Already in the afternoon there are long lines to access this unmissable meeting of the Buenos Aires cultural agenda, three days of pure art that in this edition, in that much larger venue, invites you to a tour of works by 400 artists, stands arranged almost like staging or theatrical staging, dialogues or winks between the creations and an immense variety of paintings and drawings, perhaps a format that the pandemic especially invited.
Charly Garcia’s debut
“The works of Charly García were sold immediately. And they attract a lot, so the other artists are also selling,” the director of the Popa gallery, Marcelo Bosco, tells Télam about his stand that participates in the Utopia sector of the fair, the works of the iconic musician, who is presented under his full name, Carlos Alberto García Moreno, along with creators such as Atilio Pernisco, Mariano Cinat, Felix D’eon, Víctor Castillo, Emmanuel Alfonso and Héctor Meana.
“Charly’s works start at 600 dollars. There were 300 but those have already been sold. Marta Minujín came a while ago and bought one of the drawings. The collector likes Charly because it has a lot to do with art, it is an art funny, it has humor, collage, it’s trash”, Bosch details.
Some of the drawings by the former Serú Girán refer, for example, to his famous jump from a hotel balcony: the image of himself with a black marker and some red watercolor proposes alternatives to that risky gesture, such as “I hit more or less and I break” or “I remain unicellular”. They are plain white sheets, many of them A4 style, sometimes intervened spontaneously, some framed and others not.
Proposals
The Utopia section is probably one of the most theatrical of the pavilions that make up the fair, or one of the largest stagings, especially if you look at the space for the program of performances curated by Charly Herrera, or the Videos section, by Lolo and Lauti. There are, for example, images of emojis, beetles, dollars and virgins in the Fuga gallery, in the province of Santa Fe.
The space is wide and comfortable to walk. A novelty this year has to do, in addition to the typical cafeterias, with the “mobile catering”, carts with wheels that move around the place where several take the opportunity to buy focaccia, for 800 pesos, a salad also for 800, a water for 400 or a glass of wine for 700 pesos.
An immense sculpture by Candelaria Traverso welcomes you in the hall of the property. Inside doors, it is worth stopping at the exquisite Antonio Berni in the South gallery. Although a striking representation of the dead Che Guevara, portrayed by this famous Rosario artist of Social Realism, can be seen in the Cosmocosa gallery. A piece from 1968 that had not been exhibited for 20 years.
There are several who stop to see at the Barro gallery stand the paintings by the Mondongo collective -comprising Juliana Laffite and Manuel Mendanha-, studies for a landscape from 2012 and a “Roja” series, in homage to the famous story by Charles Perrault. The same thing happens with the creations of the artist Agustina Woodgate, who in her work usually sands real bills to question the value we assign to bills and coins in general.
There are red dots that imply “already sold” on several works located on the white walls -the panels- that organize each stand, as happens with the miniatures of Pablo Insaurralde. The same happens with the paintings on SUBE cards by Pablo Rosales.
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The work of Thomas Saraceno at the Benzacar gallery stand -the first one that can be seen as soon as you cross the access hall to the fair- causes beautiful reflections of colors on the walls of the white cube that contains it, stainless steel structures in the shape of clouds, or bubbles, or all this at the same time, whose iridescent panels -like glass- do their magic on the walls reflecting shades of aqua green, pale pink or violet. There, on that same stand, you can see an immense circular painting -a tondo- by the painter Rómulo Macció, about which several collectors come to ask.
As part of the Museum Acquisitions Program, several purchases were made that will go to the heritage of local museums, such as the Castagnino+macro acquired by Liv Schulman’s “Persona”; the Museum of Contemporary Art in Buenos Aires, which bought the work of Guido Yannitto; Salta Contemporary Art with the work of Alejandro Pasquale; the Modern of Buenos Aires (Valentina Lienur) or the Provincial Museum of Fine Arts Dr. Juan R. Vidal of San Juan, which took a “Sketch for the dead worker” by Antonio Berni, in the Sur gallery (Montevideo).
They were also buying on this first day the Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in San Juan (works by Melé Bruniard and Aníbal Brizuela), Marco de La Boca (Dani Basso), Malba (three works by Claudia del Río and Edgardo Antonio Vigo ) and the Klemm Foundation (Mónica Heller and Santiago García Sáenz). Internationally, the Dallas Museum of Art took works by Gabriel Chaile from Tucuman.
The Pabellón 4 gallery was also present at this edition of the fair with works by Dino Bruzzone, Paula Otegui, Jimena Fuertes -who has just exhibited her “Liquid Dream” at the Fortabat museum-, Perla Benbeniste and Paul Sende.
“The stand articulates the work of five artists from our staff who seek, through experimentation, the resources for the creation of their works. It is a transition where the work of art and the artist stop wondering what can be done, to investigate in ‘what can be done with’. From this they investigate new media, ways of looking and different poetics when creating a work”, says his gallery owner Néstor Zonana.
Thus, Paula Otegui superimposes figurative, abstract, geometric patterns, stains, creating a complex visual plot, for which she uses a whole series of plastic resources contained by a strict composition.
“Some people did not have so much faith in this space but everyone loved it. Hopefully next year we can repeat it. It is a very big effort once you find the place you like”, trusts Eduardo Mallea, vice president of the arteBA Foundation, attentive to some comments that pointed out the “remoteness” of the new headquarters that received numerous compliments from visitors. And that, indeed, is more comfortable when traveling.
“We have very good expectations,” added the collector who, he said, also plans to buy works at the fair.
ArteBA takes place from October 7 to 9, from 12 to 8 pm, at the Centro Costa Salguero, Buenos Aires (pavilions 1, 2, 3 and 4), at Avenida Costanera Rafael Obligado 1221 (CABA). Tickets are available at www.arteba.org. General: 1000 pesos; retirees and students: 500; children under 10 years free of charge.
Source: Ambito
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