NYAB Event - Santiago Taccetti & Natalia Ibáñez Lario "Twain"

Santiago Taccetti & Natalia Ibáñez Lario "Twain"

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During the three weeks before their first solo show in NY, TWAIN, Barcelona based collective formed by Santiago Taccetti and Natalia Ibáñez Lario, will scan Brooklyn's urban facade for common waste and other kinds of disposed of objects. Employing the idea of dérive or drifts through the city they used by the International Situationist they will collect materials and bring them back to the studio. With the found objects they will create unfinished sculptural accidents that will be on display in the gallery on the opening night. The attending public will be asked to finish the work themselves with materials like candles or chains that will be laid out for them to use at their own will. By the end of the night parts of the sculptures will be free for the public to take home or to dispose of as waste, thus completing the cycle in the relation between the art process and the object.

Santiago Taccetti (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1974) lives and works in Barcelona. He has exhibited his work in contemporary art centers and galleries such as the Centre d'Art Santa Monica, CCCB, KBB in Barcelona, La Panaderia in Mexico City, Instituto Italo Latinoamenricano (IILA) in Rome and San Martin Cultural Center Buenos Aires. He has curated the exhibition-event Gala de Estrellas in Madrid, during Mexico's participation as the guest of honor at the ARCO art fair in Madrid. He is also a founding partner of Volumen Art Publication, with the collaboration of several international artists. He has been granted the CIA, Center for Aristic Investigation scholarship, 2010 Buenos Aires and is now residing at the Pinotxo art program in Barcelona.

Natalia Ibáñez Lario (Zaragoza, Spain, 1980) Lives and works in Barcelona. Graduated in Architecture by the International University of Catalonia and the Architectural Association School of Architecture (AA) in London. She studied art at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, as well as at Slade School of Fine Art, London UK. She has published her piece, Once upon a time there was a wolf, in the Save me from what I want issue of the Sexy Machinery magazine, published by the AA and The Royal College of Art. Among her recent exhibitions the following stands out Just Painting at Ego Gallery in Barcelona.