The Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires exhibits two proposals

The Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires exhibits two proposals where geometric abstract art is the main protagonist, in an aesthetic experience to stimulate the senses

Only work that is the product of an internal compulsion can have spiritual meaning,” said Walter Gropius, German architect and one of the founding fathers of the Bauhaus School at the dawn of the 20th century. More than a hundred years later, it is possible to find that phrase fully relevant in the exhibition Obsceno by the artist Pablo Siquier, at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires. Under the curatorship of Rodrigo Alonso, the exhibition presents a selection of unpublished works, in a unique opportunity to get closer to the production of one of the Argentine references of geometric art. “It is a sample of paintings that I did not show before. There are 13 unpublished pieces in Buenos Aires. My work is very far from the body, it is a mental work and here, in Obsceno, my obsessions are naked, they are shown in an unfiltered way. The title points to the creative process and the way of working, without interference,” says Siquier, in dialogue with Infobae Cultura.

This proposal coexists with a selection of new works acquired by the museum that will become part of its collection, also curated by Rodrigo Alonso. This exhibition, which seeks to highlight the dynamic character of the institution, includes works by artists Manuel Álvarez, Martha Boto, Inés Díaz Saubidet, Horacio García Rossi, Jorge Gervasi, Alejandro Gigli, Jorge Gumier Maier, Santiago Licata, María Elisa Luna, David Petroni, Martina Quesada, Cristina Schiavi and Guido Yannitto. “It is a set of classic paintings of rationalist extraction, in which simple geometric lines and shapes are the basis of a formal investigation aimed at the construction of powerful visual structures, the production of optical effects and the exaltation of color energy. . Made between the 1950s and 1970s, they are examples of the consolidation of rational abstraction that continues the different concrete proposals of previous years,” says Alonso.
Returning to Siquier's work, it has its origin on the screen: it is solved on the computer with a meticulous trial and error of combinations, until reaching the desired result. “I solve by adding things and not by synthesis. What is very synthetic is the system of representation,” says the artist. And he adds: “My work is related to architecture, it is a permanent commentary on the city that resorts to urbanization, the facades of buildings, a camera looking from above, decoration ornaments, tablecloths, it is a mix of everything. that. The city is the place where everything happens, the most beautiful and the most horrendous things, that quilombo that they represent is also the origin of inequalities and things that are not right." However, there is no direct reference that allows these meanings to be universally recognized, but rather the registration of the symbolic will depend on the bond established with the observer. In his words, “the works establish an affective or emotional bond through memory with their particular stories.”