Nicanor Aráoz

Don't Acid Me

October 23–November 20, 2021

Installation Views

<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Don't Acid Me. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Don't Acid Me. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Don't Acid Me. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Don't Acid Me. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Don't Acid Me. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

Don't Acid Me. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021

<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021 thumbnail
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021 thumbnail
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021 thumbnail
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021 thumbnail
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021 thumbnail
<em>Don't Acid Me</em>. Installation view, Steve Turner, 2021 thumbnail


Works

Nicanor Aráoz. <em>Don't acid me</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)
Nicanor Aráoz. <em>Maldoror</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)
Nicanor Aráoz. <em>Untitled</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)
Nicanor Aráoz. <em>I talk to god about how I feel</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)

Nicanor Aráoz. Don't acid me, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)

Nicanor Aráoz. Maldoror, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)

Nicanor Aráoz. Untitled, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)

Nicanor Aráoz. I talk to god about how I feel, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm)

Nicanor Aráoz. <em>Don't acid me</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm) thumbnail
Nicanor Aráoz. <em>Maldoror</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm) thumbnail
Nicanor Aráoz. <em>Untitled</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm) thumbnail
Nicanor Aráoz. <em>I talk to god about how I feel</em>, 2021. Soft pastel and ink on paper, 60 1/2 x 42 1/2 inches (153.7 x 108 cm) thumbnail

Steve Turner is pleased to present Don’t Acid Me, a solo exhibition by Buenos Aires-based Nicanor Aráoz that features expressive large scale drawings that depict fragmented or distorted human figures. Dark and tortured, the figures seem to have been born in a nightmare and softened with details of hope and innocence such as  smiley faces, flowers and a bunny. In this way, they encompass good and evil, health and sickness and purity and perversion. According to Aráoz, these figures portray the underground virtues of an irresponsible ego.

Nicanor Aráoz (born 1981, Buenos Aires) has had solo exhibitions at Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires (2020); Barro, Buenos Aires (2015 & 2018); Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (2017) and Universidad Di Tella, Buenos Aires (2016). His work has also been exhibited at Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires;  La Tabacalera, Madrid, and Castello Di Rivoli, Turin. This is his first solo exhibition at Steve Turner, Los Angeles.