“Estrategias de la Pelusa” is on display in the Calvaresi gallery, an unmissable exhibition dedicated to someone who was a unique creator in our environment, who became a cult artist.
More than 25 works by Mildred Burton are exhibited at the Calvaresi Gallery with the title “Strategies of Fluff: Surreal Magic”, whose curator is the artist Alberto Passolini. His great friendship with Fluffas her family called her, began fortuitously when Passolini She was 20 years old at a meeting to which she was dressed as a silent film diva. From her small stature she told him: “Hey, I’m Mildred. who are you?. A friendship that turned into devotion. The curator remembers her as a delirious and deliciously crazy lady, “a treasure for those of us who have frequented her.”
Born in Paraná, it is not known whether in 1923, 1936, 1941 or 1942, but the date of her death on August 30, 2008 is known with certainty. An unclassifiable artist, who caused some discomfort in the 90s and that in those years “conceptualism was positioned and the rest was a complacent art that did not deserve to be taken into account.” But Mildred Burton She became a cult artist and entering her exhibition is entering her painting, thanks also to the assembly and design of the room by Passolini that accentuates the disturbing character of this great artist
Exquisite craft, velvety, realistic painting, but with touches of corrosive humor, critical of the customs that reveal a false morality, social repression, imagination and childhood fantasy. His imagery borders on surrealism, a bug that could be a fly, a little San Antonio cow printed on a girl’s dress that climbs towards her face, an iguana that he will place on the shoulder of a portrait, a Mona Lisa with a lizard painted on it. his chestfantastic architecture, period furniture, portrait of a woman with a silver mask and a toad on her shoulder (it was the cover of a book “The Master’s Hand” of Tomás Eloy Martínez).
From a book that emits smoke to the presence of a portrait of Graciela Borges with a hairstyle that crowns his face, a dragon, a bear that watches in shock as water invades through a windowa fantastic car, the world Burton It is a journey to the surreal, to the enigmatic, also to the sinister that takes us beyond the known.
His mother was of English origin and his German grandmother told him in his childhood popular stories and also stories from fantastic literature with which Burton was perhaps inspired to develop his work. Absurdity and latent danger prevail in it; angelic children descend from torturers because there may be a phalanx as a pin.
Burton He drank in the decorative arts of the 19th century, the surrealism of Max Ernst and René Magritte, the political realism of Argentine painting of the 70s and 80s with which he also created a visual story about his conflictive family environment.
(Defense 1136. Tuesday to Sunday from 1 to 6 p.m. Closing on May 30.)
Source: Ambito
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