Polyptych 40, 2021

Rodrigo Etem  

Visual artist. Producer for the Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno Mendoza. Member of Plataforma Amiga. I received 3rd Prize at the National Visual Arts Salon 2020/21, 1st Prize at the Provincial Visual Arts Salon 2018, 2nd Prize at the Máximo Arias Photography Salon 2017, 1st Prize at the Vendimia Photography Salon 2009. I received grants from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación, Fondo Provincial de Cultura, among others. I made work analysis with Fabiana Barreda, Esteban Álvarez, Ananké Asseff. My work was part of the celebrations of the bicentenary of the Argentinean independence in the exhibition "Congreso de Tucumán, 200 years of Argentinean Art". I have had individual exhibitions in the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Franklin Rawson (San Juan, Argentina), Pumapungo Museum (Cuenca, Ecuador), Anthropological and Contemporary Art Museum (Guayaquil, Ecuador), Municipal Museum of Modern Art of Mendoza (Mendoza, Argentina). I participated in group exhibitions among which stand out: La marca original (CCK, Buenos Aires 2019), Poéticas Políticas (Parque de la Memoria, Buenos Aires 2016), Dura lex sed lex (Bienal Sur. Centro Cultural Parque de España, Rosario). With the support of the Fondo Arg. de la Cultura I published the book "Rodrigo Etem / el flujo de la vida cotidiana en imágenes y acciones" with texts by Roxana Jorajuria. Some of my works are in public and private collections (Gustavo Bruzzone, Hugo Albrieu, Colección MMAMM, Colección Fundación del Interior, Colección Ministerio de Cultura Prov. de Mendoza, among others). I have shown my work in Argentina, Ecuador, Mexico, Bolivia and Taiwan. Graduated from the Faculty of Social and Administrative Sciences, 2002. Currently I work as a researcher and producer at the Museo Municipal de Arte Moderno Mendoza. Member of @plataformaamiga virtual and affective space that promotes different instances of meeting, dissemination, visibility, training and exchange of contemporary art in the Mendoza scene.