ᴇʀɴᴇsᴛᴏ ʙᴀᴜᴛɪsᴛᴀ
Santa Ana, El Salvador. 1987.
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Writer, film director and visual artist who works and produces in El Salvador, Colombia and Mexico. Founder member of Curatorial Cinema, The Fire Theory and Burn and Die Films.
His visual work is part of the collections: Museum Reina Sofía (Madrid, España). Illy Art Collection (Venecia, Italia), MAMBO, Colombia y and private collections in collections in USA, Italy and France. Recent Solo exhibition on Error Proyecto (with support of the Jumex Foundation). Puebla, Zaragoza. México; Ex Teresa Art Museum. México, D.F.; Valenzuela Klener Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.; Shangyuan Art Museum. Beijing, China. Group exhibitions in Vasos Comunicantes Colección 1881-2021, Reina Sofía Museum. Madrid, Spain. Sustainable Connections at the Triennale of Milan. Milan, Italy. Biennial of the Frontiers, Tamaulipas, México. Notes for Tomorrow, ICI. Itinerant (Turkey, Belgium, Canada, Taiwan, China, Zimbabwe). Dios, Unión, Libertad. Prosjektrom Normanns, Stavanger Norway. The Fire Theory ICE at Open Source Gallery, New York, USA.
His film projects has been presented in Belgium, Costa Rica, Peru, Zimbabwe, China, Turkey, Canada, Taiwan, Japan, Perú, Perú, Colombia and USA.
Lectures and fellowships in SITAC IX Nodos. Puebla. México. Beca Mundi in Flora Ars Natura, Bogotá Colombia. ARCUS Project Residency Program, Moriya Ibaraki. Japan. Fellowship for Emerging Artists at the Santa Fe Art Institute by the Harpo Foundation, Baja California, EU. Residency of the Americas, by the Darling Foundry Centre, Quebec Canada. Publications in: Contemporary Languages from Central America from Luisa Fuentes Guaza. Editorial Turner; Y.ES. Collect Contemporary Art in El Salvador, ACTIO Magazine, among others.
His work goes through various media, including film projects, research, and pedagogy. Ernesto Bautista’s work is a constant collision between the poetic and the social.
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For me the image is a mental construction. I point to a serie of connections since the use of recognizable signs from their immediate perception to acquire through their interactions, new connotations and human dimensions, through a scheme that defines a complex situation of mismatch. I seek for a dialogue through contrasts related with what at first glance may seem contradictory or absurd, but at the same time can be a poem or a speech on the restructured element itself.
ᴇʀɴᴇsᴛᴏ ʙᴀᴜᴛɪsᴛᴀ
1987
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
(SELECTION)
MONUMENTO AL MAR. Error Proyecto. Puebla, México. 2021.
UN VACÍO INFINITO LLENÁNDOSE CON LA MEMORIA. Valenzuela Klenner Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia. 2019.
LITTLE STORY ABOUT DEMOCRATIZATION OF FEAR. Museo del Hombre. Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 2015.
COGNITION. Lokkus Contemporary. Medellin, Colombia. 2014.
MANIFESTO. ExTeresa Arte Actual. CDMX, México. 2014.
STATES OF TRANSCENDENCE. Shangyuan Art Museum. Beijing, China. 2014.
INDIVIDUACIONES MUTE Museo Municipal de Santa Tecla. 2011.
LA PREDISPOSICIÓN DE LO SENSIBLE. Space 556. Guatemala City, Guatemala. 2010.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
AND SCREENINGS
(SELECTION)
2023
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Marjorie Barrick Museum, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. USA.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Koa Gallery, Kapi‘olani Community College. Honolulu, HI. USA.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art. Winnipeg, Canada.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Humber Galleries at Humber College. Toronto, Canada.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Palt
2022
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. TheCube Project Space. Taipei, Taiwan.
INTERGALACTIX. AGAINST ISOLATION/ CONTRA EL AISLAMIENTO. LACE Contemporary. Los Angeles, USA.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Te Uru Waitākere Contemporary Gallery Mar. Auckland, New Zealand.
YARMA NOTLAR. Pera Museum. Istanbul, Turkey.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. National Gallery of Zimbabwe. Harare, Zimbabwe.
