Mariana Tellería in Venice...
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El Nombre de un País, by Mariana Tellería
2019 Venice Biennial
13/06/19 - “El nombre de un país” is the name of the artwork created by Argentine artist Mariana Tellería for this year’s Venice Biennial. The sign in the gallery of the Argentine Pavilion reads that Tellería “mixes things to create monsters”. And this is quite true: the entire space is occupied by seven huge blocks of industrial waste. The dim light and the mirrors in the columns create a strange type of maze.
El Nombre de un País, by Mariana Tellería
2019 Venice Biennial
The artist used these monumental structures to illustrate the chaotic coexistence between beings and objects, in some sort of order and destruction.
What do we see then? That these new shapes create contrasts and interactions between the objects that are part of them and between visitors and the structures themselves. The result is a conflict: destruction and chaotic assembly.
Once again we think of Adrián Villar Rojas (Argentina, 1980) and Danh Vö (Vietnam, 1975), both artists devoted to religious and totemic subjects.
El Nombre de un País, by Mariana Tellería
2019 Venice Biennial
If you visit the Pavilion in a shiny bright day, as it’s quite usual in Venice, your eyes will take a while to adjust to the darkness of the gallery. At first you won’t be able to appreciate the many details of the sculptures. We just feel attracted to the lights from a dismantled car and we see nothing else. The mirrors in the columns don’t help and the bricks in the walls contribute to the darkness. Maybe it’s the way the artist found to differ from Villar Rojas’ previous giant white blocks, displayed in a gallery full of natural light (Argentina didn’t have a Pavilion of its own back then).
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