Discipline: Visual Art – painting

Eduardo Santiere

Discipline: Visual Art – painting
Region: Buenos Aires, ARGENTINA
MacDowell Fellowships: 1997, 2000
Eduardo Santiere creates delicate abstract compositions on paper exclusively using graphite, colored pencil, and incisions in the work’s surface — a combined practice of marking and scratching. He is best known for using a needle to lance the paper and create linear patterns from lacerations. As a result, his works appear to be both drawings and delicate sculptural reliefs. His compositions are typically minimal and feature small recurring motifs resembling circuitry and cellular structures. Santiere, who was trained in computer science, sees his works as demonstrations of evolving networks and systems of language, urban sprawl, ideology, and biology—or “Bio-Constructions” as he describes.

Studios

Cheney

Eduardo Santiere worked in the Cheney studio.

Cheney Studio was given to MacDowell by Mrs. Benjamin P. Cheney and Mrs. Karl Kauffman. Like Barnard Studio, Cheney is a low, broadly massed bungalow. Sited on a steep westward slope, its porches are supported on wooden posts and fieldstone with lattices. Although it still retains its appealing character, the original design of the shingled building…

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