Arts & Entertainment Resistance will have its own obelisk on Avenida Las Heras and Castelli
Saturday, April 3, 2010 - Published in the print edition - North Journal
is 8 meters high and is in progress. Urban totem is the artist Leonardo Gotleyb works at the intersection of Las Heras and Castelli avenues, where it will be called as a new icon of the city.
"The initiative was Fabriciano, after the show we did with Clorindo Testa, in 2008, the Faculty of Architecture at the Universidad Nacional del Nordeste, "recalled the author, who faces the hot sun this autumn delayed compared to the reinforced concrete structure. "We are now in the final process of venecitas placement." Gotleyb
apply the obelisk about 20 thousand pieces of this unique material, made mostly of glass, in three ranges: white, red and black. With each unit, designed almost like a computer pixel, the artist captures an image of his artwork, developed mainly in engraving, a technique that distinguishes him and allowed the most important awards, both in our country and abroad.
"While I come from the recording, I had an important experience when Murvi Foundation convened a group of prominent artists in the country to work with your product," he said. That product is the traditional venecitas, from the Byzantine wall and, for years, were in a process of disappearance. However, our country has Murvi, one of the leading manufacturers of the continent and one of the few in the world to rescue this old technique is now frequently applied in pools and fountains.
From that series of samples Gotleyb shared with Luis Felipe Noe, John Doffo, Marta Minujín and Alicia Diaz Rinaldi, among other popes, the rise to urban totem was an almost obligatory way. "Urunday Foundation and the University joined forces to build this work fills me with pride," said the artist, for whom the proposal summarizes their closest worlds: "The obelisk refers to the totemic, a very strong presence in cultures originating as present in the Chaco life where I was born and raised. But it is an urban symbol, since the image which contains in its four sides, so I can join the universe of the city with the indigenous cosmogony. " The challenge
The artist admits Chaco the challenges that had to overcome to get to work. "I always worked in engraving and I had experiences with these materials in small format, but never a work of such large dimensions," he admitted. To overcome this, assembled a team with students from mural of the National Art Institute (IUNA), specifically with expertise in this discipline Professor Margaret Court.
"We worked for six months and we had to build a large table covered the living room of my house," he explained. Thus, in the heart of La Boca, the Chaco hosted interns in the chair to finalize the project in motion pictures. "
A basic issues was to define how to use venecitas: only as a coating or for development of an image. Thus took shape the idea of \u200b\u200busing them as part of a speech that would develop their prints, as if wrapped the obelisk brand. Already
Resistance Gotleyb enters the home stretch and stresses that without the convergence of many inputs and wills, this project would not be possible. In Urunday strategy and resources UNNE - thanks to Federico Veiravé management - joined their presence Weber-Igamm signature, leading iron and El Yunque, with materials to build the block.
Urban Totem will be opened on May 25, as part of the official Bicentennial to be held in our province. Agenda
While bulky
hastens the realization of his totem urban Gotleyb confirms its agenda for the remainder of the year. In many cases, their activities will be closely linked to the Chaco cultural life, but in others will return to the international level as he was called for the exhibition which brings together 50 Latin American masters of engraving - and as many in Europe - at the Fifth Biennial Douro International Recorded in Alijó, Portugal. Also, in October to return to Colombia to repeat the experience of last year: give a lecture, offer a workshop and mount an exhibition in the city of Pereira.
In our study, was called by the fledgling School of Fine Arts UNNE for various activities. "In June tecnoxilografía dictate a course and then we will make a big move from artists' books, with a sample to which I curated and a conference on this topic by Rodolfo Aguero, former dean of IUNA" he explained. Gotleyb
confirmed that resistance will bring Alfredo portholes, one of the most important living artists of our country, to give a lecture. "Similarly, in September plans to showcase at the Cultural Center East", he added.
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