Gerardo Irigoin
Bio
Originally from Mar del Plata, he began his career linked to the cultural promotion of his city. He directed an art gallery, coordinated the Rotary Club's Annual Painting and Drawing Award, and contributed to the promotion of local artists. His interest in drawing, photography, and audiovisual language accompanied the development of his artistic practice. He participated in solo and group exhibitions, with presentations at the Borges Cultural Center and the Latin American Art Association. He complements his training at the School of Fine Arts with studio critiques.
He works with charcoal and chalk pastel on canvas, in medium and large formats. His work explores the relationships between nature and the human condition, addressing life cycles and the tensions between survival, growth, and coexistence. Through drawing and color, he constructs images that investigate organic forms, their contrasts, and their symbolic dimension.
Statement
I am interested in exploring that instant when an image ceases to be merely what it represents and begins to activate emotions, memories, and questions. Beauty then emerges as a subjective perception: a way of relating to the world and, at the same time, of questioning our own existence. In this particular work, I work with charcoal and pastels on a photographic support. By intervening in the photograph, I alter its condition as a record and open up a tension between the real and the imagined, between what the camera captures and what the gesture transforms. The layers, marks, and materiality modify the initial image.
