Biography

Knut Pani, son of the architect Mario Pani Darqui, assisted Lothar Kestenbaum in San Miguel de Allende

San Miguel de Allende

San Miguel de Allende is a city and municipality located in the far eastern part of the state of Guanajuato in central Mexico. It is 274 km from Mexico City and 97 km from the state capital of Guanajuato...

 in 1975, and edited the architectural magazine "Arquitectura/México" from 1976 to 1979, in close collaboration with Mathias Goeritz

Mathias Goeritz

Mathias Goeritz - August 4, 1990 in Mexico City) was a well-known Mexican painter and sculptor of German origin...

. In 1979 he joined the Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design

Art Center College of Design is a private college located in Pasadena, California, and was cited by BusinessWeek as one of the 60 best design schools in the world. The college’s industrial design program is consistently ranked number one by both DesignIntelligence and U.S...

, where he graduated in painting and illustration in 1983. In the same year he established an experimental sculpture workshop, named "Trazo" in his home town. In 1985 he became art director of the Museo Rufino Tamayo

Museo Rufino Tamayo

The Museo Rufino Tamayo is an art museum in the city of Oaxaca, Oaxaca, in southern Mexico.Housed in a building constructed in 1979 by the architects Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky, the museum contains collections of pre-Columbian art once owned by artist Rufino Tamayo...

, and taught as professor of the Universidad Anáhuac from 1985 to 1988, where he also established also an experimental sculpture workshop, alongside Alejandro Arango and Franco Manterola. In 1993 he founded the graphic workshop "El pez soluble" and "El pez soluble arte mural

Mexican Muralism

Mexican muralism is a Mexican art movement. The most important period of this movement took place primarily from the 1920s to the 1960s, though it exerted an influence on later generations of Mexican artists...

" in Tequisquiapan

Tequisquiapan

Tequisquiapan is a town and municipality located in the southeast of the state of Querétaro in central Mexico. The center of the town has cobblestone streets, traditional rustic houses with wrought iron fixtures, balconies, and wooden windowsills, which is the legacy of its 300 year heritage as a...

. He gave his first single exhibition of sculpture in 2001, and he was awarded with the "Lorenzo il Magnifico" medal at the III Florence Biennale

Florence Biennale

The Florence Biennale is an international contemporary art fair held every two years in the Historical Fortezza da Basso in Florence, Italy. The Biennale is run by Arte Studio, whose first contemporary art exhibition occurred in 1986. Subsequent exhibits grew, and they eventually formed the first...

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