Pablo Morgante
Bio
PABLO MORGANTE was born in the city of La Plata on April 20, 1979.
He graduated in Visual Arts from the Faculty of Arts of the U.N.L.P.
He studied Architecture and Urban Planning at the U.N.L.P.
In 2015 he was awarded the “Clinical Workshop Scholarship for Visual Artists” from the Fund.
National Arts and Cultural Center H. Conti.
In 2006 he attended the residency scholarship at the Hoz del Júcar Art Institute, Spain;
awarded by the Karrvaz Foundation.
He held an art and work clinic with Diana Aisemberg, Daniel García, Ernesto Ballesteros, Silvia
Gurfein, Andrés Labaké, Tulio Desagastizabal, Verónica Gómez, Eduardo Basualdo.
He completed the Postgraduate Degree in Cultural Policies and Management, Faculty of Economic Sciences of the U.N.L.P.
He currently works as Head of the Chair of Painting III and Production Workshop
Plastic Arts from the Faculty of Arts, U.N.L.P. and as Head of Practical Work of the Chair of
Complementary Painting, Faculty of Arts, U.N.L.P.
His work is part of the collections of the Petorutti Museum, MACBA, MUMART and MACLA.
Statement
MINIMUM BRUTALISM SERIES
I take the modernist concept of Brutalism, derived from a genre of architecture carried out between the 50's and 70's characterized by the austerity of its forms, the exaltation of materiality, the economy of resources and, formally, with a strong geometric imprint .
In my work I take up fragments of previous constructions and transfer them to wood, fabric or paper as a support, trying to dialogue with the intention that these works originally had with the materiality, its visibility and the environment.
Color emerges as an aesthetic consequence generating a tension between the support and the form that inhabits it, giving a different character to each construction that resides within the limits of the frame, an element that, far from simply seeking to allude to the concept of window or ornamental closure, it is integrated into the work generating an indivisible whole.
Consequently, we could call the series “Minimal Brutalisms” as fragments or cuttings of modern architecture, which allows us to relive it in the simulation that painting brings to us.
