Last impressions from Almagro, Palermo, and San Telmo ...

Is it true that three months can pass so quickly?! Just a few more impressions from the streets before we have to leave the city again in a few days ...

Alicia Herrero

If you are interested in contemporary Argentinian art, we would also recommend to have a look at the website of Alicia Herrero, a very active visual artist whom we met in her studio in Buenos Aires. Alicia has been showing her works at various national and international events and art spaces, as for example at the "First Bienal del Fin del Mundo" in Ushuaia, Fireland. She is also the initiator of the Laboratory of Investigation into Contemporary Art Practice.

Eat Art

Gustavo Romano at Gallery Ruth Benzacar

This week we finally had the chance to see the great exhibiton "Time Notes. Mercado de futuros." by the Argentinian artist Gustavo Romano at the contemporary art galery Ruth Benzacar. We met Gustavo recently and had the chance to talk to him about his work and about developments in the field of Netart, in which he has his personal focus. The Time Notes exhibition documents with videos and art objects a series of interactive art events held in the streets in various cities of the world. They are all centered around the subject of lost time and the possibility to get lost time refunded by a time office in form of time bills. The people can tell their wishes to the time office and get as many time bills as necessary. Wishes were, for example, five years for learning to play the guitar, 30 minutes daily to organize my time, the 10 years lost waiting for the right woman, or time to finish school, says a boy who had quit school because he has to work for money. Videos and more information can be found here. We are happy that Gustavo will also show his work in Munich this autumn!

Fundación Proa

Last weekend we visited the exhibition space Fundación Proa in the it's-better-not-to-walk-around-there-too-much-as-we-were-told neighborhood La Boca and the exhibition "Art in the auditorium" organized by the Whitechapel Gallery in London. The Proa seems to be one of Buenos Aires' most interesting spaces for cutting-edge contemporary art. In this exhibition it shows a couple of videos (some of them documentary style) from international artists addressing topics like jeans fabrication in Turkey, the destroyed life of a revealed CIA agent, an interview with Noam Chomsky that is presented as monologue episodes addressing interesting global and philosophical issues with the expected provocative tone. The impressive architecture of the PROA building with a roof terrasse overlooking the old harbor added to the thrill and overall value of this trip.

More car art

Junta Opening in Palermo Hollywood

Since we recently found time to activate some of our connections to local artists, we now also find out more and more about independent and more subcultural art spaces. Yesterday there was interesting opening of an art collective called "Junta" at a "to be sold" garage-like kind of hall in Palermo Hollywood. There were lots of what seemed to us very authentic BA photography, drawings (I especially liked the small drawn rabbit that occured in different painted or photographed locations asking philosophical questions and commenting on scenes). One artist told us that there are around 40 people in the group that consists mainly of friends. They never went to art school and are musicians, desginers etc.
At around 8 p.m. there was a performance where about 8 musicians improvised together with e-guitars, two sets of drums, a ladder and metal objects used as drums, basses, and a small toy piano. They were standing or sitting in different parts of the hall mixing up with the audience, which created an interesting sound pattern. It was Junta's first group exhibition, but watch out for more events to come!

From Buenos Artes

From Buenos Artes

From Buenos Artes

Buenos Aires Car Art

More streetart ...

Sheep-Art

At the corner of Carlos Calvo and Tacuari in San Telmo sheep walk around the corner of a building, jumping down, climbing again and landing in red pool at the end. This is what I love about street art in Buenos Aires: much more sophiticated art than in many other cities. We'll be looking for more of this kind of art.

Landscape visuals and sounds

Last Friday evening we visited the art event panoramica in the Espacio Fundación Telefónica (Arenales 1540). On two levels, young artists presented visuals that partly consisted of animated drawings of animals, volcanos, ships and the like with a nice sense of humor. In the spacios loft-style room upstairs the videos were presented in panoramic view (created by projections of 3 beamers in a row). The visuals were accompanied by enthusiastic, if not acrobatic turntableism of the finest. The place was attended by a young, inspiring crowd, only the serious doormen gave the event a slightly formal touch. Surprisingly, this event ended already at about midnight, which is usually not even the time when people start dancing in Buenos Aires.