Artists
Agustina Chaufan
K30241 Fear/Cosette (2020-2021), marker, alcohol-based ink, graphite and watercolor ink on paper, 92 x 74 cm / 36 x 29 in, 2022
K30243 Isla, marker, alcohol-based ink, watercolor ink and pencils and polychrome pencil on paper, 135 x 135 cm / 53 x 53 in, 2024
K30239 Quimera, marker, alcohol-based ink, watercolor ink and graphite on paper, 97 x 135 cm / 38 x 53 in, 2022
K30244 (A)sincrónico, marker, alcohol-based ink, watercolor ink and pencils, acrylic marker and polychrome pencil on paper, 97 x 135 cm / 38 x 53 in, 2022
K30245 Conjuro I, marker, alcohol-based ink, graphite, watercolor ink and polychrome pencil on paper, 97 x 97 cm / 38 x 38 in, 2024
Agustina Chaufan was born in 1992, in Buenos Aires (Argentina). She completed a Master’s Degree in Research in Art and Creation at the Complutense University of Madrid between 2021 and 2022. She also did a work clinic with Carolina Antoniadis, María Carolina Baulo, Pablo Sinaí and Federico de la Puente. She participated in the Experimental Drawing and Collage to Canvas courses at University of the Arts London (2018), in the Writing Workshop on one’s own work of art taught by Laura Casanovas (2020) and in the Lazarillo clinic coordinated by Eugenia Amodio and Joaquin Carbajales (Madrid, 2024). She was selected in the 17th UADE National Visual Arts Contest, (2022, Buenos Aires) and in the Argentine Prize for Visual Arts of the OSDE Foundation (2021). Her solo shows include Conjuro (Praxis, Buenos Aires, 2024) and Tempestades (Museo del Agua del Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes, Buenos Aires, 2022).
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My initial training as a lawyer perhaps embodied my desire for security and foresight: a system in which every cause has its predetermined consequence, a predictable order that mitigates the uncertainty inherent to existence.
Finding a definitive conclusion to my search would be nothing more than a chimera, and in that understanding, I propose to investigate a dichotomy: control the chaos and let it be. I approach this search from the use and re-interpretation of Japanese philosophical-aesthetic resources, placed in dialogue with a personal perspective built from a Western thought paradigm.
Water, a transversal element in all my work, is represented in the form of untimely waves and is also impregnated in the paper to corrode and soften the lines, while the vegetation and the mountains appropriate the space and ignore the logical order imposed by the science and conventions. There is no gravity, proportion or perspective: I deploy my own language, rational limits disappear.
Even having the possibility of control within my reach in the territory of paper, the immensity of its emptiness invites me to compose my landscapes in an improvised and instinctive way. I find beauty in confusion, in the border that divides (in)security, (dis)order, and (im)precision. The contradiction transcends my person to enter my work, where the limit between drawing and biography is diluted: conscious and meticulous mastery merges with surrender to chaos and uncertainty.
Agustina Chaufan
Madrid, 2024
Agustina Chaufan (Buenos Aires, 2992)
She lives and works in Madrid, Spain
Education
Master’s Degree in Research in Art and Creation at the Complutense University of Madrid
Solo exhibitions
2024 – Conjuro, curated by Eugenia Amodio, Praxis, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – Tempestades, Museo del Agua del Palacio de las Aguas Corrientes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Awards and distinctions
2022 – 17th UADE National Visual Arts Contest, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 – First Prize for Visual Arts, OSDE Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina
