From Thursday 25 of March, the National Museum of Fine Arts will exhibit “Pandemic”, the most recent work of the outstanding artist Marta Minujín.

this realization, devised during the period of isolation, accounts for the global health emergency, the passage of time and the process of construction of the piece.

As explained from the traditional Buenos Aires enclosure, since May 2020, Minujín carried out an obsessive work, precious and rigorous to elaborate this work: spent several hours a day applying a total of 22.600 strips with small blank squares, black and seven shades of gray on a fabric 260 x 210 cm.

At the same time, each fragment also comes from a painstaking process, in which Marta painted small canvases consisting of black parallel lines, white and gray. Later, cut them crosswise into thin strips that generate a grid of little squares of no more than 2 O 3 millimeters side, which was then placed in the great rack.

“The montage of‘ Pandemia ’in the entrance hall of the Museum includes a projection with movement of the same plot on the canvas, which produces a subtle kinetic effect that enhances its magnetism ", Andrés Duprat advances, director of the Fine Arts.

As a result, there appears “a very delicate plot composed of hundreds of thousands of little squares that, somehow, represent a count in time or a statistic that suggests the days spent in a pandemic or the number of victims. For its forcefulness, it's a great work of art. Original, solid, sensitive and very mobilizing, taking into account the context and the events that we have to live ", he added.

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