The work of Iosu Aramburu (born in Lima in 1986) revolves around modernity as an aesthetic, architectural and philosophical paradigm. From the reinterpretations of modern languages, Aramburu seeks to question the failures of the modern project. He explores abstraction and modernist architecture, using its elements as a starting point. From the materiality of his work, the artist reduces the totalitarian impetus of modern art and recovers aesthetic patterns so that he has a critical angle to the paradigm of modernity.

Iosu Aramburu is a visual artist who works with painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring the imagination of a multifaceted modernity and its utopian potentials. His research project revisits early and mid-century modernism in the Andean region, through the creation of an atlas of forgotten images that aims to map the changing sensibilities in the region.
He has been part of exhibitions and international fairs. His work is included in collections such as the MALI Museo de Arte de Lima, the Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Collection (New York-Caracas), the SPACE Collection (Los Angeles), the Jorge M. Pérez Collection (Miami), the Hochschild collection (Lima), among others. He is a founder member of Bisagra and has been a resident of the Fonderie Darling in Montreal, La Ene in Buenos Aires and Triangle France in Marseille. In 2018 he won the First Contest of Contemporary Art of the ICPNA and the National Contest Plaza Paz Soldán, both in Lima; in 2012 he won the III Arcos Dorados-ArteBA Latin American Painting Competition in Buenos Aires and the third place in the XV Visual Arts Competition “Pasaporte para un artista” in Lima. Between 2010 and 2017 he was a professor at the School of Visual Arts Corriente Alterna. In 2021 he won the MoMA Artists Research Fellowship / Cisneros Institute.

Iosu Aramburu

El plan II, 2023