ABOUT ME

Adriana Minoliti (1980, Ciudad de Buenos Aires) - www.minoliti.com.ar
Lives and works in Buenos Aires. She earned a BFA in Painting at the National Academy of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredon and attended Diana Aisenberg´s workshop. In 2009 co-founded the group of argentinian female painters called PintorAs. She is an agent of the Artistic Research Center as a grant holders and after that as a teacher. Adriana has received grants from the Metropolitan and the National Endowments for the Arts in Argentina and FONCA Conaculta of Mexico.
She was the winner of the Arcos Dorados Latin American Painting Contest 2013, and she was awarded with acquisition prizes by Igualdad Program of the Argentine government, the Federico Klemm Foundation and the Museum of Contemporary Arts from Bahia Blanca.
She was selected to take part in the Braque Prize 2013 by the French Embassy and the National University of Tres de Febrero.
She had a solo show at the gallery Ruth Benzacar, as the winner of Curriculum Cero 2004.
Performed solo exhibitions in Abate Gallery during 2012, and at the New Museum of Contemporary Art La Ene in 2013.

Interests

My practice is the result of my interest in the eroticism and geometry manifested through painting and installation.
In my paintings, the jungles are a concept that I related to eroticism. The voluptuous forms are a metaphor for sexuality as a field of infinite possibilities. The jungles are not colonized.
In this sense, I seek a sense of overflowing, attraction and mystery that cannot be labeled with the standards we impose on desire.
I find at the ambiguity of what attracts us to the jungles, poetic relationship with Queer theory: I am looking for a geography of lush and exuberant spirit to inspire breaking the rules of the bodies.

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