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26/4/2013

Two exhibitions

Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires

Some Artists / 90 – TODAY is on exhibition at Fundación Proa through July 2013. This show provides an overview of tendencies in Argentine art from the nineties through the present. The works on display were selected by critic Rafael Cippolini and artists Ana Gallardo, Cecilia Szalkowicz and Gastón Pérsico.

During the nineties, alternative art spaces emerged and brought together artists from different disciplines to formulate a new way of being an artist. Their approach included the problems of cultural production and the tasks of gallerists and theorists; they often engaged in the publication of magazines. Many of the works in this show were exhibited at those alternative spaces, like Belleza y Felicidad (Beauty and Happiness) and La Galería del Rojas. Without attempting a reconstruction, the exhibition evokes the atmosphere of that time in its layout and selection of works.

In the early 2000s, the economic and social crisis that gripped Argentina affected the daily work of many artists, accentuating some of the tendencies that were present in the nineties: the use of non-traditional materials taken from daily life and the pursuit of "beauty and happiness" as the mission of art. In the new century, artists dialogued with the world, participating in residencies abroad. This period witnessed a change in aesthetics that led to new artistic formulations in terms of texture, format and material.

The exhibition closes with the section linked to the word "TODAY" in its title, that is, the present and the production of artists who make use of the drawing medium, as well as urban interventions, projects, video and photography.

With more than three hundred works, Some Artists / 90 – TODAY is one of the first exhibitions to bring together a large number of artists active in the last two decades.

The exhibition catalogue includes a dossier of relevant documentary material that evidences the different voices engaged in theoretical debate on the production from this period, as well as an important number of reproductions of works on exhibit.

In Some Artists / 90 – TODAY the holdings of three extraordinary collections are on display: the collections of Gustavo Bruzzone, Alejandro Ikonicoff and Esteban Tedesco. Rather than the public domain, it is collectors who have been responsible for preserving and keeping the works of these artists, thus protecting the artistic patrimony of the period.

The exhibition is sponsored by Tenaris, Organización Techint; Fundación Proa is responsible for its conception, organization and production.

The following artists are in the exhibition:

Pablo Accinelli / Diana Aisenberg / Eduardo “Dudú” Alcón Quintanilha / Marcelo Alzetta / Nicanor Aráoz / Sergio Avello / Elba Bairon / Ernesto Ballesteros / Irene Banchero / Javier Barilaro / Eduardo Basualdo / Leo Battistelli / Gabriela Bejerman / Maximiliano Bellmann / Carlota Beltrame / Diego Bianchi / Sofía Bohtlingk / Fernando Brizuela / Jane Brodie / Sebastián Bruno / Dino Bruzzone / Fabián Burgos / Fernando Bustillo / Juan Calcarami / Andrés Campagnucci / Feliciano Centurión / Gabriel Chaile / Leonardo Chiachio / Daniel Gianone / Nicola Constantino / Ariel Cusnir / Flavia Da Rin / Diego De Aduriz / Marina De Caro / Sergio De Loof / Tulio De Sagastizábal / Beto De Volder / Marula Di Como / Martín Di Girolamo / Jorge Di Paola / Martín Di Paola / Verónica Di Toro / Cristian Dios / Nora Dobarro / Lucio Dorr / Matías Duville / Karina El Azem / Leopoldo Estol / Guillermo Faivovich / Nicolás Goldberg / Guadalupe Fernández / Raúl Flores / Claudia Fontes / Luis “Búlgaro” Freisztav / Rosana Fuertes / Marcelo Galindo / Ana Gallardo / Octavio Garabello / Alberto Goldenstein / Lola Goldstein / Max Gómez Canle / Eubel González / Sebastián Gordín / Mariano Grassi / Alberto Greco / Julio Grinblatt / Vicente Grondona / Marcelo Grosman / Grupo de la X / Nicolás Guagnini / María Guerrieri / Jorge Gumier Maier / Silvia Gurfein / Miguel Harte / Graciela Hasper / Mónica Heller / Carlos Herrera / Alicia Herrero / Agustín Inchausti / Juliana Iriart / Guillermo Iuso / Roberto Jacoby / Magdalena Jitrik / Daniel Joglar / Fabio Kacero / Ruy Krygier / Alejandro Kuropatwa / Fernanda Laguna / Deborah Patricia Landen / Luciana Lamothe / Benito Eugenio Laren / Martín Legon / Valentina Liernur / Lux Lindner / Alfredo Londaibere / Marcos López / Jorge Macchi / Nuna Mangiante / Liliana Maresca / Nicolás Mastracchio / Emiliano Miliyo / Mónica Millán / Gian Pablo Minelli / Jorge Miño / Miguel Mitlag / Grupo Mondongo / Marcela Mouján / Ziliante Musetti / Eduardo Navarro / Esteban Pagés / Ariadna Pastorini / Máximo Pedraza / Sandro Pereira / Provisorio Permanente / Gastón Pérsico / Marcelo Pombo / Alfredo Prior / Deborah Pruden / Rosa Chancho / Mariela Scafati / Cristina Schiavi / Omar Schiliro / Rosana Schoijett / Marcia Schvartz / Pablo Siquier / Hernán Soriano / Elisa Strada / Pablo Suárez / Carlos Alberto Subosky / Cecilia Szalkowicz / Juan Tessi / Guillermo Ueno / Nahuel Vecino / Adrián Villar Rojas / Román Vitali / Osías Yanov

