"First I am moved, then I think", Aurelio Macchi
Nov. 11 - Dec. 31, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
Aurelio Macchi
Miguitas de pan, Ana Efron
Sep 2, 2021 - Oct 15, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
Miguitas de pan
Ana Efron
Windows have always interested me because they are passages between the outside and the inside.
Henry Matisse, Writings and considerations on art.
2020 was a weird year, life turned into a science fiction movie. We lost our lives in the outside for an endless time. In these circumstances, the studio became more than ever the center of the world, and the world was something to be seen in a little frame: the window or the screen.
Without knowing why, without thinking about it, I began to draw trees. In the few outings –walks through the neighborhood–, I took photos of the trees that I found on the road and then draw them.
Meetings with friends were made online. I asked them to send me photos of the trees from their walks. And drawing their trees was a way of being a little closer, of moving to their neighborhoods for a while. The trees got in everywhere, and they got into the paintings.
At the same time, I was going on with the writing workshop that I had started the year before in the attempt to write about my art work. This year, through the magic of the meeting with the wonderful people of the workshop, writing became independent, it found its own way beyond the matter that I had proposed in the first place, and some small texts came out kneaded in that same climate: insideness, stillness, insomnia, a surprising irruption of childhood memories.
One day I wrote about trees, the shapes of their trunks, the way life becomes visible in the shapes it gives things. Thus I had the feeling that the paintings, the drawings, the texts, were the same thing made out with different materials. And I wanted to do the experiment of putting them to live together. In these circumstances, the logical thing was to make the meeting happen online. So I made a digital book. That was the first meeting between words and paintings. In this medium, the images take on a different presence. The paintings here are something different.
Then I thought about making a video. Its realization was at the same time the excuse to return to do something with others, such as a gesture of going back to the trees of the friends and the writing of the texts in the workshop. Everything was coming out from a strange feeling, a loneliness full of presences, a distance sheltered by faces flattened into squares, broken voices, which even coming that way were still of immense intensity and were, in the end, a constant closeness.
My deepest gratitude to all who were on that side and on this side of the screen, lighting the air.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
Ana Efron
Bread crumbs
Fundamentos de una estética propia, Janinne Wolfsohn
Aug 4 - Aug 25, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
Janinne Wolfsohn
Fundamentals of an own aesthetic.
Fundamentos de una estética propia
Janinne Wolfsohn
I rescued this work production process because I consider it the foundation of what I'm doing now.
In these works I modeled in clay the human figure, an exercise that I continue to maintain. I was interested in capturing the particulars of each being. What that body says. Your key move. To do this I inquired into the great spatial planes, the tensions, the search for movement. All on a full scale. At that stage I was attracted to the great sculptors of the early twentieth century, those who started from classical sculpture and rethought it.
Rethink what is given under a style of its own.
In the present and in the immediate future I concentrate my gaze on a fragmented subject. Investigating different techniques of realization of this idea.
Colección Fundación Pitucarna, Emilio Villafañe
July 12 - July 31, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
https://www.artsy.net/show/cuenco-blanco-coleccion-fundacion-pitucarna?sort=partner_show_position
Emilio Villafañe
Collection Foundation Pitucarna.
Colección Fundación Pitucarna
Emilio Villafañe
Emilio Villafañe ceramist, teacher, cultural worker for 50 years. Member of the Project "Ovens without borders" and committed to maintaining utopias and dreams for a more just world.
Mujeres Toro, una más del montón. Vanesa Trosch
June 10 - July 10, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
https://www.artsy.net/show/cuenco-blanco-mujeres-toro-una-mas-del-monton?sort=partner_show_position
Vanesa Trosch
Mujeres Toro, una más del montón.
Mujeres Toro, una más del montón
Vanesa Trosch
Trosch, an artist without a filter, her body is directly involved with her actions. Everything that happens in her life leaves us visible traces in her paintings, photographs, murals, sculptures. This exhibition is a photographic record of some moments of her production.
Portraits in quarantine, Jorge Vargas
May 17, 2021 - June 9, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
Portraits in quarantine.
While in lockdown Vargas and his family developed a portrait series that explores the signs of the times: ambiguity, uncertainty, contradiction, dislocation, isolation, fear, hope.
The series was conceived as a "subjective documentary" project with a strong aesthetic accent.
Jorge Vargas
Portraits in quarantine.
Published on the Washington Post, November 4th, 2020.
La oratoria de los materiales, Laura Barberis
Mar 26, 2021 - Apr 24, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
La oratoria de los materiales
Laura Barberis
"Dust thou art and unto dust thou shalt return."
It is the simplest and most stripped sentence to understand the life cycle, we transit physically on a Moebius strip. Understanding death in this way relieves fears, frees us from creeds and ideologies because in some way we are a totality.
Laura Barberis
La oratoria de los materiales.
De donde nace un río, Fernanda Rodrigo
Feb 5, 2021 - Feb 27, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
https://www.artsy.net/show/cuenco-blanco-de-donde-nace-un-rio-fernanda-rodrigo
Fernanda Rodrigo
De donde nace un río.
