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Lucas Di Pascuale

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Argentinean chocolates, interactive CD, 2002
Original idea, texts and design: Lucas Di Pascuale
Music: Andrés Oddone
Drawings: Pablo Peisino

Argentinean chocolates

I took part in Malvinas war as a student, I took chocolates and clothes to school just as my classmates and their parents did.
Then we wondered why we had clapped at the square.
We wanted a war where we would be the winners...
And then we started to believe that perhaps we didn't agree...
I was talking to kids between 7 and 16...I suggested they pretend that the country is at war, that the grown-ups take arms and that they have to work.
Through the school, the government asks to prepare a gift for an unknown soldier; thousands of gifts that will be handed round on the battlefield. "a sword and a shield", an "anti-stress ball", "ear-mufflers to stop the noises
from the bombs" are some of the gifts that have triggered this project Argentinean chocolates has the format of a digital book where the spectator interacts among gifts, advertising, school-teachers, crowds, the Pope on a visit to Argentina, and a soldier knocking on every door...



 Lucas Di Pascuale

Artist, born in Córdoba in 1968, graduated from the School of Art at Tucumán National University in 1998.
In 2001 and 2002 participated in workshops dealing with work analysis organized by Fundación Antorchas in Córdoba. In 2002 he joined TRAMA's workshop Tucumán 2002.
He authored the following art projects: "Los hijos de Vincet", in collaboration with artists Bredeston and Der Hairabedián, exhibited in September 2001 at Martorelli Gasser Art Gallery, Córdoba; "H31, Libro-objeto", based on his own idea and design and prologued by Ana Longoni, 1999-2001.
H.I.J.O.S, a bi-dimensional installation curated by Laura Batkis was shown at Córdoba's Goethe Institut in 2000.
In 1998 he designed "Asamblea permanente", a work submitted to a contest aimed to pay homage to the disappeared and murdered by state terrorism in Argentina. The work was not accepted. That same year, he exhibited "molesta arlt", sculptures and drawings at the Univerity Art Gallery and at Abasto Gallery, and "Homenajes", a project tutored by Patricia Avila, at the Chateau Carreras Museum of Contemporary Art.
He has been conferred several honours in his province.