Natalia Cincunegui

Buenos Aires, Argentina (1971)

Although my work speaks about what it is to be human in inhuman times, it is never explaining nor sentimental; it is about everything that troubles me and others with me. If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

By a serial repetition of ideas and motives I try to come nearer the right form - crucial gestures enlarged by cinematographic close-ups capturing some of the drama of this human epos we are destined living. Aiming thus what I call the wrong shape; never aesthetically correct or decorative; a broken Hallelujah, remaining unfinished.

In my work text is crucial; images accompanied by own phrases next to great ones. An intuitive search hungered by longings. Except of my daily [inner] life, The Book of Job, gospels, pop song lyrics, drama and cinema nourish my thoughts and images.

Although my work speaks about what it is to be human in inhuman times, it is never explaining nor sentimental; it is about everything that troubles me and others with me. If a way to the better there be, it lies in taking a full look at the worst.

Threw references and details the topic of what I call Contemporary Cruelty is stressed in my work, re...

1990-1994
Academy of Visual Arts, Amsterdam

1994-1996
Royal Academy of Visual Arts, The Hague

1993/1995
Erasmus scholar ships
Ecole Suprieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Scola de Belas Artes, Lisbon

1993
4th Biennale Maastricht, Master Class by Jo Baer

Exhibitions [a selection]

1996
Purchase Centre of Visual Arts, Leiden
Cellini Gallery,Leiden

1997
Participation project ASI [Amsterdam Painting Institute]
Group exh. Donkersloot Gallery, Amsterdam
Open Studio at Wilhelmina Gasthuis [Contemporary brooding centre], Amsterdam [1997-1998-1999]

1998
Project for Galerie A. Vivas, Paris
Solo Strange Fruit, Machinegebouw,Amsterdam
Group exhibition, city hall, The Hague

1999
Solo Die Nibelungen, at the TTA [Amsterdam Theatregroup], Amsterdam
[during: week of the book]

2000
Series The Zone in stock at Canvas International Gallery, Amsterdam
Purchase by ISIS Company, Maastricht

2001
Solo project Voice Within in Espace DNW, Paris
Group exhibition Argentina,mas prxima, Neerijnen
Purchase by paper supplier...