Taboas, Ge

Eduardo Gabriel González Taboas became involved with his great passion from a young age, collecting clipped photos from magazines until, at the age of 15, he got his first job to buy his first camera, a Dacora with a light meter. He studied Psychology at the University of Belgrano and pursued independent courses in Philosophy for several years, although he did not complete them. He also studied Museology in La Plata and served as a teaching assistant to Eduardo Comesaña at the Pan American School of Art in Buenos Aires. He settled in Trelew as a photojournalist for the newspaper Jornada, where he worked between 1977 and 1987. He stated on more than one occasion that he had "reborn" in Patagonia. His work has been part of the International Collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts since 1998. He has held solo exhibitions since 1980 in cities throughout Patagonia and Tucumán, even reaching Ushuaia. He also exhibited in Marseille, France, in 1993. In 2006, he exhibited abstract landscapes of Patagonia titled "Belonging to the Universe" at the Art Museums of Trelew and Puerto Madryn. In Buenos Aires, he exhibited at the Centro Cultural Borges in 2004 and previously at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, the Foto-Gallery of the General San Martín Municipal Theater, and the Museum of Modern Art. He won the Grand Prize of Honor at the annual provincial exhibition in 2001 and the Grand Prize of Honor at the 10th annual exhibition of Trelew in 2000. Nationally, he received the Coca-Cola Arts Award in 1987 and the Silver Pyramid in 1997. In his institutional activity, he founded the Museum of Modern Art of Puerto Madryn in 1995, making him a pioneer. He directed it for four years. He created and directed the Open Photography Days of Trelew since 2000 (the southernmost in America and the world). He won two scholarships from the National Fund for the Arts: one for Improvement in 1983, and one for Audiovisual Research in 1996 for his expressive technique. He participated in the International Rencontres d'Arles in France in 1993, and the Fotofest in Houston in 2002. Since 1980, he taught and lectured in different cities, founding a school in Patagonia with his Photography Workshop, training several authors and photojournalists. He was invited to speak at the Open Encounters-Festival of Light about his work in 2002, and about the Trelew Days in 2006.