Of the sample "Paraconstrucción "exhibited at the brand new Itaú Cultural Area, the work of one of the artists struck me particularly. This is Jorge tirnen, who presented, as all the rest, a work created for the exhibition space, ie a specific site, which is a model Fiat Auto Europe, which once moved the exhibition space were you gallons spilled cement on the inside to fill it.
The procedure is not new. Rachel Whiteread, a British artist, filled with plaster, resin and other materials no less than houses, those of the Victorian style so recognizable real size, making them completely unusable but it can draw inside an unprecedented way: as a giant mold which is no longer any place for any visitor but which were registered to their innermost recesses and marks left by those who once lived there. Defunctionalization
This is also present in the work of tirnen as was the friendly away to its former destination Fitito as a means of motorized transport.
Interestingly, though not flawless look for their external condition, it was out of use since before becoming part of the sample, and left by the wayside as did was put in a position patiently by the artist and painted a fiery red.
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meeting certain seduction in the works to be transformed over time, and whose outcome we can predict but not entirely predict. An aura of mystery around it is for us, spectators, and for the creator who gave life to the creature, as with "Life, death and resurrection " those shapes lead Victor Grippo, filled germinating bean that sooner or later would explode.
hardly the car explode as it did with these figures, but who knows? Perhaps someone has ever experienced? As soon as we can see in the car are the tires buckling under the weight of cement, stroking the limit of their endurance.
a material generally used to define contours, is here filling the empty space that usually go around in the buildings of which it forms part. Beyond its constructive sense, we can not forget the sad and chilling connotation that keeps this material with our recent history.
I wonder if at some point be in the artist's intention to remove the "shell" representing the car's body, and to let us glimpse the negative of it from a completely new perspective, revealing that place between seats and flyers reserved in most cases, our human anatomy.
giving something invisible physical entity is also the sign of Jorge Macchi in Ruth Benzacar of which we'll talk soon.
Itaú Cultural Space and Viamonte
Cerrito
Until May 14, 2010
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