Join us for the opening of WasteAfterWaste (2015), a newly commissioned installation by artist Diego Bianchi. The installation will open with a special four-day performance that uses tattoos as a method to consider waste and “disposable” products in relation to material commitments that last a lifetime.
Performers will display their tattooed body parts through the museum’s glass walls that surround the installation, alluding to how tattoos transform bodies into objects to be desired and consumed.
Performance dates:
- Thursday, February 19: 7-9pm
- Friday, February 20: 11am-1pm & 2-4pm
- Saturday, February 21: 11am-1pm & 2-4pm
- Sunday, February 22: 11am-1pm & 2-4pm
About the artist:
Diego Bianchi was born in 1969 in Buenos Aires, where he continues to live and work. He participated in the Beca Kuitca scholarship program at the Universidad de Buenos Aires, from 2003 to 2005. He studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, in 2006. His recent solo exhibitions include Suspensión de la incredulidad (The Suspension of Disbelief), ARCOmadrid (2014); Into the Wild Meaning, Visual Arts Center, University of Texas at Austin (2013); Ejercicios espirituales (Spiritual Exercises), Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (2010); La música que viene (The Music That’s Coming), Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina (2008); and Wake me up when the present arrives, Locust Projects, Miami (2007). His group exhibitions include the Istanbul Biennial (2013); Slow Burn, an index of possibilities, Spoorzone 013, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, the Netherlands (2013); Nuevas Tendencias (New Tendencies), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires (2012); Biennale de Lyon, France (2011); and Bienal de la Habana, Cuba (2009). In 2013, he presented a theatrical performance titled Under de Si in collaboration with Luis Garay in both Tacec de La Plata, Argentina, and at the Malta Festival, Poland. He currently teaches a seminar in the art department at the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires.
