7TH ANNUAL ARTEBA- PETROBRAS VISUAL ARTS PRIZE

SELECTED PROJECTS
Under the direction of essayist and freelance curator Rafael Cippolini, the arteBA Foundation launched the seventh annual arteBA-Petrobas Visual Arts Prize, in which each of the five projects selected will receive the economic support of $12,000 (twelve thousand pesos) for its execution and subsequent exhibition in the nineteenth Contemporary Art Fair, arteBA´10, which will take place between June 25 and 29 in the convention center La Rural.

Once the winning projects have been exhibited at the Fair, a second, International Prize-Giving Jury will award a (non-acquisitional) Incentive Prize of $50,000 (fifty thousand pesos). The prize will be granted after the final in situ installation of the works.

Together with Rafael Cippolini, the Selection Jury, made up of the artists Diana Aisenberg (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and Adrián Villar Rojas (Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina) chose five projects among those in competition – by individual artists or collectives – to exhibit their works in the Fair.

The jury is convinced that the five projects chosen are works necessary to the development of the local art circuit at this start of a new decade. With dissimilar interests (investigations of contexts, poetics of forms and urban disciplines, historic-formal inquiries, performance activities that explore sound, and even a playful visual self-reflection on the demands of an art fair), the following artists were unanimously chosen for a suggestive cohabitation of the new space dedicated in this year’s fair to the prize.

Mario Caporali (1979, Rosario, Santa Fe) will stage his GUO CHENG CRATER, a performance installation with galactic reminiscences, a scenario of visual and sonic experiments.

Mariano Giraud (1977, Buenos Aires) will exhibit COSMOS, mini-ramp or halfpipe, inspired by astronomy for skateboarding practice, with live choreography.

Rodolfo Marqués (1982, Buenos Aires) will show his project MONUMENT FOR THE MAY PYRAMID, conceived as a setting to give a national emblem, and inspired by historical proposals from 1826 and 1906.

Adriana Miranda (1969, San Juan) will construct THE SPACE OF HERE, a presentation (through documentation and recording) of an four-year urban investigation focusing on the discovery of two local breeds of dogs in the city of San Juan: the Andean Delmer and the Andean Delafer.

The “Double Suspension” Collective - Mercedes Azpilicueta (1981, Buenos Aires), Irina Kirchuk (1983, Buenos Aires), Juan Odriozola (1980, Buenos Aires), Fernando Sucari (1983, Buenos Aires) and Guido Yannitto (1981, Mendoza) – will present their ACÁ D.I.O.S (Damos instrumentos o Soluciones) [a punning title literally meaning “Here, God,” in which “God” (Dios) is an acronym standing for “Give Us Tools or Solutions”] described as a tool box and work platform, and above all, an “omnipresent viewing gallery for a great functioning system” – a description which indeed applies as well to any large art fair.