Mauro Giaconi

Mauro Giaconi creates sculptures, installations, and drawings based on abstracted architectural forms such as as pipes, structures, columns, and tools. His graphite drawings on walls, paper, and found maps are created from a layering process where the representational image is built only to be destroyed by the gestural strokes of erasers, electric sanders, diluents, and other corrosive materials. This method effectively destroys the image, the representation, and the gesture.

In 2013, Giaconi created an ephemeral site-specific mural at Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City. Drawn in his signature erased graphite, Volver a Girar spread across the an entryway and into the adjoining room’s white walls. The abstraction gave the impression of an exploding wooden building, shards thrown in every direction and erasures and smudges hinting at smoke and fire.The next year he deconstructed the mural, detaching wall fragments in order to create a series of moving sculptures. The works spatially reconfigured the memory of the once static image, evoking themes of detachment, fragility, rupture, and social breakdown.

Giaconi’s work has been exhibited at venues such as Arroniz Gallery in Mexico City, The Museum of  Modern Art of Buenos Aires, Museo del Palacio de Bellas Artes in Mexico City, and Gallerie HO in Marseilles. He is co-founder of ObreraCentro, a non-profit independent art space in Mexico City.