In his new exhibition, “Eido 5”, the artist investigates once again about the pentagonal structures, this time from the Platonic dialogue of the “Timeo”.
Miguel Ángel Giovanetti He has an obsession, perhaps even more unraveling what he knows deeply and that has so far been the leitmotiv of his artistic work. Many years ago he investigates the pentagon form through samples both in Argentina and abroad.
From “Pentagonal alchemy”, made in 2002 until its co -authorship with Luis Espinosa (1962-2018), researcher who was based on the book TIMEO of Plato in which the Greek philosopher took the dodecahedron with his twelve pentagonal faces as a possible explanatory model of the universe.
In the aforementioned dialogue of Plato They found a development of the relationship between the 4 elements and the geometric bodies Regular as the description of what constitutes the oldest of the matter: the air, the octahedron, the water, Icosaedro, the earth, the cube leaving the fifth regular geometric body possible: the dodecahedron.
How do you carry these ideas Giovanetti to the visual plane? Through complex, original, delicate work, a sensitive geometry that translates into the use of gel pen, and also appropriating technology, the pass to the video with its perpetual spin.
Under the title Eido 5 He currently exposes in Gallery Labs under the curatorship of Alicia Elizabeth Dalterio. Meaning of eido: in ancient Greek “form”, “appearance”, “type”, “species”. With Plato It acquires a deeper meaning: an idea, the immutable and eternal essence of things that can only be recognized by the intellect and not by the senses. In the curatorial text, Dalterio refers to Ouroboros, also a word of Greek origin, ancient symbol that represents a snake or dragon biting its own tail forming a circle that symbolizes the eternal cycle of life, death, and rebirth as well as the unity of all things and the infinity of time and space.
Perhaps this resides Giovanetti’s obsession for interpreting this circular process. The geometric abstraction of this artist can be considered as a reflection on being, beyond other considerations of providing the aesthetic pleasure that is sought in art.
Returning to Plato “Geometry is the knowledge of the eternally existing.”
Miguel Angel Giovanetti He is Argentine, resided in the US between 1999 and 2009. Among its awards, he won the First Prize Acquisition in Drawing in the National Hall of Visual Arts in 2015. The Moafl, the Moafl (Fort Laudardale), The Patricia & Philip Frost Art Museum, Lowe Art Museum, Bass Museum of Art, the Molaa, and other European museums as well as in collections as well as in collections as well as in collections as well as in collections as well as in collections private.
Among his individual samples, we highlight the one made in 2023 in the Pavilion of the Fine Arts of the Catholic University, that of the Macla (2022) and that of the Macba in 2020/21.
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