The Buenos Aires Culture area presented TRAZA, the multidisciplinary intervention in the old La Prensa building, today headquarters of the aforementioned Ministry located on Avenida de Mayo 575.

It invites a group of artists to display, experiment and deepen through a creative and collective process, a conceptual journey about the resignification of halls, corners, offices and lounges of the emblematic building, that were left empty from the pandemic.

This tour will remain open until 19 December and can be visited from Friday to Sunday.

The artistic team of the work is made up of Alejandro Fadel, Manuel Hermelo, Karina Peisajovich, Zoe di Rienzo, Diego Vainer, with texts from a77, Liliana Viola and Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. The concept and curatorship are in charge of Julieta Ascar, Alexander ros, Mariana Obersztern and Alejandro Tantanian.

In the context of this Site-Specific work, the different pieces, light, sonora, graphic-literary and filmic that have been commissioned to Karina Peisajovich, Diego Vainer, Liliana Viola, Alejandro Fadel and a77, participate in the idea of ​​immateriality, a concept that has interested the curatorial team -Ascar, Obersztern, Ros and Tantanian- when conceiving the project.

In this way, the work raises questions about the notion of heritage. Throughout the visit through the different spaces, visitors will, both to connect with the historical load implicit in the building and to delve into the interventions that the invited artists have made in it.

"With the aim of promoting artistic production and encouraging the reactivation of the Buenos Aires microcenter through the visual arts, architecture and our heritage, we bring this great proposal. TRAZA is an intervention in the House of Culture, where a group of artists unfold, they experiment and delve into an unmissable creative and collective process. We want to redefine the spaces that were left empty after the pandemic ", said the Buenos Aires minister of culture, Enrique Avogadro.

"The tour proposes to deconstruct a little the notion of heritage, the idea is that visitors can draw a critical distance on those fees, that each one can ask themselves what they want to receive as a legacy. We wanted to do a collective work but with singularities, for that reason the implication and the different profiles of each one of the people who participate ", explains the artist and curator of the work, Juliet Ascar, in relation to the selection of artists carried out for the realization of the project.

“We like the rebellious tension that is generated between the building and the idea of ​​what is patrimonial and what is not. The idea was to get into the nooks and crannies, in what is run of the central route, recover some of what is left aside in the concept of heritage. And thus generate an evanescent heritage, poetic, that can leave a mark in the memory of visitors ", says the author and theater director Mariana Obersztern, part of the curatorial committee of the piece.

Zoe Di Rienzo and Manuel Hermelo, the artists and performance guides of the tour In order to promote artistic production, promote exploration between art, architecture and heritage and strengthen the cultural ecosystem, TRAZA invites the public to tour the interior of a historic building in the City, and put all their senses to the test as they reinterpret, through the work, the meaning of each of the spaces.

The pandemic affected societies around the world and put each of its members in a state of uncertainty. One of the biggest changes occurred in the way of inhabiting spaces. Among the new concepts being debated today, are the displacement from the center to the periphery, multifunctional spaces, and the new story of public space. In Buenos Aires city, the micro and macrocenter were especially affected. It is an emblematic area, used to receiving large numbers of office workers and tourists who, from isolation and interruption of activities, they stopped frequenting downtown Buenos Aires.

The City Government is carrying out a plan to reactivate the micro and macro center of the City through a program that includes a series of measures, both economic and cultural, who seek to transform the experience in public space. The objective is to revalue this area of ​​the City, and one of the favorite places, both the neighbors and the tourists who visit it.

TRAZA is made up of a team of interdisciplinary artists, who sought to make the proposal an artistic script around the following concepts:

– The gesture of time: the pandemic

– The review of public / private spaces

– The interpellation of the concept of patrimonial good, assuming the intangible, the good of use and the good in disuse as matrix triggers of the final conception.

TRAZA seeks, in this way, promote artistic exchange and development in the same space in order to promote national artistic production, encourage the presence of visual arts in the urban environment and explore the link between art and heritage. The work will be a testimonial document of a unique time: the post-pandemic transition in contemporary culture.