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Francisco Ali
Brouchoud proposes a meeting with the millenary strategic oriental
game of go (or weigi; in Chinese) whose objective is the conquest of territories
and cartographies. Dos, tres, muchos Vietnam consists of four go boards,
with their respective black and white counters. Each board has had images
printed over the horizontal and vertical lines that constitute it, a mute
map that correspond to the territories of Iraq, Afghanistan, the Unites
States and the Triple Frontier zone between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay,
all of them conflictive zones of the world. |
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Claudia Contreras
constructs and reconstructs Argentinean maps. Through these operations she
expresses her desire for social transformation, the constant presence of
her present relation with the territory and internalises her belonging to
a society of uncertainty, without guarantees. The works refer to Argentina
and account for the memory as an active work, she presents three series
of works. Historias Clinicas, Mapas del Delta y Fruncir, the stars are some
sort of an exploration of the pathologies of the country in search of its
cure and transformation. |
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Mara Facchin
works with the silhouette of the country applying the aural spiral, the
figure that arises from a mathematical proportion, the so called divine
proportion, or golden number, the key that gives rise to the beauty of certain
objects that man created and of others that exist in nature, the harmonic
figure to which a spiritual nature is also conferred. She discovers curious
coincidences and relations between the tour of the spiral and the geographical
regions of the country. The work refers to crisis and repair by means of
reason and spirit as beauty. |
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The belief of some representatives of
the Western Christian civilisation in its universal victory is the theme
of León Ferrari’s
works. The history of the conquest allows many reflections, it has demonstrated
that Western Christian civilisation has succeeded in the past thanks to
the superiority in affirmed human communication at the expense of its communication
with the world, amongst other things. Even though once the colonial period
was surpassed the revaluation of that communication with the world seemed
to be reinstalled, the present experience is discouraging in view of the
modern states that profess state religions where everything is allowed. |
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Luis Felipe Noé
already in 1972 designed a new map of America, in this serigraphy over canvass
Latin America constitutes itself as one country, thus signalling its peculiar
vision of a regionalism of great scale. In 1992 he published a book in Colombia
in which he reflects upon the institutionalisation of mapping distortion
in benefit of colonial countries. In 2004 he re-published “An advanced
colonial society”; talking thirty years later about the idea of the
country that he and his friends had in the 1970s, while at the same time
including in his latest works the presence of world maps and fragments of
the world map. |
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Teresa Pereda
embarks on journeys, covers the geographical, social and economic distances
typical of marginal cultures. Through the act of gathering she conciliates
and adds to the social, regional, ethnic and linguistic diversity, she flies
over fragmentation. When she goes back to the workshop with the load of
earth, she processes it and includes it in the art piece. The maps, the
histories and photos of the people she interviewed are linked to the earth,
as well as the chain of words bound to these concepts. She adds to her work
an interactive installation: “Rompecabezas Nacional” that invites
us to build a country and proposes the transformation of the image of an
impossible country into a possible one. |
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Since 1970, the works of Horacio
Zabala have bound together images with socio-aesthetic content.
In her book El Arte o el mundo, published for a second time in 1998, she
affirms: “Even though an image of the world is not a theory that offers
a basis for the world, it is some sort of intermediary between the subject
and the world that in an instant makes visible a conception of the world”.
The inverted images in which subtle contours escape from regions of our
country question the remaining and accepted vision of our country as an
authentic one. They also show that there is not a single exclusive point
of view. |
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