Between Iron and Concrete
By Laura Isola Published in Perfil newspaper, November 2017.
The artist from Misiones Andrés Paredes is exhibiting his works at the Calvaresi gallery. To ripple the meaning of art, what is thought and built by man and the man-made quality that deprives it from the natural. Fretworks, cobwebs, dragonflies, fantasies of silence invaded by dreams.
The Garden Where Two Jungles Branch
By Marcelo Zapat. Published in Ambito Financiero newspaper, December 2017
Nature has been the topic of Paredes’s work since he started his artistic career in Misiones, his home province, in the first decade of the 21st Century. It was there, in the tropical Paradise and the red soil of Apóstoles, where his fretworked trees and cut paper woods bearing the jungle entangled shapes were all born.
Out-of-Scale Orchids and Butterflies, Exponents of Nature in an Ornamental Capacity
By Mercedes Urquiza. Published in La Nacion newspaper, January 2018.
A mix of nature and urbanity. This is what the artist from Misiones Andrés Paredes seems to have experienced and rendered in his work. Last year, the artist left the direct contact with nature of his everyday life to settle down in Buenos Aires, where he lives almost all the time to work on the pieces that form part of the exhibition “Artifice”.
A Jungle in San Telmo
By Eduardo Villar Publicado, Published in Ñ Magazine, Clarín Newspaper, in January 2018
“For 15 years, I have explored a new, contemporary look at the Parana jungle in Misiones and how its universe is managed”, the artist says, and later adds: “I am currently exploring my personal archaeology and genealogy, I deal with my childhood memories and turn them into great participatory installations involving all the senses”.
An Urban Oasis with a Misiones Trait
By Julio Sanchez, published in La Nación Newspaper, in May 2017
Two enormous iron fretworked butterflies hover over the thousands of pedestrians that walk along Florida Street every day. Created in his native province by Andrés Paredes, they were set there in 2015.
Assertions
Curatorial text by Alicia Menises
He is Andrés Paredes -from Apóstoles, in the province of Misiones- and, based on a European technique called sherenscfhnitt or papel cortado, he managed to create his own visual language when he expanded to a third dimension and transposed it to other materials.
An Art that Questions Existence
By Ana Martinez Quijano, published in Ámbito financieroNewspaper in May 2017
Continuing with his representation of nature, always present -together with beauty- in the artist’s work, the exhibition raises from its very name important questions around existence and death. For Paredes, art is a serious thing.
The Games of Memory
By Eduardo Villas, published in Clarin Ñ in August 2016
The work of the Misiones artist Andrés Paredes, located in a side hall of the exhibition curated by Ana María Battistozzi, is a first space of a certain intimacy that prepares the viewer for Works that require approaching without interferences.
The Paraná Mud - Matter for the Modelling of Memories
By Ana Martinez Quijano, published in Ámbito Financiero Newspaper february 2015
The artist Andrés Paredes (1979) has come from his native Misiones to the Recoleta Cultural Center to present “Memorious Mud”, an exhibition curated by the cultural operator from Rosario Roberto Echen.
One on One with Nature
by Ana María Battistozzi, published in Clarín Ñ in May 2017
A similar approach, capable of making us notice what is often unnoticed about butterflies, is that taken by Andrés Paredes. Based on a relentless focus, he is able to rebuild in their wings a lace of very thin lines finished in complex latticework, and to follow the same relation in the exuberant Misiones forest canopy.
Line and other Proliferations
By Fabian Lebenglik, published in Página 12 in February 2015
Paredes not only thinks about his work materiality. When they become volumetric, his lines also project shadows in space that appear as a result of the fretwork. Absence and presence – contrasts that are part of his work.
Butterflies of Changes
By Ana Martinez Quijano, Curatorial text 2015
Like a social, political and cultural landscape seismograph, the artist perceives urban nervousness and the voices of those who demand change or transformations. On the one hand, the change is seen as essential in front of the world violence and the metamorphosis of a threatened planet
Cabinet of Curiosities
By Daniel Molina, published in Perfil Newspaper, april 2013
With “Gurí” (Child), the Misiones native Andrés Paredes has devised the link between two worlds; in this case –as a passionate naturalist– by sticking to the wonders of science and nature. Through a microscopic look, Paredes uncovers the weaving of this wonderful and terrible rainforest that ended the lives of Horacio Quiroga and all his family.
“That Place is inly in my memories”
by Alicia Menises April 2013
Each story has its own time and way to get known.
The happiness with which Andrés describes his childhood experiences in a huge yard filled with dense vegetation, plus his accidental encounter with a microscope, are the genesis of a vital experience marked by play, exploration, discovery and the everlasting sense of freedom.
Before the Night
By Ana Martinez Quijano, Curatorial Text, Ushuaia 2011
With its powerful imagery, artists dive deeply into things, they face an ocean of vicissitudes in reach of an objective which is usually uncertain, to overcome the lack of certainty, the consubstantiated feelings to the permanent and the inevitable desire to explore uncharted paths.
3 Zen Masters
By Daniel Molina, Curatorial text, November 2009
The fretwork by Andrés Paredes offers a new original Reading of the American art abstract tradition. His papers and woods interact with the ñandutí motifs or vegetal and zoomorphic structures (stylized to abstraction) that were produced by the Tupí-Guaraníes and survived - blended- in the Colony mongrel objects.
About Andres Paredes
By Norberto Frigerio Arte al día Magazine, ArteBA Fair 2007
Born in the heart of the Jesuitical missions, an heir to an art close to Asian origami, with his insolent 27 years of age, Andrés Paredes dazzles with his capacity to create a universe where infinite images cross and compete.
