Nicanor Ar\u00e1oz (Buenos Aires, 1981) produces objects, installations, drawings and sculptures using as his references the comic, imagery from Internet and romantic mythologies taken from gothic art. In his works, procedures involving the making of a surrealistic object, such as the assembly of dissimilar elements and the oneiric component, take on frantic forms resembling nightmares where pleasure and pain seem to merge. Ar\u00e1oz uses materials as if they expiate sadistic sensations, and takes them to the utmost limits of expressivity and torsion. In narrative scenes he mixes plaster monsters, amorphous masses of resin, trainers, neon lights and biscuits with embalmed cats, mice and birds, thus shaping a world of emotional psychedelics with visual references to the domestic environment of an adolescent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
His latest individual projects are Sue\u00f1o s\u00f3lido (Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2020), Placenta escarlata (Barro, Buenos Aires 2018), Because I am never what I have (The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York 2017), Antolog\u00eda Gen\u00e9tica (Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 2016), Gl\u00f3tica (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2015), IMNXTC (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2013) and Librada (Galer\u00eda Alberto Sendr\u00f3s, Buenos Aires, 2013).In 2019 he was part of Residents Art Dubai curated by Munira Al Sayegh and Fernanda brenner. He was selected by Alec Oxenford Scholarship to travel to do field research in Tokio (2014), Kuitca Scholarship (2010- 2011) and the Artist Program of Torcuato Di Tella University (2009 – 2010). In 2017 he received a scholarship from ISCP (International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York). Chus Martinez included Araoz’s work, specially commissioned for the collective exhibition Metamorfosi \u2013 Lasciate che tutto vi accada (Castello di Rivoli, Turin, 2018). In\u00e9s Katzenstein, Lucrecia Palacios and Alejo Ponce de Le\u00f3n have recently published a book of Ar\u00e1oz\u2019s exhibition Antolog\u00eda Gen\u00e9tica (Mansalva, 2018). In 2019 he participated in the residencies Piv\u00f4 (S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil) and Art Dubai (Dubai, UAE). Lives and works in Buenos Aires.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":1699,"template":"","tags":[216,259,304,221,243],"class_list":["post-1700","artistas","type-artistas","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-2010-2023-en","tag-cuerpos-en","tag-muerte-en","tag-lgbtttiqnb-en","tag-ciencia-ficcion-en","entry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas\/1700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artistas"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/artistas"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mapadelarte.museomoderno.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}