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Arch (Gate) & Wrestlers. Installation, plaster, wood, bronze, 200cm x 120cm x 30cm, 2022.
Ventriloquo. Performance & installation, mud, agony, 2024.
Hermitage. Performance & installation, 2021. — Room, mud, woods, green walls, priest uniform, books, pee, shoes, water, fear, depression, odour and exhaustion.
Catacombs. Installation, 2021. — Land, mud, school uniform, branches, roots, shoes, blue backpack, saliva and thoughts about life after death.
Catacombs. Installation, 2021. — Mud, school uniform, blue backpack, saliva and thoughts about life after death.
Pretorium. Oil on canvas, 60cm x 80cm, 2021.
Lamb. Mud sculpture, 50cm x 100cm x 60cm, 2022.
School boys. Painting series. Oil on canvas, variable measures, 2020/22.
Covacha (tolderías) / Refuge. Installation, variable measures, 2015-2019.
The burnt of the laurels. Video installation, 2017. — projection over laurels, detail.
Deserter. Video performance and installation, 1h 40min, 2016.
(conversation) Memories of war. Horacio & Ignacio Chico. Performance, 18 min, 2017. — extract.
Conflict/sequence (war photographs). Nine photographs, 8’’ x 10’’, AGFA Color, 1982-2017.
“It´s not a suit, it´s a uniform". Video performance, 3min, 2017.
Achaques / aches. Video performance, 7min, 2017.
La entrega del couteaux. Video performance and photo performance, 6min, 2016.
Filiations (El constructor de ideas). Photo performance & installation (collection of vintage photographs), 2016.
The tomb of the laurels. Photo performance & Installation, 2017.
Arrojos. Video performance, 40 min, 2015. — extract.
Arrojos Momentum. Wet plate collodion (glass), analogue photography, installation, 14 pieces of 7'' x 9'', 2015 - 17.
Ignacio Chico (1986, Argentina)
I contextualize my practice into transdisciplinary media, establishing two bodies of work.
One project is about my father´s experience as a soldier in Malvina´s war, and the other project is about my mother´s teachings and learnings about psychoanalysis.
My main concerns are filiation and autobiography.
Filiation Project
I was born in Bahía Blanca in 1986 and during my childhood, I lived in the Military Hotel of Puerto Belgrano in Punta Alta because my father was part of the Argentine Navy (1982 Malvinas War; in 1991 he resigned as a frigate lieutenant accountant).
My socio-political concerns emerged around my childhood and the memory of my father's experience at war. Through performance, the uniform became the territory where I can explore and reflect my character, my obsessions, and idealisms, which characterized the development of my learning stages.
"Friend of psychoanalysis" project
As a child, I attended two Catholic schools until I was 11 years old. Through elementary school catechism, I was taught about the origins of the universe and humanity.
In the following years, my mother became a psychologist. She began to talk to me about Sigmund Freud's psychoanalytic theory and his research on childhood, sexuality, and the unconscious.
My existential concerns emerged around the memory of my religious books readings at school and my mother's teachings on psychoanalysis. The performative interaction with specific uniforms (school, priest) and objects (room, mud) helped me delve into the complexity of thought and my ambivalent mood.
Ignacio Chico
Born 1986 in Bahía Blanca, Argentina.
Education
2022 Master in Contemporary Art Practice, Royal College of Art, UK.
2017 Graduated in Visual Arts in the Universidad Nacional del Arte, Arg.
2015 Courses at School of Visual Arts,f New York, USA.
2014 Courses at Central Saint Martins, London, UK.
Solo Exhibitions
2020 "Covacha, Cathédrale, Momentum", Gachi Prieto Gallery (Patio), Bs. As., Arg.
2017 "A word on war", 3331 Arts Chiyoda (B108), Tokyo, Japan.
2017 "Filiation project: Deserter", 3331 Arts Chiyoda (Gallery 104), Tokyo, Japan.
Residency
2021 Proyecto Pozo art residency, Arg.
2017 AIR 3331 Arts Chiyoda Residence Program, Tokyo, Japan.
2016 Proyecto PAC, Gachi Prieto Gallery, Bs. As., Arg.
Awards
2019 Bienal Bahía Blanca Acquisition price "Honorable Concejo Deliberante”, 2 Museos.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 "Menu", Fleisch espacio de arte contemporáneo, Madrid, Spain.
2022 "(...) Forgot to rembember to forget (...)", Gerald Moore Gallery, London, UK.
2017 "El Centro en Movimiento", Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2016 "Ensayo, Pruebo, Insisto", Panal 361, Bs. As., Argentina.
2016 "13 Ways", School of Visual Arts, New York, USA.
Curatorial practice
2018 忘れ物 supported by Centro Cultural de la Embajada de Japón and the Museo Nacional de Arte Oriental in Argentina.
Art management
2018/19 Douzo Rocamora, Space for contemporary art, Bs. As., Arg.
Workshops & Critics
2019 Specialization in curatorial practice (not finished), UNTREF, Arg.
2016 Crits with Ananké Asseff, Arg.
2015 Workshop with Lorena Guillén Vasqueti, Arg.
2014 Crits with Andrés Waissman, Arg.
2014 Sculpture at Atelier Saint Fargaux, Paris, France.
2013 Printmaking with Patricio Bosch, Taller Gráca P/A, Arg.
2012 Painting with Domingo Florio, Arg.
2010 Drawing, Escuela Guillermo Roux, Arg.
2009 Painting with Ignacio Sosa, Arg.
2008 Drawing with Josena Di Candia, Arg.
2004 Painting with Laura Messing Studio, Arg.
Other several courses on ceramics, glass, mosaic, temple and oil painting.
Appearances/Publications
2020 Diario Clarín, Arg. https://www.clarin.com/cultura/semana-arte-ver-buenos-aires_0_IqZNqUM49.html
2020 Diario Clarín, Arg. https://www.clarin.com/revista-enie/arte/semana-galerias-arte-apuesta-mercado-federal_0_32J1oC2o9.html
2019 La Nueva Provincia, Arg. https://www.lanueva.com/nota/2019-11-24-6-30-7-el-viernes-inaugurara-la-bienal-de-arte-2019-en-2museos
2017 Art-it, Japan. https://www.art-it.asia/en/u/3331artscyd_e/cm9nlejzk4s5qwxhcsux
2017 Diario La Nación. Arg. https://www.lanacion.com.ar/cultura/en-verano-performance-de-todos-y-para-todos-en-el-cck-nid1983874/
2017 Revista Ramona, Arg. http://www.ramona.org.ar/node/64718
2016 Revista Ramona, Arg. http://www.ramona.org.ar/node/60394
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