With the exhibitions Integrated and Latest and First (impressions), by the artists Juan Rey and Pablo Ziccarello, respectively, the season started 2017 from Espacio Pla gallery, located in Malabia 1841.

Both samples can be enjoyed until 29 of April, Wednesday to Saturday from 16 a 20 hours, or a previous appointment can be arranged.

La Vereda had the opportunity to dialogue with the exhibitors and with Celina Pla, director of the cultural venue. It should be noted that the Integrated exhibition is curated by Silvana Spadaccini, while the curators of Last and First are Aita and Alix de la Barriere.

As detailed Celina, “A total of 36 works from the production of both artists; 32 works belong to Juan Rey and the remaining four correspond to Ziccarello, in which Dust is made up of 49 small-format works that collectively make up a mosaic ".

What does it mean for the gallery to start the season exhibiting the work of these artists?

It means a bet and a challenge. We define ourselves within the circuit as a space that advocates for new media and digital art. But understanding that these tools are part of the technique that makes the work, that is to say, they are a means not an end in itself. This is why when it comes to selecting the artists finally summoned, what prevails is the content itself.; what the work tells us or transmits.

We believe this symbolic value is essential in each sample, since we understand that technology has different and diverse implications in an artistic work, technology can be both 3d printing - how booming it is- like photographic technique and even oil at the time, but we must begin to blur these pre-established limits in the technical language of works of art, since in everyday life these borders do not exist. We inhabit a globalized and technological world.

What balance was made of all the exhibitions held the previous year and what can the public expect throughout this season?

We do not stop learning along with the growth of Espacio Pla. Every exhibition is a challenge, not only in terms of assembly and production but also in terms of acquired knowledge. We are guided by standards that many might consider high, but that are linked to our search for the professionalization of the environment in which we work.

We come from a 2016 dealing with widely recognized artists within the “world” of the new media and Argentine digital art, but not so within the artistic circuit and market. That is why when presenting the work of Juan Rey, winner of the Grand Prize of Honor of the 102nd National Salon of Visual Arts, category New Stands, together with the production of Pablo Ziccarello, who has participated in programs abroad and his work was acquired by museums, collectors, etc. We seek to expand the panorama within Espacio Pla as well as within the artistic circuit.

On the other hand, and according to these goals set by the cultural space, the “artists invited are Eva Shin who will work on mapped video projections, 3d printing and video art on screens; Leonardo Solaas whose production will be artisan (Cold porcelain) and low-tech; Jorge Haro will present work related to the visualization of sound, trying to provoke a poetic and hyper-textual reading and the use of light and its spectrum of colors; Lucas DM who crosses computer engineering with graphic design developing visual pieces; and finally a large exhibition on the upper floor where the work of different lines of work by Eduardo Pla will be presented in dialogue with invited artists: Diego Alberti, Sebastián German, Kevin Kripper, Patricio González Alive, Manolo Gamboa Naon, Lolo Armendariz and Azul De Monte, under the curatorship of Merlina Rañi and Guido Corillo ", Celina Pla noted.

While, when consulted by Circuitos correspondences and Mindboard, series that can be seen in the exhibition, Juan Rey explained that “there are two series, two lines of work and research that I have been developing in recent years and that come together in this exhibition ".

King added: "Circuits and correspondences inquires about circuits of different nature. A physical one where the transformation of energy is physically manifested. Other social, complex path that ideas must go through in order to be deployed in the field of visual arts. Mindboard is a return to painting through a mechanical device ".

How does the creative process of your works develop??

The two series presented here share the ability to be displayed through a digital matrix. Circuits and correspondences goes through a chemical process, Mindboard a physical process. Both processes of an industrial nature allow us to approach a spiritual experience.

What strikes you the most about machinery as an extension of the body?

The body is an expressive machine. I am interested in its possibility of mechanical expression and its mechanics of perception.

What do you hope to awaken in the viewer with your work?

Empathy.

According to Pablo Ziccarello, the idea of ​​juxtaposing perhaps dissimilar works and with 20 years of difference was born from the fact of “having spent so many years working on works of different formats, media, brackets, etc, but that nevertheless share a poetic tune or certain related formal features ".

The artist adds that “the title of the exhibition appeals to the double meaning, because some of the works made a long time ago and some of the latest ones technically share the same printing procedure, and on the other hand it defines the idea of ​​making a retrospective synthesis show ".

When dealing with last and first impressions, what was yours when you saw the finished work?

The last perception is the one that confirms and / or modifies the course set by the first intuition.

This exhibition is particularly useful for me to verify that the work is never finished because it is a continuous process, (crystallized into objects, images, concepts, etc) and for the updating of senses.

What techniques will the public who visit the exhibition encounter?

Analog photography intended as a drawing, digitized painting intended as photography, HD video thought as painting, a book as a screen.

What do you hope to awaken in the viewer with your work?

Hopefully a moment of true silence, for the viewer to become a beholder and eventually awaken something, or let me dream on.

related notes

Espacio Pla opens the season with Integrated and Last and First samples