Pablo GUIOT

Pablo was born in 1972 in Tucumán, Argentina where he currently lives and works.

He studied at the School of Fine Arts and the Faculty of Arts of the National University of Tucumán. From 1997 till 2003 he worked as a Plastics teacher in several schools in the province and as a Teaching Assistant in the Taller C chair.

He was part of the groups “El Pasillo” and “El Ingenio” between 1995 and 2003. He currently directs the project “La Punta” together with Pablo Córdoba and Luis Carrizo.

He was selected for different scholarships and artist meetings such as: “Production and Criticism Meetings for Young Artists of the N.O.A.”, within the framework of an agreement between the Antorchas Foundation and Taller “C”, led by Gumier Maier, Claudia Fontes, Marcelo Pacheco and Laura Batkis (1998); “Work analysis meetings”, organized by Trama in the city of Rosario (2000); “Meetings on Production and Work Analysis for Young Artists of the N.O.A.”, within the framework of an agreement between the Antorchas Foundation and the “C” Workshop, led by Pablo Siquier and Graciela Sacco (2001); Improvement Scholarship for artists from the interior of the country, attending Jorge Macchi's workshop (2005).

Pablo held numerous individual and group exhibitions at the local, regional and national level, such as “El Artista Pablo Guiot”, Galería El Borde, Buenos Aires.

He obtained several awards at the national level, such as the “Regional Award (NOA), Engraving and Drawing section” at the Osde Hall, Buenos Aires (2006).

His work is found in private and official collections in the country.

 

 

 

 

     About his series CUENCOS ( bowls )

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In this body of works, the same procedure is frequently repeated, which consists of first generating a slightly irregular puddle of water on a watercolor paper, to which ink is added during the long drying process (one or two days), china or watercolors. During that time when the humidity on the paper produces movements and ripples, areas or spots of color appear or shades of gray that arise from that natural physical process, almost without intervention or guidance from the artist. Then, the outline of that stain is surrounded with lines made with a fountain pen, from the edge outward, configuring a kind of container whose final shape is also random because it is linked to the unpredictable behavior that results from the combination of the intention of following an order and the “human error” factor in freehand drawing.
The old role of painting and drawing as a two-dimensional representation of things that occur in the habitable space is challenged here by a procedure connected to a phenomenon of nature, both physical and biological, so each “bowl” is the crystallization, or the marking of the moment at which that manifestation arrived, so in addition to space I inevitably incorporate the idea of ​​time.

"Within the logic with which I approach the rest of my works, where humorous revelations of the norm and questioning of limits in general and those of the art system in particular appear, I am interested in reversing the conventional idea of ​​content and container with this series. Here it is the genuine form of the stain that generates its packaging. An accident that seeks to be controlled and contained to bring calm and certainty to the “composition” and to the viewer's gaze."