New photographic exhibition at the Teatro San Martín
The Buenos Aires Theater Complex will inaugurate the Natur-e exhibition, with a selection of photographs by Alexander Chaskielberg, in the Alfredo Alcón Hall of the San Martín Theater.
This exhibition corresponds to the work carried out by the artist in the framework of the Covid-19 pandemic and can be seen, With free entry, until Sunday 20 of August.
The opening will be on Wednesday. 28 June from 18.30 on the premises located on Avenida Corrientes 1530. Once opened, can be visited every day 14 a 20 hours.
Chaskielberg will exhibit his work for the first time in the CTBA Photogallery and the exhibited material will be that registered in Patagonia, at the time when the artist was with his daughter in the midst of a pandemic, isolated in a forest.
The exhibition invites you to reflect on nature, the overwhelming connectivity, digital life and their own daily life.
Helena Ferronato, curator of the exhibition and also in charge of the coordination and curatorship of Visual Arts of the Complejo Teatral de Buenos Aires, He maintained that "The 'pandemic system' indicated some basic rules of survival such as staying at home and social isolation. He proposed an excess of positivity and work, school, courses, workshops and everything that one could imagine through the internet connection”.
At the same time, he added: "Fortunately, In any system there are always flaws and Alejandro and his daughter Lara were able to slip through a, and they withdrew from the city to take shelter in the forest. They went into nature and lived for almost a year in a tiny house with the mountains as a setting., away from psychosis, hyperconnectivity, information overload and alienation experienced in large centers. A resounding question is: were they protecting themselves from the virus or were they protecting themselves from humanity?”.
Ferronato states that "the past photographic works of Alejandro Chaskielberg, mostly, they usually portray one another, people, communities, peoples in their own territories. In this case, the focus was inward, He portrayed his own daily life together with his daughter and with this series he let us know the world that he discovered through his lens”.