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A network to rely on In its second year, TRAMA held last week a series of talks, lectures and discussions at the Goethe Institute in the context of a research workshop on the social projection of artistic practices: Redes, contextos, territorios (Network, context, territories). TRAMA is a program of cooperation and confrontation betwen artist, founded by artist for artists. Claudia Fontes, Leonel Luna y Pablo Zicarello are responsibile for the creation and subsequent coordination of this project, which is sponsored by the Antorchas Foundation, the Prince Claus Foundation, Rain, Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten and the Goethe Institute. An artist left to himself has a hard time coming to terms with his own creative process. Even if he is working in the rigth direction, he may find it hard to understand what he is doing. It is the articulation, discussion and confrontation of his project that will help him to develop his own thoughts further. The analysis of his peers will make him share, rethink, rephrase his thesis. This confrontation enriches the speaker who is presenting his work to the audience who question and discuss his work. In a society in which discussion is often understood as aggression, artist are limited in a public appreciation of their work by an apparent politeness or by a short winded criticism that are demeaning. Their colleagues and art critics are basically for or against them, they like their work or they don't. And when they don't, thia not linking is not discussed honestly to place the limitations, the conflict or the weaknesses on a level that may help the artist to deepen his vision of his own work, or find the words to expalin what he is doing in terms that others may grasp it. The time, the effort and the commitment that has gone into TRAMA are positive and reassuring experience and example.   Alina Tortosa Buenos Aires Herald, 25 de noviembre 2001 Alina Tortosa es escritora, crítica de arte y curadora independiente. Crítica de arte del Buenos Aires Herald. Libros publicados de poesía: Las piedras bajo el agua, Centro y Periferia, y Ritual doméstico. Libros publicados de cuentos: Cuentos burgueses, El jardín de la abuelita Ana y otros cuentos y La entrevista inédita y otros cuentos. Escribe sobre arte contemporáneo en catálogos y en publicaciones periódicas. Las principales curadurías realizadas son: Curadora del British Arts Centre de la Asociación Argentina de Cultura Inglesa en el 2000. Xul Solar / Jorge Luis Borges: Lengua e Imagen en el Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, en Río de Janeiro y en el Memorial de América Latina, en San Pablo, Brasil, en 1997-1998, el grupo TAUPE: 6 grabadores xylógrafos del NE de Brasil en elCentro Cultural Recoleta de Buenos Aires en 1997, el envio argentino de la MOSTRA AMERICA, Curitiba, Brasil en 1995, y junto con Silvia de Ambrosini: Los 80 en el MAM, en el Museo de Arte Moderno de la ciudad de Buenos Aires, en abril de 1991.

 

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