Mirta Gendin
Bio
Argentine visual artist, lives and works in Tigre, Province of Buenos Aires
Works with Photography, Engraving and Artist Books. Experiment with various materials, such as aluminum and zinc sheet, acrylics, glass, canvas, cotton and vegetable papers.
With Fabiana Barreda, Julio Sánchez, Rodrigo Alonso and Valeria González, he was theoretically trained in contemporary and conceptual art.
She studied photography with Angela Copello starting in 2006 and completing her knowledge of digital editing with Alejandro Calderone.
In 2012, with Carla Rey, she investigated manual and digital graphic techniques, Engraving and Artist Books.
In 2013 she joined the Editorial Instantes Graficos group directed by Carla Rey with whom she participates in numerous national and international group exhibitions.
In 2018 she joined the Grafica Insurgente group directed by the artist Mirta Kupferminc, with whom she participated in the Second Jerusalem Biennial.
Works of his authorship are in the Timoteo Navarro Museum of Tucumán, Museum of the City of BA. BA City Government Room. National Library of New York, Yale University Library, forming part of the Abracadabra and Basta la Palabra collection. Different institutions in Romania, England and Spain have Artist Books and photographs intervened with engraving and works acquired by collectors.
She had individual exhibitions in 2014 and 2018 in Buenos Aires.
Statement
My work is based on what my surroundings, especially nature, provoke in me. I walk through cities, structures and natural landscapes, guided by the signs I find and that activate my thoughts. These experiences function as a journey that leaves traces. My photographs document the passing of the seasons and my travels, which feed my work. I record what impacts me: cultures, their traditions and how nature appears in different latitudes. I am concerned about man's invasion of the natural world and its cycles, and I want to record this in my images. Although my work is not documentary, it builds a record of the relationship between human beings and nature.
