ELIZABETH ARO

Argentina, 1961

 

From installation the work becomes wearable in a natural transfer, sometimes unstoppable and touching, as a dreamlike projection from sculpture becomes talisman, protection, poetic statement, affirmation of himself, and that he has in his daily choice to wear a flame or many small flames a sign of life and passion, a wing like a desire, a rose, a barbed wire – made harmless and precious – as a statement of strength and female affirmation, but not only: signs of a silent and light revolution, courageous and full of grace and wonder.

Text by Paola Stroppiana

BIO

Elizabeth Aro (Buenos Aires) lives and works in Milan. He studied at the University of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires before moving to Madrid, where he lived until 2005. In 1991 she was the youngest artist to be invited to participate in the innovative group exhibition “La Escuela del Sur, el taller de Torres García y su legado” at the Museo Nacional Reina Sofía in Madrid; In 2004 she was the first Argentine woman to present a solo exhibition in this same museum.

EXHIBITIONS
MOSTRE PERSONALI:
Espacio Uno, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid (2004); Santa Sangre, Moritzkirche, Augsburg (2015); Los Otros, Ex Chiesa di San Carpoforo/Accademia di Brera, Milano (2015); Mundo e Los otros, Gagliardi e Domke, Torino (2016); Provisorio para siempre, Galleria Canepaneri, Genova (2017); Brumas, Nuova Galleria Morone, Milano (2018); Le Fil du Monde, Fondazione Filatoio Rosso Caraglio, Cuneo (2018); Dreaming in Red, Chateau La Napoule, Mandieliu, France (2019).

MOSTRE COLLETIVE:
La Escuela del Sur, el taller de Torres García y su legado Archer M. Huntington Gallery (Austin), Museo Monterrey (1991); Il filo raccontato, MART, Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (2002); Take me with you, Mori Museum (Tokyo, 2006); Biennale Internationale de L’Art Contemporain, Casablanca (2016); BienNolo, Ex fabbrica Cova, Milano, (2019); La rivoluzione siamo Noi – Collezionismo Italiano Contemporaneo, XNL Piacenza Contemporanea (2020).