She was director of the Recoleta Center and a unique manager in our environment, whose work is due to Botero and Russian avant -garde, among many others
Teresa Anchorena, appears with a memorable trajectory in the field of Argentine culture, died yesterday due to a terminal disease. Just eight months ago, in the Buenos Aires Legislature where their remains are watched today, it was nominated outstanding personality of the culture of Buenos Aires. Political management in favor of heritage and art was a constant since he asked for an interview with Raúl Alfonsín And he told him about Catalina la Grandethe Empress who in the 18th century forged the greatness of Russia through the Hermitage Museum and its collections, treasures admired worldwide.
However, far from those palaces of fable, such as that of St. Petersburg, its concrete aspiration was art. His house in the Villa Crespo neighborhood is a good example of the valuation of the typical “Chorizo Casa” Argentina and the taste for simplicity. There he preserved the central courtyard with his ban Borges. Inside, everything represented the typical eclecticism of Argentine taste, Art Deco, the furniture of the 50s and the English, the glass candlesticks. A mix, but very sophisticated.
“Historical places and goods talk about our identity, we are ourselves. They not only have the memory of those who were before, but these goods show us how we are different, different, very diverse: Argentines”he said.
The positions he occupied during his extensive career were several and his ambition to value the rich Argentine heritage never declined. He currently served as Director of Crafts and Heritage of the National Arts Fund and worked to present an exhibition in November.
Among the people of the art world, his name will last in the memory as the best director of the Recoleta Cultural Center. During the management that accompanied the mayor Enrique Oliverainternational exhibitions such as Russian avant -garde or those of Spanish Miguel Barceló and Yoko Onopioneer of the art of performance that traveled with his sample. In those years, since 1995, the Cronopios room housed the best Argentine artists and the rooms were restored. The Recoleta inaugurated in 2000 with the Megamuestra “Argentine twentieth century art and culture, a multidisciplinary and historical tour of what we were and what we are”, noticed.
The Colombian Botero He arrived at the National Museum of Fine Arts with an extensive exhibition by the hand of Anchorena. In his role as curator, he knew how to highlight the virtue that his work becomes almost unique. “It is very rewarding for the spectator to see once a Botero and always be able to recognize his image. ” Botero He gave the Buenos Aires the great torso that is exhibited today in Thays Park.
From the Ministry of Culture of Buenos Aires or from the position in the National Commission of Monuments, places and historical assets, his desire was to position Argentina in the first level. As director of Cultural Affairs of the Argentine Foreign Ministry, she presented the exhibitions of Leandro Erlich With his pool and Graciela Sacco With his eyes at the Venice Biennial.
Then, from the bottom of the arts, he brought in 2019 Ralph Rugoffcurator of the Venetian Biennial and presented it to the cultural and gallerystone operators, “so that he knows the scene of Buenos Aires art and the strong identity of Argentine art.” Long before, he had invited African Okwui Enwezor, the first non -European documentary curator in 2002 and the Venice Biennale in 2015 to talk about his post -colonial and decidedly global gaze. Anchorena perceived that “in art there is something that goes beyond the pleasure that beauty provides.”
“You have to be very attentive to receive the demands of society and know that political power serves to realize people’s requests and to transform projects into realities”he observed, always lucid.
Source: Ambito
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