Iván Abreu Abreu's received his degree in and took the master's degree of Engineering Information Technology at the Anáhuac University. Abreu's work has been written about in , "The visual artbeat" and "CódigoDF". His work is included in public and private collections as FEMSA; Patronato del Centro Histórico, ; Televisa and Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo. He currently holds the grant awarded by the Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte of FONCA and has received grants and support by 2012 ThePrix Ars Electronica ; the Award in Visual Arts, Sistema Nacional de Creadores de Arte of FONCA, 2011–2012 and the Program for research in Arts and Media at the .
Statement
His work integrates different processes of art, design and technology; based on the synergy of these disciplines he uses a broad range of media such as drawing, photography, artistic installation, electronic devices, software development, sound experimentation, Internet and industrial design. His work is founded in the creation of artistic gestures that demonstrate a hypothesis to the public that proofs and perpetuates a fact, a strategy that he calls "The poetics of demonstration". Under this criteria he has created a body of work which poeticizes and produces situations of exception linked to physical and social phenomena: Ice which surface contains sound recordings with historical content, dead birds that continue suspended on air by magnetic levitation, collaboration and balance dynamics at the border between Ciudad Juárez and El Paso using an instrument or carpenter's level. Projects seeking new tensions between the object, the space, the specificity of the place, and language, to activate critical thinking and the desire of the possible.
His work has been exhibited at: Palazzo delle Arti Napoli or PAN, the School of Art, Design and Media of the NTU,, Museum Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo , Experimental Museum El Eco,, MEIAC Extremeño and Museo Iberoamericano of Contemporary Art, Centro Cultural Fronterizo, Ex-Teresa Arte Actual Museum, Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires, National Center for the Arts., Media Art Festival: BigBlip05., Museum Conde Duque, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Alameda Art Laboratory, Ogaki Museum, Wifredo Lam Center, Kiehl Visual Arts Center, Minnesota, Konstfack Gallery, Development Center Visual Arts. He has also dedicated himself to being director of the International Festival. Transitio_Mx, he is founder and director of Medios y Tecnología, Center for Design, Film and Television. Counsellor and director of The National Fund for Culture and the Arts and advisor to dorkbot of Mexico City.
Awards
He has obtained various awards and supports for his work as: Program. for research in Arts and Media at the National Center for the Arts, Goethe Institute, The Foundation for Contemporary Art, First International Audi Award for the interactive project, winner of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba. First prize in poster without precedents in the National Hall of Graphics. Havana, Cuba, 2012 The Ars Electronica Award : Interactive Art | Honorable Mention: Crossed Coordinates ; CINTAS Foundation Award 2011-2012 in Visual Arts, Art and Media Research Program of the National Arts Center He is a beneficiary of the National System of Art Creators of the National Fund for Culture and the Arts of Mexico.
