Exhibitions
Platz | Metamorphosis
Date and place
Place: Praxis NY
Start Date: January 19 2023
End Date: February 25 2023
Description
A geometric arrangement vibrates, upon a cold stone gray scene on crumpled paper. Colors emerge: yellows, fuchsias and almost fluorescent blues – hues that emerge from the sky in that magical hour when the day and night dance with each other and make their transition.
A nomadic and tireless seeker of an image that mutates at the moment of its creation, each of the artist’s paintings traverses this vital dynamic in its unceasing metamorphosis.
Creation in its primitive state, its trace and footprints: Platz chose not to use a brush in the paintings of this series but the extension of his body, presenting the human hand as an essential tool. These means are seen more intensely in his ceramics, where he returns to the introspective palate of this earliest work: grays, golds, blacks and blues. The three-dimensional and clear trace of his performative footprints are evident.
It is here, in this series, that the insatiable seeker of symbols comes to discover the resilience of man, the poetics of perception and space, and painting as a terrain for action. Platz was transformed into that which he was seeking: a being in a perpetual and cyclical transformation who astonishes us with his archetypical dance.
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Platz was born in San Miguel de Tucumán, a district in northern Argentina, in 1982. He later moved to Buenos Aires where he studied Graphic Design at the University of Buenos Aires. At the same time, he did workshops with artists such as Fabiana Barreda, Silvana Lacarra, Augusto Zanela, Margarita Garcia Faure, Fabian Burgos, Rosana Schoijjet, among others. He experimented in disciplines like painting, photography, experimental printmaking, and he explored the links between art, nature and performance. Since his beginnings, he has been investigating the concept of resilience in the materiality of his work. He has also been heavily influenced by spiritual disciplines.
He currently lives in Mexico and investigates the intersection of nature, art and gestalt philosophical movements.
