The Caraffa Museum opens the 2024 season with five exhibitions

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The Caraffa Museum (Poeta Lugones 411) starts the 2024 season with the opening of five exhibitions.

The inauguration of the new cycle of exhibitions, which includes local and national artists and an international presence, will take place next Wednesday the 13th at 7:30 p.m., with free admission.

Room 1 will exhibit “Travesías”, an anthological exhibition by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez made up of sculptures, objects, paintings, drawings and videos. Landscapes, toys, images of visual culture and mythical figures materialized in wood, resin and metals make up the magical world created by the renowned artist and researcher from Rioja. Based many years ago in Córdoba, he served as vice dean of the UNC Faculty of Arts.

Work by Miguel Ángel Rodríguez that is part of the exhibition “Travesías”.

“Miguel polishes his search with childish humor and is not satisfied with other people’s impositions, he prefers his own ragged island to the great ports, he becomes political, religious and ritualistic,” Eduardo Médici and Marta Rivero, in charge of the curatorship, point out in the catalog .

“Mobile Forest”, work of Miguel Ángel Rodríguez.

“Who dwells in darkness?” is the title of the exhibition by Monique Becker, an artist born in Luxembourg in 1958, who arrives with her renowned large-format paintings. In the exhibition, the works will be accompanied by a video that records the action of painting understood as a ritual: immense white canvases are covered by layers and veils of paint that overlap until they reach black, darkness.

Monique Becker in the middle of painting her huge canvases.

The curator of this proposal is the Córdoban artist Luz Novillo Corvalán, who specifies: “In Monique’s paintings, the colors and subtle nuances of greens, pinks and blues overlap, fold and grope until they arrive at the delicate game of modulation. and the blackness of the shadow.”

Minimalism, diary, toys

Virginia Derqui (Buenos Aires, 1969) arrives at Caraffa with “The Form-Space”, a cycle of works belonging to the Alumbramiento series, paintings in which symmetry, defined lines, flat surfaces and vibrant colors prevail. Her work in the field of abstraction and neo-minimalist art has been widely recognized.

Work from the series “Enlightenment” by Virginia Derqui.

“Although representation is absent in these large abstract forms – and also in her previous series – their titles allude to gestation and the beginning of life, as well as couple relationships,” the researcher writes in the catalog text. María Cristina Rossi, who was in charge of curating this exhibition.

Living in Buenos Aires for many years, Diego Bastos from Córdoba returns with “Diario Mínimo: the construction of a misunderstanding”, drawings and paintings that narrate small experiences that seek to blur the boundary between the real and the imaginary. In the representation of these daily events, blurred characters appear, “anti-portraits”, anonymous faces. The images on display are made with pens, fibers, oils or acrylics on paper, leatherette or canvas.

“Antiportrait”, oil on wood by Diego Bastos that is part of the exhibition “Diario Mínimo: the construction of a misunderstanding”.

“Diego Bastos collects moments of those that seem unimportant, due to their everyday nature or their persistence in the face of the abandonment of memory, and releases them on canvases, tarps, papers, like someone who throws seeds trusting that they will fall on fertile soil,” notes curator Christian Román.

“En Juego” is a group exhibition that will bring together works by Betina Polliotto, Marcela Millicay Schipsi, Daniel Brito and Nöel Loeschbor, curated by Sara Picconi. In this group exhibition of paintings, drawings, printed art and objects, four artists from Córdoba converge who use toys as their theme. From this common thread, they capture different perspectives in their works in which the toy becomes an essay on life and dreams, a teller of stories or a bearer of gender mandates.

Drawing by Marcela Millicay Schipsi that is part of the group exhibition “In Play”.

The new set of exhibitions can be visited until June 2, from Tuesday to Sunday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.

forgotten women

Room 4, meanwhile, keeps on display a project from the education area of ​​the provincial museum.

Called “LesOlvidades”, its objective is to highlight, through educational exhibitions, works by artists belonging to the museum’s collection that for various reasons have not been disclosed or are almost unknown, forgotten.

In this case it is “Original & Multiple. Three Córdoba recorders in the MEC collection”, which works with works by a trio of female artists of the same generation: Ana Josefa Bettini, Nilda Zul Curet and Marta de Ferrari.

Opening. Inauguration of the 2024 season at the Caraffa Museum (Poeta Lugones 411). Wednesday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m., with free entry.