“From a very young age the vocation of service to humanity was present in me. That is why I decided to be a medical professional, although art always accompanied me unconsciously. With an investigative spirit, restless and eager for knowledge, I began the stage of inner search and expressing myself through art. Experimenting and within a playful practice, I use artistic expression as a testimonial and communicative tool of my scientific knowledge, to reveal and make understandable, palpable and conscious what is naturally invisible in science; so my inner impulse and objective is to imbricate myself with my work to capture it artistically. We all have a story to tell, we are different, but we share similar needs”, Patricia Queiruga begins by talking about her journey.
“My desire is to visualize artistically that we are vulnerable, living beings that need each other. Our DNA tells the life story of each one. This work is my representation of the vulnerable beings that we are in this globalized world in which the gap of scarcity of essential values is increasingly marked, especially the lack of solidarity that makes people insensitive or oblivious to the vital need of the other. and that it is becoming more and more labile. We need each other! Our lives happen as a sequence in time, the meaning for us will be the continuous thread of revelation”, reflects Patricia.
“Patricia Queiruga developed the series “Somos ADN” from her double belonging to both medicine and art. The works stand out for the excellence of their balance, proportion and the projection of virtual spaces. They are forms that coexist in the collective memory: From imagining a sad tango that is danced, to finding that the tango DNA also transmits happiness. That is the secret of its creation. Do with joy, be close to the viewer, propose plastic ideas that question reality and give meaning to life. Patricia develops successive variants in each series to surprise and excite the viewer. Showing the artistic aspects of DNA makes science more perceptible, understandable and attractive. As Jean Cocteau would say: Art is science made clear”, summarizes Julio Sapollnik, Bachelor of Arts History.
Patricia Queiruga was born in Córdoba, Argentina, in 1970. She began in the visual arts in a self-taught way. She graduated from the National University of Córdoba as a Medical Surgeon, during her university studies she learned Serigraphy, a printing engraving technique in which she worked for several years. She then began to draw and paint abstract and figurative themes, experimenting with various materials and mixed media (metal, wood, canvas, cyanotype, prints, oil paint, acrylic, among others).
Since 2014 he attended seminars on composition of work. In 2016, she appeared for the first time in the painting competitions of the Argentine Society of Plastic Artists (SAAP) in Buenos Aires, obtaining a prize in the Autumn Salon and another award for two of her works and a special mention as an outstanding artist in the Bicentennial Hall. The following year, through a call and selection of portfolios, she arrives at the Ágora gallery in New York. Since then she has dedicated herself to artistic production, calling herself an art worker. She is currently finishing her studies at the Provincial School of Fine Arts, Córdoba.
He has participated in numerous individual and collective exhibitions in the country and abroad, such as: The Night of the Museums at the Provincial University of Córdoba (2020 -2021), the Red Dot and Spectrum fairs in Miami and the Carrousel Louvre in Paris (2019). ), MAC / Córdoba Art Market (2019), the Che Guevara Museum in Alta Gracia on its anniversary (2019), the Borges Cultural Center (Buenos Aires, 2018) and individual exhibition with intervention in the Manuel de Falla Museum in Alta Gracia , in homage to the composer and within the framework of the Language Congress (2018), along with other fairs and exhibitions in Córdoba, Buenos Aires, New York, Miami, Florence, Málaga and Shanghai.
His works have been reproduced in important international publications such as: Guggenheim Museum Magazine (2020), ARTisSpectrum Magazine (New York, 2018) and the Catalog “Important World Artists” Vol. 3 (World Wide Art Books, California, 2018); forming part of public and private collections in Argentina, New York, Japan, Switzerland and Spain.
Contact information:
Instagram: @patricia_queiruga
Mail: [email protected]
Web: www.patriciaqueiruga.com
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