Exploring ideas such as landscape, exoticism and the construction of nature as a cultural, social and economic concept, he can adopt the point of view of a naturalist or a historian depending on the demands of the work.
Nicolás Laiz Placeres (1975) was born in Lanzarote, Canary Islands, where he currently resides. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths College, University of London and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. He has received numerous awards, and his works have been exhibited in the Canary Islands and the Peninsula, as well as in Vienna, Berlin, London and Seoul, among other cities. His work consists of the reflection, through different techniques, of concepts such as landscape, exoticism and the construction of nature as a cultural, social and economic concept. In his projects he can adopt, depending on his needs, the point of view of a naturalist or a historian, and thus employ both aesthetic concepts of Mexican socialist muralism and of the Russian constructivist avant-garde.