Miguel angel rios biography

MIGUEL ANGEL RÍOS  (b.

1943: Born in Catamarca, Argentina ; 1965: Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Argentina ; 1966–1969: Professor of Art, National University of.

, Catamarca, Argentina)

"I make visible the violent moment in which we live, where we feel that life has no value. It is competition, power, violence, and chaos. The viewer may choose to identify with the powerful or with the vulnerable" Miguel Angel Ríos studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires before moving to New York in the s to escape the military dictatorship in Argentina.

He subsequently relocated to Mexico and now divides his time between the U.S. and Mexico.

Born in Catamarca, Argentina, Miguel Angel Rios now divides his time between Mexico City and New York.

Born in Catamarca, Argentina, Miguel Angel Rios now divides his time between Mexico City and New York.

Miguel Angel Ríos studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires before moving to New York in the 1970's to escape the military dictatorship in.

Miguel Angel Ríos.

Miguel Angel Ríos studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires before moving to New York in the 1970s to escape the military dictatorship in Argentina.

Miguel Angel Ríos is an Argentinean artist born in Catamarca, a province at the extreme north of the country, as culturally far away from the capital.

In his work, Ríos pairs a rigorous conceptual approach with a meticulously constructed, often handmade aesthetic. Since the s, he has made work about the concept of the "Latin American," using this idea as both an artistic strategy and a political problem.

In the s, he began creating a series of maps, which he carefully folded and pleated by hand. Marking the th anniversary of the "discovery" of the Americas, the maps indicate lon