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Nahuel Vecino is an emerging Argentine painter whose pictorial style is receiving considerable acclaim within Argentina. The works draw from classical references yet also include elements that position them firmly in a local and contemporary social context. Subjects are often local urban working classes contextualised in a canonised heroic pictoriality, considering the universal in the human condition, the sublime and the transcendental nature of beauty.

Of particular attention are the distant, hypnotic looks of his subjects and the connoisseurship with which he utilizes technique. Nahuel Vecino's work reveals a continued return to the hermeneutic and perturbing gaze of faces which look towards an undecipherable space, suggesting a mysterious dialectic  between the new and the ancient, between progress and cycles of history, between the familiar and the unknown.

Vecino wants to get out of the realism of the 'villa-miseria'. He has made beautiful shapes and linked them to a state of exile, looking for a transcendental essence of the human soul.

Born in Buenos Aires in 1977, Nahuel Vecino continues to live and work there. After finishing his studies in the fine arts school, Prilidiano Pueyrreydón, he was granted a Kuitca Fellowship for young artists in 2003

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Artist CV

Solo Shows

2009

Dibujos, Galería Sapo, Buenos Aires.

2008

Pompeya, Sala J, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires.
Nahuel Vecino, Pinturas, María Casado Home Gallery, Buenos Aires

2006

El Secreto de las Musas, Presentación de libro y exposición de obras, Galería Vasari, Buenos Aires.

2004

Mara Villa, Zavaleta Lab Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires.

2003

Nahuel Vecino - Sandro Pereyra, curada por Jorge Gumier Maier, Malba - Colección Costantini, Buenos Aires.

2002

Pinturas, curada por Alfredo Londaibere, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires.

2001

Nahuel Vecino, Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires.


Group Shows

2008

Prior-Vecino, Galería Vasari, Buenos Aires
Fracasos, Centro cultural Ricardo Rojas, Buenos Aires.

2007

Bonzo, Becú, Gomez Canle & Vecino, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires.
to Evocación, Fundación Antonio Saura, Cuenca, España.

2006

Pintura Subyacente, CCEBA, Buenos Aires.


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Zavaleta Lab / Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires