Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 will participate in arteBA ’10 as sponsor of artist Marta Minujín’s Obelisco Dorado Multidireccional

Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 is sponsoring the presentation of the work of this well-known artist in the traditional exhibition of Argentine art.

From June 25 through 29, at the arteBA ´10 Fair, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 will join artist Marta Minujín in presenting her most recent work, Obelisco Dorado Multidireccional (Gilded Multi-directional Obelisk).

As part of the Bicentenary celebration for our country, and as a demonstration of its commitment to art and to our nation’s culture, AA2000 has decided to support one of the nation’s most recognized visual artists.

The seven-meter-tall Gilded Multi-directional Obelisk will consist of five structures of the well-known edifice, one of which will be vertical, while the others assume different positions as they strive for horizontality. According to Marta Minujín herself, “The multi-directional obelisk disorients the viewer, giving him the sense that everything is changing around him, according to the point of view from which he is looking at it, and it forces him to reflect on Argentina, which is constantly changing, going up and down.”

For the four days in which visitors will be able to enjoy the offerings of arteBA ´10, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 invites them to discover at La Rural –in the Blue and Green pavilions (pabellones Azul y Verde) – the latest of the “obelisks” this vanguard artist has created.

The first obelisk Marta Minujín made dates back to 1964. On that occasion she covered it with various flavors of Laponia-brand (“Lapland”) ice-cream, for the viewing public to taste. In 1973, she put colored jell-filters over the lights that illuminate the Washington Monument in the U.S. capital, surprising strollers by the white symbolic monument, who suddenly found it bathed in red. On her return to Buenos Aires, after a long stay in the United States and France, she decided to lay down another obelisk and thus created her Obelisco acostado (Reclining Obelisk), 74 meters long, which was presented at the First Latin American Art Biennial at São Paulo in 1978. Minujín also documented the shipment of the work from Argentina to Brazil. A year later, made her famous Obelisco de Pan Dulce (Christmas Pudding Obelisk), 30 meters tall, on the occasion of the Fair of the Nations in Buenos Aires. The monument was covered in 30,000 Christmas Puddings, all of which were given to the public. It was the world’s first edible art monument.

Recently, at Plazoleta Isidro Ruiz Moreno (IRM Square), at Cerrito and Posadas, near the center of Buenos Aires, Silver Obelisco Plateado Multidireccional (Silver Multi-directional Obelisk) was installed as an homage to the Queen of the Plata (as the city is known).

On the occasion of arteBA´10, the 19th arteBA Contemporary Art Fair, Marta Minujín will present a new gilded version of this monument.

About Aeropuertos Argentina 2000
Argentina Airports 2000 is a company which holds an exclusive concession for the use, management, and operation of 33 airports in Argentina. Currently more than 20 million passengers circulate every year through its terminals.

Today, around the world, airports are no longer seen merely as providers of infrastructure, but rather constitute commercial and cultural entities, true poles of economic and social growth, and motors of local and regional economies. It is for this reason that Aeropuertos Argentina 2000 strives to modernize, transform and expand the airport infrastructure and thus communicate with the greatest number of populations possible through an efficient network, instigating and promoting the activity and development of the national airport industry, with a vision of regional and international scope.

AA2000 defines entrepreneurial goals compatible with those of society’s sustainable development, preserving environmental and cultural resources for future generations, respecting diversity and working toward the elimination of inequality.