Guido Yannitto lives and works in Salta, Argentina. His major interest is exploring popular cultures. He works with tapestries and other techniques, exploring what they have to offer, and thinking about the sculptural aspects of this planimetric technique. He is also interested in what he sees as major characteristics within this representational system, aspects of communication and translation. Ideas of identity, oral transmission, translation, genealogy, subjectivity, and collective work are conceptual axes for his exchanges with weavers. Together with curator Andrei Fernández, he collaborates with the collective Thañí / Viene del monte, accompanying the process of a group of wichí weavers, indigenous women from Salta, in the north of Argentina. In 2016 he completed the Escuela Flora program at Flora Arts and Nature, a twelve months residency program in the city of Bogota, Colombia, and in 2017 he was selected for the Jan Van Eyck Academie residency and scholarship in Maastricht, The Netherlands. He has also participated in numerous residencies in Mexico, Brazil, and Italy. His work is held in the collection of University of Maastricht; Banco Itau, Buenos Aires; Museo Castagnino+Macro, Rosario; Museo Caraffa, Córdoba; and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Salta, Argentina.
SMB12 (2023) Artist
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