Sculptor Mauro Musante

Mauro Musante
Buenos Aires

Born in 1972, Villa Ramallo, Province of Buenos Aires. Studies Graphic Design and Advertising at CEPEC Instituto Superior and studies Fine Arts at the University of Rosario Fine Arts Faculty of Humanities and Arts. In 2000 wins the Ex Intercampus Scholarship (Interaction and interference between object-based languages and mass media) having an academic exchange at Polytechnic University of Valencia. In 2001 and 2002 receives scholarships from the Municipal Bank or Rosario to set the Boheme and Nabuco Operas at “El Círculo” Theatre in the city of Rosario.

Since 1996 works as a teacher at the Fine Arts School of the National University of Rosario and also at the Visual Arts Provincial School and Instituto Superior de Educación Técnica Nº 18, both in Rosario.

Exhibitions in Argentina and abroad
• 2013 – 1st Sculpture Symposium at Cuyo National University, Mendoza.
• 2012 – 2nd Open Air Sculpture National Symposium, at Marcos Juarez, Córdoba, Argentina.
• 2011 – Organizes and participates of the “Plantar un Árbol” multicultural activity. Rosario.
• 2010 – Biennial of the Bicentennial. International Biennial of Sculptures.
• 2008 – Meeting of international sculptors FEDEMA, Formosa.
• 2006 & 2008 – International Biennial of Sculptures, Resistencia, Chaco.
• 2005 to 2007 – Travelling exhibition. Stolen Affections, at Salvador Bahía, Maceio, Recife and Sao Paolo, Brazil.

Main Awards
• 2010 – 1st prize, Monument to the Immigrants Contest. Work: “Germinal”. Sculpture placed in the Juan Manuel Bustos Park, Ramallo, Buenos Aires.
• 2002 – 1st prize, La Capital Newspaper National Hall, Rosario.
• 2001- 1st prize. Art and Memory Contest. Work: a sculpture for a public space. Subject: The immigrant, Ramallo, Buenos Aires.

Work: “Mother Earth – Pachamama”
We come from earth and in it we end.
A pitcher as a container, symbol of womb/mother/earth, working as a basket or hamper, a container widely used by Native American people.
Warp of work with hands, interweaving dry leaves, fiber, dreams, threads, stories….
Tireless job as the genesis of the human being dignity.
Human being portrayed as a fetus inside de pitcher with its umbilical cord, being fed by Mother Earth.
Earth portrayed as permanent home, which protects us, feeds us and gives us life.
Life, which urgently needs our thoughts about this iconography, because “Mother… there’s only one”.