Tulio de Sagastizabal by PRAXIS

tulio de sagastizabal

outer life

Artist’s Statement It has always been hard for us to grasp the cycle at play in the creation of images. Though images are always available to us—it’s true—it would appear that the images we set out to create or to invent intentionally matter to us differently. Perhaps that’s because the images that we call “inner” never surprise us; they are habitual, recurring, or even obsessive, and they engage universes of meaning that we have learned to unravel—or believe we have learned to unravel; they only jar us when they are cause for extreme unease. But the images we set out to make, to construct, to take measure of, and to produce “outside” ourselves, in our environment and as extension, expansion, and practice—part of our process of becoming—put us in an ambiguous place of mediation whose rules and lessons are elusive, hard to grasp. Even though that entire undertaking may seem to reflect bridled intuitions and purposes, we never feel absolute control over the images that come out and take shape in this way; we never fully grasp what they demand or require of us. We suspect that our role as makers and/or mediators has been displaced, that we have quite possibly been reduced to the dreaded role of instrument—we know not of what or to what end. We might want the world to be a certain way, but the world takes shape in an improvised fashion; it is formed in endless dimensions at such speed that all we can grasp is one of its warm breaths, a tiny fragment that we only value fully if we understand that it is a precious vestige, perhaps the most precious of all because it can hold the latency of what is and what has been alive. We are in the river and the river is always changing, as we ourselves change. No matter how repetitive, we are still moved to safeguard that changing river like a magic potion that somehow perpetuates that which we can never fully grasp, encompass, or experience. Outer life is, then, the promise of another world, of a future at hand or distant—it doesn’t matter which, because what matters is believing the fiction that it is through us that that time and that moment have started to ensue.

Tulio de Sagastizabal. Buenos Aires, 2016.

Manhattan Nro 1, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 35 1/2“

Manhattan Nro 3, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 35 1/2“

Manhattan Nro 4, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 19 5/8“

Manhattan Nro 5, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 19 5/8“

Manhattan Nro 2, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 35 1/2“

Manhattan Nro 6, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 19 5/8“

Sueños diurnos Nro 2, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 19 5/8“

Sueños diurnos Nro 3, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 19 5/8“

Sueños diurnos Nro 1, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 35 1/2“

Meteoro Nro13, 2016, acrylic on paper, 27 1/2“ x 39 3/8“

Meteoro Nro14, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 19 5/8“

Meteoro Nro 11, 2016, acrylic on paper, 27 1/2“ x 39 3/8“

Meteoro Nro 16, 2016, acrylic on paper, 25 5/8“ x 19 5/8“

Meteoro Nro 10, 2016, acrylic on paper, 27 1/2“ x 39 3/8“

BIO

Born in Posadas, Misiones, Argentina, 1948. Currently lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina. EDUCATION

Alejandro Vainstein’s studio (1974) Luis Felipe Noé’s studio (1975) Roberto Páez’s studio (1979/81). SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)

Outer Life, Praxis Gallery, New York (2016). Meteoro, Palatina Gallery, Buenos Aires (2015). Transitos y estaciones, Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia Blanca, Buenos Aires (2015). Pequeños escenarios, Casa Matienzo, Buenos Aires (2014). Fragments of Fiction, Praxis Gallery, New York (2013). Trabajo de pintor, Juan Yaparí Museum, Misiones (2013). Tercera antología, Museum of Contemporary Art of Salta (2012). Heterónimos, Rubbers Gallery, Buenos Aires (2011). Pinturas y Apuntes, Palatina Gallery, Buenos Aires (2011). Ir y Venir, Mar Dulce Gallery, Buenos Aires (2010). Continuo, contiguo. Rubbers Gallery, Buenos Aires (2009). Antología Reciente, Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art (MACLA), La Plata (2008). Sístole y Diástole, Rubbers Gallery, Buenos Aires (2006). Nada ocurre dos veces, Rubbers Gallery, Buenos Aires (2003). Pintura existencial, Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts, Miami-Buenos Aires (2001). Pinturas indolentes, Galería Der Brücke, Buenos Aires (1997). Antología inestable, Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (MAMBA) - Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahía Blanca (MACBA) (1995). Relatos Reunidos, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (1991). Adiós Pampa mía, Sara García Uriburu Gallery, Buenos Aires (1990) RESIDENCIES & BIENNIALS

Fundación Antorchas’ Fellowship to study with Guillermo Kuitca (1991-92). Arteleku Residency, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, San Sebastian, Spain (2000). International Artists’s Residency in Argentina (RIAA), Viejo Hotel Ostende, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2008). No Hay Apuro, Macchina Gallery, Catholic University, Santiago, Chile (2013). Elogio Da Diversidade, Cultural Institute of Brasil - Argentina, Rio de Janeiro (2010). Southern Identity, Contemporary Argentine Art, The Smithsonian International Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C. (2010). Pintura Latinoamericana Contemporánea, Museum of Anthropolgy and Contemporary Art, Guayaquil, Ecuador (2008). Arte Abstracto (Hoy): Fragilidad+Resiliencia. Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires (CCEBA), Buenos Aires (2005). No Te Separes de Nosotros. Arteleku, San Sebastian (2002)- Casa Conde Duque, Madrid (2003). L’ Abstraction e ses territoires, Le 19, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain, Montbélliard, France (1998). I Bienal del Mercosur, Porto Alegre, Brazil (1997). 70/80/90, National Museum of Fine Arts, Buenos Aires (1995). Pictorica, Museum of The Americas, Washington D.C. (1993). Buenos Aires en Nantes, Festival Les Allumeés, Nantes, Franc (1992). La Conquista, 500 Años por 40 Artistas, Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires (1991). IV Bienal de La Habana, Cuba (1991) AWARDS (SELECTION)

Second Prize, Salón Nacional de Pintura (2013). First Prize, VI Salón Nacional de Pintura del BCRA (2012). Konex Prize in Painting, Fundación Konex (2012). Teaching Prize, Association of Art Critics, Argentine Chapter (2005). Leonardo Prize for Artist of the Year, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires (1998). First Prize, Salón del Quinto Centenario, Consejo Deliberante de Buenos Aires (1992). Fundación Antorchas Fellowship. (1991 and 1992).

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