Fundación PROA
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929 La Boca, Caminito
[C1169AAD] Buenos Aires
Argentina
-
T [54.11] 4104.1000
E info@proa.org
-
From Tuesdays to Sundays
11 - 19 hrs.
Mondays closed.
-
Fundación Proa is supported by Tenaris - Organización Techint
Brown, 2009
Mural. Wall mirror, screen printing and painting.
250 x 240 cm
Brown, 2009
Mural. Wall mirror, screen printing and painting
250 x 240 cm
Mariela Scafati intervenes on the wall of the Proa Café with the work "Brown", a wall of mirrors with screen-printed or hand-painted frames that indicate the details of the reflected landscapes. In so doing, the work provokes an exchange of glances that complicates the space, seeking to enhance the absurdity of each architectural form and the geometries that are produced. The choice of the palette of browns links the piece to the color of the river, an effect primarily achieved through the mirrored reflections.
The mirror intervenes again in the cafeteria, challenging the perception of the surrounding Boca landscape, inserting itself in these surroundings in an awesome, almost imposing manner. “The mirror would enhance the architectural form; to see this image replicated, something unfamiliar to any architecture that would appear inhabitable; to see replicated something so familiar from our outside surroundings (...) It is the magic of the word of an artist, who simply said, so simple and so beautiful and so transforming," said the artist about the contemplation of her work.
The fragile and reflective nature of the mirror also alludes to the fragility of the landscape, the perceptive changes and the visual field surrounding us. In this way it is related to another of the works of Boundary that explores the limits: of the real space of Proa and its linkages with La Boca, and with interior and exterior architecture. The mirror, as another reflection, and also the paintings on the frames, act as boundaries between the outside world and the representation of the interior.
CV
She was born in 1973. Studied Visual Art and Graphics Design in Bahía Blanca. She won the scolarships of the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2006) and Guillermo Kuitca (1997 to 1999). She participated of the Workshops Bogo-día, Centre du Soleil d’Afrique in the National Bienal of Photography, Mali, Africa, and a residence in the Centre de Art Contemporain 19, Montbeliard, France.
She created with Magdalena Jitrik and Diego Posadas the “Taller Popular de Serigrafía”. She had participated in a lot of urban interventions and actions in collaboration with another artists.