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For the opening exhibition, which took place on Thursday May
29, the gallery invited the artists Marta Minujin
and Claudio Roncoli to participate in the joint work
titled “Life & Venus”.
The exhibition includes the selection of five works of the
outstanding artist Marta Minujin: “Multicolored multiplying
Venus”, bronze, “Fragmenting Venus of Milo”,
in bronze, “Transformational standard”, greased
bronze, 4/6, “Epiphany’s ecstasy”, white
plaster, “Falling Venus of Milo”, painted plaster
in black and white. For his part, Claudio Roncoli has worked
his already classic creations, approaching the subject of
woman, among others, taking the images of Minujin’s
Venuses –emblematic and recurrent icon in the conceptual
repertoire of the artist- as a starting point, turning them
into the subjects of his creations. In this way, the classical
image of the ideal of beauty is dealt with, re-elaborated
and enriched by the imagery of the artists.
In words of the artist: “When Roberto Ascóniga
invited me to exhibit the project ‘Life Venus’
together with Claudio Roncoli for the opening of Enlace Gallery
in Buenos Aires, I conceived the idea and proposed that an
artist from the new pop generation, like Claudio, could work
and intervene his works starting with the image of my ‘Venuses’
in his own paintings, and so we began the joint work. The
result is a series of seven unique works ‘Life &
Venus’, signed by both artists. Each painting consists
of a mixture of images where my sculptures are the leitmotif;
besides, exhibited together with my ‘Venuses’,
they are a complement and development of the original idea.”
MARTA MINUJIN
ENLACE Arte Contemporáneo is a space for exhibition
that seeks to promote Latin American visual arts locally and
abroad through a dynamic exhibitions and participations plan.
To this aim, it works with an important selection of Latin
American artists, those backed by outstanding careers as well
as other younger and promising artists. It has held exhibitions
of the work of Francisco Toledo, José Bedia, Marta
Minujin, Marcos López, Gerardo Chávez, Carlos
Runcie, Claudio Roncoli, Jorge Vigil and Jorge Cabieses, among
others.
Enlace Arte Contemporáneo is an international art gallery,
constituted and set up in Argentina with the aim of promoting
and consolidating the links for exchange among the different
artists and the public of the region, encouraging the development
of visual arts. The gallery has recently participated in the
art fairs: Buenos Aires Photo in Argentina, 2006/07; Arteamericas
‘07 in Miami 2007/08; ArteBA ‘07 in Argentina
2006/08; ArtBO, Bogotá, Colombia, October 2007; visit
to Shanghai Art Fair, 2007. It has also organized overseas
exhibitions of its artists in La Paz and Santa Cruz in Bolivia;
in San Francisco, USA; José Bedia in Galería
de Arte Animal in Santiago de Chile in March 2008; “Unveilings
/ Tendencies”, three Peruvian artists in Berlin, Germany.
The opening of Enlace’s new gallery in Buenos Aires
constitutes an important and meaningful step and advance in
the development of the promotion and diffusion the gallery
has been implementing, as well as in the communication and
exchange. The Manujin/Roncoli exhibition may be visited until
July 29, and it is open Monday to Friday from 12:30 to 20:00,
and Saturdays from 13:00 to 16:00 in the Enlace Arte Contemporáneo
art gallery in Buenos Aires.
On the other hand, on August 5, Enlace gallery in
Lima, Peru, (Av. Pardo y Aliaga 676, San Isidro,
Lima 27 –Peru, phone: 511 222 5714, info enlaceart.com)
will open an exhibition of Antonio Seguí,
with a selection of 15 recent works.
Antonio Seguí, Córdoba – Argentina, 1934.
His first teacher was the painter Ernesto Farina from Córdoba.
He travels to Europe and Africa between 1951 and 1954, a period
in which he studies painting and sculpture. In Madrid, he
attends the San Fernando Academy and then, in Paris, L’Ecole
des Beaux Arts. He makes his first solo exhibition in Argentina
in 1957.
“Seguí has lived in a continuous formal search,
which has made him go, starting in the fifties, from neo-expressionism
to post pop nonfigurative art. His return to figurative art,
nevertheless, has been characterized by the negation of the
classical elements of the figure”. (Patricia Rodríguez:
2007). “His production is a continuous work in progress-,
which he began in the fifties, it shapes a complex weft in
which topics and procedures enter, leave, disappear and reappear
as a permanent song to the human tribe”. (Raúl
Santana: 2007)
Antonio Seguí has exhibited his work in important museums
and art galleries in Europe, Latin America and the United
States. Among others, his work has been in the Musée
des Beaux-Arts, Carcassonne, Centre d’Art Contemporain,
Mont-d-Marsan, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville
de Paris (France); Centro Cultural Recoleta, Centro Cultural
Borges, Museo de Arte Moderno (Buenos Aires, Argentina); Durban-Segnini
Gallery –Miami, Art Museum of the Americas –Washington
D.C. (USA); Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Wilfredo Lam
(Cuba); Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico); Nishimura Gallery (Japan);
in 2005 the Georges Pompidou Centre of the National
Museum of Modern Art (Paris, France) organized a retrospective
exhibition of his work, bringing important works
made between the years 1950 and 2005 together, becoming the
first exhibition of its kind that the above mentioned institution
dedicates to an Argentinean artist.
His work has been widely acknowledged. He has been awarded
the 1st Prize at the III A.C.A. Annual Painting Exhibition,
Buenos Aires, Argentina (1961); the Great Prize, “National
Museum of Western Art”, V International Print Biennial
Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan (1966); the Great Prize, Salón
Internacional of La Habana, Cuba (1966); the Great Prize,
Salón Latinoamericano of San Juan, Puerto Rico (1966);
Honour Medal, VIII International Print Biennial, Cracovia,
Poland (1980); Award Di Tella for the visual arts, Buenos
Aires, Argentina (1989); Great Prize, Fondo Nacional de las
Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1990); Platinum Konex Award
–Graphic Arts Award, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2002);
among others.
From 1963, Antonio Seguí lived in Paris and, later,
moved to Arcueil, where he lives today.
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Claudio Roncoli
“La ascención de Marta”
Mixed media on canvas
39.4 x 59 in.
Claudio Roncoli
“Happyland”
Mixed media on canvas
59 x 59 in.
Marta Minujín
“Venus multipilcándose multicolor”
Bronze
Marta Minujín
“Venus de Milo fragmentándose”
bronze
Antonio Seguí
“Algunos sin trabajo”
Acrylic on canvas
31.8 x 39.4 in.
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