Museums made their first purchases today in the arteBA Fair which punctually opened its doors at noon in Costa Salguero, exclusively for artistic institutions and special guests. Until tomorrow, the fair can be visited in relative peace, and on Friday, August 30 and Sunday, September 1, the public will arrive in large numbers to admire the works. More than 400 artists and around 60 galleries.
The ease of transferring images through messages and on social networks has activated the circulation of works that encourage the steps of many who wait with some anxiety for the moment of having the works before their eyes.
To start, in the Cosmocosa gallery they present a chilling work by Antonio Berni, unknown to the general public until today. “The tortured woman [Confesión Lograda]” from 1976embodies the violence exercised with an electric prod on a woman whose pale and disfigured face does not allow one to guess whether she is alive or dead.
The magnificent collage is accompanied by a text by the historian Marcelo Pachecobiographer and scholar of the work of Berni. Pacheco specifically analyzed this work, “The tortured one”which remained hidden in Paris until the artist’s death in 1981.
“One of Berni’s most committed and shocking works entered the history of Argentine art in a delayed manner, and that is why it was absent from its catalogues and major retrospective exhibitions”writes.
Pacheco reconstructs its genesis and frames it within the artist’s production. “True Fictions” The author focuses on the concepts of “extremity” in Latin American artistic production and Berni in particular, extreme hyperrealism and makes a tour of all of Berni’s production. Berni in relation to the style of this particular work.
It also points out the similarities and differences in the use of assemblage on the international scene and Berni In particular, during an archaeological work, he discovered the use of elements from the installation “The Massacre of the Innocents” – such as the woman’s mask – for the creation of this work.
This year’s edition was inaugurated without the already famous luncheon that in previous years brought together the major buyers and sponsors of the fair, but the displays of the major galleries were once again visible. Ruth Benzacar dazzled with the clouds of Tomás Saraceno, and an intense and colorful painting by the artist Carlos Huffmannwho has just resigned from the Art Direction position at the Di Tella University to move to New York to study, work and produce.
Very close to there is the Del Infinito gallery with the great works of Julio Le Parc and a fascinating water sculpture of Gyula Košice. In Palatina the space was dominated by drawings and a bronze from the winged series of Alicia Penalba; On Cordoba’s Via Margutta, a wall with paintings by McEntyre and one in particular, large format, called “African perceptions”.
In the Rosario gallery Diego Obligado the paintings of Juan Grela and at Cott Gallery the rough paintings made with missionary clay and basketry Andres ParedesBut this is just the beginning of the days to come.
Meanwhile, an alternative fair to arteBA opened yesterday with some sales, “Affair”in the Larreta Gallery in front of Plaza San Martin, led by the gallery owner from Rosario Gab Gabelichwho acknowledged that the move “It started with a great turnout of the public. We were visited by an important staff of ArteBA, Larisa Andreani, its president, among others. There were sales on the first day. There is a lot of good energy and wishes for success from all the visitors and I believe that it is a truly heartfelt wish on the part of those who expressed their support. A necessary fair that is here to stay.”.
Source: Ambito
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