“The balance of Mrs. Miyaki”, an allegorical installation of sculptures, ceramics, drawings, paintings and kimonos, with curatorship by Ricardo Ibarlucía
“Amakuse Miyaki Make a trip as a tribute to its late husband. He had observed the strict observance of the food restrictions of mourning and having shown the body of Katsuroa carp fisherman, who died drowned in the Kusagawa River, with a sacred canvas to absorb impurities, submitted to the ritual that had to purify her from the death macula of her husband.
The priest was confirmed to shake a branch of pine whose offspring had moistened the river water and assured him that he can already resume his life and demonstrate his gratitude to the gods who would not cease to imbue strength and value. ”
From this story the journalist, writer Didier Decoin (France, 1946), Goncourt Award 1977, describes this ancestral scene, a true love story located in the twelfth century for his book published in 2017 “The office of ponds and gardens” to which Figaro Littéraire described as “a history of perfumes and mud, courtiers and commoners, of sensuality and violence”.
But in this note we will not comment on this novel, but Mónica Canzio He was inspired by her for her current sample “The balance of Mrs. Miyaki”an allegorical installation of sculptures, ceramics, drawings, paintings and kimonos.
A dominant red sculpture, strength and thrust transmitter color but that in turn indicates danger and risk that the title of sample carries, there are two boats, one of them, “the boat of the two moons”, iron, wood, glass, fabric, bronze sheets, indicating the diversity of materials that Canzio dominates that they will slide through the river to move the tents that her husband fished, according to the story, according to the story, according glazed in spheres, an iron plaque “The Lieérnagas de la Noche” that the artist drills with electrodes and will guide Mrs. Miyaki in the dark.
During the pandemic, Mónica Canzio He asked relatives, colleagues and friends of fabric that had an affective relationship with which he carried out a 12 kimonos installation with his mother. They hang from the roof, can walk between them, and remember that this garment, very evocative, is inherited in Japan as a relic.
Ricardo Ibarlucíaauthor of the curatorial text, points out that “the challenge assumed by Canzio is comparable to that of the emperor who organized a perfume contest in which the winner received a kimono as a gift, in this show Canzio recreates that journey through mountains and forests, great sensitivity of this artist that immerses us in a spiritual world, which Ibarlucía qualifies as “Inverse Écfrasis” That is, it is corporated in visual and tactile images.
She is accompanied by Carlos Arnaíz, Eduardo Stupía and photographer Daniel Ackerman. Alicia Moreau de Justo 1300. Tuesday to Sundays and holidays from 11 to 19. Free entrance.
Source: Ambito
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