Gaspar
Acebo

Gaspar Acebo.

He was born in Buenos Aires in 1976, where he lives and works. He studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón and later graduated from the current UNA.

In his artistic practice, the reflection on mimesis and the pointing out of places that go unnoticed and are naturalised are reiterated and sometimes superimposed. He regularly investigates different techniques.

In recent years he has carried out a large part of his practice in residencies and site-specific projects in Argentina, Europe, the USA and Antarctica. His solo exhibitions include: Espesor mínimo, Miranda Bosch (2020) BLANCO Espacio Kamm (2014) and agua ~ nicho Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti- ex E.S.M.A (2011) and from her participations in group exhibitions Las medidas del vacío at Espacio Contemporáneo de Fundación PROA (2015).

In 2016 he began to work collaboratively on various projects, which have materialised in exhibitions: Colectivo Yapeyú, together with Res, soon to participate in the Rosa Galisteo Salon (Santa Fé. 2021). ORDENES with Marcos Mangani: Moni Asomaton Monastery. (Crete, Greece. 2017) MUNAR (Bs. As. 2019) BLUB (Berlin 2019) Who is where? With A. Zanela, M. Girón, M. Ferrante et al: curators; Monika Dillier and Santiago Bengolea. Villa Renata. (Basel, Switzerland. 2017) and RODEADOS with Sofía Durrieu. Curator: Santiago Bengolea. Galleries: Miranda Bosch and Cecilia Caballero (2017).

Her work has been distinguished with the VSC Fellowship Fund (2018) Residency Casa Velázquez, ARCO, FNA (2017) Projects for Contemporary Space Fundación PROA (2016) Residency BITAMINe Faktoria, Spain (2013) Residency Sur Polar, Antarctica Argentina (2012) Patronage Law Grant (2011) Jury's mention in the LIII Salón de Artes Plásticas Manuel Belgrano (2009) National FNA Grant (2007), Fondo Cultura Buenos Aires (2004), among others.

STATEMENT:

I copied myself

I copied the palettes of empty rooms I copied the Antarctic landscape

I copied the white of the snow

I copied the blue of the Rincón sky

I copied a eucalyptus tree and a reed bed

I copied the walls of a house and I have kept them in a little ball I copied a vacuum

I copied grilles and cracks and gates

I copied Velázquez's shadows

I copied the floor of Basel

I copied, I copied myself, I confess it

I copied myself, I copied myself, I portrayed myself with my hair.

I copied myself, but I always showed the copy and the model, even one over the other.

I always pointed it out.