Nicanor Aráoz
Subtitle: sueño sólido
By: [dirigido por Victoria Noorthoom ; curadurña : Lucrecia Palacios]
Contributors: Palacios, Lucrecia, curator; Noorthoom, Victoria, editor; Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Edition: Primera edición.
Publisher: Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Language: spa
Number of pages: 123
ISBN-13: 9789871358816
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Exhibitions; Argentine Sculpture; Installations (Art)
Other titles: Sueño sólido
Work titles: Works
Description: Nicanor Aráoz (born 1981) is a central figure in the landscape of contemporary Argentinian sculpture. Aráoz's works, which as well as sculpture include photographs, video and performance, explore the forms of the human body through images that decompose and recompose it in the face of violence, abandon and eroticism in various metamorphoses. The transformation of matter is a pivotal element in his work: evolving over time, his exhibitions have featured humanoids, larval forms and organic references of every kind, which the artist sets in scenes that approach the logic of science fiction, retrofuturism or cyberpunk. His work encompasses a vast range of images and possibilities, from early works incorporating forms from comics, cartoons and cookie brands, to his latest exhibitions that focus on trauma and foreground crime as spectacle, and the martyrdom and arousal of the body. In Aráoz's works and scenes, we witness a fundamental concern for how human beings suffer, inhabit and relate to a strained, unstable world. "Salons of strong emotions, as they have been called, his exhibitions feature references to the world of electronic music as a ritual space of social communion.
Notes: "Este libro fue publicado en ocasión de la exposición "Nicanor Aráoz: sueño sólido" que tuvo lugar en el Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires entre el 20 de octubre de 2020 y el 31 de julio de 2021" --Verso Title Page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Texts in Spanish and English.
Table of contents: title: Entrevista con Mariposa Di Giorgio = Interview with Mariposa Di Giorgio - Ultramundo foxígeno - Mi cristo roto; title: El más allá como hecho industrial = The beyond as industrial fact / Alejo Ponce de León; title: Hombres salmonela en el planeta porno = Salmonella men on the porn planet - Nebulosa rata frita - Calabaza: rata frita - Interface fantasy / André Nusselder - Hamlet in the holodeck / Jane Horowitz Murray - Suavemente, como se apoba la flecha - A Historia Universal do after / Nicanor Aráoz: sueño sólido = Nicanor Aráoz: solid sleep / Lucrecia Palacios - Biografía = Biography.