Facundo Diaz
1985, Mendoza, Argentina
Words, drawing, and painting form a trilogy and unity in his work. He uses these mediums to reveal personal mysteries and increases uncertainty by using landscapes, geography, and fire as constant resources, where nature and its elements intertwine with the plane of dreams and reality, appealing to cryptozoology: a pseudoscience and subculture that attempts to prove the existence of extinct, mythical, or folkloric animals. He performatively embodies these beings, documenting them in inhospitable places. In his texts, he questions and blurs boundaries by asserting that drawing is "taking responsibility for a form of writing and writing is taking responsibility for a Form, to draw."
From 2007 to 2009, he attended the Faculty of Arts and Design at the National University of Cuyo, where he was part of the collective Salames al Futuro and Costado Galería de arte. With them, he won the award in the Obra Barrio Joven at arteBA in 2009. In 2015, he was awarded the Escenario Prize (Uno Medios) for his role as a curator in Mendoza. In 2013, he received a scholarship to participate in the Yungas Mendoza clinic, and in 2014, he attended a clinic with Diana Aisenberg, among others.
His main solo exhibitions include: "Estado noche es lo mejor que me pasó en el día," La Galerilla (Pueblo Garzón, Uruguay, 2024); "Viaje Relámpago," CRUDO (Rosario, 2022); "Duros por Fuera," Turbo Galería (CABA, 2010); "Monumental Fase 1, de Monstruo a Monstruo," Museo de Arte Moderno de Mendoza (Mendoza, 2013); and "Fantasía Existencialista," Imagen Galería (Mendoza, 2017).
Among his main group exhibitions are: "Escuela Novena Diana Aisenberg," Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno de Mendoza (Mendoza, 2012); "Proyecto Yungas," Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno de Mendoza (Mendoza, 2013); "Proyecto Yungas Mendoza-Corrientes," Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (CABA, 2014); and "La Imagen Accesible," Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno (Mendoza, 2016).
He currently lives and works in Mendoza, Argentina.
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