Micalea Pinero, Me ilumino de inmensidad, UNA Galleria
UNA Galleria is pleased to present “Me ilumino de inmensidad,” marking the inaugural exhibition of Micaela Piñero (*1990 Buenos Aires) in Italy, curated by the Constitución galeria from Buenos Aires.
In this site-specific project, Micaela integrates her multifaceted artistic endeavors, spanning from poetry to craftsmanship, unveiling an installation comprising paintings, metal sculptures, and jewelry. The artist beckons viewers to delve into her inner realm, offering a mystical and poetic immersive experience. Her oeuvre encompasses magical ideation, the sacred intertwined with nature, the tumult of emotions, and the potency of language. Through a delicate web of symbols, Micaela unveils novel forms of expression, such as tears or raindrops, suspended bodies, moons and suns, flashes of light, and jewel-like insects.
Blue and gold
The installation’s nearly monochromatic palette, confined to blue and gold, imbues her canvases with a sense of singularity, captivating our attention through the freshness of her brushwork. Micaela employs a specific repertoire of materials: metal, leather, wood, fabric, acrylic paint, and techniques steeped in the artisanal tradition of goldsmithing and jewelry making, including welding, embossing, engraving, lost wax casting, and filigree.
“I create metalworks, compose poetry, paint, and write songs. My work engages with the universal and the personal through a fusion of diverse elements such as jewelry, everyday objects, and archetypes, permeated with contemporary temporality. I am intrigued by delving into the intimate and private universe, where, with a personalized vision, I seek to evoke existential characteristics or human instabilities, employing an iconography resonating with ritual, religious, esoteric, and oracular dimensions. I work with various materials such as metal, stone, and glass. I endeavor to encode a temporal dimension into the images I create: the temporality of nomadism, subsistence, and life.”
Micalea Pinero, Me ilumino de inmensidad, UNA Galleria
With Marina De Caro and Leila Tschopp
Micaela Piñero, born in the Province of Buenos Aires in 1990, is a multidisciplinary artist, writer, goldsmith, teacher, and Bachelor of Fine Arts (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, FBA). In 2001, she commenced her training in painting under Vasily Tretiakov, followed by jewelry making with Héctor Ruíz and Juan Carlos Pallarols in 2015. Subsequently, she attended workshops with Marina De Caro and Leila Tschopp. In 2019, she engaged in workshops with Pablo Siquier, Juliana Iriart, and Alejandra Aguado.
Micaela Pinero, Serpentine dream, ferro, legno, argento e bronzo, 80x20x12cm, 2019, courtesy UNA Galleria
Llévame a conocer el océano
She participated in seminars led by prominent figures such as Rosario Bléfari, Diana Aisenberg, Ana Longoni, Silvia Gurfein, Claudia Del Rio, Francisco Garamona, Jose Luis Landet, Kenneth Goldsmith, among others. Piñero was a grantee of the Centro de Investigaciones Artísticas Program in 2017. She has exhibited her work and performed poetry readings in Argentina, Chile, the United States, Mexico, and Germany. Additionally, she has published several fanzines including “Desde Adentro” (2011), “Siempre hay un vacío” (2011), “Ofrenda” (2013), “Transformaciones” (2014), and “Abundancia” (2016). In 2012, she co-founded the poetry collective Las Pibas. Her poems have been featured in poetry anthologies such as “Van llegando” (Mansalva, 2017), “Antología de poetas Argentinas, Australes y peligrosas” (Cohuína, CDMX, 2018), and “Universidad de la violencia” (Mansalva, 2018). Piñero was awarded the grant from the Ministry of Culture of the Nation in 2017 and the Radar Literature Prize in 2017 and 2018. In 2017, she participated in the writer’s call of the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial and was also selected in the Visual Artists call with her work “Lucha.” In 2019, she was selected in the Buenos Aires Young Art Biennial with her project “llévame a conocer el océano.”
