University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
Erlich attended some courses at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires.
University of Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina
Erlich attended some courses at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires.
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Leandro Erlich was born in 1973 in Buenos Aires, Distrito Federal, Argentina to the family of architects. He grew up under a military dictatorship (1976-1982) led by the president Jorge Rafael Videla, when the opposition was thoroughly oppressed. "It was a time when we could not see a thing freely as it was," Erlich recalls.
Leandro Erlich, twenty-one at the time, joined an artists’ studio, the Taller de Barracasin in the neighborhood of La Boca in 1994. He considers that, in artistic terms, he was still a teenager, which meant for him that the path he was to follow was not yet clear. His artistic education had been heterogeneous. He had taken painting classes with the artist Ana Eckell, and with a fellowship from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes, he spent a year, every Saturday morning, drinking beer with the artist Luis Felipe Noé at Café Tortoni. Additionally, Erlich had attended some courses at the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters of the University of Buenos Aires.
Between 1998 and 1999, Leandro Erlich took part in the Core Program, an artist residency at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, and came to the attention of the art world at a young age. In 2001 he was invited to represent his country in the 49th Venice Biennale. He then participated in the Biennials of Istanbul (2001), Shanghai (2002) and São Paulo (2004). He has also participated in the Whitney Biennial (2000) and the 1st Busan Biennale (2002).
He was part of La Nuit Blanche de Paris (2004), the 51st Venice Biennale (2005), the Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial (2006), and the exhibition Notre histoire at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, France in 2006, among others. In 2008, his installation La Torre was exhibited at Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain and he showed his acclaimed Swimming Pool at MoMA PS1 in New York in the same year. In 2012, he created a monumental outdoor installation, Monte-Meuble, l'Ultime Déménagement, in Nantes, France and in 2013, The Barbican, Europe's largest arts, and conference venue, commissioned Erlich to create a new installation in the Dalston district of London, England.
Leandro Erlich is an internationally exhibited Argentine conceptual artist. Erlich's works are included in several private and public collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Tate Modern, London, England; Musée d'Art Moderne, Paris, France; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan; MACRO, Rome, Italy; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel; and the Fonds National d'Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France. Erlich is the recepient of UNESCO Prize in the Humanities.
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1995Window and Ladder. Too Late for Help
2008Shattering door
2009Single Cloud Collection
2012Sailboat and Reflection
2015Brooms
2015Blind Window
2016Camisas
2013Piedras
2002Neighbours
1996The view
1997La plaza
2005Log Cabin
2009Skylight
2009Subway
2009The Boat
2010El Avión
2011Window Captive Reflection
2013Elevator Pitch
2011Rain
1999Broken Mirror
2005Swimming Pool
2001La Vista
2005Golden frames
2008Rain II
2000Forcing an interaction between the viewer and the installation space, Erlich’s pieces often depend on that very interaction, making people a part of his work and thus rather popular among the same. Though each of his individual works is unique, to say the least, the artist confesses to admiration and influence of film directors including Alfred Hitchcock, David Lynch, Luis Buñel and Roman Polanski, who have been using the space of everyday in order to create a fictional world. It is an effect worthy of admiration, one that Erlich managed to produce repeatedly in his output.
It’s far from an easy task to “pull the wool over someone’s eyes” when it comes to grasping reality itself and Leandro Erlich does it in a witty, charming, and a truly spectacular way. Creating an illusion of three-dimensionality, his installations always bring something new to the world of contemporary art while playing with the senses of the viewer. Each of his works falls into this “illusory” category: from the illusion of a pool and the depth of its water to an optical illusion of people climbing the walls of a house at the Dalston Mill site. Designing various models that interact with the people in public spaces, outside of gallery walls, Erlich devotes his thoughts to his work even in his spare time, living in a house specially made to nurture and support his ideas.
There is no information on whether Leandro Erlich is married or has any children.
