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Eduardo Molinari
Participant
- Research Workshop on artistic practice and its social projection -
Buenos Aires 2001
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Spinal cord
A direct consequence of the re-search
that since 1999 I have been carrying out at the National Archive's Photographic
Department and its crossing with my artistic practice, the present project
focuses my attention on the "union landscape". The roving artist
and the image as commentary. With a strong background of organization
and struggle early in the past century in our country, unions, fruit of
their social protagonism since the forties
-the majority of which subscribed to a specific political identity- originate
a lexicon, an iconogra-phy and an architectural patrimony which in time
adopt a symbolic character for its associates.
Remembering that 30.2% of the arrested-
disappeared reported by CONADEP have been workers and in the present context
of deterioration of labor culture, my project examines current relations
between the people and such symbols and ideals. It implies the search
for a vision of the union space, showing manipulations, superpositions,
concealments and distortions. Also the provocation of interferences between
the mechanisms of production, circulation and reception of art and the
tradition of union graphics. The core of the work consists of leaflets
and weather resistant cloth. They are graphic and digital prints starting
from the pho-tographic material produced in the union build-ings, from
their own texts and interventions.
The place selected for its location and display is
the University of Buenos Aires‚ Engineering School -metaphor of factory
of ideas and design for a better world and, at the same time, a build-ing
with a strong historical charge (ex-Eva Perón Foundation), which
is also near to the Monument to Labor, creating a crossroads site. The
appropriation of spaces as part of the action.
Eduardo Molinari
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Eduardo Molinari. Visual artist, University professor (ENBAPP/IUNA)
and co-editor of the books Colección Orbital. Born in 1961.
Lives and works E-mail: archivocaminante@yahoo.com |
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