The Ruth Benzacar Gallery and a rotating exhibition of work by 30 local artists

The gallery Ruth Benzacar the joint exhibition opened To meetwhich houses thirty works by thirty artists such as Roberto Aizenberg, Leandro Erlich, Fabio Kacero, Eduardo Basualdo, Marie Orensanz, and Liliana Porter either Thomas Saracenoto which two short pop-up samples are added, rotating in two new rooms each week.

With the opening of two brand new spaces working in parallel to the central one, the new exhibition changes the order of the works and the names of the artists to whom their solo exhibition is dedicated in parallel for these days Jorg Macchi Y Thomas Maglioa constant movement in which the exhibition that the public will visit “will never be the same,” explains the curator Lara Marble.

This dynamic of satellite rotation, which causes the works to change their location during the four-month exhibition, attempts to explain “no longer a theme, but a system” – clarified marble– where there is tension, movement, something organic and alive, where the big challenge was “how to generate a story without flattening differences, and how to escape pastiche”.

“Trying to bring such a heterogeneous group to a common denominator seemed like a contradiction in terms,” ​​says the curator of this group, which includes paintings, drawings, sculptures, objects, installations, videos and photographs and has names such as Ernesto Ballesteros, Chiachio & Giannone, Flavia Da Rin, Marina De Caro, Sofía Durrieu, Ana Gallardo, Max Gómez Canle either Sebastian Gordon.

There is something like a fair – this place par excellence without a fixed theme but with works side by side – in the presentation of this large number of works in space, forming an amalgam of different generations, poetics, languages, interests, practices and expectations.

The visitor finds himself at the entrance with rotting food in a glass-enclosed refrigerator (visible inside) from the series Renaissance of the artist Adrian Villar Rojasa warning that everything is changing, including what is happening in the gallery, which is very close to the sculpture Statue #4 (1964) by Robert Aitzenberg (1922-1996), the only deceased of the exhibition participants and one of Argentina’s most prominent surrealists.

There is also the hanging sculpture forest from Edward Basualdoa piece that simulates being a suspended stone heralding an impending catastrophe, the possibility of a fatal outcome, as well as the installation of Liliana Porter The task (The Task), which shows a tiny woman embroidering a creation that transcends her disproportionately, a nod to time but also to memory.

Although, according to the curator, these artists are “connected by historical milestones, materialities, affective affinities, or conceptual zones among so many possible cuts”, the thirty form “a landscape with a horizon full of interpretative possibilities; a fertile field where the connections are so numerous that they reach the point where they become pure power”.

Other works that make up this itinerary are zone harmonics from Thomas Saraceno, a sculpture composed like a celestial body of orbits supported only by their mutual tension and whose filaments – inspired by spider webs – condense tiny universes; Y Cloudor the impossibility of capturing a cloud in a showcase, from Leandro Erlichthe artist who builds illusions or visual paradoxes on the basis of everyday elements is accustomed to questioning what has a real imprint through his work.

“There are 30 artists who clearly have nothing in common. There are works from different moments in each of their careers,” he explains. marble adding that “even though they share the same umbrella, there’s more disagreement than other things. The point of contact makes the difference.”

The artist in turn Fabio Kacero presents his work snow outdoorsa life-size battery, covered in foam as if a snowfall had just come, along with a diverse ecosystem that complements the artists’ works Julio Grinblatt, Carlos Herrera, Carlos Huffmann, Guillermo Iuso, Daniel Joglar, Luciana Lamothe, Catalina León, Jazmín López, Florencia Rodríguez Giles, Miguel Rothschild, Pablo Siquier Y Mariana Telleria.

The challenge provides marble“a route that should not be static or linear, but a spatial approach in which the works are in motion” into the space and thus incorporated into the exhibition design of the sample Nicolas Fernandez Sanzthe architect who remodeled this old industrial warehouse in 2015 to turn it into the current gallery headquarters after moving away from Florida Street.

Corresponding Fernandez Sanz, this arrangement of the works, which accentuates both the collective and the individual, “leaves you standing in the middle of a spatial situation, and they don’t tell you in which order they are to be read, where the exit or entrance is. Everyone chooses how they go through it,” he affirms.

For the gallery directors, Blackberry Bacal Y Orly Benzacar“To meet it is a vital and choreographed experience. It is the living manifestation of a desire to reflect on the community of artists that make it up Ruth Benzacar and everyone in the presence of the gallery” after a pandemic year.

The thirty individual presentations developed for this project differ from one another: “Some are anthological in nature, others offer recent productions or emblematic works that we wanted to exhibit again”, specify the directors of the space.

This will continue the calendar of each presentation Luciana Lamot Y Karl Herrera from October 12th to 16th; Jasmine Lopez Y Daniel Joglar from October 19 to 23; Sebastian Gordon Y Michael Rothschild from the 26th to the 30th of the same month and Chiachio & Giannone Y Max Gomez Canyon from November 2nd to 6th and more.

The sample To meet stays in until January 2022 Ruth Benzacar Art GalleryJ. Ramírez de Velasco 1287, in the Villa Crespo area of ​​Buenos Aires, from Tuesday to Saturday from 2:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., in compliance with the Covid-19 protocol.

Source: Telam

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