Nita Hidalgo

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Drawing and I enjoy doing it since I have memory. In 2011, I received a Bachelor's Degree in Plastic Arts from the National University of La Plata and since then I have been working with art in alternative spaces. I continue to learn and look for stimuli in nature, in colleagues, in areas of any kind and, above all, in the Latin American cultural wealth, which I have been following for several years with admiration and respect. When creating, I find reasons for each stroke and I try to transmit it that way. I do not want to decorate, but to move, to move.

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 I work more than anything with acrylics and different inks. Although I like color and paint a lot, I always end up choosing drawing as a form of expression to solve a job. For several years I worked with pens, but for the last five years, I dedicated myself to exploring the pen, its oldest version.

As for the supports I like to explore the reaction of different types of paper, also taking advantage of a somewhat nomadic life that allows me to look for proposals in different countries. In Mexico I fell in love with the Amate paper (of prehispanic origin manufactured in an artisanal way from the bark of ficus) that I use in several of my works and more recently I am experimenting with papers of Peruvian origin made from natural fibers such as corn, the kiwi and the cocoa.

 From my years of formal study, I highlight having learned to work in series: the constant search for the same idea. That's why I have hundreds of works from some of them like "suns and moons", "kill", "van" and I can see how they have evolved over the years. However there are other themes that arise and end in themselves, being series of 3 or 4 works in total. There are some constants in them that have to do with women and astronomy.

The fact of having been traveling through Latin America allowed me to learn a lot from the imprint of the peoples of the region, not taken into account in the study of the Fine Arts, even in Latin American countries. I find in his embroidery, weavings, ceramics, architecture, goldsmithing, sculpture - and of course in his culture in general and his history - a source of information and inspiration that I deeply admire. And that undoubtedly influence me, but not in an obvious and literal way, but from other perspectives that I have been incorporating in an almost natural way such as the handling of color, space, limits, and meaning.