It was inaugurated in Oda, an art office, a tribute sample to the outstanding tragically deceased artist in 1998 in a car accident. He was a photographer, plastic and theater man.
With the curatorship of Patricia Rizzo It is exhibited in Oda, an art office, a sample of early works of Carlos Gallardo (1944-2008). We kept with jealous veneration many of the catalogs of this great artist, including the one who accompanied his 1989 sample at the San Telmo Foundation, a text of the outstanding critic Bengt Oldenburg who pointed out that “Gallardo inserts a fiction-the painting-within another-theatrical.”
Great fabrics, an expressionist space, beds, chairs, stairs, stages on the stage. Then, his chromatic game, the tension in his fabrics, the blurred, dwarfed human body, the staircase as a message of ascension opposite to the fall. As a theater, there was a related question as in the series “Godot, where are you?” That is to say, Gallanthe presented a conflict since for him, “Aesthetics without conflict has no reason to be”.
For the new generations of both artists and those who do not know their work, it began as a publicist in La Plata, he made photography, entered Editorial Abril where he met the great poet Olga Orozco whose poems were subsequently inserted in his artistic work as well as those of another unique poet, Hugo Mujica. Met between 1978 and 1979 Mauricio Wainrothis lifelong partner, with whom he began working in the contemporary ballet of the San Martín Theater.
Leave graphic design to devote to plastic and part with Wainrot To live in Europe. From then on contracts and successes for the staging and changing rooms both in Europe, America and Asia, works that premiered in so many theaters that it would be impossible to list in this space. He showed his plastic work in Artbasel 92, Arco, Art Chicago, Art Basel Miami, New York Art Fair, Bogotá, Fiac, Arteba in addition to private international galleries.
We will never forget your sample on the first floor of the Museum of Modern Art of 1993, 22 paintings, two walls with inscriptions that floated on a water pool with letters and stones. We believe that at that time the importance of staging the work of art is given and almost the beginning of the facilities. It was titled “THE MEMORY”with an accent in the í, a title with double reading: memory and midfield (die without memory). Another of his memorable works is “Liebe Günther”a polyptic with, photocopies of a conference of Günther Grass of 1992.
By combining your pictorial language with the poems of Olga Orozco, “Who will do poetry who asks and reiterates? The attitude of questioning is what moves my work” He pointed out on one occasion .. it is not easy to forget either “IDITI”handwritten letters with envelopes and stamps, packages of packaging, in reality, letters, memories and the time with catalog written by Dore Ashton famous criticism of American art, promoter of abstract expressionism.
In 2004 “Back up ”, also cured by Dore Ashton, of great scenographic conception, which in technological language means will to keep and “go back” was shown in the National Museum of Fine Arts together with “Chupasangre II” an enlightened work containing 4000 syringes on a salt carpet, “Perpetual Motion”, “Abismal”, “Erratum”, “Close –Up”, “Queen Size”, “Kromos Antwerp”, Kromos diaspora “,” Kronos ” and its installation of 13 trails “Finale” texts of its then director Alberto Bellucci and Lucas Frasso..
Some of his latest series: “Vestiges” (2007), “Theatrum mundi” (2007-8), “Disiempos” and “Erratum” (2008), with poems of Hugo Mujicahighlight the importance of a work that “is completed at the moment the viewer appears” in his words. “I want it to meet with a part of its history, without fear of questions …” Questions that still resonate: what, who, how, when; Where, where, why, when the artist titled one of his works in 2003. Carlos Gallardo: an essence artistl.
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Source: Ambito
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