Ernesto caivano biography

Ernesto Caivano was.
Ernesto Caivano (born 1972 in Madrid, Spain) is a New York-based artist with a primary focus in drawing.
Ernesto Caivano was born in Madrid, Spain and currently lives and works in New York.

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Ernesto Caivano

Ernesto Caivano (born 1972 in Madrid, Spain) is a New York-based artist^[1] with a primary focus in drawing. Caivano has been exhibited at New York's MoMa PS1 and London's White Cube.^[1]

Education

Ernest Cavaino studied Fine Arts in New York City, where he earned a BFA in 1999 at Cooper Union, and an MFA in 2001 at Columbia University.^[1]

Work

Caivano is known for his highly detailed and intricate, story-like ink drawings, dealing with themes of folklore, love, and technology. His drawings are typically free of color and focus on fastidious line work, which express influence from the etchings of Albrecht Dürer.^[2]

In 2004, Ernesto had a major solo-exhibition at MoMa PS1 titled, After the Woods.^[3] The exhibition showcased large scale drawings from Caivano's on-going narrative in which a man, portrayed as a knight, reconvenes with his wife, who became a space vessel, after being segregated for a thousand years.

Along with After the Woods at MoMa PS1, Ernesto Caivano has exhibited work at mu

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Bio

Ernesto Caivano’s meticulously detailed ink drawings depict an ambitious narrative based on lovers’ courtship, separation, retribution and eventual evolution. Varying in format and scale from scroll-like panoramas to small detailed studies, Caivano’s drawing portray a timeless tale of Polygon and Versus, who were torn apart upon the consummation of their union and transported into the woods, signifying an alternate reality and universe. Through time, Versus, clad in knight’s armour grows congruent with his natural habitat while Polygon’s evolution transforms her from Renaissance princess into a spaceship representing the advancement of technological intelligence. João Ribas further describes it: an “…amalgam of folklore, fairytale, and scientific speculation, Caivano’s narrative serves as a search for meaning lost in our own abundance of information”.

Using the narrative in tandem with drawing, as a story-generative tool, Caivano resists any chronological reading by switching between staged episodes of the lovers’ desperate struggle to communicate and find each othe

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Ernesto Caivano was born in Madrid in 1972. He received a BFA from the Cooper Union, New York (1999), and an MFA from Columbia University, New York (2001). Caivano’s art, which usually takes the form of drawing, visually narrates lyrical stories that unfold over time and across multiple individual works. Through highly intricate and mesmerizing images, the artist creates invented worlds that evoke fairy tales, medieval literature, Romantic poetry, and ancient mythology.

Caivano’s signature, ongoing project After the Woods (2004– ) traces the story of a long-separated knight and princess who inhabit an imaginary realm. The rich formal language of this world draws on a range of sources, including Asian screen painting and prints, early modern abstraction, archaeology, Art Nouveau ornament, information technology, molecular physics, fractal geometrics, and European medieval and Renaissance manuscript illumination. Despite such varied sources, Caivano’s works are unified by their concern with systems—mythological, ecological, and scientific.

While Caivano’s drawings