Buenos Aires. Throughout its 4 days open to the public, the selected artists shared with the public not only their works in traditional and contemporary graphic techniques, but also offered workshops, demos, participatory practices and talks, all free and open to the public.
OPEN Buenos Aires is an event of professionalization for emerging artists and dissemination of graphic practices for the local public, whether specialized or without previous knowledge in the field of printmaking in particular or contemporary art in general. As part of the application that each artist submitted, it was the artists themselves who proposed different instances of exchange with visitors to the event, bringing them closer to their techniques, their projects, their portfolios and their working methods.
The activities that visitors to the event were able to enjoy were:
- Guided tour by David Arteagoitia (director of Open Portfolio FIGBilbao)
- Guided tour by Luciano Pozo (OPEN 2023 artist)
- Activation: DESPOSEÍDES (by Aniela Troglia, OPEN 2023 artist)
- Print Jam in two stations:
STATION 1 PRINTING MATTERS: words and actions that empower (by Mariana Gayoso, OPEN 2022 artist)
STATION 2 THE MAGIC OF XYLOGRAPHY: creative workshop by Laura Pires and Hernán Borches (OPEN 2023 artists) - Guided tour by Inés Gaggero (artist OPEN 2023)
- Activation: FRAGMENTED NARRATIVES: AI in art (by Zerré, OPEN 2023 artist)
- Professional workshop: EXPLORING NEW HORIZONS: Innovation in contemporary graphics with plastic materials and bi-component resins (by David Arteagoitia, Director of Open Portfolio FIGBilbao) sponsored by CCEBA-Embassy of Spain
- Workshop: GYOTAKU 3D: dimensional traces (by OPEN 2023 artists Santiago Crespo and Candela del Valle)
- Activation: TEMPORARY ARCHIVES (by Amelia Herrero OPEN 2023 artist)
- Workshop: Florisgraphic printing (by Luciano Pozo, OPEN 2023 artist)
- Visual poetry workshop: ESTROFAS GRÁFICAS (by OPEN 2023 artists Gabriela Esterovich and Inés Díaz Saubidet)
- Workshop: BETWEEN LIGHT AND NATURE: demo of cyanotype and chlorotype (by Clara Nerone and Rapainú, OPEN 2023 artists)
- Workshop: KITCHEN-LITHO: alchemy in the kitchen (by Inés Gaggero, OPEN 2023 artist)
- Workshop: VISUAL EXPRESSION AND ARTIVISM (by Darío Marroche and Pablo Pérez Torres, OPEN 2023 artists)
- Workshop: MINIMUM MINIMORUM: the greatness of the small (by Pablo Damseaux Tabárez OPEN 2023 artist)
Encounters, International Projects, Fellowships
OPEN 2023 | Awards
Awards ceremony
20.06.23 20.06.23
From June 17-20, 2023, the OPEN Buenos Aires: International Encounter of Emerging Printmakers was held at the Casa de la Cultura–Edificio La Prensa in the City of Buenos Aires. Throughout its 4 days of opening to the public, the selected artists shared their works in traditional and contemporary print media techniques with the visitors, celebrated the opening of the exhibition, offered workshops, demos and open talks and, on the last day, 9 of the 16 artists received the prizes awarded by the event’s organizers.
In addition to the 16 participation grants awarded to the finalist artists, after all the activities of OPEN Buenos Aires were completed, the following prizes were distributed:
- 4 FIG Bilbao Awards: four artists with a stand each at the Fig Bilbao Fair November 2023 + accommodation in Bilbao (awarded to Candela Del Valle, Gabriela Esterovich, Clara Nerone and Luciano Pozo)
- 2 grants for artistic residencies at CIEC Foundation in Betanzos, Spain in 2024 (awarded to Hernán Borches and Darío Marroche)
- 1 residency grant at the BDC-Basque bioDesign Center in Bilbao, Spain (awarded to Santiago Crespo)
- 1 artist-in-residence grant at La Rural, Tucumán, Argentina (awarded to Rapainú)
- 1 artist-in-residence grant at Proyecto´ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina (awarded to Zerré)
The prizes were awarded by the Awards Jury, formed by David Arteagoitia (Bilbao, Basque Country, Director of FIG Open Portfolio), Pedro Galilea (Salamanca, Spain, Vice President and Director of Fundación CIEC), Iñaki Alonso (Bilbao, Basque Country, President of FIG Bilbao), and Alicia Candiani (Buenos Aires, Argentina, Director of OPEN Buenos Aires and Fundación´ace) based on the quality of the works presented and the activities for the public proposed and carried out by the artists themselves.
International Projects, Workshops, Portfolio Review, Open Calls
OPEN 2023 | Critiques
Portfolio Reviews
20.06.23 20.06.23
Between June 17 and 20, 2023, the OPEN Buenos Aires: International Meeting of Emerging Graphic Arts was held at the Casa de la Cultura–Edificio La Prensa in the City of Buenos Aires. OPEN Buenos Aires is a professionalization event for emerging artists and dissemination of print media practices for the local public, whether specialized or without previous knowledge in the field of printmaking in particular or contemporary art in general. As part of the professionalization of the artists, on Sunday, June 18, a review of portfolios was carried out by a team specialized in traditional and contemporary print media, engraving and graphic and printed visual arts.
The review of portfolios was in charge of:
- Pedro Galilea, Director of Fundación CIEC–Centro Internacional de la Estampa Contemporánea, Galicia, Spain
- Esteban Álvarez, artist and professor at UNA–Universidad Nacional de la Artes, CABA, Argentina
- Adriana Moracci, artist and masterprinter, director of Taller AM, CABA, Argentina
- Micaela Trocello, artist, coordinator of the International Biennial of Engraving and Small Format Printed Art BIGAI and professor UNC–Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Córdoba, Argentina
- Alicia Valente, curator of the National Museum of Engraving and Professor at the University of La Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Throughout 3 hours, they offered portfolio reviews, feedback, work criticism, and professional guidance to both OPEN artists and independent artists who had previously signed up to participate in this free activity.
