Title: The Grandfather
Year: 2012
Technique: Performance and digital video
Size: Variable
Duration: 05:15 min
Argentina, 1983. He has a Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts from University of Argentine Social Museum and a PhD in Sculpture from Argentina’s National University of the Arts. He was granted several national and international scholarships, including the 2023 residency at the Serlachius Museum in Finland, and at the MCCOLL Center in Charlotte, NC, USA.
In 2019, the GLO’ART Center financed his project “Cernunnos”, produced in Lanaken, Belgium, and he was part of Building Bridges Art Exchange residency in Los Angeles, USA. He has participated in several artist-in-residence programs, received the Visual Arts Fellowship from the National Fund of the Arts, Argentina, and participated in the PAC project, organized by the Gachi Prieto Gallery in Buenos Aires.
Tadeo Muleiro’s work tackles the intricate challenge of blending the formal aesthetic exuberance of some ancestral native cultures with the conceptual demands of contemporary art. His artwork showcases beings who have created a new mythology, shaping and transforming their world. Through soft sculptures, wardrobe, video and performance, Tadeo builds shapes that intertwine archetypal and sacred images from ancient civilizations with imagery reminiscent of sci-fi films, comics or anime.
Tadeo Muleiro draws upon that ancestral heritage to construct an intimate worldview that unfolds as a domestic drama. He builds a tale where cosmological entities intersect pivotal moments in the artist’s personal life. Each piece explores rituals and legends that, when extrapolated to a contemporary context, spark real-time interaction with those eras, thus amplifying the visual and symbolic layers. In Muleiro’s amalgamation of diverse cultural references, he creates a unique universe where past and present meet; a mythology of beings transcending their own time so they can come and inhabit our world.
