His new sample in praxis, “weathering”, refers to human vulnerability, exposure to uncertainty and lack of physical and existential refuge.
A brief tour of different moments of the artistic development of Alejandra Barreda He goes back to 2012, when he explained “Geometries deviations and excess”, “Geometry to the limit” In 2013 and 2014 “Extended geometry”. The latter was a fruitful year in his work: he participated in the 103 National Hall of Visual Arts, in the Klemm Award, the Manuel Belgrano Hall and won the second prize in the UADE National Contest
His work there was based on thesis in the French conceptual artist Daniel Buren (1938) that used the line at 8.7, visual instrument or tool “to see” based on very common awnings in France, a form of language in space. Through time its format was the diptych and the polyptic, sets that seek the angles of space so that the curves that never coincide dialogue with different positions at different heights.
But not everything is said in the geometric abstraction that in his case, by 2022, he became luxurious when using iridescent paint, a very catchy optical effect series but what he does adhere is when making rigorous, respectful of the severe canons of this discipline that dates back to Europe towards the 30 Theo Van Doesburg : “A woman, a tree, a cow, are concrete in her natural state but in her state of painting they are abstract, illusory, vague, speculative while a plane is a plane, a line is a line, nothing more or nothing less.”
In Argentina, it began to function almost synchronously with the European avant -garde and it is through the magazine “Arturo” and the first exhibition of 1946, the non -geometric base figuration takes place in the house of Pichon Riviere under the name of concrete art invention. The rest is history and today, outstanding artists find in this discipline, with many derivatives, a way to channel their pictorial expressiveness.
At the moment Barreda It exposes in praxis “Outdoor”curatorship of Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias, A title that refers to human vulnerability, exposure to uncertainty and lack of physical and existential refuge.
How does this translate into your image? With the rigor of always, since Barreda He is demanding with himself and his searches to show something different and not repeat himself. There are no pipelines or polyptics, the image is an entanglement assembly that allows a more direct reading, but in turn more complex. Barreda It detects shapes through the lines, there is some iridescence in the triangles that already appear to show the dionysian appearance of color, in a certain way, emotional.
It is found in Barreda Dynamism, given by the forms this time chosen, that before the viewer’s gaze, are more instinctive expressions that contradict the calm of the apolínea constructions of geometry.
Donald Kuspit (1935) critic, American art and poet, points out in an excellent essay that “by giving them body and color to the way in which the ancient sculptures of figures were colored to make them look alive, geometric shapes become even more“ sensory. ”That is what we believe happens in the current sample of Alejandra Barreda.
Praxis, Arenales 1311. Monday to Friday from 10.30 to 7. Saturdays from 10.30 to 14. Closing on July 31.
Source: Ambito
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