Cecilia Biagini

Cecilia Biagini, Mental Spaces II

Working within the borders of geometry I paint to open the space, to build a trail that crosses dimensions until a new perspective might emerge. In search of what makes life I explore the properties and relations between abstraction and construction, appearance and disappearance, lines and surfaces, as well as form and structure. I try to put in the scene animated aspects or diagrams that are hidden from the matter. Focusing on rhythm, layers, color-tones and repetition of minimal elements. I follow the nature of improvising with tools, creating a system that allows me to work beyond expectations. Wandering around the workshop, I carry out a “dance”, a choreography where the things, the sounds that I produce seem to come to life generating a network of encounters, where sometimes I end up incorporating three-dimensional elements to a painting or sounds to a sculpture. Through a range of media: painting, sculpture, photography, poetry and sound, I am interested in creating spaces for contemplation, the poetics that develop our sensitive world.

 
 

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Cecilia Biagini, (born in 1967, Buenos Aires, Argentina and living in NYC since 1998.)

She is an artist dedicated to experimentation, often incorporating different mediums of expression to generate a “complete” work. Finding her roots in South America mid century abstraction.

In 2024, Biagini will have an exhibition at Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs with argentine artist Yente (1905-1990) The exhibition will be curated by Ayelen Pagnanelli. It will show the parallel voracious approach to artmaking that has led them to embrace different mediums.

In 2025 a survey exhibition of Biagini’s works and career will be held at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Also an installation of her work will be installed permanently at The Nuyorican Poets Cafe in 2026. The work was selected by Percent for Art NYC as part of the public art program.

In 2021, she made a record project with Federico Orio (Emociones Discos)

In 2020, she created a visual and sound installation with Aimée Niemann, Living Organism, AC Institute NYC. The same year the book “Cecilia Biagini - WORKS 1990-2020”was published with text by Cecilia Pavón and edited by Eneas Capalbo.

Her Work has been included among others Cut N Mix,  Museo del Barrio, NYC (2015) curated by Rocío Alvarado

In 2003 together with Todd Rosenbaum,  founded the art space “Hogar Collection” in Brooklyn, which remained open until 2011.

Early career:

During the 1980s she joined the world of acting and performance, working at the same time in  the renowned San Martin theater as well as underground venues like  Parakultural in Buenos Aires. She  participated in plays directed by, among others,  Alberto Ure and Roberto Villanueva and in the films of Martin Rejtman. In 1994-95 Biagini acted, created the set design and produced  The Mariner by Fernando Pessoa. It was a unipersonal piece directed by Damian Dreizik at Centro Cultural R. Rojas, Buenos Aires. In the field of fine arts, Biagini received an honorable mention in 1989 “From the Critics to Photography” at CAYC ( Centro de Arte y Comunicación, Buenos Aires) and held her first exhibition of paintings in Buenos Aires at Espacio Giesso in 1991. She received the Guillermo Kuitca Scholarship and Workshop in 1994-95 and 1997-98 respectively. After moving to the United States her work has been shown internationally.  Her artwork has been exhibited at such venues: The Hunterdon Museum of Art in New Jersey, Ruiz Healy Art in NYC and San Antonio TX, Pentimenti Gallery in Philadelphia, Praxis International Art in NYC, The Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural & Educational Center in NYC, The Bemis Center in Oma­ha, NE, The Cervantes Institute in Rome, PROA Foundation, The Museum of Fine Arts and the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires.

The works are included in private, public and corporate collections internationally including Microsoft NYC, Bank of America NYC, Toyota Research Institute in Cambridge MA, The University of Texas at San Antonio, The New York Public Library, South Texas Money Management, Alliance Bernstein in New York, The Department of Homeland Security in Washington D.C, The Ministry of Education in Buenos Aires, Argentina and The Museum of Contemporary Art, MACBA in Buenos Aires, Argentina,  among others.