24 WORKS ARE EXHIBITED IN IGWAN SPACE

“Travesías”, an exhibition about the contribution of women to art
Within the framework of Marcelo Nitor's "Excentrics" project, a group exhibition was inaugurated this Saturday. Patricia Viel, teacher and curator, recognized that the production of Latin American women artists has been "marginalized."

The visual artist Marcelo Nitor continues to advance in the development of “Excentrics”, the project that investigates and recovers the contribution of female artists to the history of Latin American art.

With a total of 24 pieces, “Travesías”, which until this Saturday could only be seen in digital format, was inaugurated at the Igwan Space.

Ale Gutiérrez, Belén Torres Carrizo, Cynthia Aguilar, Daiana Gunn, Damián Cardozo, Diana Patt, Florencia Cequeira, Giuliana Robusto, Guadalupe Auzoberría, Guadalupe Bastanion, Ivana Valle, Jorgelina Ibáñez, Lucía Cebrián, Lucía Fernández, Luisa Godoy, Marcelo Nitor, Mariana Oyarzún, Mariana Turk, Melina Monzón, Natalia Giuliano, Natalia Puglisi, Patricia Viel, Sol Lalanne and Yasmín Aguilar are the artists who, in each work, included a photograph of an artist in her workshop, inspired by the style of said artist and by the photographer Josefina Oliver.

Nitor, who was the cover of the Art and Culture supplement on September 28, reminded La Opinión Austral that “the exhibition is part of a call for local artists and arises from a much larger project that is “Excentrics.” that seeks to recover culture, art and the contribution to the Latin American identity that the artists made.”

Regarding the title, he pointed out that the word “Travesías” “can describe the development of the work of Latin American artists, who had to suffer many stigmas, pigeonholing by society, to the point of almost vanishing their contribution. “Eccentrics” goes in search of this rescue, of the historical repair of Latin American identity.
Patricia Viel, who together with Nitor carried out the curatorship, stated: “They were marginalized, they were made invisible. I come from the old School of Fine Arts and I never studied them in professorships, I was always far from knowing what the production of Latin American women artists was. It wasn't until the last years of my career that students like Marcelo and several others came to me with these concerns about why we weren't seeing more women in the professorships and that concern led me to start researching and accompanying the processes. Today I am learning as a teacher what they teach as students, it is a generational gap that one has to bridge. Today we teachers are training ourselves with new perspectives, historical reviews and new ways of understanding the world and understanding art.”
Concluding, Nitor said: “I am thinking about another project, about Latin American women's poetry. In this research, all the arts are found, there are many visual artists who are performers or poets, the clearest example is Aurora Reyes who has several publications. The call will continue to rescue the literary work of several Latin American artists, always transversalizing it with the visual arts because it is what awakens a stronger motivation in me.”