Franco Ionda, Vendetta legalizzata, 1994. Luigi Pecci- Prato Colection

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Friday, May 1st: closed

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Saturday, May 2 

5 to 7 PM

Discussion: ¿books by artists or books-objects?

With Belén Gache, Teresa Pereda, Facundo de Zuviría
Hosted by Horacio Zabala

On the ocassion of the exhibition Libros de artista (Books by artist), from the Luigi Pecci Collection, and Proa en la Boca, with photographic books by Facundo de Zuviría.

Fundación Proa - Auditorium
Av. Pedro de Mendoza 1929, La Boca, Buenos Aires

Admission: $ 10 (general), $ 6 (students). Includes entrance to the exhibitions

Booking: auditorio@proa.org / 4104-1000

Wednesday, 15th April

5:00 to 7:00 pm

The digital era: a challenge for the culture of XXI century

Conference by Paula Perissinotto

Director of International Festival of Electronic Languages (FILE) of San Pablo, Brasil

The International Festival of Electronic Languages (FILE) carries out in San Paul from 2000. Year after year, they present works in format of video, animation, cinema and new means, with the aim to create an international platform that dialogue with the problematic ones of the digital global culture, promoting aesthetics and cultural events. (more…)

In the last days, the most respected critics and media of Argentina centred their looks on the current exhibitions of Proa. Art in the Auditorium, Books of Artist, Block, Proa in la Boca and The commissures of La Boca are analyzed in their different formats (books and video) and the transformation of the exhibition spaces to turn Proa so much in a space of silence as of experimentation, according to each exhibition.

In her article of Perfil newspaper, Mercedes Urquiza emphasizes that Proa “is characterized for contributing to the agenda of the visual arts the seasoning of the exotic thing, since in its programming is dedicated to international creators not known for the local public” and the vocation of the Foundation for “turning into one of the big modals of the circuit of the Latin-American art”. On Art in the Auditorium indicates that “the sample offers a heterogeneous paneo for very recent works of young creators” and emphasizes Leandro Erlich’s presence, ” probably the Argentine young artist of major international projection “.

Ana Maria Battistozzi, in the cultural Ñ of Clarín newspaper, analyzes the different temporality and experiences that the spectator of Proa must adopt opposite to samples of different supports (the video and the book), since they are Art in the Auditorium and Artist’s Books. “So different they are as that one sends to the universe museum - library and other one, to the media evanescencia. It is enough to happen from an area to other one to notice that also it recounts to manners very separated from attention “, thinks over Battistozzi.

Battistozzi’s analysis also includes the installation Block, of Jorge Macchi: ” dispersed here and there, his drawings work as tracks to continuing in pursuit of a statement that each one can imagine to his whim”, to rescue in his article. And also he refers to “El consultorio del psicoanalista”, of Erlich: “Conceibed for an Argentinian in the mother land of Lacan, works as space to speculate of multiple implications, where the exchange of roles plays a fundamental role. But not for mere random the place of his visual concretion is the video, unique projection capable of catching the sense fantasmático that the artist has wanted to give him “, says Battistozzi.

After emphasizing also the difference between the visual supports and the printed pages, Daniel Molina, in the supplement DNA La Nación newspaper, he emphasizes that ” to Foundation Proa they allow a look of set this process that led to the arts to living in condition of permanent experimentation”. And finally, on the complete tour of the public in Proa, the critic affirms: “The total tour needs of a very relaxed spectator, capable of dedicating a long hour to seeing videoes and artist’s books. It is a kind of machine of the time that transports us to the mentality and the perceptions of another epoch, but realized with materials of last generation”.

The visitors of Proa are reflected in Erlich´s installation.

Art critics and media comment the installation by Leandro Erlich in Proa, which can be visited until April 26 at Pedro de Mendoza 1929, Buenos Aires.

In Ambito Financiero newspaper, Ana Maria Quijano highlights Erlich as an artist, “with the skill of an illusionist, returns to test the viewer’s perception” and adds: “Erlich appropriates a brief space, a room where not only recreates the unmistakable couch patient but also the chair of the psychoanalyst, the typical moderate light and the wall covered with books, the neutral style of the furniture in short, small and large details that make the ‘clinic’ is a place for the most intimate thoughts. ”

Erlich´s installation is part of “Art in the Auditorium”, the exhibition organized by Whitechapel Gallery and that now is presented in Fundación Proa.

To view the complete article, click here.

The exhibitions are supported by Tenaris.

Diego Perrone. Still frame from I Verdi Giorni, 2000. Courtesy Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy.

Following the recognized success of the exhibition Marcel Duchamp: a work that is not a work “of art” , Fundación Proa announces its activities for the 2009 season 2009.

The program, which will inaugurate on March 14 at 14 hs, will cover Proa´s entire building, presenting not only in the exhibition rooms but also in the Library  and Café, transforming its daily life through the interventions and presentations of artists, photographers, and curators.

The ground floor will present ”Art in the Auditorium”, an exhibition on contemporary video installations, organized by the Whitechapel Gallery of London, and now arriving to La Boca.

The first floor will be dedicated to the honoring of books in their different forms of expressions: its history as a reflection of contemporary artistic movements in  “Artists’ Books “;
presented as an installation with Jorge Macchi’s “Block”; as an album-book through Facundo de Zuviría’s photographic perspective.

The cafeteria and the terrace, on the second floor, will be taken over by the invited artists Karina Granieri and Julia Masvernat, whom will intervene the facilities basing themselves on the concept of nutrition.

March-April exhibitions

Supported by Tenaris

1 Art in the Auditorium

Organized by the Whitechapel Gallery, London

An exhibition on current video installation which brings together the most outstanding contemporary expressions.

Artists: Leandro Erlich, Shahryar Nashat, Cornelia Parker, among others.

2 Artists’ Books of the Luigi Pecci Prato collection

The history of 20th century art’s different movements as seen in 81 books by Italian artists, such as Boetti, Fontana, Pistoletto, and Cattelan.

Presented on occasion of the Feria del Libro in Buenos Aires.

In collaboration with the Instituto Italiano de Cultura de Buenos Aires.

3 Installation: Block, by Jorge Macchi

In the PROA Library area, the artist Jorge Macchi will present an installation of his new book.

In collaboration with the Embassy of Italy.

4 PROA through the vision of Facundo de Zuviria

Photographs of Fundacion PROA’s architecture.

5 Interventions in PROA’s cafeteria

Invited artists Karina Granieri and Julia Masvernat will carry out different interventions.