Argentina, Visual Arts, 2002
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Zinny/Maidagan
Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan are visual artists born in Rosario Argentina, working as a duo and independently. They are well known for their large-scale public art installations, including a 16-foot bronze sculpture Ebbinghaus Vergessenskurve (Forgetting Curve), 2013 winning project for the International Public Art Competition for the Fulda University of Applied Sciences, another large bronze sculpture titled Hippocampus in 2016 for the IG Farben Haus at Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt, also as the winning project of the International Public Art Competition of Hessen, and Word for Word:Decor for Distance, a large-scale treatment for LACMA’s façade for the exhibition A Universal History of Infamy, as part of Getty Pacific Standard Time LA/LA in 2017. The two began collaborating in 1990, upon founding a space called MIMI in Rosario for visual and performing arts. The duo’s first performance/installation Moldes 1, 1992 was held there. Following their debut, Zinny and Maidagan created in the same city two large-scale public works, Acto de autores 1993 in the Museo Castagnino, and 27 de Marzo 1994 in the CC Rivadavia.
Their work has been acquired by the MMK Museum of Modern Art Frankfurt; Museum of Contemporary Art, Siegen; Bankhaus Spängler, Linz; Moderna Museet, Stockholm; Daimler Chrysler Collection, Berlin; Kunstsammlung Europäisches Patentamt, München; Bundeskunstsammlung, The Federal Collection of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and more.
They have been awarded a residency with the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2002; the Pollock Krasner Fellowship in 2000 and the John Simon Guggenheim Scholarship in 1998, and their legacy has been captured in the books Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan, published in 2014 by Sabine Knust Munich, with essays by Jose Luis Blondet and Juli Carson, Compartment/Das Abteil, published in 2010 by the MMK Frankfurt with an essay by Ranjit Hoskote and Such a Good Cover, published in 2004 by the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program with an essay by Lynne Cooke.
Dolores Zinny and Juan Maidagan currently live and work between Berlin and Baltimore, where Zinny has been the program director for the Rinehart School of Sculpture at the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) since 2021.
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