Collections
Gustavo Bruzzone / Alejandro Ikonicoff / Esteban Tedesco

Sponsor
Tenaris – Techint

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Half Full or Half Empty
A sensitive stage set for an intelligent building

Artists: Esteban Álvarez, Pablo Rosales and Cristina Schiavi

Invited Curator Esteban Álvarez
Coordinator Santiago Bengolea

Since Saturday, April 27, 2013 Medio lleno o medio vacío [Half Full or Half Empty], a collective work that brings together interventions by artists Esteban Álvarez, Pablo Rosales and Cristina Schiavi, has been on exhibit in Fundación Proa’s Contemporary Space.

Curated by Esteban Álvarez, the project operates on Proa’s three levels, making use of the facades and structures typical of La Boca neighborhood, which it brings into the interior of Proa’s architecture by means of barely visible alterations as well as major theatric displays. The building is thus infused with the neighborhood’s surfaces, now displaced from their original locations.

Half Full or Half Empty by Esteban Álvarez

The exhibition is conceived as a joint work that harnesses and heightens the potentials of the participating artists. It ensues on the three levels of Fundación Proa’s building in barely visible fragments as well as major interventions that act directly on the architecture without damaging it.

This project and its conception celebrate the poetic and ghostly nature of La Boca; its empty bases for sculptures reflect the act of waiting for a detail that will alter, albeit slightly, the vision of the whole. The neighborhood’s mutations, neglect, and transgressions temporarily form part of the visual and functional characteristics of some of the spaces chosen.

We propose a series of improvements in Proa’s architecture in the hope that the viewing public will feel the presence of the neighborhood as it is at present after having crossed the borders into Proa’s architecture. There are no actors in our sensitive stage set, rendering the visitors dedicated users. It is our hope that those who visit this set cross the threshold and venture into the world of La Boca, finding themselves startled before the base of a sculpture that is not there and walls that silently shift a few millimeters with each vibration that reaches them from the street. Proa’s angular white surfaces joyfully embrace Boca’s traditional colors of blue and gold, a delicate combination of the luxurious and the cheap, one whose origin lies in the baroque and that was our undoing in the nineties. After all, is there anyone not tempted to look through the windows of Caminito? Are they full or empty? Are they stage sets or the final remnant of a cluster of real dwellings, as colorful as ancient Greek sculptures so white and familiar to us?

With the support of Tenaris – Organización Techint

Press contact:
Andrés Herrera / Alejandro Grimoldi / Jesica Eberbach T 54 11 4104 1000/1001 press@proa.org

Opening: Saturday, April 27, 2013

Fundación Proa
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929 Buenos Aires, Argentina
Hours: Tuesday–Sunday 11am–7pm
Daily guided tours
Tuesday to Friday 5pm
Saturday and Sunday 3pm and 5pm

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