* The works exhibited in Impromptu were produced in Buenos Aires, 2014, in collaboration with students from the National University of Arts and teachers and students of the Municipal Institute of Ceramics of Avellaneda.
The works belong to the artist's collection.
Room 2
La ciudad del sueño eterno, 2014
Pólvora sobre papel
300 x 1200cm
Centinelas del Valle Encantado, 2014
Pólvora sobre papel
300 x 1600cm
Agua Grande, 2014
Pólvorasobrepapel
300 x 1600 cm
The colossal sizes of the drawings turn them into spatial works, allowing viewers to enter into the scene of the drawing. The content of each drawing and the relationship between the drawings reflect the experiences I had when exploring the landscapes of Argentina, feeling the country’s land with my body and taking a stroll in the geographical and cultural landscapes of Argentina. When making the drawings, I used my body to experience the landscapes again: the mountain ranges of Cachi, where fog constantly comes and goes, and the spiky cacti that absorb moisture from the fog; the boundless Iguazú Falls that have no beginning and no end; and the cemetery where the eternal “residents” slumber in harmony on the distant plateau of Cachi. There I met a family and helped them repaint their parents’ graves with a few strokes of new paint.
When I made the drawings, the paper was laid on the floor. I used my arms and hands to rub and push gunpowder; then I decided where to ignite the fuse and where to add weight on top of the drawing to intensify the explosion. This process allowed me to re-experience both the visible and the unseen energies in the landscapes, reinitiating my conversation with nature. The explosion enabled me to revisit the relationships in energy: the cascading waterfalls; the rising water vapour; the rain that follows; how they sculpt the movement in valleys and so on. When audiences observed me creating the work, they saw that I was taking a journey in nature as I was drawing. Like me, they also embarked on an adventure, and they waited for gunpowder to bring about a magical, instantaneous transformation both before and after the ignition. Everyone followed me on this journey, a process during which they experienced the same excitement and anxiety as I did, in anticipation of an unknown destiny.
It is thanks to the hard work and emotional intelligence of dozens of volunteers from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA) that made this group of Works extraordinarily grounded in this land. ”
Rastros de enredadera, 2014
Pólvora sobretela, dos paneles
630 x 174 cm
The ceramic flowers and leaves were spread out on canvas and ignited with gunpowder. After the ignition, the resulting ink-dark smoke has left a painterly image on the canvas with imprints of the morning glory flowers and leaves.