Martín Calcagno was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 1976. In 2000, he got his degree as Professor of Sculpture at the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón. During 2001, he took the Complementary Course of University Artistic Teaching at IUNA (National University Institute of Arts). Nowadays, he is working on his Bachelor of Arts degree thesis at the same university. In 2005 winter, he took an investigation trip to Japan where he met many artists and was introduced to the Japanese Art. There, he has also studied the possible uses of Hi-Tech on his projects.


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Awards

First Mention at Platt Prize for Visual Arts. 2006



Workshops & Training

"Tec en Arte 2 " by Patricia Hakim at Espacio Fundación Telefónica. 2009

"Tec en Arte" by Patricia Hakim at Espacio Fundación Telefónica. 2008

"Digita lVideo for Artist" by Diego Javier Alberti at Centro Cultural de España en Buenos Aires. 2008



One Man Exhibitions

2009
CASA IMPERIAL Clothing brand's lauch at Centro Cultural San Martín, October.

The delicate fragance of love in Cañuelas' woods, Centro Cultural Recoleta, June-July.


2007
Window Project, Galería Isidro Miranda, May-June.

2005
Meditación experimental, video objects and installations. Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, April-May.

2001
En algún momento, sculptures. Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires. November-December.

2000
El jardín secreto, sculptures and photography. La Casa de La Rioja - Centro Riojano, Buenos Aires. August-September.

Jugando con la vida de los demás photography and installations. National Fine Arts School Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires.

Video-performances and performances at National Fine Arts School Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires.



Group exhibitions

2010
PINTA- London, Elsi del Río Gllery, June.

2009
The delicate fragance of love in Cañuelas' woods, Galería Elsi del Rio, November-December.

Intersections. Technology Nature Subjectivity, Galería Isidro Miranda, March.

7 artists at Isidro Miranda, Galería Isidro Miranda, March.

2007
10th Prize for Visual Arts Fundación Klemm, Galería Klemm, December.

Buenos Aires Gallery Nights.

Brightness, analog and digital Poetics, Centro Cultural Recoleta.

16th Fair of Galleries of Contemporary Art, ArteBA, Proyecto A Stand, May.

Displacement: Between sculpture and installation, Casa de la Cultura, May-June.

Culture and media, Centro Cultural San Martín.

2006
ARTechnology - Digital Home and Office, Buenos Aires Gallery Nights, Marca Futuro, November.

Platt Prize Exhibition, Galería Isidro Miranda, September-October.

15th Fair of Galleries of Contemporary Art, ArteBA, Proyecto A Stand, May.

2005
Open studio 2005-Harbor. Apostadero Naval, Buenos Aires, November-December.

La Condesa Sangrienta de Alejandra Pizarnik. Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, September-October.

Crossroads Object/Subject. Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires- CCEBA. June-July.

14th Fair of Galleries of Contemporary Art, ArteBA, Proyecto A Stand, Buenos Aires. May.

2004
Member of the Organization Comittee for the exhibition Japanese Art for Peace, Palais de Glace, November.

Arthur Hellman's: Abortion, installation. Work made with Julián Prebisch and Vicente Rozados Sauser. Design and Arts Fair Código País, Buenos Aires. November

13th Fair of Galleries of Contemporary Art, ArteBA, Proyecto A Stand, Buenos Aires. May.

1 en 10, installation. A 1:10 scale exhibition room in a bathroom ceiling. Work made with Eduardo Navarro, Margarita García Faure and Vicente Rozados Sauser. Festival Verano Porteño at Ciudad Cultural KONEX, Buenos Aires. January-March.

2003
Founder member of the independent art and science research group Proyecto Implosión together with Laurence Bender, Martín Bonadeo, Dina Roisman and Mariano Sardón. Main focuses of investigation: technologies, multimedia, electronics and alternative media

Shortlisted for Fundación Banco Ciudad Visual Arts Prize III. Exhibition at National Fine Arts Museum, Buenos Aires. December-January 2004.

Guest artist of Bruno Pasquier-Desvignes' Integrarte World Art Workshops with garbage in its first edition in Argentina, at Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires. October

Progressive Art III-Robotics. Centro Cultural General San Martín. Buenos Aires. October-November

Electronic II. National University of Tres de Febrero (UNTREF). In charge of curatorial and technical supporting staff. Buenos Aires. September.

Electronic I. UNTREF. Buenos Aires. August.

Dibujístico, Materia Urbana, Buenos Aires, July.

12th Fair of Galleries of Contemporary Art, ArteBA, Proyecto A Stand, Buenos Aires. June.

Progressive Art -The center is lit. Centro Cultural General San Martín, Buenos Aires. March.

2002
Charity exhibition Las camitas for Paroissien Hospital, sponsored by Argentine Visual Artists Association. Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. December-January.

LVI National Art Show at Rosario. Fine Arts Museum Juan B. Castagnino, Rosario. December-January.

Shortlisted for Fundación Banco Ciudad Visual Arts Prize II. Exhibition at National Fine Arts Museum, Buenos Aires. December-January.

Open Studio- Inmediate Future - San Telmo. Buenos Aires. November.


Junio, Exhibition #1 of Proyecto A. El Faro, Buenos Aires. June.

2001
Artificial Nature II, La Casona de los Olivera Exhibition Center, Buenos Aires. September-October.

2000
Artificial Nature, La Casona de los Olivera Exhibition Center, Buenos Aires. September-October.



Bibliography


Intersections. Technology, Nature, Subjetivity by Jorge Zuzulich
Ediciones artexarte, Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo. Buenos Aires, November 2009.
ISBN 978-987-25494-0-4

Platt Prize 2006. 1st National Visual Arts Contest
Platt Grupo Impresor. Buenos Aires, August 2006.
ISBN 978-987-22460-3-7

TransAbasto, form Pop Art to Ind Art
Fundación Konex. Buenos Aires, January 2004.

Fundación Banco Ciudad Visual Arts Prize III
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes / Fundación Banco Ciudad
Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia de la Nación
Buenos Aires, December 2003.

Fundación Banco Ciudad Visual Arts Prize II
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes / Fundación Banco Ciudad
Secretaría de Cultura de la Presidencia de la Nación
Buenos Aires, December de 2002.