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Nicolás Romero (Buenos Aires, 1985) began twenty years ago signing
Ever and doing graffiti in the streets of his hometown, a city that was living
the hangover of a military dictatorship that had lasted eight years and that
at that time understood street art as an expression of freedom.
Currently, Nicolás has been developing his studio work around the
"Naturalezas Muertas", with which through the union of elements he has
found a way to use the image as a form of social reflection and
anthropological research. He works through traces he finds in his
immediate context, the result of the social fabric and symbols born of the
coexistence of social, cultural and economic factors. From soft drink
bottles to religious prints, political symbols, contemporary icons or
something as seemingly innocent as fruits and vegetables are part of these
compositions that he uses as a bridge to talk about more complex realities.
It is precisely this confluence between still lifes and that connection with his
childhood and pushed by times in which society was modifying its
behaviors in the face of a global pandemic, which leads him to give
architectural form, specifically gundam, to these still lifes, giving life to
beings dressed in standardized consumer elements - anonymous and
global identities - through their bodies.
Romero has presented solo exhibitions at Ochi Projects Gallery (Los
Angeles), The Diogenes Club (Los Angeles), Galeria Varsi (Rome), Galería
Libertad (Querétaro) and Dinámica Gallery (Buenos Aires). He has
participated in group shows at Studiocromie (Italy), Marian Cramer Projects
(Amsterdam), Fir Gallery (Shanghai) or Cerquone Gallery (Madrid), and in
other countries such as France, South Africa, Austria, Australia, Mexico
and the United States. He has done illustrations for the printed versions of
New York Times Magazine and ZEIT Magazine.
His work has been selected in cultural institutions such as the Santander
Foundation, Amalia Fortabat Museum and Palais de Glace, all three in
Buenos Aires, the Macro Museum in the city of Rosario or the Biennial of
urban interventions in the CCEC and the Caraffa Museum in Cordoba,
Argentina.