Irene Singer

THE CELL IS THE SMALLEST ANATOMO-PHYSIOLOGICAL ELEMENT CAPABLE OF REALIZING THE ATTRIBUTES OF LIFE: TO BE BORN, TO GROW, TO REPRODUCE AND TO DIE.

My father was a doctor. I grew up captivated by the images in brochures and medical journals. My mother taught me to memorize this axiom: "The cell is the tiniest element..."

It is perhaps for this reason that the organic has always been the common thread of my work: the excuse to relate to the scientific aspects of nature. I am fascinated by taxonomies and the universe of the minuscule.

My interest in botany led me to produce works such as Flores Himalaya and the book Vademécum de la Flora Naturalis imaginaria (2021), or to play with the idea of the naturalist who records the flora around him as in Monte or the book Diario de viaje de la Dra. Dr. Brenda Twiler's Travel Diary and the Legend of Lirolay (forthcoming).

I work on paper, with ink, acrylic, tempera, ultra-fine markers and wallpaper collage. I build in layers, painting areas of color that serve as support for the tiny drawings that, like writing, inhabit the paper. Although my work is two-dimensional, the different levels of reading evidence a longing for three-dimensionality. In some pieces I accentuate this by folding the paper with the intention of producing subtle spatial traces on the plane. Through paper collage, which I use to create visual textures, I leave traces of one work on top of another.

This group of works is also a tribute to my mother.

Irene Singer | Bio

Visual artist, illustrator and integral author. Bachelor of Fine Arts (UNLP). Between 1984 and 1992 I worked in the assembly and direction of engraving and artistic serigraphy workshops at the Faculty of Fine Arts of Quito, Ecuador, at the Technological Institute of Costa Rica, and at the Praxis Art Gallery in Buenos Aires and Mexico.

In 1992 I settled in Buenos Aires and started illustrating books. My illustrations have been published in publishing houses in Argentina, Puerto Rico, Spain, Brazil, Guatemala, Chile, Italy and the United States.

I work in co-authorship with writers from Argentina and other countries. I develop projects as an integral author, and my books have been featured in Mexico, Venezuela, and Argentina. Included in the White Ravens of the Internationale Jugendbibliothek in Munich, and in several editions of the Bratislava Biennial, my illustrations have been exhibited both in our country and abroad.

In 2008 I was part of the organization of "Argentina, guest of honor at the Children's Book Fair in Bologna" and in 2005 part of the UNESCO BIBLIOBOLITARIUM Workshop in the context of the International Bratislava Biennial in Slovakia.

As of 2017 my work began to extend beyond the borders of the book, finding in the field purely plastic, a fertile ground for its development and expansion.