“To assume one’s interior as a possible canvas for a landscape is to immerse oneself in a relief whose grooves, paths and fissures expose affective and intimate textures.” The renowned plastic artist Pablo Bernasconi, together with the illustrator Gabriela Herrera, presents the exhibition “Where am I”, this Thursday at 7 p.m., at the La Ridícola Idea gallery at kilometer 11.5 of Bustillo Avenue. Entrance is free and open.
As they described, the exhibition explores identity in relation to the environment. It allows you to immerse yourself in the understanding of how we inhabit spaces from the connection with our essence.
“We had been working to exhibit Herrera’s works – which generated new work for this occasion – and link them with mine. A kind of dialectic, a sample of two,” summarized Bernasconi.
The works of Pablo Bernasconi
The exhibition is made up of about 40 works and has been organized for five months. “My work explores the concept of identity of the place, the identity question of the place where we conform and choose to exist, with the conflicts and advantages that this can bring,” Bernasconi clarified.
In the Inner Landscape series, Bernasconi draws inspiration from the sonnets of the Canadian poet and composer Leonard Cohen. These works “present metaphorical scenarios in which large bodies with small heads take precedence over an intellect that competes and degrades the intuitive sensitivity of the creative act.”
“Gabriela turns to hyperrealism, she works in pencil on paper; Mine, however, is collage on fabric. “This dialectic allows us to expose a new aesthetic resource between the two that will attract attention.”
Pablo Bernasconi
Bernasconi gives an account of the “multiple ways in which this inner homeland is corrupted when the work comes to the surface, to the real physical landscape.”
He warned that the selection is curated “in such a way as to generate a new discourse, a new narrative from that space.”
The works of Gabriela Herrera
Herrera, on the other hand, works with the double perspective of inside and outside. In his landscapes, the dichotomous meaning of these two spaces disappears and they can be read from the correspondence, containing each other.
Herrera’s works, they define, present “a cosmic architecture: no place in particular is perceived and several in unison. Timeless and sublime: his landscapes resonate between the possible and the impossible.”
The illustrator highlighted the connection of styles: “Gabriela turns to hyperrealism, she works in pencil on paper; Mine, however, is collage on fabric. “This dialectic allows us to expose a new aesthetic resource between the two that will attract attention.”
Bernasconi promised that “Where I am” is a first step to continue with a selection of artists from Patagonia.