Hernán Paganini
Bio
1982, Zarate, Argentina. He lives and works in Seattle, USA.
In the year 2000 he began his studies in the Graphic Design career at Universidad of Buenos Aires, where he also worked as a teacher.
Interested in exploring other applications of his work, he attended the Anti-project workshop, taught by Diego Bianchi at Di Tella University, and the Concept Workshop led by Daniel Joglar and Erika Escoda. A year later he was selected to be part of the Artists Program at the Torcuato Di Tella University, (2010/11).
Participated in the international residencies El Ranchito, Matadero, Madrid, Spain (2015), Kiosko Galería, Bolivia, 2016, Bienal del Sur, Venezuela and Facebook Artist Residencies Program, 2017 and MCCOLL Center, 2020
In 2018 he received two grants to apply his works in public space, the first through the Washington State Arts Commission to be part of the Public Artist Roster Program, and another in the city of PALO ALTO, California during 2018/20.
Statement
" The gestures inside my work reveal three simple facts; nothing is perfect, nothing is finished and nothing lasts.
I move into a non-place between nature and culture, awakening a primitive behavior, developing new resources to build a type of concrete and wild knowledge. Through the artisan practice, it is possible to make tools that also are models of wisdom.
I explore the relationship between places, their stories, and the construction of our own subjectivities on the idea of inheritance and memory. Working through recovered and found objects, products of the discards of society as a trace of their unconscious gesture, which simultaneously carries their own proper and a foreign history, individual and collective. Investigating in these vertices on the premise of sharing, juxtaposing these same actions on different social structures, transmuting the concept of supposed cultural differences with an aesthetic creative sense."
Hernán Paganini
