Objective: achieved
Your are kindly invited to visit the exhibition we have organized to celebrate the achievement of our objective: Libros de Artistas (Artists’ Books), under the curatorship of Pelusa Borthwick. Participants are Grupo Escombros, Teresa Volco, León Ferrari, Delia Cancela, Edgardo Antonio Vigo, Mercedes Estéves, Mónica Goldstein, Teresa Puppo, Leandro Katz, Maiaugusta Vintimilla, Matilde Marín, Susi Sielsky Cantarino, Margarita Paksa, Juan Carlos Romero and Carlos Espartaco.
Sala 10 Committee
Artists’ Books
The photographic art practised during the last twenty years in the West has been undergoing a ceaseless review in its representational rules. Consequently, the positivist photographic language, documentary based, i.e. the tout court photography, orthodox, based on the verisimilitude of the analogue image, as a testimony of reality, has been questioned, mainly in regards to maintaining the purity of the primary referent. Therefore, the visual analogon, i.e. the record, or the direct shot, is no longer a mode of knowledge, a true knowledge of the real, but it becomes an image of synthesis, a simulation mark, and very often a hyper-simulacrum.
In the vast field of searches and experiences of contemporary art it becomes evident the passage from the early, inaugural positivist photography to what today is known as “post-photography”. In fact, in this aesthetic un-delimitation, the photographic language appears expressly modified, adulterated and overflowing, either because of the contrivance and beautifying of the photoshop process or due to the consecutive manual interventions that, to a great extent, are being carried out by an important number of multimedia artists within the virtual universe of cyberspace, or through the artisanal manipulation of the negative, retarding the developing process, increasing the visual textures, using strident chromatisms and contrasting effects of high visual impact.
This process of “making an image out of an image”, starting from a first language-object that is always the negative, leads to a décalage of the traditional codes of positivist photographic art generating a wide, attractive range of travestism, camouflage and hybridizations with other languages associated to today’s art.
Delia Cancela
Susi Sielski Cantarino
Grupo Escombros
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