Sandro Pereira
Bio
Sandro Pereira (Tucumán, 1974)
He is an Argentine visual artist who lives and works in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. He is considered the contemporary artist from Tucumán with the greatest national projection.
Pereira holds a degree from the Faculty of Arts at the National University of Tucumán. He initially specialized in printmaking before joining Taller C, focused on contemporary art. He held his first exhibitions in 1996, when he began exploring sculpture, presenting works that would become paradigmatic in his career, such as El novio (1996) and Supermancito (1998), which he would later reinterpret recurrently.
Over the years, he has worked across a wide range of genres—including printmaking, sculpture, objects, drawing, painting, performance, and photography—and materials such as plaster, wire, polyester resin, clay, plasticine, objet trouvé, and paper.
He has also engaged with diverse discourses, though always with a strong autobiographical dimension, primarily employing the genre of self-portraiture.
Statement
His images are often casts of his own body in different circumstances, seeking to challenge models, trends, canons, and paradigms of society. In much of his work, he employs parody directed at himself—at his own body—drawing on the stereotypes of his childhood, as well as on pop art and Argentine popular culture.
He positions portraiture, as a genre, within the realm of critique and self-critique, placing his own image in roles of heroism or abjection. By taking himself as an object, he studies himself as a specimen, subjecting his image to all kinds of qualifications that alter the perception of the artist and his reality—his time and his place.
