Flavio Man (Tucumán, Argentina, 1987) is an artist working in what he calls Visceral Abstraction. He grew up in the north of Argentina, between mountains, jungle and a society that seemed to live permanently on the edge of collapse. In Tucumán he first approached art through drawing and painting, before moving to Buenos Aires in his twenties.

He lived for around ten years in Buenos Aires, where he studied Film Editing Direction at ENERC and worked as a film editor for cinema and television. During those years he began to paint consistently, in parallel with his life in the editing room. That double practice, cutting images in time and building images on canvas, still shapes the way he thinks about painting as a kind of montage of ruins.

Since 2018 he has been based in Berlin. That trajectory, from the margins of northern Argentina to the capital and later to Berlin, underpins his way of seeing cities as fragile structures. His paintings are emotional excavations, remnants of the present in ruins. Colour celebrates and rots at the same time, cities crack, bodies fragment into symbols and nature advances as an impersonal force rather than a refuge. The images do not offer answers; they hold the viewer in the moment when everything is still standing but already failing.

His work is represented internationally by Zet Gallery in Portugal, UGallery in New York and Arton56th Gallery in Beirut. Through these collaborations his paintings have reached collectors in Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. Some of the works currently in Beirut have literally lived through recent years of conflict there, adding another layer of displacement and material vulnerability to his practice.

He has exhibited mainly in Berlin, where he began showing his work shortly after arriving, in independent spaces and galleries, and his paintings continue to circulate above all outside his country of origin.

Flavio currently lives and works in Berlin, where he continues to develop new bodies of work that explore collapse, absurdity and the slow transformation of the world around us.

• 2023: Art Kreuzberg, E.v. Berlin, Alemania.
• 2022: Tirana International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Tirana, Albania.
• 2021: Last Moment of Happiness, Unter Urban, Berlín, Alemania.
• 2020: Comeback 2020, Arton56th Gallery, Beirut, Líbano.
• 2019: Untergeschoss der Pandora Art, Berlín, Alemania.
• 2019: Urban Nature, Kunst im Raum, Berlín, Alemania.
• 2018: Untergeschoss der Pandora Art, Berlín, Alemania.
• 2018: Urban Infusion, Unterurban Kunstgalerie, Berlín, Alemania.
• 2016: Bigotes, Tucumán, Argentina.
• 2015: Vuela el Pez, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

• 2009-2012: Film Editing Direction, ENERC, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• 2005-2009: Fine Arts, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (UNT), Argentina.
• 2014-2017: Abstract Art Workshop with Juan Astica, Buenos Aires.

• 2022: Illustration in NERVO - Colectivo de Poesía No 16, Portugal
  
• 2022: Illustration in NERVO - Colectivo de Poesía No 11 Portugal
  
• 2019: Published in Slevin magazine, London

• 2016: Open Doors, Best Documentary, World Film Festival of Montreal (Editor).
• 2009: Elvira en el Río Loro, Best Short Film (Critics' Award), Mar del Plata Film Festival (Editor).
• Participation in the Cannes Film Festival Short Film Corner with multiple projects.

• flavioman.studio@gmail.com
• Instagram: @flavioman.art