Guido Yannitto

Guido Yannitto (Arg. 1981) graduated from painting in Córdoba, Argentina. He lived in México, Colombia and Buenos Aires. Exploring popular cultures is one of his major interest. He´s been working with tapestries and considering this medium´s possibilities, thinking about the sculptural aspects of this planimetric technique and also interested in what he sees as major characteristics within this representational system, aspects of communication and translation. Ideas like identity, dissolve identity, oral transmission, translation, genealogy, subjectivity and collective work are conceptual axis for his exchanges with weavers.