DONDE HUBO FUEGO… ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE EL SALVADOR 2003-2017. Permanent Exhibition at the MARTE Museum. San Salvador, El Salvador.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Blue Galleries, Boise State University. Boise, ID. USA.
NEOS FEST FILM FESTIVAL. Main selection. Puebla, Zaragoza. México.
2021
VASOS COMUNICANTES. COLECCIÓN 1881-2021. Reina Sofia Museum. Madrid, Spain.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College. Haverford, PA. USA.
THE INFALLIBLE INTERIOR. Sifang Art Museum. Nanjing, China.
NOTES FOR TOMORROW. Contemporary Calgary. Calgary, Canada.
DONDE HUBO FUEGO… ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE EL SALVADOR 2003-2017. Permanent Exhibition at the MARTE Museum. San Salvador, El Salvador.
2018
THE CAT IS KILLING THE BIRDS, BUT I LOVE HER ANYWAY. La Casita Gallery. Bogotá, Colombia.
AL DICTADO, ARTE Y CONFLICTO EN CENTROAMÉRICA. MAMM. Museum of Modern Art of Medellín. Medellín, Colombia.
DONDE HUBO FUEGO… ARTE CONTEMPORÁNEO DE EL SALVADOR 2003-2017. Permanent Exhibition at the MARTE Museum. San Salvador, El Salvador.
BIENAL DEL SUR. PUEBLOS EN RESISTENCIA. Caracas, Venezuela.
2017
ICE. Open Source Gallery. NY, USA. Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud.
DIOS, UNION, LIBERTAD. Prosjektromnormanns. Stavanger, Norway. Curated by Omar Lopez-Chahoud.
2016
CLOSING DISTANCES. Y.ES. Contemporary. 111 Lincoln Road. Miami, Florida. USA.
DISLOCATING SAL. Hilger Brotk Kunsthalle. Vienna, Austria.
THE INFINITE MEMORY. ARCUS PROJECT. Moriya, Ibaraki. Japan.
2015
MOMENTS. Airspace. Sydney, Italy.
SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS. Triennale di Milano. Milan, Italy.
BIENNIAL OF THE FRONTIERS. Museum of Contemporary Art. Tamaulipas. Mexico.
TROPICAL INTERZONE. Agency for Spiritual Guest Work in the Service of Visualizing. Zurich, Switzerland.
LECTURES AND TALKS
(SELECTION)
2022
METAFÍSICA DE LA IMÁGEN. UNIMINUTO. Bogotá, Colombia.
2021
MIGRACIÓN, MEMORIA E IDENTIDAD. Festival de Cine Neos Fest. Puebla, México. ⧉
INTERVENCIÓN EN EL ESPACIO PÚBLICO, ANTES Y DESPUÉS DEL ACTIVISMO. Universidad Iberoamericana Puebla. Puebla, Zaragoza. México. ⧉
2019
LABORATORIOS DE SISTEMAS DE SENTIDO. Centro Cultural de España de México
LABORATORIO DE IDENTIDADES. SITAC Nodos. Puebla, Zaragoza. México.
2018
IMAGINARIOS Y LENGUAJES FÍLMICOS COMO CONSTRUCTORES DE REALIDAD EN EL PENSAMIENTO LOCAL Y GLOBAL. ACTIO, Ciclo de Ponencias. National University of Colombia
REVISIÓN DE CINE POLÍTICO. ENTRE CINE EXPANDIDO Y CINE DE GUERRILLA. CCET. Tegucigalpa, Honduras.
PRODUCCIÓN DENTRO DE SISTEMAS DE CONFLICTO Y ECONOMÍA DE LA AMISTAD. Flora Ars+Natura. Bogotá, Colombia. ⧉1 ⧉2 ⧉3
2016
THE INFINITE MEMORY. Musashino University. Musashino, Japan.
2015
SUSTAINABLE CONNECTIONS. EXPO MUNDIAL Milán, Italy.
2010
LAS RELACIONES DE ARTE-PODER ENTRE LAS MANIFESTACIONES CONTEMPORÁNEAS DEL ARTE Y LAS MASAS. Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Morelia, Michoacán. México.
LOS NÚCLEOS DEL ARTE: PERCEPCIONES INTERDISCIPLINARIAS MÁS ALLÁ DE LO FÍSICO. Universidad Michoacana San Nicolás de Hidalgo. Morelia, Michoacán. México.
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