Within the framework of the exhibition "El Encierro" that has been taking place at the Rubbers Gallery, the artists Jorge Pietra and Eduardo Stupía will dialogue within the framework of the ConfesArte cycle.

"El Encierro" is an exhibition that brings together 20 of Pietra's works, which can be seen until this Friday 15 of July, with free admission, of 14 a 18 hours in the enclosure located on Alvear Avenue 1640.

Regarding ConfesArte, is one of the special activities that accompany each cycle of exhibitions at Rubbers Gallery.

pietra detailed, about your sample, what for him, the 'lockdown' began a few months before the appearance of COVID as it suffered the "attack of an unidentified virus", as diagnosed by doctors.

In that context, "the plague with its fabulous images of the Middle Ages, the rats, war, the graves full of corpses appeared in my dreams, in conversations with friends and on the street in general”.

In this way, "drowned, At first, by a kind of apocalyptic anguish”, the only thing that gave the artist a certain calm was “to go back to painting on canvas and, as well, assemble boxes-luminous objects”, as Pietra explained, adding: "The painting, old friend savior of all my crises or falls ".