Santiago Taccetti

Berlin based artist Santiago Taccetti makes sculptures and wall pieces using simple gestures that give his materials room to breath. “I shy away from authorship,” the artist says. “I’m interested in the aesthetics but I want to be in collaboration with the content of the materials. You could call [the works] sculpture, based on how you perceive the object, but I’ve never sculpted it, its form existed before I came into contact with it.” At times, Taccetti will spray paint rocks with iridescent colors, transforming them into something unknowable without ever touching them with his own hand. In other works, the artist allows moss to grow from grated door matts with little intervention. Often working with elements derived from nature, Taccetti explores the relationships we have with natural objects in the age of ubiquitous networked technology.

Santiago Taccetti was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, raised between Texas and New York, and currently lives and works in Berlin. He has exhibited work in contemporary art centers and galleries such as Centre d'art Santa Monica, CCCB Centre de Cultura Contemporanea Barcelona, Kultur Buro Barcelona, Istituto Italo Latinomericano in Rome, La Panaderia in Mexico City, Centro Cultural San Martin and Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires as well as at the Black & White Project Space and the Baryshnicov Art Center in New York. He has participated in the Fabra i Coats Residency 2010, the 2010 Proyectos Ultravioleta Residency in Guatemala, the CIA Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas Residency 2010 in Buenos Aires, the 2011 Watermill Center Summer Residency in New York and most recently Art Omi Residency and the ISCP residency in New York. In 2009, Santiago Taccetti founded TWAIN, a collective project that is open to collaborations with various artists from around the world. The TWAIN project received the Generaciones 2011 Art Prize by Caja Madrid.