Iván Argote was born in Bogota in 1983. He lives and works between Paris and New York, and graduated from the Beaux-Arts in Paris in 2009.
Read MoreRecent exhibitions include: “Sin heroísmos, por favor” (solo), CA2M, Madrid (2012); Art Brussels (solo), Perrotin booth (2012); Girarse, Joan Miró Fundation, Barcelona; The Dialectic City, Laboratorio de Artes Binarios, Puerto Rico (2011); Caliente, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, 2011 (solo show); A brake to dance, Galerie Valenzuela & Klenner, Bogota, Colombia, 2009; Zapping Unit, MAC/VAL Museum of Contemporary Art of Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France, 2009. He’s preparing upcoming exhibitions, including: 30th Sao Paulo Biennale (Sep 2012); La Estrategia, Palais de Tokyo (Dec 2012). Iván Argote’s practice deals with social, political and art historical fields through mediums as varied as video, photography, sculpture and painting. Being simultaneously the director and main actor in his work, Iván interrogates with humour the views and perspectives imposed by our social positions, the status of an artwork and the notion of interactivity, which he addresses through a fictionalisation of the everyday.
Ocula Insight Frieze Sculpture 2019: See the Contemporary Art in London’s Regent's Park By Ocula IGTV For three months, Frieze Sculpture (3 July–6 October) transforms Regent's Park, London, into an open gallery with sculptures by artists from all over the world. This year's edition is again curated by Clare Lilley, director of programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park since 1992 and curator of Frieze Sculpture since 2012. This video, created for...
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Related Press Ivan Argote Is An Artist, Not A Counterrevolutionary 25 April 2017, Forbes I wasn’t sure what to expect before I met Ivan Argote. I read in an essay accompanying a catalogue of his works that he was raised on a revolutionary commune in Colombia in the 1980s. I suppose that what I expected as a result was Gael García Bernal with a scraggly beard. Or at the very least, someone very serious and angry.
Related Press Review of Ivan Argote: Strengthlessness, Galerie Perrotin, Paris 30 January 2014, Aesthetica Ivan Argote is a young Colombian artist, who has been based in France since 2005, where he commenced studies at the Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Beaux-Arts in Paris. Argote works with a multitude of media, always being provocative in his statements. One of his most widely-known gestures is a graffiti on two Piet Mondrian paintings at Centre...
Related Video & Audio Video of the exhibition 'Deep Affection' by Iván Argote at Perrotin Paris, 2018 6 July 2018, Perrotin Video of the exhibition Deep Affection by Iván Argote at Perrotin Paris June 2–July 28, 2018. Video: Nikolai Saoulski © 2018
Related Video & Audio IVÁN ARGOTE - CONVERSATION 27 July 2017, Perrotin Iván Argote–Conversation with Luis Peres-Oramas–May 2017 For the exhibition La Venganza Del Amor at Perrotin New York May 6, 2017.
Related Video & Audio Iván ARGOTE 'La Venganza del Amor' 2017 13 June 2017, Perrotin Iván Argote La Venganza del Amor Perrotin, New York 2017
