ARTIST STATEMENT
Images exist for those who observe them. They are exhibited, go viral, and are displayed to establish identity. Yet, many others are stored away or discarded without the chance to transcend. I strive to rescue them and give them a second chance. I offer them the illusion of being reborn. That's why I've developed my personal artistic exploration using collage as a technique.
I'm highly observant, curious. I've always stopped to observe what happens around me; I'm deeply attracted to human behavior. The small things in everyday life, workers, ordinary people who go unnoticed, are a source of inspiration for me. I enjoy telling stories full of visual meaning and conceptual construction. I aim to express the protagonist's reality through rhetoric. I use chromatic contrast to replicate life's dialectics: light and darkness, good and bad, happiness and its opposite.
ARTIST BIO
Mariano Girondin (Buenos Aires, 1975) With over 20 years of experience as a professional in Visual Communication (UNR-2010) and as a teacher. He began his studies at a Fine Arts school, which allowed him to combine composition, typography, and photography with simple techniques of engraving and writing.
In 2023, he exhibited at OpenGallery (CABA). In 2022, he was selected as a finalist among more than 450 artists and 1300 works in the Contemporary Collage Magazine Awards in the Digital Portfolio and Digital Series categories (London, UK). He was chosen to be part of the series of 52 cards for Sleeping With Art: The Art Of Car(d)s (London, UK), selected to participate in the permanent virtual gallery of Arte Sam Bellamy (Bolivia), chosen as the artist of the week by Pollaroid Collage Collective, and selected as the artist of the week by Paris Collage Collective (Paris, France).
Currently, he collaborates as an illustrator designing book and album covers, editorial notes, and posters. He has been a member of the Argentine Collage Society (SAC) since 2022 and regularly publishes his works in Contemporary Collage Magazine (UK), Paris Collages Collective (France), and 46pgs Magazine (Croatia). He lives and works in Buenos Aires.