ARTIST PROFILE

Francisco Miranda

  • Argentina (b. 1981 in Buenos aires)
  • Currently in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
  • I am an Argentinian artist and designer, based and working in Buenos Aires.

ARTIST STATEMENT

My work is based in the field of the Visual Arts. It is strongly influenced by geometry and nature. By organic and mechanical structures simultaneously. The elegance and beauty are two funda- mental concepts in my work. Like an essay of opposing relationships, my work mutates from analog to digital and vice versa.

Any of my works always start with a paper and a pencil. There’s a gesture, a flow of things, that is hardly found directly between zeros and ones. I am an artist who likes to explore and open new doors continuously. 

At a first glance my works seem elegant and gentle. Their accuracy, their exact color combinations (reduced, sometimes to the naked materials that compose them), their unalterable balances, reveal a formal aspect driven by an almost martial order. 

However, that serenity is only apparent. If you observe them carefully, they are all based on a delicate tension that goes from the surface to the volume, from line to plane, from geometry to figuration. A tension committed to painting, drawing, sculpture and architecture in shaping a complex and hybrid product. A significant tension, that stages a conflict that simultaneously captures the look and enriches the experience of the viewer.

 

I find my inspiration in the big animals and the tiniest ones. Existing and nonexistent ones. In plants and insects. Heaven. Books. The ink. Inanimate objects. The machines and their gears. In disassembling and reassembling. Looking back and to the sides. In the molecules. The numbers. The abstract. The constant travelling. Being here and there at the same time. Planets. Experi- ments. The chemistry and physics. Infinity.


BIOGRAPHY

I was born in the City of Buenos Aires on April 2, 1981. I studied Graphic Design and Visual Arts at the University of Buenos Aires, where I currently teach in Gabriele’s Chair. Currently working on personal projects and doing commercial work for local and international clients.
In 2008 I participated as a speaker at the Seventh International Graphic Design Congress (TRIMARCHI DG) and in 2010 I was selected by Ruth Benzacar gallery within Curriculum Zero contest.
In July and August of 2011 I was part of "Ritual", a group exhibition held at Causey Contemporary Gallery in New York, with the participation of over 25 artists from around the world and organized by Honeycomb agency.
In January 2011 I was selected in the Movistar Young Artists contest exhibiting my work in February 2012 at the Borges Cultural Centre of Argentina. In 2012 I was also part of the Puma Urban Art show in the Recoleta Cultural Centre of Buenos Aires.
In 2013 I was the winner of the 2013 Pictoplasma Residency Award, having a solo show at the Genaral Public Gallery of Berlin, Germany.
In 2014 and 2015 I got a Mention on the National Hall of Visual Arts of the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina; in the New Mediums and Installations category (2014) and in Painting category (2015).
In 2014 I was also selected as an artist on the “CONTI-Fondo Nacional de las Artes Scholarship” from Buenos Aires, Argentina, having a collective show in 2015.
In 2015 I participated in a Group Show at Praxis Gallery in Buenos Aires, and won the second prize on the “Arte Vittal – Acquisition prize for emerging artists”.