Gonzalo Elvira

Gonzalo Elvira (Patagonia, Argentina, 1971)

He studied at Antonio Berni School of Visual Arts in Argentina and started his exhibition career in 1993. He has lived and worked in Barcelona since 2000, and combines his artistic facet with intense educational work concentrated in the Obra Door studio, which he manages and runs in the district of Gracia.

Gonzalo Elvira’s work has developed over the years the form of series that, far from being closed, are revisited or recovered at particular moments with a great thematic relation between them and being fully complementary.

His work includes the series:

• 12 canciones concretas, a project dedicated to the monument that Walter Gropius conceived as a tribute to the nine workers murdered during a strike in Weimar;
• La balada de Simón, which reconstructs the political and life story of Simón Radowitzky, a Ukrainian-Argentine anarchist who, after the brutal police repression during the events of the Red Week in Buenos Aires (1909), assassinated the chief of police responsible, Ramón Lorenzo Falcón.
• Lo Imborrable, which takes its title from a book by Juan José Saer and is based on an analysis of the last dictatorship in Argentina.
• Assaig S.T. 1909-1919, a work in which two historical events, the Tragic Week in Barcelona and the Tragic Week in Buenos Aires, come face to face.
• Bauhaus 1919, a model of the important school and its model, so often idealised. A work that over time has focused on the figure of women and the role they played in the German school.

Elvira has exhibited his work in numerous art centres and galleries both in Europe and America, among which we can highlight his solo exhibitions in:

• Parque de la Memoria – Monumento a las Víctimas del Terrorismo de Estado (Buenos Aires)
• La Virreina-Centro de la Imagen (Barcelona)
• Museo Juan Sánchez, (Patagonia, Argentina)
• CEDINCI – Centro de Investigación de la Cultura de Izquierdas – (Buenos Aires)

and group exhibitions:

• MACBA – Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (Barcelona)
  Azkuna Zentroa – Alhóndiga Bilbao (Bilbao)
• CAB (Burgos)
• Fundación Alon (Buenos Aires)
• Fundación Vila Casas (Barcelona).

He has recently been selected as one of the eight artists to receive a grant from the prestigious Botín Foundation’s Visual Arts Scholarship.

In recent years his works have been acquired by various public and private collections in different countries such as:

• MUSAC (Spain)
• Fundación DKV (Spain)
• Colección José Luis Lorenzo, (Argentina)
• Colección Paula Acevedo (Brasil)
• Colección Mauricio Kassim (Colombia)
• Colección M.A. Sánchez (Spain)
• Museo Martín Almagro (Spain)
• Museo Juan Sánchez (Argentina)
• Fundación Alon (Argentina)
• Fundació Lluis Coromines (Spain)
• Colección Tous (Spain)

Press:
– ‘Als artistes, no se’ns veu com a treballadors, però ho som’. El Punt Avui. Maria Palau. 22.02.2021
– RocioSantaCruz, Dos Premios GAC 2020 (diciembre 2020)
– Gonzalo Elvira Recibe El Premi Ciutat De Palma Por ‘Sueños’ (enero 2021)

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