I was born in Carlos Casares, and since the age of 9 I have lived in Buenos Aires.
I have studied with many wonderful art teachers. From 2002 to 2007, I took part of the Venus Project, from which I received the Collective Projects Grant. Using the grant, I created the “Era de Venus” Calendar, whose photos were exhibited in both the Reina Sofía Museum in Madrid and Malba in Buenos Aires.
With my series “Ráfagas de Alegría,” I participated in a collective exhibition in the Patio del Liceo Gallery in 2010.
After this, I created two individual shows, “Oh Safe Paradise” in Despacio Martínez (2012) and “EntreMundos” in Café Vinilo (2013). My collages have appeared as illustrations in the literary magazine La Mujer de mi Vida, the Blog Espectadores, and on the thematic covers of Ohlalá Magazine and also in Planetary Magazine.
I was invited to illustrate stories and poems in the SM Editions book “Here is a cat locked up”.
In 2015, I was very happy to participate in the Vicente López Illustrators Fair.
Later that year, I was also invited to exhibit my work at the Tertulia Unleashed for the benefit of the Civil Association Atar.
More recently, I had the great joy of illustrating, “El Nene Principito”, published in 2020, an Argentine version of the Saint Exupery classic, “The Little Prince”, translated by Gustavo Adriel Solé and edited by Círculo Rojo, in Spain.
During Covid lockdown I created the project “Your Collage Portrait”, commissioned family portraits using collage technique, based on real photos. That work helped me get through isolation and also bring joy to other families around the world.
I inherited the book The Little Prince from my grandfather Jacobo, my great storyteller of every morning in Carlos Casares.
It has always been an emblematic book for me, and that is why when Gustavo Adriel Solé called me to illustrate the first Argentine Spanish version of this classic, I felt great joy in the face of this challenge.
Creating El nene Principito in collage and to make him inhabit his places, was like walking a new path but at the same time one that has been already walked, like printing new footprints on previous ones, of other little princes, other readers and other grandparents reading the book to their grandchildren.
This work gave me moments of incredible happiness and I am very grateful to have been able to achieve it and give new light to the eyes of my own Little Prince.
When Alejandro Ferrari, the editor of LenguaMadre, called me to illustrate this beautiful book created by Pedro Patzer, I felt really glad, because I had the chance to connect with argentine symbols and traditions, some of them still unknown.
It was a chance for me to learn more about my own country, maybe from a foreign point of view, as if I was a traveler of these “Pampas” myself.
So in this trip through Pedro´s stories, I discovered lovely characters and magic places which surround us, even if we are not aware of them.
Your Collage Portrait is a project born from the need to celebrate and feel closer to our favorite people in the world.
This way, many people who want to express their love and appreciation to their loved ones, call me to collage their fathers, mothers, sons, daughters, friends, colleagues, grandparents, godchildren, cousins, and even psychoanalysts.
In the process of creating the portraits, I feel a connection with the people I draw, as well as with those who commission me to do the work, creating an invisible bond between them, myself and the world around us.
This work is very special to me, and my goal is to embrace little things and unforgettable moments in our lives.
Let’s celebrate the bonds that make us happy.
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