Adrián Sosa presented “Undo the world”, with curatorship by Eugenia Garay Basualdo, where the Tucuman artist brings heavy cement and flour bags.
On the occasion of having won the Braque Prize in 2023, which was held at the Muntref headquarters (Immigrant Hotel), the visual and teacher artist Adrián Sosa (Monteros, Tucumán, 1994) presented a video performance of 4 ’47’ ‘that showed it by carrying heavy cement and flour bags, the first, equivalent to progress; The second, equivalent to bread, turning its content on a route through which fast and indifferent cars pass, raising dust and invisible. His intention is to show the paradox of the inhabitants who live in hardship.
This video “When the deep is close”Integrates his individual sample under the curatorship of Eugenia Garay Basualdoentitled “Undo the world” which is also the title of a machetes used in the harvest, restored and intervened with engraving that cross a wall. “A signaling”, according to the curatorial text of Garay Basualdo “That he proposes to open an exit, that of reason, to undo a thousand pieces condemn the condemnation of an increasingly inhuman existence.”
Other videos performances integrate this sample of a conceptual artist trained in workshop C of the University of Tucumán, which tells as referring to Marcos Figueroa, Carlota Beltrame and Geli González Other references of their audiovisual activity are Fernando Birrithe Brazilian Novo cinema of Glauber Rocha, Lucrecia Martel.
Precarious rural work, constant physical effort, family survival and that incessant sacrifice are evidenced. Another of your videos “Brute Force” He received honor mention at the International Performance Festival – art and audiovisual formats. Of a duration of 3’46 ” The image shows the groove produced on Earth as a livelihood of life. The author emphasizes that he combines primary tools of the work with the first indications with the artistic work of man on earth, a kind of return to rock art, to Land art.
“Baldía land” 2017, 5 ’46’ ‘, next to Walter Tolaba Made in the passage, Tucumán. The story begins at nightfall. In an empty place, two men organize elements and tools to work in an artistic action: mud basins without cooking, peaks, shovels, hammers, axes, cement, ferrite. The silence reigns but at the 2’25 ” the action begins: axes, alienation, unleashed fury, toxic powders some of the convened people who were outside are spread, a performance is removed that reveals the unhealthy work of the construction. The image becomes violent and very realistic, a great nebula invades everything.
Contemporary visual artist who has won numerous awards and mentions, Soda He conducted the Diploma in Cultural Management of the University of San Pablo, was part of the 2021-22 artist program of the Di Tella University. When he won the Braque, which allowed him to make a three -month residence in the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, he integrated the Collective exhibition Tracé Bleu in the Cenquatre Cultural Center. He also set up works at the 18th UADE National Prize and also made a residence in Boyacá, Colombia.
Pavilion 4 Contemporary Art, Juan Ramírez de Velasco 556. Tuesday to Friday from 15 to 19. Closing on September 25
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