De donde nace un río.
Fernanda Rodrigo presents De donde nace un río, an artwork that immerses us in the very body of the material that it proposes.
The installation is made up of very different elements that share the same matter. Industrial bricks (made in series by machines, of common, everyday use) are stacked in a precarious balance, nothing holding them together. And it is there, among the chaos, in those ruins, where the artist's hand insists on creating, giving shape to other figures that come close to resemble a dog, a man, a bat. Forms that lack a final definition, but rather seek to lose themselves in their clay materiality, the place where the body comes from and where it returns, this brick construction always on the verge of collapse.
Completing the work, the photographer Jorge Vargas takes his record of the installation working with the musician Anita Donndorff, in shots where the body is part of something unspeakable, except for the body itself. They both add nuance, skin and texture to the work, creating tensions and transforming the dialogue between those common bricks and those unfathomed figures in the body of the work itself. And we no longer see bricks, dogs or bats, but a place, a landscape that is forming and at the same time collapsing, as solid and ephemeral as the clay from which we are made.
Fantasías, Janinne Wolfsohn
Jan 5, 2021 - Jan 25, 2021
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
https://www.artsy.net/show/cuenco-blanco-fantasias-janinne-wolfsohn
Janinne Wolfsohn
Fantasías.
Fantasías.
"All bodies, one body. Mirages of an absence. Inventions. Energy in potency. The convergence of different materiality and techniques, fantasized in the reflection of a woman who dialogues with her forms and her shadows. Expansions." Janinne Wolfsohn
In Fantasias the artist Janinne Wolfsohn stages an installation that she composes with sculptures, a live model and projections of photos of the sculptures. The exhibition is developed with the activation of a performance that tries to warn in experience the process that the artist uses in the development of her work by her. Modeling in clay of a living model, digitization of the work in three dimensions, manufacturing of stainless steel and other materials. For Janinne, sculpture is the result of the dialogue between space, form, and technical possibilities typical of her time. The model, muse of these works, travels the scene and discovers herself in the sculptures and in their shadows to conform to a new piece that takes the format of the performance with registration in photography and video.
Intemperie, Ana Efron
Nov 20, 2020 - Dec 12, 2020
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
https://www.artsy.net/show/cuenco-blanco-intemperie-ana-efron
Ana Efron
Intemperie.
Intemperie.
Ana Efron works with the uncertainty as raw material, undo all hypotheses. Seeking the fresh air of the moment, building on the material certainties that the march gives: solid products, with no names, from the elements.
Urbana, Laura Kuperman
Oct 27, 2020 - Nov 14, 2020
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
Laura Kuperman
Urbana.
Urbana.
"The work that I present here refers to the trips that I make through my country, Argentina.
I usually walk around and take photos of buildings and monuments - emblematic or not - of each visited site. When I return to my studio, I select and begin to compose the images thinking about the feeling that the place and its people gave me. To base on the history of each town or city and investigating its past and present is also part of the process.
It is there, then, that the challenge begins¨.
Laura Kuperman
Vacío animal, Fernanda Rodrigo
Sep 26, 2020 - Oct 17, 2020
cuenco blanco gallery, buenos aires.
online exhibition at Artsy.net
Fernanda Rodrigo
Vacío animal.
Vacío animal.
Fernanda Rodrigo exhibits a series of paintings that she had begun before the quarantine, as a presentiment of a world that was no longer going to be the same. In these works, the artist creates a world where the phantasmagoric, the animal, make up a disturbing narrative fabric.
“Painting is an extremely individual task. So I think it's always about how well you observe the world and how well you observe yourself, and how well you can transform that into something that is interesting for yourself." Daniel Richter
After her last exhibition “Último Refugio (Last Haven)”, the artist Fernanda Rodrigo, who lives and works in Buenos Aires, continued working in a series of paintings that she had begun before the quarantine, as a presentiment of a world that was no longer going to be the same. The bodies she painted, whether human or animal, appear to us undefined, disarmed, impossible, in a world where space has exploded. The use of color, textures and layers were acquiring an ever-greater preponderance, as if the density of a composition that builds unexpected relationships was accentuated with the charge of matter. Nothing was explained, there was no limit for those faceless figures. A lung and some raw bones.
She titled the series that came through Vacío Animal (Animal Void), which is the object of this exhibition. In it, the artist creates a world where the phantasmagoric, the animal, make up a disturbing narrative fabric. Color is like an explosion that runs through the entire series with intense vibrations. In its baroque construction, the layers of matter add stories like skins moving one over another, growing rather than covering each other, putting together a new flesh each time. Textures, accumulations of meaning and sensations, excess of forms, and the usual question that poses within her works, about what it is to have a body.
Now, in another historical context, one crossed by uncertainties and disappointments, and in a world that has become another, we find a direct relationship between Rodrigo paintings and the Argentine New Figuration movement of the second half of the 20 th Century, especially in some works by Rómulo Macció or Ernesto Deira, artists who she says she admires. Nevertheless, the choice of colors and the complexity of the compositions are more attuned to some of her contemporaries, like Daniel Richter or Miriam Cahn.