| 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 el Centro 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 |