MAx Provenzano
MAx Provenzano (Venezuela, 1986). Visual and performance artist who works on the relationship between body, object and environment. Graduated from the School of Chemistry of the Faculty of Sciences of the UCV (2011). He studied at the Photography Laboratory of the Faculty of Science UCV (2008) and workshops on Venezuelan Art History at the National Art Gallery (2011), Experimental Drawing at UNEARTE (2012) and Photography at the Nelson Garrido Organization (2013) ). Individual exhibitions: "Elucidaciones", El Anexo / Arte Contemporáneo, Caracas, 2017; "READYMAx", Abra Caracas, Caracas, 2017; "El Tercer Mundo" (2014 exhibition prize at the Salón Joven Joven), Art Museum of Valencia, 2015; "[Inflexiones]", ONG, Caracas, 2014. Collective exhibitions (selection): Banesco Youth Salon with FIA (XVII and XVIII editions); Biennial 67 Arturo Michelena Hall; "Esqueje", Abra Caracas, Caracas; "Obra Abierta: Axes of Freedom", Museum of Contemporary Art of Zulia (MACZUL); I International Performance Biennial of Caracas (BIPCA). His work has also been exhibited in Brazil, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Portugal, Canada, United States and Finland. Currently lives and works in Lisbon, Portugal.
Chemist of formation and artist in constant investigation on the ephemeral processes of the matter that approaches his ways of work starting from experimental aesthetic formulations. It makes him interested - or immersed - from drift, situationism and dispersion, accumulating a series of data and information in images, graphics, texts and materials for archive, study and observation. Subsequently, from two-dimensional approaches (drawing, photography, painting, scanning images, mixed) or videos and installations, or his own body, frames or delimits the processes of disappearance or disintegration, chemical or physical materials, found or procured and different urban events that goes finding on your way. A road, without end or planned purpose.