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On November 22, 2024, starting at 6 pm, we present at CRUDO Rosario the open studio of Manuel Sigüenza, an artist who carried out a residency in our gallery between November 11 and 24.

Sigüenza was selected for the Constelaciones grant, organized by Red Quincho, which includes a first 14-day experience at Curadora Residencia and then another 14 days at CRUDO. This program is carried out in alliance with Fundación Williams, with the support of the Centro Cultural de España in Buenos Aires and Fundación Santander. CRUDO is part of Quincho – Red de residencias de arte, and on this occasion the presentation took place within the framework of Noche de las Galerías de Rosario, organized by Giro, hosted at Galería Dominicis (Corrientes 314).

Sigüenza’s practice focuses on ceramics, a language from which he approaches both sculpture and painting. He studied at the Escuela Municipal de Cerámica in the City of Buenos Aires, participated in the Programa de Artistas at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella (2014) and in the Beca para artistas at the Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti – FNA (2012). His trajectory includes exhibitions in Buenos Aires, New York, and Leipzig, as well as residencies at EKWC (Netherlands), LIA (Germany), and FAAP (Brazil). Between 2013 and 2015 he co-founded and managed the space Diagonal in the City of Buenos Aires. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.

During his residency, he researched the ceramics known as “Cultura Leyes,” discovered in the 1930s, exploring the controversy surrounding the authenticity of these pieces and the way anthropology has revisited their veracity. From there, he developed a reflection on the idea of “forging history”: its power, its consequences, and the possibility of translating this hypothesis into images. Part of his production was conceived as the supposed cultural product of an imagined society.

In Rosario, he worked with local clay from the river, conceived as a sedimentary element linking courses and bifurcations, a metaphor he used to address the comings and goings around the veracity of Arroyo Leyes. With this clay he produced pigments for drawings and paintings, in addition to ceramic modeling. The residency included visits to workshops, institutions, and independent spaces in the city, and culminated in the open studio at CRUDO, where he shared his research and the works created during his stay.