Gonzalo Elvira

Gonzalo Elvira (Patagonia, Argentina, 1971) trained at the Antonio Berni School of Visual Arts in Argentina and began his exhibition career in 1993. He has lived and worked in Barcelona since 2000 and combines his artistic career with intense educational and pedagogical work focused on the Obra Door studio, which he manages and directs in the Gracia neighborhood.

Gonzalo Elvira's works have developed over the years in the form of series that, far from being finalized, are revisited or revived at specific moments and that maintain a close thematic relationship and are fully complementary to each other.

Among his works we can highlight the series:
12 concrete songs, a project dedicated to the monument that Walter Gropius conceived as a tribute to the nine workers killed during a strike in Weimar;
The Ballad of Simon, which reconstructs the political and life experiences of Simon Radowitzky, a Ukrainian-Argentine anarchist who, following the brutal police repression following the events of the Red Week in Buenos Aires (1909), attacked the police chief responsible, Ramón Lorenzo Falcón;
The Unforgettable, which is the title of a book by Juan José Saer and which he made based on the analysis of the last dictatorship in Argentina;
Assaig ST 1909-1919, a work in which two historical events such as the Tragic Week of Barcelona and that of Buenos Aires look at each other face to face;
Finally, Bauhaus 1919, a model for assembling the important school and its often idealized model. This work has, over time, focused on the figure of women and the role they played in the German school.