Miguel Ángel Biazzi
Miguel Angel Biazzi was a contemporary Argentine painter, sculptor, installation and sketch artist born in the province of Córdoba, Argentina. He spent 20 years in Salta, a city in northwestern Argentina. He settled in Buenos Aires, in the district of San Telmo, where he created a studio remaining there until his death. Biazzi was a Latin American artist indebted to the use of earthy colors and mythical images of Native America to represent his recurring theme of "other with integrity." Art. Throughout his career Biazzi has created works that appear to recover ideas and feelings which seem  to be frozen in the past. As described by Portuguese anthropologist Nuno Branco, "He (Biazzi) goes further. He lets his mind wander through a number of variations…He is a Guaraní, he is a Tehuelche, he becomes a Mataco. No doubt his art is a process of becoming. The way he has found of becoming someone else, of generously forgetting about himself. The art of invocation: to invoke, to enchant, to seduce, to laugh together, united by an element of softness, are verbs featuring in his grammar and imagery, only deceptively naïve." Having crossed paths with Jorge Luis Borges, acclaimed  Argentine writer, essayist, and poet, one can see clear influences in Biazzi's work of an attempt to elevate quotidian life to a much deserved, yet mostly ignored, prominent hierarchical status.