Hernan Paganini was born in Argentina; currently lives and works in Seattle, WA, US. He studies Graphic Design at Buenos Aires University; a place where he developed professionally as a teacher for seven years. Interested in search for other applications of his work he was selected to take part in the Artist Program in the Torcuato Di Tella University, after that he won several Grants and participated in National and International Residencies. Inspired in the relation between art, education, culture and the application of this tools in the society he created in 2010 a Nomadic School Workshop Project called VIAJE EN BARCO; this project has been applied for kids and adults, in several countries of Latin America, North America, and Europe. He shows his work in several individuals and collective show and fairs. He moved to the USA at the end of 2017 where he currently lives and works.
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The gestures inside my work reveal three simple facts; nothing is perfect, nothing is finished and nothing lasts.
I move into a non-place between nature and culture, awakening a primitive behavior, developing new resources to build a type of concrete and wild knowledge. Through the artisan practice, it is possible to make tools that also are models of wisdom.
I explore the relationship between places, their stories, and the construction of our own subjectivities on the idea of inheritance and memory. Working through recovered and found objects, products of the discards of society as a trace of their unconscious gesture, which simultaneously carries their own proper and a foreign history, individual and collective. Investigating in these vertices on the premise of sharing, juxtaposing these same actions on different social structures, transmuting the concept of supposed cultural differences with an aesthetic creative sense.
In the sculptures, installations, and collages that I produce the fragments are juxtaposed, staggered, scraped, enraged, approached, denied, affirmed, constructed, and reconstructed in new possible interpretations. A new lexicon of misunderstandings; actions that attempt to incite new questions, unlearn what was learned and think again about how we relate to others, to the system, and to the objects of daily consumption.
I try to bring to light the valuing of the incomplete, not only like a simple condition, but as an aesthetic possibility of beauty as a timeless state, and that we can not encompass it if it is not through our own imperfection.