Artists: Leandro Katz, Horacio Zabala, Lucio Dorr, Silvana Lacarra, Andrés Sobrino, Jorge Miño, Ivana Vollaro, Pablo Accinelli, Nicolás Mastracchio, Marcela Sinclair, Tomás Espina, Matías Duville, Mathieu Mercier, Marcolina Dipierro, Alfio Demestre, Eduardo Basualdo, Guido Yannitto, Erica Bohm, Malena Pizani, Mariano Vilela, Anna María Maiolino, Ascânio MMM, Knopp Ferro, João Costa da Silva, Lothar Charoux, Rogelio Polesello, Beto de Volder, Pilar Ferreira, Manuel Álvarez, João Carlos Galvão and Raúl Lozza.
Cromofobia
November 15, 2014 – March 1, 2015
Curator: Teresa Riccardi
MACBA
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Entre la luz y su ausencia, una reunión de imágenes, esculturas, dibujos y fotografías contemporáneas proyectan temporariamente un espacio formal y acromático en MACBA. Como si se tratara de una cámara resonante que desafía el umbral audible intensificándolo o neutralizándolo, las piezas que integran esta exhibición en blanco y negro ocupan la arquitectura del museo creando un relato que cancela la posibilidad expansiva e inmaterial que nos propone el color para pensar la gramática formal que instalan los extremos lumínicos y opacos.
En esta constelación, la certeza gobierna sobre la inestabilidad sugerida por la variación de tintes y cromas, evitando los desvaríos del color, las explosiones y sus afinidades selectivas. Cromofobia no intenta construir formas de interacción a partir de sus tintes, sino a partir de sus valores y significaciones. Donde cada intervalo de sentido se elabora en la superficie material, y las gradaciones o volúmenes espaciales se reparten entre las distintas intensidades de fuente lumínica. En esta manifestación, ciertas piezas, exteriorizan las progresiones intermedias que componen la escala de los grises.
Cromofobia nos invita a percibir las obras, su planteo formal y nos acerca a la subjetividad que se inscribe detrás del conocimiento sensible y lenguaje de cada artista. Expone un modo posible de ver usos diversos del blanco y el negro, y en ello, de qué modo ésta elección adquiere un peso específico, una gravedad discursiva. No obstante la restricción del color, la exhibición nos abre hacia otra lectura fenomenológica de los objetos, las cuales despliegan un horizonte de posibilidades para poder mirarlas y comprenderlas.
Esta exhibición reúne piezas de: Leandro Katz, Horacio Zabala, Lucio Dorr, Silvana Lacarra, Andrés Sobrino, Jorge Miño, Ivana Vollaro, Pablo Accinelli, Nicolás Mastracchio, Marcela Sinclair, Tomás Espina, Matías Duville, Mathieu Mercier, Marcolina Dipierro, Alfio Demestre, Eduardo Basualdo, Guido Yannitto, Erica Bohm, Malena Pizani y Mariano Vilela. También se incluyen obras de la Colección MACBA de los artistas Anna María Maiolino, Ascânio MMM, Knopp Ferro, João Costa da Silva, Lothar Charoux, Rogelio Polesello, Beto de Volder, Pilar Ferreira, Manuel Álvarez, João Carlos Galvão y Raúl Lozza.
MACBA presents Chromophobia, an exhibition that brings together works from its collection with the work of invited contemporary artists. The pieces included in this exhibition in black and white occupy the museum’s architecture creating a story that cancels the expansive and intangible possibilities of color in order to think of the formal grammar and senses installed by lighting and opaque matter extremes.
Chromophobia brings together works by: Leandro Katz, Horacio Zabala, Lucio Dorr, Silvana Lacarra, Andrés Sobrino, Jorge Miño, Ivana Vollaro, Pablo Accinelli, Nicolás Mastracchio, Marcela Sinclair, Tomás Espina, Matías Duville, Mathieu Mercier, Marcolina Dipierro, Alfio Demestre, Eduardo Basualdo, Guido Yannitto, Erica Bohm, Malena Pizani and Mariano Vilela. Works of the MACBA Collection by Anna Maria Maiolino, Ascânio MMM, Knopp Ferro, João Costa da Silva, Lothar Charoux, Rogelio Polesello, Beto de Volder, Pilar Ferreira, Manuel Álvarez, João Carlos Galvão and Raúl Lozza are also included.
It is a constellation of artists working on pieces that talk about the corporal experience of space, as in the case of Anna Maria Maiolino and Ascânio MMM of Brazil, which inspire and open the bet to other object-based and perceptual dialogues with Argentine artists of the same generation, such as Horacio Zabala and Leandro Katz, or new generations of artists as Eduardo Basualdo, Pablo Accinelli and Marcolina Dipierro. In all cases, their poetics- anchored in the gap between analytical reason and sensorial experience of space and language- suggest a palpable, tactile and visible condition of the body projected or absorbed into the surface of the material and conceptual pieces.
As if they were dissociated from the apparent reality, certain photographic pieces move metaphorically from the earthly to the spectrum, giving spatiality other senses. This is true in the series of photographs by Erica Bohm, Jorge Miño, Guido Yannitto and Leandro Katz, that transport us into a dimension disclosed only by the fictional pact.
Certain gestures, heirs of a formal and conceptual minimalism, dialogue with the MACBA Collection in pieces by Horacio Zabala, Andrés Sobrino, Marcolina Dipierro and Lucio Dorr, compositions that install a narrative space with geometry of minimal units.
The white corporeality is tested by other relationships: Pablo Accinelli, Silvana Lacarra and Ivana Vollaro reduce the image to a minimum in their works, revealing the sensitivity of the materials. Other subsections bodies and cutting materials take shape such as Marcela Sinclair’s intervention performed on a vintage photographs, and pieces of soot on paper with geometrical figures and mandalas of Tomas Espina. The black and white, the paper, the charcoal and the graphite come to life in the imaginary worlds of Matías Duville and abstract pieces by Mariano Vilela, respectively.
In this statement from Chromophobia, perceiving the works and their formal proposal is to see how the use of white and black acquires a specific weight, discursive and poetic gravity that empowers the spatial relationship with the viewer.