Marcos Calvari
His training as a musician and architect was important for developing a body of work that focuses more on temporal than spatial qualities. Thus, the documentation of processes, the apprehension of universal data, systems that tend towards maximums or minimums, totalities, distances, pragmatism, alchemy, contrast, the whole, the almost everything, and the almost nothing became the raw material that runs through his various experiments.
In these inquiries, he has explored multiple languages and materialities: installation, sound art, video, drawing, printmaking, and digital art. This means that his work does not maintain a formal aesthetic linearity, but rather, each idea determines its materialization. The various possibilities of dialogue with the viewer are what construct his work.
For this, disturbance, tedium, or doubt are indispensable.
He believes in ideas and their deformations.
He believes in scientific inventions and pataphysical feats.
He believes in art that is useless.
He believes in empiricism.
He believes in uncertainty.
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In 2018, he received the Formadores Grant from the National Arts Fund with the project Chapa Chapa of Casa Intermitente. In 2016, he was awarded the Bicentennial Creation Grant by the National Arts Fund. In 2015, he was selected for the Visual Arts Work Analysis and Project Follow-up Workshop Grant organized by the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) in conjunction with the National Arts Fund (FNA), a program led by Daniel Besoytaorube, Fernando Farina, Santiago García Navarro, Pablo Ziccarello, Matías Duville, and Nicolás Robbio. In 2007, he founded the collective PAAAR, with which he won various awards in national and international architecture competitions and calls.
Abroad, he has exhibited his work in various cities across America, Europe, and Asia: New York (USA), Washington (USA), London (England), Camagüey (Cuba), Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain), Vigo (Spain), Seville (Spain), Córdoba (Spain), Santander (Spain), Segovia (Spain), Madrid (Spain), Damascus (Syria), Beirut (Lebanon), Istanbul (Turkey), and Sao Paulo (Brazil).
In Argentina, he has exhibited in numerous group and solo shows, including: Currículum Cero '09, Ruth Benzacar Gallery (CABA); 99° National Salon of Visual Arts, Palais de Glace, San Martín Cultural Center and Recoleta Cultural Center (CABA); Center of Contemporary Expressions of Rosario; LXIV National Salon of Rosario, Castagnino+Macro Museum (Rosario, 2010) and Joven y efímero Award (Rosario, 2011); Andreani Foundation Award (Itinerant, 2011); Biennial of Visual Arts of Bahía Blanca (2016, 2013, and 2012), where he received Jury Mention in the last two; Yungas (S.M. de Tucumán) and End of the World Biennial 2015 (Mar del Plata).
He has given seminars, talks, and workshops at the National University of Rosario, University of Palermo, National University of Mar del Plata, Museum of Contemporary Art of Mar del Plata, and MBA MAC Museum of Bahía Blanca.
From 2013 to 2018, he directed Galería Perenne, co-producing works with Roberto Echen, Raúl Flores, Fabian Burgos, Hector Borges, Gabriela Golder, Yamandú Rodriguez, among others.
Currently, since 2015, he has been directing Casa Intermitente with Florencia Silva.
He currently lives and works in Mar del Plata, Argentina.