AwardSeptember 24, 2020· By Mercedes Casanegra
Trabucco Award. Other media 2019
The Trabucco Award is organized annually by the National Academy of Fine Arts. Dedicated to different specialties, its 2019 edition, opened in March 2020, was dedicated to Other Media. Ten artists participated, and the unanimous winning work was Florence Levy's Lugar fósil, a video filmed in various cities in China, on the urgent issue of the planet's environmental pollution. "In the wake of greenhouse gas emissions, oil spills, acid rain, the annihilation of animals, the economy based on fossil fuels; in other words, the catastrophe and its representation policies are not anonymous," asserts in the script. A careful selection of images exhibits the artist's radical commitment to the progressive damage that human beings inflict on planet Earth.
In an unforeseen way, the concepts of dystopia and utopia result in exegesis keys for reading the set of works in the entire exhibition. Des / Inventario by Cristina Piffer is silk-screen printing with bovine fat on cotton paper on sheet metal tables. The artist works with historical documents, and in this case, they are human remains of indigenous origin from the 19th century from the Anthropological Section of the Museum of La Plata, province of Buenos Aires, always questioning political facts of the past.
From the Fuerza Diagonal series, 2019, Trinchera is Silvia Rivas' video installation of 5' and 24' duration. The entire series alludes to the idea of Hanna Arendt, from whom the concept of the title of her work Between Past and Future was taken: eight exercises on political reflection.
La Propiedad de Todo is Gabriela Golder's video installation. Two facing screens give visibility to two women, grandmother, and granddaughter. A dialogue happens between two generations of females in line. It is about a renewed understanding of the world from the present behind the mirror of the past.
Fortuna material by Eugenia Calvo presents a large wardrobe closed by iron plate bands and stopped fans. The concern about the mute confinement is powerful and mysterious.
Tejedor, by Diego Alberti, electronic installation, investigates a line between digital matrices and ancestral autochthonous tissues. Galumphing by Rubén Grau is a utopian construction installation of houses with wooden pallets, which reviews the concepts of freedom, manual work, and language. Juan Sorrentino presented Quincha, an ephemeral sound installation, a cube painted with blood and lime that cracks and crumbles in resonance with social, economic and political crises. Teatro Científico by Pablo Lapadula, is a poetic installation of natural and artificial pieces; and Cómo se Abandona un Barco by Valeria Conte Mac Donell is an installation that investigates the boundary between the human and the animal in an abandoned ship.
In an unforeseen way, the concepts of dystopia and utopia result in exegesis keys for reading the set of works in the entire exhibition. Des / Inventario by Cristina Piffer is silk-screen printing with bovine fat on cotton paper on sheet metal tables. The artist works with historical documents, and in this case, they are human remains of indigenous origin from the 19th century from the Anthropological Section of the Museum of La Plata, province of Buenos Aires, always questioning political facts of the past.
From the Fuerza Diagonal series, 2019, Trinchera is Silvia Rivas' video installation of 5' and 24' duration. The entire series alludes to the idea of Hanna Arendt, from whom the concept of the title of her work Between Past and Future was taken: eight exercises on political reflection.
La Propiedad de Todo is Gabriela Golder's video installation. Two facing screens give visibility to two women, grandmother, and granddaughter. A dialogue happens between two generations of females in line. It is about a renewed understanding of the world from the present behind the mirror of the past.
Fortuna material by Eugenia Calvo presents a large wardrobe closed by iron plate bands and stopped fans. The concern about the mute confinement is powerful and mysterious.
Tejedor, by Diego Alberti, electronic installation, investigates a line between digital matrices and ancestral autochthonous tissues. Galumphing by Rubén Grau is a utopian construction installation of houses with wooden pallets, which reviews the concepts of freedom, manual work, and language. Juan Sorrentino presented Quincha, an ephemeral sound installation, a cube painted with blood and lime that cracks and crumbles in resonance with social, economic and political crises. Teatro Científico by Pablo Lapadula, is a poetic installation of natural and artificial pieces; and Cómo se Abandona un Barco by Valeria Conte Mac Donell is an installation that investigates the boundary between the human and the animal in an abandoned ship.
