Tobias Dirty

Tobías works in different disciplines and with different techniques such as drawing, sculpture and performance. His main aesthetic and conceptual influences come from counter-hegemonic cultures ranging from the queer and underground scenes to cyberpunk and witchcraft. His main goal is to generate experimental situations that induce the spectator to reflect on subjects such as art as work, gender and sexuality as spaces of struggle and of socio-cultural transformation, and also on more formal problems related to communication and the new devices of exhibition. He uses resources from installation art and he investigates different ways of montage to create ideal scenarios that engage the public as they contemplate his work. Tobías is also interested in collective production; therefore he occasionally works with the input of other artists. Although his work is penetrated by the conscience of technological advances and by the influence of the flux of virtual information, Tobías's intention is to blur the traces of temporality. ...

Isla Flotante started as an artist runspace during 2012. It was a mix of artist ateliers and exhibition space. Once a month we gave out a party so it was also a very important place of meeting and socialisation. Through out the years it became a medular point of Buenos Aires art scene, because of it commitment to show very young promising artists. Over the next years the presence of the gallery at international art fairs contributed to the exponencial growth of the project. At the end of 2015, the possibility of moving to a warehouse in a neighbourhood called La Boca, that once was very connected to Argentinian art movements of the XX century, was a major breaking point because it established a new art circuit in the city of Buenos Aires, that transformed the local art scene, but also because Isla Flotante was consecretad as a force able to change the course of contemporary art in Buenos Aires. From 2018, established in its first owned space in Retiro. ...