MASCOGA

Statement

Bring to life something from nothingness is the central idea of MASCOGA’s work. Defined as a word’s player and its spatial arrangement, creation is a neuralgic element. For the artist the creative process happens twice (from idea to execution); a circular, concentric, and elastic process; where he questions absolutes, created imaginaries and the assimilated, proposing new paradigms. It is the notion of circularity that allows him to approach themes in a multidisciplinary and interconnected way. He interprets movement, and how the spatiality of points A and B make the definition of the artist. Crossed and influenced by colour theory (abstract expressionism; Vasili Kandinsky), the artist is also defined by trajectories and experience, understood as a spatial mode of being (Marc Augé). He creates his work from a process of enquiry and deconstruction of the incorporated. The curatorial narrative is part of this broad, deep, and indivisible process for the artist where the notion of purifying to the abstract explains his work.

GlogauAIR Project

IACCA (Indicador de Afectación del Cambio Climático en el Arte; Climate Change Affect Indicator in Art) is the indicator created to generate a common language between science, technology, innovation, art and climate change. IACCA brings together indicators of climate change and indicators of the adjustment of a technical reproduction of a work of art. IACCA is a prospective exercise towards the creation of a platform for dialogue between Science, Technology, Innovation, Climate Change and Art; a site that allows, after adaptation and linkage, to calculate with greater precision the impact of climate change on art; and the creation of an application (APP) that allows to see in real time the impact of a work of art after its photographic capture. The application will store all the information on climate change indicators, generating new algorithms, IACCA, will make visible and raise awareness of the impact of climate change on art from a visual language.

CV Summary

• Mathias Escotto Gadea (pseudonym, acronym MASCOGA) is a Uruguayan photographer and multidisciplinary visual artist based in Berlin, Germany. He studied at the Instituto Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes of the University of the Republic (UDELAR) and at the Escuela Museo Joaquín Torres García in Montevideo. He studied photography at the Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo (CdF) and at the Foto Club del Uruguay. He has studied at the Berlin Association of Visual Artists (bbk-Berlin) and is a graduate of the University of Burgos in Art curatorship and exhibition organisation.
• Participations in fair, exhibitions and publications:
• 2022 July – august, ART Showroom exhibition, Haze Gallery Berlin
• 2022 May, Discovery Art Fair, Cologne
• 2021 December, SOLO EXHIBITION, DESMEDIR artwork series, Haze Gallery Berlin
• 2021 December, co-author in Power of Colour; artbook by Bruxelles Art Vue, Brussels, Belgium
• 2021 July, co-author in the book of young creators and emerging artists FLAMANTES, Madrid – España
• 2021 July, published by BlueBee magazine in London – UK in edition number 7
• 2021 June, Arte en la Red, Casa América, Madrid – España
• 2021 May, Garden of Colourful Mist Group Exhibition, Haze Gallery Berlín
• 2021 April, PERSONA Group exhibition, Holy Art Gallery in London – UK
• 2020 July, FOTOBALKON project, LADO BERLIN Magazine, Berlin
• 2018 July, Migrant Portrait, photo documental published in BLA Magazine, Uruguay
• 2017 November, Author and exhibitor at the First Photography Festival of Uruguay, organized by the CdF
• 2017 November – december, Co-author of the photobook VIVENCIAS, published by the CdF
• 2015 July, Co-author of the photobook ESTADA, published by the CdF

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