LUCAS DI PASCUALE

Lucas Di Pascuale´s practice develops between the limits of drawing, writing and reading; amongst editorial practice and teaching. His work is informed by the connections between the individual and the collective; as well as the intimate, the everyday life, the public and the historical. In recent years, he has directed his work toward concerns centered around the copy and the absence of the original, often drawing on autobiographical aspects or biographies of his affective environment in which writing, on occasion, serves as a trigger. Di Pascuale is interested in technique as a concept and in certain idea of the unfinished based on fragments proposed by his production. Montage, which is another important dimension in his work, functions both as a place of memory and of emptiness.

Born in 1968 in Córdoba, Argentina, Lucas Di Pascuale obtained undergraduate and graduate degrees at the Facultad de Artes de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), where he currently teaches, and continued his studies attending various art residencies. Among his projects, where drawing and the editorial practice have a marked relevance, the following stand out: Querido margen (2021), 2222 (2016), Lindes para el viento (2015) – jointly with Soledad Sánchez Goldar, Yerba mala (2013), Colecciones (2008-2011), López (2007-2016) y Partido Transportista de Votantes (2003-2005).

He has published Ritmo hormiga (2022); Lakshmi Nivas (2020)- jointly with Sandra Abichain); Cartel (2019); Ijota (2019); Ali/Lai Lau/Zip (2014); Distante (2014), Hola tengo miedo (2011); Taurrtiissttaa (2009), and H31(2001) – with Gabriela Halac.

His work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at different institutions (selection): Los colores de los días, El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba (2021); Querido margen, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2019); 2222, Museo Bonfiglioli, Villa María, Córdoba (2017); Testo, Museo Emilio Pettoruti, La Plata (2017); 2222, El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba (2016); Lindes para el viento (conjuntamente con Soledad Sánchez Goldar), Rojo, Córdoba (2015); Yerba Mala, Museo Genaro Pérez, Córdoba (2013); Di Pascuale Dibujos, Rolf Art, Buenos Aires (2012); Hola tengo miedo, Cultura Pasajera, Rosario (2012); Coleções, Galería de la Escola Guignard, Belo Horizonte (2010); Colección Jorge Villacorta, Galería 80M2, Lima (2009); Turista Artista, Museo Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba (2009); PTV, Espacio OSDE, Buenos Aires (2009), among others. 

He has participated in numerous group exhibitions: Qué cosa, la poesía visual?, Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2023); Uso y función, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires (2023); Transformación. La gráfica en desborde, Museo Nacional de Grabado, Buenos Aires (2021); Lucha de Calles, Parque de la memoria, Buenos Aires (2019); Km 12, Bienalsur, Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti, Buenos Aires (2017); Igualdad Cultural, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires (2013); Hacer dibujando, Galería Domicilio Desconocido, Ciudad de México (2011); Rijksakademie OPEN, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam (2008); Shatana Workshop OPEN, Amman, Jordania (2007).

During 2022, Di Pascuale has participated in El libro de las diez mil cosas, a project created in a polyphonic way in collaboration with fourteen artists and writers from Argentina, exhibited at Documenta 15 (Kassel), commissioned by La Intermundial Holobiente (Claudia Fontes, Paula Fleisner and Pablo M. Ruiz).

Throughout his career he has received numerous distinctions, grants and recognitions including the 1^st Prize, Bienal de Dibujo, San Juan (2021), 3^rd Prize, Drawing, Salón Nacional, Buenos Aires (2019); Plataforma Futuro Grant, Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina (2017); Bicentenario Grant, Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina (2016); 1st Prize, Castagnino + Macro, Rosario (2013); 2nd Prize Salón Klemm, Buenos Aires (2013); Igualdad Cultura Grant in Visual Arts, Argentina (2013); 2^nd Prize, Drawing, in Salón Ciudad de Córdoba, Córdoba (2009); among others. 

His work is included in the permanent collections of the following institutions: Museo Franklin Rawson, San Juan; Museo Bonfiglioli, Villa María; Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina; Museo Genaro Pérez, Córdoba; Banco de Córdoba; Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires; Museo Castagnino Macro, Rosario and Museo de Arte Moderno de Salta.

Lucas Di Pascuale lives and works in the city of Córdoba, Argentina.