Malena Pizani
Bio
Caracas, Venezuela, 1975.
She was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Of Argentine nationality and based in Buenos Aires since 1994.
She studied Arts, UCV, in Caracas and Philosophy, UBA, in Buenos Aires .
She participated in scholarships, courses and workshops with artists such as Diana Aisenberg, Diego Bianchi, Silvia Gurfein and Rosario Blefari. She had individual exhibitions at the Recoleta Cultural Center, Ruby Gallery, National Arts Fund, Metronome Gallery, Foster Catena Gallery and Selvanegra Gallery.
Also, she participated in collective exhibitions at the CCK, Munar, Muntref, Sívori Museum and Palais de Tokyo, among others.
In 2015 she published the book Un artista, by Big Sur Books and An artist by Gatonegro editions.
Her work was exhibited in art awards such as 8M, Braque Prize, National Rosario Hall, Klemm Foundation Prize and Andreani Foundation.
Statement
In Malena Pizani's work, the elements are usually basic and infallible, from an ancestral order, and their treatment is also ancestral; it fulfills the function of proposing mysterious schemes, fictions - multiplied and sober - about representation.
The feeling of symbolism that permeates the air of the work leads us to wonder about the spirits that shaped the tapestry and its plans. Masks replace faces and holes are eyes. It is the surface of a ritual that is being made of space and time, that is beginning to be instrumentalized: it loads objects, spies on images, prepares sounds, underlines sentences.
