Read Mar del Plata through its artists

In what is being built as the second open exhibition of one of the two most important public collections in Mar del Plata, the National University and its Extension Team are in the National Bicentennial House of A plot involving several generations of artists Its starting point is in the spa city.

Exhibition title, puff pastryit makes sense as long as Describes the assembly model Which took some time to build his own story, because it’s just from the investigative work he did Raisonné catalog of the art collectionIt was possible to learn how to build a group of artists – mostly from Mar del Plata – who also cover different styles of production.

The team that is formed after theoretical conclusions and is led by the coordinator Sebastian Boadaare responsible for enhancing the collection with new additions to improve what this collection represents, not only within the university but especially outside it, when it is displayed, as is the case now. A selection full of notable names From the contemporary scene.

puff pastry Texture name. “Because of its layers, because of the tension between the fragile and the resistant, and because of the way the visible embraces the hidden,” Boada says in his curatorial text. He adds: “It forms a fabric of layers that allows us to read the city within its folds: the place where the sea insists, the mountains preserve the memory, and the city is renewed every season, like someone shedding his skin, and his features are renewed with every wave of presence, departure, and return.”

One of its most present artists Pablo Minicucci (1933-2012), BRAC Prize 1967, which in time opened contact with the Di Tella Institute and the Ferry Estémar Prize at the end of the 1960s. Pablo knew how to maintain long friendships with many references from the university, donating a number of works between the 1980s and the early 2000s, which show his relationship with the city, in periods of coming and going, between periods abroad. there A room specially integrated through his works Which adds a video filmed in connection with the university, the only remaining recording of his voice.

another historical, Alberto Bruzon (1907-1994) displays one of the two main pieces in the exhibition. Alberto donated two works to the collection that are remembered for the fact that they marked a turning point within the university: The crime of Sylvia Feller At a student gathering (N. De la R: It was a political crime committed on December 6, 1971 by the National Police group concentrated at the university, during the dictatorship of Alejandro Agustín Llanos).

The second is Nelida Valdes (1946) who recently donated work that protects memory. It is a book excavated from the garden of his home, restored for its significance and providing an account of another historical moment: the United Nations Development Program was created in the same year as the Martin Malharrow Regional School of Arts, in 1960, and the history of the city is intertwined with those contexts that give subjects to visual artists.

From the middle generation, which emerges at the end of the seventies and strengthens in the eighties, they are Oscar Ellisanboro (1946), who was also a teacher to some of Mar del Plata’s youngest students with work from the early 2000s, alongside more memorable ones. Nestor Villar Ericart (1937-2024), who received the Grand Prix Honor in the National Hall of Fine Arts in 1999, with a work of painting that takes that memorable cityscape and rural setting.

Victor Miguel “Bepo” La Torre (1955), Erin Melillo (1950-2023), Danielle Pineau (1964) and Miguel Kanatakis (1968) form a group of painters who explore different aspects. The tower uses the back of the glass, Irene remembers the chairs of power when the bicentenary occurred, Paino takes his inspiration from Torres García and Adolfo Negro who was his student. Kanatakis, for his part, was one of the few artists to earn a law degree from the United Nations Development Programme, and was the architect and point of contact between Brigadier General Miguel Ángel Acuña Build a new wave within the group with ultra-contemporary artists from Mar del PlataSome of them unite in their professional lives.

This motive was embodied in La Pinacoteca. Artists entered there who won many awards, such as: Amadeo Azar, Ines RaiteriInes Drangush and Gerardo Echevarria, four of the creators present in the federation that was formed with the motivation of Anturchas Foundationwhile Gerardo and Amadeo were among the first, along with Ariel Echegoen In creating a completely contemporary space: MoTP, which was the open door to complete contemporaneity in the city.

Claudio Rovidaan artist who works with glass as a raw material and has maintained an artists’ clinic space for years; Margarita Wilson Ray, through her work to prepare the materials she collects, preserves, and organizes into a synthesis that takes into account her family and personal life; and Mariana PelegeroHe works to save skin from stones in an area on the coast where thousands of people walk every day.

They are three artists born outside the city, but who chose Mar del Plata to live in and are part of the new additions to the artistic repertoire, an example worth highlighting, although it has echoes in other educational institutions, most notably UNTREF and the National University of San Martin.

There are no relevant jobs within the university curriculum in Mar del Plata, however, the growth of prominent artists in the contemporary scene brings a large number of Mar del Plata residents their own character.

Until December 7th puff pastry It can be seen on the fourth floor of the National Centennial House, Riobamba 985.