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Miguel A. Gañan
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CABA
Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires
Argentina
About Miguel A.
Born in Madrid (Spain) in 1955. I studied aeronautical engineering in ETSIA Madrid University, and after working for 5 years in an engineering company, I met a group of friends with whom I founded a software company, in which I remain a partner.
In 1997 I travelled to Argentina to open our first office out of Spain. Here I met my wife, whom I married in 1998. I have been living here since then and our daughter Sol was born on 2000.
I entered the origami world in 2007 and since the beginning I was mainly interested in geometry and math related origami. That is why I mainly folded modular origami in its different forms.
I designed several modular models based on Tomoko Fuse´s units and “snapology”.
In 2011 I discovered the tessellation world and since then, I started folding other authors´ models in order to learn the process.
Around the end of 2017, my firsts tessellation designs came to life. At first, I only designed plain tessellations but then I developed some additional models based on the same techniques (boxes, closed cubes and tatos).
During these last few years, I have taken part in several exhibitions:
- Argentine Japanese Cultural Foundation: permanent exhibition in the Japanese Garden, Buenos Aires.
- Related events in several provinces: Japan in Mendoza, Puerto Madryn, Formosa, Bahía Blanca, Catamarca, and so on.
- Exhibition in the Origami Argentine conventions of 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
- Exhibition in the Spanish Papiroflexia Association convention (2019).
- Since 2017, I take part every year in the Art Fair Expoartistas, at Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.
- In December 2019, the Museum of Origami in Colonia del Sacramento (Uruguay), founded by Laura Rozenberg, opened its doors and chose some of my tessellations to be exhibited besides some of the greatest origami artists in the world.
- In February 2020 I participated in CfC (convention for creators) in Zaragoza for the first time.
- In September/october 2020, I published my first book: "Twist and Tess"/ "Gira y Tesela" in Amazon.
In 1997 I travelled to Argentina to open our first office out of Spain. Here I met my wife, whom I married in 1998. I have been living here since then and our daughter Sol was born on 2000.
I entered the origami world in 2007 and since the beginning I was mainly interested in geometry and math related origami. That is why I mainly folded modular origami in its different forms.
I designed several modular models based on Tomoko Fuse´s units and “snapology”.
In 2011 I discovered the tessellation world and since then, I started folding other authors´ models in order to learn the process.
Around the end of 2017, my firsts tessellation designs came to life. At first, I only designed plain tessellations but then I developed some additional models based on the same techniques (boxes, closed cubes and tatos).
During these last few years, I have taken part in several exhibitions:
- Argentine Japanese Cultural Foundation: permanent exhibition in the Japanese Garden, Buenos Aires.
- Related events in several provinces: Japan in Mendoza, Puerto Madryn, Formosa, Bahía Blanca, Catamarca, and so on.
- Exhibition in the Origami Argentine conventions of 2012, 2014, 2016 and 2018.
- Exhibition in the Spanish Papiroflexia Association convention (2019).
- Since 2017, I take part every year in the Art Fair Expoartistas, at Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires.
- In December 2019, the Museum of Origami in Colonia del Sacramento (Uruguay), founded by Laura Rozenberg, opened its doors and chose some of my tessellations to be exhibited besides some of the greatest origami artists in the world.
- In February 2020 I participated in CfC (convention for creators) in Zaragoza for the first time.
- In September/october 2020, I published my first book: "Twist and Tess"/ "Gira y Tesela" in Amazon.
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