Sculpture: Curatella - Bairon - Catellan
3:39 p.m.One artist of the 20th century is faced against two belonging to the 21st century to show the changes in subjects and shapes through time.
The acrobats, by Pablo Curatella Manes (1923)
Materials: cast / Measures: 268 x 127 x 85 cm - MNBA
The acrobats, taken from the circus, is the work that pushes Curatela Manes (Argentina, 1891-1962) to investigate new horizons to lighten the material. It is in 1923, precisely the year in which he did this piece, that there's a turning point in his career. From there on, he will turn to abstraction, seeking inspiration in cubism and futurism. But, above all, his interest will be centred in lightness, thus his following work would receive the name Icarus.
Untitled, by Elba Bairon
Technique: cast installation / MALBA 2013 (detail)
Bairon (La Paz, Bolivia 1967) prefers pure forms but with volume. “When thinking and doing these shapes, I found myself making a pair of hand but I did not want them to be hands themselves just remote evocations of hands. I worked on the shapes till dissolving them", the artist explains. Her way of working allows us then to face certain pieces, complex in their message, but not to our eyes, thanks to the subtle movement achieved by her talent. With a spectral aura, the piece in the previous photo evokes stillness. It is one of the many belonging to the untitled installation that can be visited on the first floor of the MALBA.
Finally Maurizio Cattelan (Italia, 1960) displays a number of covered shapes lying in the floor and faces us with death. However, such marble installation seeks to move the public. Such provocation represents a problem to the art world, because it is not easy to show and, above all, to offer it on sale.
Summing up, Curatella Manes defies the laws of gravity, Bairon takes her work to the peak of representation and Cattelan challenges the public.
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