RAMÓN TEVES

En cuanto a su obra, Valdivieso incorpora en su proceso creativo cada una de las culturas en las que ha vivido, usando imágenes cotidianas contemporáneas y otras antiguas, generando un diálogo que da inicio a su investigación donde propone con sus obras una atmósfera icónica que oscila entre lo poético y lo grotesco o bien de lo mundano a lo profundo. Valdivieso interpela al sistema actual denominándole como un territorio distópico en donde también responsabiliza al mundo del arte como cómplice de este sistema fallido. También alude a lo social e incluso a lo religioso-político.

Ha experimentado con diversas técnicas que van desde la pintura más figurativa, la figura humana y la abstracción absoluta. También con el collage en sus diferentes formas. En un estudio constante ha usado pintura, resina, papel, impresión digital, entrelazado y superposición de imágenes, una propuesta con diversas alturas que le permiten incorporar sombras y reflexión del color en la mayoría de sus piezas en papel. Actualmente investiga la escultura a partir de ensamblajes, un collage objeto en donde también suma al arte textil en este proceso.

El performance tampoco le es indiferente, inspirado en la vida y la muerte, lleva su cuerpo a extremos donde nos recuerda esta duda frenética a la veracidad de la vida. Valdivieso es un artista multidisciplinar en constante movimiento

Regarding his work, Valdivieso incorporates into his creative process each of the cultures he has lived in, using contemporary everyday images and older ones, generating a dialogue that initiates his research, where he proposes an iconic atmosphere that oscillates between the poetic and the grotesque, or from the mundane to the profound. Valdivieso challenges the current system, calling it a dystopian territory, where he also holds the art world as complicit in this failed system. He also alludes to the social and even religious-political realms.

He has experimented with various techniques, ranging from more figurative painting, the human figure, and absolute abstraction. He also works with collage in its different forms. In his constant exploration, he has used painting, resin, paper, digital printing, weaving, and image layering, a proposal with various heights that allow him to incorporate shadows and color reflection in most of his paper pieces. Currently, he is exploring sculpture through assemblages, an object collage that also integrates textile art into this process.

Performance is also an important aspect for him, inspired by life and death; he pushes his body to extremes, reminding us of the frantic doubt regarding the truth of life.

Valdivieso is a multidisciplinary artist in constant motion.

Born in Tucumán, Argentina in 1971. Lives in Tucumán.

Visual artist focused on photography. He is currently dedicated to the production of his personal work with local, national and international projection. Print photography on wood, as an alternative support to the traditional one.

He is finishing the edition of his first photobook "Chromatic Topographies", soon to be published.

Co-founder of the artistic collective ESTUDIO ABASTO, an artistic collective where its members, gathered in a common space and from different disciplines, are determined to promote culture through different activities such as workshops, courses and organization of cultural events.
Between 2005 and 2022 he is a photographer and photo editor in the Department of Press and Communication of the Ministry of Health of the Province of Tucumán. Between 2017 and 2020 he acts as Head of the Image Bank of the Boreal Foundation based in Tucumán. From 1999 to 2006 he worked as a photographer for Julio Pantoja's "Infoto" Tucumán Photojournalism Agency. He worked as a photographer in the newspaper "El Siglo" in Tucumán between 1992 and 1997. He was a Portfolio Reviewer at the "Argentine Biennial of Documentary Photography" in Tucumán in the 2022, 2018, 2016, 2014 editions.

AWARDS

2012 :: Second Prize of the IX Salon of Contemporary Art. Museum of the National University of Tucumán -MUNT-. Tucuman, Argentina.

2010 :: First Acquisition Prize, Northwest Argentine Regional Salon of Visual Arts -NOA-. La Rioja, Argentina
2009 :: Fourth Acquisition Prize, National Endowment for the Arts -FNA- (Exclusive for artists under 35 years of age) at LIX Salón Nacional de Rosario, Juan B. Castagnino Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. Santa Fe, Argentina

2008 :: Acquisition Award "Cámara de Diputados", LXXXV National Annual Salon of Santa Fé. Discipline, Photography. Santa Fe, Argentina

2007 :: First Prize Northwest Region / Photography, Argentine Visual Arts Award from Fundación Osde, CABA, Argentina.

2005 :: Honorable Mention, III Edition of the Josune Dorronsoro Latin American Photography Contest. Caracas Venezuela.
2005 :: First prize in the “Latin American Social Reality International Photography Contest”, organized by Expotrastiendas and the Association of Art Galleries of Argentina.
2005 :: Fourth Acquisition Prize, National Endowment for the Arts (Exclusive for artists under 35 years of age) at LIX Salón Nacional de Rosario, Juan B. Castagnino Municipal Museum of Fine Arts. Santa Fe, Argentina

2001 :: First Prize, 90th edition of the National Salon of Visual Arts -SNAV-. Argentina

SCHOLARSHIPS

2021 :: Grant for Group Creation, from the National Endowment for the Arts, “Mercado del Norte” Project, Argentina.

2019 :: Scholarship for Artistic Creation, from the National Endowment for the Arts, "Cajas de Luz" Project, to continue developing "Chromatic Topographies" and the materialization of a sample, editing and layout of a book of the same.

2007 :: Entrecampos Regional Scholarship, for the training of visual artists, coordinated by Patricia Hakim and Ticio Escobar, at the Museum of the National University of Tucumán.

2005 :: Intercampos II, Fundación Telefónica Training Grant for visual artists, students, photographers, designers, architects and researchers. Theoretical-practical workshop on analysis and deepening in the development of projects of the participating artists and researchers, coordinated by Patricia Hakim and tutored by Justo Pastor Mellado and Valeria González.

2000 :: Grant for Creation, discipline Photography from the Antorchas Foundation. CABA, Argentina.

EXHIBITIONS-selection-

2020 :: "Dynamic Scenarios", FNA Visual Arts Competition Exhibition. CABA, Argentina.

2019 :: “Cajas de Luz”, solo exhibition at Espacio Tucumán, Casa de Tucumán Representation in CABA, Argentina.

2019 :: "Simultaneous Contrasts" an artistic meeting point between the works of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Art Collection of the Osde Foundation. Curators: Juan Balza and Gonzalo Maciel, Osde Foundation, CABA, Argentina.

2018 :: "Confluencias", federal photography exhibition organized by the Federal Investment Council in the Festival de la Luz, CABA, Argentina.

2013 :: Petrobras Award, in Buenos Aires Photo 2013, Palais de Glace, CABA, Argentina.

2012 :: Second Prize of the IX Salon of Contemporary Art of the UNT - MUNT.