Abstraction in Action
Bernardo Corces https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/bernardo-corces/
Somewhere or maybe everywhere … without script, perhaps like many others, restricted by a minimum budget or better yet, not thinking about budgets.
I choose to work from what I find, from that others have left. The image starts as a riddle formulated between the places I live, things and materials collected.
Someone observes from beyond. Maybe is a neighbor who sees me under the bridge collecting cans, or the gaze of that who finds those objects in an exhibition gallery, evoking what flows under the bridge. Both cases are for me acts of survival.
I try to synchronize myself with places, to hear what the material proposes and follow the way marked by the circumstances. The image is always provisional. It works, but barely, just enough.
I insist on a premise. I am aware that something magical could be happening.
En algún lugar o tal vez en todas partes… sin guiones, quizás como tantos otros, condicionado por un presupuesto mínimo o mejor aún, sin pensar en presupuestos.
Elijo trabajar desde lo encontrado, con lo que otros han dejado. La imagen se inicia como un acertijo que formulo entre los lugares que habito, las cosas y materiales recolectados.
Más allá, alguien observa. Tal vez un vecino que me ve bajo el puente recogiendo unas latas, o es la mirada de quien encuentra en una sala de exposición esos objetos evocando lo que corre bajo el puente. Ambos casos son para mí un acto de supervivencia.
Procuro afinarme con los espacios, escuchar lo que el material propone y seguir el rumbo que marcan las circunstancias. La imagen es siempre provisional. Funciona pero apenas, sólo lo justo.
Insisto en una premisa. Estoy atento de que algo mágico pueda estar ocurriendo.
Selected Biographical Information
Education / Training
2007-2014: BFA, Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Facultad de Artes, Argentina.
2005-2006: La Guarda, with Ana María Benedetti.
2003: Provincia de Salta, Argentina, with Delmiro Barraza.
Solo Exhibitions
2013: “PASACALLE”, Rusia Galería, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
2012: “Herramientas para la construcción de un cielo nocturno”, La Puerta espacio de arte, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
2010: “Cerrar los ojos para ver”, Rusia Galería, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
2009:”Me tenés arto vieja hermosa”, El Árbol de Galeano, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
Bernardo Corces, “S/T”, 2013, Series: Dibujos para un desconocido, Drawing in Chalk on sidewalk, 31.5 x 27.56 in. (80 x 70 cm), Site-specific project. Location: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “S/T”, 2013, Series: Dibujos para un desconocido, Drawing in Chalk on sidewalk, 78.74 x 47.24 in. (200 x 120 cm), Site-specific project. Location: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “S/T”, 2013, Series: Dibujos para un desconocido, Drawing in Chalk on sidewalk, 125.98 x 78.74 in. (320 x 200 cm), Site-specific project. Location: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “S/T”, 2013, Series: Dibujos para un desconocido, Drawing in Chalk on sidewalk, Site-specific project. Location: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “Hogera”, 2011, Series: Construcciones precarias, Built with branches and burned, 15.75 x 25.59 in. (40 x 65 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “Hojarasca”, 2011, Installation, leaves of tree on the corner of the wall, Variable dimensions, Site-specific project. Location: FAUNT San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “S/T”, 2013, 7750.02 square inches (5 m2), Site-specific project. Location: San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “Amanece”, 2013, Painting on modulated structure made from wood drawer, 9.84 x 59.06 in. (25 x 150 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “Manzana”, 2010, Series: Construcciones precarias, Object, 5.91 x 1.97 in. (15 x 5 cm). Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “Sauce, Fresno y Paraiso”, 2013, Series: Atados de ramas, Wood tied, 19.69 x 3.94 in. (50 x 10 cm). Photo credit: Rusia Galeria
Bernardo Corces, “Epidermis”, 2009, Installation with billboards, 7750.02 square inches (5 m2), Site-specific project. Location: Rusia Galeria, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Rusia Galeria
Bernardo Corces, “Pasacalle”, 2013, Mobil, light and sound installation, 7750.02 square inches (5 m2), Site-specific project. Location: Rusia Galeria, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Rusia Galeria
Bernardo Corces, “Luminaria”, 2013, Series: Construcciones precarias, Light installation with bottles, in a human-powered vehicle, 47.24 x 27.56 x 94.49 in. (120 x 70 x 240 cm), Site-specific project. Location: Rusia Galeria, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Rusia Galeria
Bernardo Corces, “Un cielo nocturno”, 2012, Series: Construcciones precarias, Installation, with stones, chair and lamp, 9300.02 square inches (6 m2), Site-specific project. Location: La Puerta, espacio de arte, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Courtesy of the artist
Bernardo Corces, “Llovizna”, 2013, Series: Construcciones precarias, Action / Installation with ladder, buckets, wire netting and plastic bags filled with water, Variable dimensions, Site-specific project. Location: Rusia Galeria, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Photo credit: Rusia Galeria