The traveling exhibition of the artist Karina El Azem

In Fine Arts, they exhibit a gigantography of Gauchito
The traveling exhibition of the artist Karina El Azem was inaugurated on Friday in the capital of Corrientes.
The exhibition by the artist Karina El Azem, "Iconographic Ceremonials", curated by Patricia Rizzo, was inaugurated this Friday at the Juan R. Vidal Provincial Museum of Fine Arts. This exhibition can be visited from Monday to Friday from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., also Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 4 p.m. to 8 p.m.

"Iconographic Ceremonials is a traveling exhibition but in Corrientes it has the particularity that it has the work of Gauchito Gil, a painting that I did in 1997," the artist told the Diario El Litoral radio program, Hoja de Ruta. On the occasion she considered also that this work had to reach the Museum of Fine Arts of Corrientes.

El Azem's productions are made in multiple media, such as paintings, printed art, video, models and objects, and question the way in which images circulate. The artist explores multiplicity by appropriating and reproducing images of different historical and popular icons of Argentine identity, other times she investigates the notions of artistic and decorative, putting the real in tension with the artificial.

“The Gauchito one is a work made in beads but it is life-size,” she highlighted and also said that it took her three months to make it. Regarding the popular icons, the artist said that they interested her from the beginning.

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Karina El Azem is a professor who graduated from the current National University of the Arts, she completed her training at Harvard University.

His works are part of numerous Publics such as the Molaa Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, California, the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, MALBA, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires, Amalia Lacroze Collection of Fortabat, Museum of the National University of Tres de Febrero, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, Francis J. Greenburger Collection New York, Museum of Contemporary Art of Salta, Sao Paulo Cultural Center, Brazil, Ñande MAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Corrientes, Fondazione Luciano Benetton Veneto Collection, Italy, the Mud Museum, Asunción del Paraguay and Campo Cañuelas Museum, Tres Pinos Foundation.

Among her recent individual exhibitions we can highlight the Caraffa Museum, Córdoba and MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Hotel de Inmigrantes.

Participated in Bienalsur IV, Central Bank Museum, Bienalsur III Museo Superior de Bellas Artes Palacio Ferreyra, Córdoba, 14th International Art Biennial of Curitiba, Oscar Niemeyer Museum, 1st Biennial of the End of the World, Ushuaia and II Biennial of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires Aires, MNBA.

She is a two-time recipient of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Scholarship and the Antorchas Foundation Creation Grant. She was Artist in Residence at the Art/Omi programs in New York, Braziers in Oxford, and Wasla in Sinai, Egypt.

She has held individual and group exhibitions in the United States, Spain, France, Germany, Japan, Mexico, Brazil, South Africa, Paraguay, Chile and Uruguay.