Thursday
A selection of finalist works for the Itaú Visual Arts Award, 14th edition, from the cyclical perspective of the days of the week.
The Imperceptible Effort of Things (2021) by Karen SpahnFundación Itaú Argentina
Jupiter represents the pursuit of expansion, a phenomenon visible in Karen Spahn's work.
Jupiter represents the pursuit of expansion, a phenomenon visible in Karen Spahn's work.
She utilizes the physical phenomenon of capillarity, allowing the ink to climb up the pleated canvas, which could also extend.
An unmoving horizon that preserves the imperceptible effort of things.
One among many things (2022) by Alejandro LópezFundación Itaú Argentina
Jupiter mobilizes an energy that implies both the absolute and extraordinary, as well as the routine and daily life.
On one side, a fragment of introspective existence, filled with disordered objects.
On the other, the same items float in a white, anonymous, and pristine space.
Alejandro López explores the meanings and senselessness that objects embody in specific contexts.
Revelation of the close Work detailFundación Itaú Argentina
Julieta Papa investigates elements that are close and precarious, on the brink of extinction.
Through simplified forms, she constructs a silent and eternalized scenography.
From the common and daily to the encounter with what is not one's own, but alien. In the following video, Santiago Colombo Migliorero condenses 500 drawings made during cosmopolitan transit in 48 seconds.
Avistar: to spot or catch sight of a distant thing, which may also be a memory.
Epiphany (2022) by Paula PellejeroFundación Itaú Argentina
Mariana Pellejero bases on family photos from the late sixties taken on a beach that no longer exists. Through editing and post-production, she rescues moments from oblivion.
Every unbuilt artwork is a ruin (2021) by Marcos GoymilFundación Itaú Argentina
Marcos Goymil bases on the design drawing of a municipal palace that was never built.
Unearthing the unfinished.
Giving it an identity.
Juan Rey's work is also linked to architectural heritage. In his case, he works with a building that is still standing, which was once an electric power station.
A forest in ruins Work detailFundación Itaú Argentina
Sculpting on wood, he replicates three windows and the marks that time has left on each of them.
The ephemeral as a refuge for memory.
From a nostalgia that is remoteness, to the vindication of entities as exuberant as they are capricious.
In “Some Things I Didn't Dare to Throw in the Trash”, María Luján Vivas transforms the deformed and disposable into an endearing organism.
Some Things I Didn’t Dare to Throw Away Work detailFundación Itaú Argentina
What if we love each other? (2022) by Concepción María OrdóñezFundación Itaú Argentina
Moreover, Concepción Ordóñez gives life to a network of silhouettes and lines, bodies that appear to partake in a tribal dance.
A collective exorcism to sustain, no more and no less, than existence itself.
Itaú Award 14th Edition on Google Arts & Culture:
Curators: María Menegazzo and Magdalena Mosquera
Coordination: Celina Marco
Translations: Valentina Bonelli
Fundación Itaú Argentina
José Pagés
Clarice Bentolila
Anabella Ciana
Alejandra Saldías
Nancy Chappe
Mariana Coluccio
Melina Cools
Mariano Pastore
