The ingenuousness of Sokol’s paintings is related to the innocence and sincerity of the author, who undoubtedly felt happy painting in her own way, as far from academic rigor as from avant-garde theories. Noah’s Ark, the flowers of the typical Ukrainian dresses, her cats, the beautiful princes and princesses, Adam and Eve when God expels them from Paradise, landscapes and portraits, were her recurring themes. She though, to tell the truth, she painted without any formal precision. However, among many collectors and institutions, Osvaldo Giesso bought a painting of her; Manuel Mujica Lainez wrote a catalog for him, and described Sokol’s universe as “an unusual world” where “old biblical readings, childhood nostalgia” and “landscapes with bulbous domes” that “appeared, multiplied, as in a spell of strong chromatism”.
Paola Vega is not afraid of words. She says that Sokol, abandoned by her husband as soon as they arrived from Ukraine and with a teenage son who died of an overdose, she did not lose her joy. Vega describes the magic that art can generate. “The art in which I believe, because it is about that, about belief, is that which appears, […] it has a powerful and overwhelming force that excites us and connects us with something that is beyond, not only our bodies, but words. A powerful energy moves him, desire, passion appear at every step. It is difficult to make this understand to those who do not happen to it.
From this concept, Vega, connoisseur of the mainstream of the generally solemn universe of art, dedicated her work to Jorge Gumier Maier, an ideologue who created a refuge in the Rojas Cultural Center to embellish life. As then, today in the Recoleta the limits between the rigors of conceptual and political art seem to vanish. In addition to the 50 works by Ana Sokol, there is a tribute to El Taller Gallery, which includes Orlando Ruffinengo, Juan Otero, José Luis Menghi, Leonor Vasena, Valerio Ledesma, Casimiro Domingo, Luis Centurión, Adolfo Ollavaca, Manuel Mujica Lainez, Susana Aguirre and Dignora Pastorello, an artist that Vega is currently presenting at the Calvaresi Gallery.
In the room on the right wing, the text of the exhibition “The Opportunities” begins with a sentence from the book “Inventions of Memory” by Silvina Ocampo, which says: “A flash of stars once fell like fireworks”. In the midst of the stylistic diversity of the “flash” there are those who use the trade to carry out their work, such as Sebastián Gordín who masters marquetry like an expert, or Nushi Muntaabski, an eminent muralist and sculptor who works with Venetian mosaics. Paola Vega consulted about the reception of her projects, she says that she was not asked to withdraw any work of hers. In the same room there are those who make a living with a trade and make art almost without realizing it, like Jimena Travaglio who, with the patience of the spinners, threads the beads one by one to form a mantle. Finally, there are those who have artistic work, such as the fascinating fabrics of Sachamama in Santiago del Estero, the artisans Belén Guzmán, Miriam Juarez and Beba Taboada, who dazzle with their textiles, as well as the group of the Embroiderers of the Museum from the Port of Ingeniero White. The exhibition is completed with the works of, among others, Fabio Risso Pino, Pielcitta, Julio Nielsen, ZilianteMusetti, Agustín Croxatto, Tito Portela, Komando Marión, Yale Jaros and Fabián Bercic.
Source: Ambito
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