Sergio Moscona

Afterthoughts Sergio Moscona Contemporary art painting colour human comedy

2023

Born in 1979 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Sergio Moscona works and lives in Quito, Ecuador. “My work feeds on the social facts, it is a constant game with what is happening, an interaction that moves back and forth to the same things with the sole intention of trying to get closer to a point where I can, in the closest measure possible, understand them” writes Sergio Moscona. “At 34 years, this Argentinean prodigy seems to be one of the rising figures of global contemporary art. Feeding on the genius of Picasso, he builds an epic of humanity, brutal and refined, tragicomic and monumental”, Marion Kling in Artension #120. How does Sergio Moscona question our reality of being humans? In this adversity, one against the other, confronted by the adventures of existence, how do we react? Which questions do we ask? How does the artist embody his resentment faced with our imperfect condition of being humans? By illustrating his horrors and his obstacles as well as his philosophical insights, Sergio Moscona takes a generous and questioning look at the existence. Sergio Moscona depicts with perplexity and without concession of the society in which he lives. His work is situated in the crossroads of the reality of the social and artistic chaos. He stages the works of the deaf forces, those generators of anxiety who destroy all social relationships. Indeed, the violence, the excess and the social misery compromise the survival of the subjectivity of the individuals. Sergio Moscona denounces this global reality and hopes to see a day when Paquito is free of his nightmares and can reclaim his right to dream. CAREER 1989 At the age of ten, he started drawing and painting in Silvia Kanonich’s studio until 1995. From 1995 to 1997, he studied drawing in Beatriz Negrotto’s studio. 1995 He discovered watercolor with Guillermo Roux during one year and attended at the same time the class of philosophy of Santiago Kovadloff until 2000. 1997 He worked with Jorge Ludueña in his Buenos Aires studio until his death in 1999. 1998 He entered the Buenos Aires National School of Fine Art where he obtained a double license in painting (2002) and engraving (2004). 2001 He created with the Ecuadorian artist Isabel Espinoza the artistic collective EL KIEBRE dedicated to the promotion of cultural exchanges between Paraguay, Argentina and Ecuador. 2003 General Police Commissioner of the exhibition “sober Manifestacion el malestar latinoamericano ” in the Metropolitan Cultural center of Quito (Ecuador) for the 25th birthday of the city as first cultural heritage of the humanity (U.N.E.S.C.O). 2005 He studied two years lithography in Rafael Gil’s studio. First study trip in Europe. 2007 Inside the collective EL KIEBRE he organized in Ecuador the first Biennial event of arts on non-conventional supports. 2010 Guest of honor at the Chamalières Original engraving fair in France.