Lorenzo Gonzalez Baltazar
Bio
Lorenzo Gonzalez Baltazar (b. 1995, Yapeyú, Corrientes) proudly identifies as "marica" (a reclaimed slur). He is a Visual Artist, Professor, and holds a degree in Fine Arts, graduating in 2018 from the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National University of Misiones. Since 2020, he has been a CONICET fellow and is pursuing a PhD in Arts at the National University of the Arts. In 2019, he won his first Creation Grant from the National Fund for the Arts (FNA). In 2021, he completed a diploma in Art Applied to Society at Überbau-House (SP, Brazil). That same year, he participated in the 4x4 Art Workshop with Sinaí and De La Puente (Buenos Aires, Argentina). In 2022, he was selected to take part in the Manglar Virtual art workshop led by Andres Labake and the Art Residency at Local de Artes Recientes (Buenos Aires, Argentina). In 2022, he was awarded the UNNE Visual Arts Prize, the Vidal Museum Acquisition Prize in Corrientes, and participated in the 110th National Visual Arts Salon at Palais de Glace. In 2023, he won his second Creation Grant from the FNA, the Ínsitu Prize, received an honorable mention in the Fortabat Foundation Prize - under 35 category -, and was selected for the Santa Fe National Annual Salon at the Rosa Galisteo Museum. He also participated in the National Parks Residency. Among his solo exhibitions, the highlights are "Podrá disolvernos la lluvia" (Caa Cati, 2021) and "Para llegar al futuro" (Posadas, 2019). He has participated in various group exhibitions in Argentina and Brazil. As a cultural manager, since 2017, he has been organizing the Art Residency and Community Photography Project "¿Qué ves Yapeyú?". Since 2023, he lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Statement
Something in life becomes a mirror held up to art; once again.
A litoral centaur stripped of hetero-Hellenic pretensions is contained by a dramatic scene to tell its legend. Flora, fauna, geographies, and perhaps some mythical characters.
And I say perhaps because to find oneself/to be/to encounter oneself on the edge is to be in the limen. The threshold between worlds, to walk or dance in the powerful place of uncertainty, of the sharp edge.
On one side of the worlds, what has been learned, the dark, loving, and painful root is glimpsed. On the other side, what is desired, the pleasure, and one's own voice expanded in a laugh that heralds the sapucay.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
