ESPMy name is Joaquin Motor and I’m a tattooer.
When I was six years old I was traveling in the subway when I spotted a man’s forearm with an old and sketchy tattoo. That moment was printed in my mind to the point that it became the starting point of my interest for the marks on the skin.
With references in graffiti and in Russian criminal tattoos, from the past two years I’ve decided to start to studying the permanent skin marks and it’s relationship with the memory and the symbolism.
Nowadays I’m traveling around the world tattooing and searching for new inspiration sources to fulfill the investigation.
Training
2018 Contemporary Art seminar by Florencia Battiti (UTDT)
2018 Author’s Curator seminar by Lucrecia Palacios (UTDT)
2018 Conceptual Art seminar by Mariela Delnegro (MNBA)
2017 Work clinic with Diana Aisenberg (in progress)
2017 Painting workshop with Diana Aisenberg (in progress)
2014 Illustration workshop with Gastón Caba
2013 Graduate in Graphic Design · UBA · FADU
2011 Seminar Lat. of Urban Interventions · CCEBA
Awards
2018 Art Basel Cities Buenos Aires
Teaching
2016 “From the idea to the Skin” · Latin American Meeting · UP
Individual exhibitions
2017 “Memories of them” · Fleur Noire · NY
2014 “Tiempo es oro Vol. IV” · C.C. Casa Presa · BS AS
2012 “Tiempo es oro Vol. III” · MTN Shop & Gallery · BS AS
2012 “Tiempo es oro Vol. II” · C.C. Casa Presa · BS AS
2012 “Tiempo es oro Vol. I” · Outsiders Shop & Gallery · BS AS
Colective exhibitions
2017 “Deep Flux” – Golden Studio · BCN
2016 “Post Dial-up” · C.C. Recoleta · BS AS
2012 “Papeles” · C.C. Matienzo · BS AS