Conversación con Leandro Erlich

Leandro Erlich (Buenos Aires, 1973). He studied at the Prilidano Pueyrredónʺ School of Fine Arts. He received scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1992) and the Antorchas Foundation (1994-1995). He participated in dozens of individual and collective exhibitions in the country and abroad: National Museum of the Tres de Febrero University (Argentina, 2016), Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2015), GLOBALE ZKM, Karlsruhe (Germany, 2015), Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Korea (Korea, 2014), XXI Museum of Contemperary Art Kanazawa (Japan, 2014), Ruth Benzacar Gallery (Argentina, 2012), SongEun Art space (Korea, 2012), Izolyatsia (Ukraine , 2012), Sean Kelly Gallery (USA, 2011), Center Pompidou (France, 2011), Luciana Brito Gallery (Brazil, 2009), Fundación Proa (Argentina, 2009), Museo Reina Sofía (Spain, 2008), PS1-MoMA (USA, 2008), among others. His works are in private and public collections such as the Tate Modern (London), the Center Pompidou, the Musée d'Art moderne (Paris) and the XXI Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan). He participated in the biennials of Saõ Paulo (Brazil), Shanghai (China), Echigo-Tsumari (Japan), Havana (Cuba), Istanbul (Turkey) and Whitney (USA), among others. He represented Argentina at the Venice Biennale (2001). He received the Joan Mitchell Foundation (2001), UNESCO-Istanbul Biennial (2001) and Leonardo (MNBA, 2000) Prizes, as well as the Konex Prize (2002 and 2012). In his own words, his work employs the strategy of displacement, decontextualization and duplication, which activate visual ambiguity, to confront the viewer with elements of everyday life in environments that defy physical laws and modify forms of perception. He lives and works between Buenos Aires and Montevideo.

Year

2021

Language

Spanish

Series

Brevarios. Arte y opinión -- 11

Publisher

Universidad Nacional de La Plata. Facultad de Artes

Editions

1

Pages

40

ISBN

9789503420355

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