Nature Revisited

One of art history's most frequent topics, tackled from diverse perspectives and material contexts.

Just like the natural world was approached by mimesis as a way of exhaustive knowledge in the Renaissance, there are works that seem to be coming back to that meticulous registry in an attempt to nostalgically register what we take for granted.

Catalogación de aves patagónicas (Catalogation of Patagonian birds) Catalogación de aves patagónicas (Catalogation of Patagonian birds) (2021) by Emanuel ReyesFundación Itaú Argentina

Such is the case of Emanuel Reyes, who uses the modeling technique to represent a variety of birds from the Patagonian region of Argentina.

An inventory to be seen anew.

ENZOOM2021006 (2020) by Daniela RamsfelderFundación Itaú Argentina

The mountains of the Córdoba province are the environment from which Daniela Ramsfelder recreates lush landscapes.

Watered acrylic and the brush are the means to imagine a serene, undisturbed paradise.

Liminal process Work detailFundación Itaú Argentina

Ana Paula Hall's project is an experimentation with biomaterials.

Biotextiles, bioplastics, bioceramics: new materials and supports, made under the logics of sustainability, to demonstrate that an understanding between the individual and nature is possible.

Attempts for a viable future.

Yirar del caminar sin rumbo como práctica de encuentro, (Yirar, to walk with no direction as a practice of the encounter) (2021) by Ivana SalemiFundación Itaú Argentina

Notes, drawings on notebook sheets and small-size oil paintings appear in aimless walks undertaken by Ivana Salemi.

An intimate archive where nature appears like night or sky, between flowerpots, a bottle of wine and the front of a house.

Nature as a witness, soothing our future.

The idea of drift, of navigating nature without destination, without a set purpose is maintained in the case of María Fernanda Almanza, whose brief moments are made up of a record of fragments of the Cuyo landscape.

A collection of ephemeral moments that took on another dimension in times of isolation.

Horizonte de sucesos II (Event horizon II) (2020) by Julián TeránFundación Itaú Argentina

Julián Terán draws on wood, engraves lines in it, taking maps of volcanoes from free access platforms, moving them from the virtual plane to the material one.

In this exercise, the grooves are densified, achieving an undulating surface, which is detached from the digital file to become a strange dimension.

38°20′00″S 57°59′00″O (2020) by Mercedes LozanoFundación Itaú Argentina





There are works that function as sensory displacement devices. Mercedes Lozano fearlessly implants her video sculpture in different places.

Any passerby can peer into the viewer to discover records of the state of the sea, the wind and the climate of the Argentine Sea basin.

Nature revisited. To be experienced again and again.

Credits: Story

Fundación Itaú Argentina
José Pagés
Clarice Bentolila
Anabella Ciana
Alejandra Saldías
Nancy Chappe
María Florencia Trotta
Mariana Coluccio
Mariano Pastore

María Menegazzo and Magdalena Mosquera.  
Text credits, Curatorship and Coordination 12th Itaú Visual Arts Award.

Celina Marco
Coordination Google Arts & Culture

Valentina Bonelli
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