Art Events
South Landscapes
The gender of the landscape has been the main topic of this exhibition in the Gallery Nights Porteñas, organized by Estudio Garrido Abogados. Along these 5 years of Art events every one has been enjoying the paints of remarkable and significant artists that concentrated their attention in the endless variety of landscapes offered by our national territory.
The vision of the European artists was so immense and colossal, so astonished and captivated that, this people embedded the migratory waves of the young nation of La Plata, arriving to these lands with their painter profession, with a more passionate and more scouting look in comparison with the native ones, they launched to paths barely drawn in the search of their more attractive corners of this country.
Thus, a projection of landscape images started recalling: the remote horizons of the fertile, rich and abundant Pampa plains addressing to be fertilized; the embroiled fluvial Tigre and the multiples channels and islets that compose the Delta of the Paraná; the serenity of Córdoba, its mountain ranges, its streams and clear and transparent skies; the most rustic Salta, with its plains and its heights. Also the Andean mountains and the overflowing rivers of the Litoral.
Moreover, the painters from Buenos Aires and its neighbourhoods were in this exhibition, like those who made the Boca and its port the leit motiv of their work, and the ones who were on both banks of the stream sublimated with the Art of a reality routine that was not always gratifying.
The suburbs of the cosmopolitan city, as well as the wide oceanic coasts and its harbours, obtained in due time their own space for their role.
The landscapes shown described in every case the multiple stage that our land proposes to its inhabitants. Life, work, passions and loves have always a contained sightseeing that impregnates the reflection that the artist makes of them on his canvas.
Today is the turn of the south of our territory. To that national very far point where the arid steppe and hostile and sweet beauty of the lakes and surroundings coexist. High mountains, eternal snowfields, glaciers that unify the present and the secular past. The Patagonia in its splendour, in the vision of the artists who toured it when still was a desolated and virgin territory. An example is the Austrian-Hungarian Svetovar Franciscovich, who travelled around the Beagle. The Bariloche area and the Nahuel Huapi lake were explored and crossed by painters from different origins. The Italians like Reinaldo Giudici and Tomás Di Taranto, the Spaniards like Luis Macaya, Juan Orihuel, Enrique Rodríguez, Pedro Roca and Marsal and José Roig, the Deutsch Jacques Witjens, the Romanian Demetrio Filip and the Austrian Otón Ringer were, at their times and in their circumstances, delighted by this scene as much Argentinean as evocative of its landscape root causes.
In those latitudes the presence of national artists were recognized like Américo Panozzi, who took and made the snow landscape his own speciality. Also artists like Ceferino Carnacini, a frequent traveller, Vicente Indalecio Pereyra, Francisco Mariani, Carlos Binaghi and Emilio Romero, toured the zone of the lakes. Luis Rádice left testimonies of the Welsh colonization in the Atlantic Patagonia, and ending this list of artists that composes this exhibition is Marcela Rettig, a contemporary visioner, with her embedded language in the current plastic, composes a reading commensurate with a landscape that we, Argentineans, have already integrated in our deepest experiences.
The vision of the European artists was so immense and colossal, so astonished and captivated that, this people embedded the migratory waves of the young nation of La Plata, arriving to these lands with their painter profession, with a more passionate and more scouting look in comparison with the native ones, they launched to paths barely drawn in the search of their more attractive corners of this country.
Thus, a projection of landscape images started recalling: the remote horizons of the fertile, rich and abundant Pampa plains addressing to be fertilized; the embroiled fluvial Tigre and the multiples channels and islets that compose the Delta of the Paraná; the serenity of Córdoba, its mountain ranges, its streams and clear and transparent skies; the most rustic Salta, with its plains and its heights. Also the Andean mountains and the overflowing rivers of the Litoral.
Moreover, the painters from Buenos Aires and its neighbourhoods were in this exhibition, like those who made the Boca and its port the leit motiv of their work, and the ones who were on both banks of the stream sublimated with the Art of a reality routine that was not always gratifying.
The suburbs of the cosmopolitan city, as well as the wide oceanic coasts and its harbours, obtained in due time their own space for their role.
The landscapes shown described in every case the multiple stage that our land proposes to its inhabitants. Life, work, passions and loves have always a contained sightseeing that impregnates the reflection that the artist makes of them on his canvas.
Today is the turn of the south of our territory. To that national very far point where the arid steppe and hostile and sweet beauty of the lakes and surroundings coexist. High mountains, eternal snowfields, glaciers that unify the present and the secular past. The Patagonia in its splendour, in the vision of the artists who toured it when still was a desolated and virgin territory. An example is the Austrian-Hungarian Svetovar Franciscovich, who travelled around the Beagle. The Bariloche area and the Nahuel Huapi lake were explored and crossed by painters from different origins. The Italians like Reinaldo Giudici and Tomás Di Taranto, the Spaniards like Luis Macaya, Juan Orihuel, Enrique Rodríguez, Pedro Roca and Marsal and José Roig, the Deutsch Jacques Witjens, the Romanian Demetrio Filip and the Austrian Otón Ringer were, at their times and in their circumstances, delighted by this scene as much Argentinean as evocative of its landscape root causes.
In those latitudes the presence of national artists were recognized like Américo Panozzi, who took and made the snow landscape his own speciality. Also artists like Ceferino Carnacini, a frequent traveller, Vicente Indalecio Pereyra, Francisco Mariani, Carlos Binaghi and Emilio Romero, toured the zone of the lakes. Luis Rádice left testimonies of the Welsh colonization in the Atlantic Patagonia, and ending this list of artists that composes this exhibition is Marcela Rettig, a contemporary visioner, with her embedded language in the current plastic, composes a reading commensurate with a landscape that we, Argentineans, have already integrated in our deepest experiences.
Adrián Gualdoni Basualdo
October 2013
