October 27, 2023 – 00:00
The painter from La Plata, who specializes in the deconstructed human figure, opens an exhibition tomorrow at Espacio Ensō.
silvio acevedo His exhibition “Ferrous Art” opens tomorrow.
The artist from La Plata Silvio Acevedo will inaugurate tomorrow, at 7 p.m., its shows “Iron Art” in the Ens space (Fernando Fader 3476, Victoria, province of Buenos Aires), with free admission. “My interest was always focused on human figure, but not in the way figurative art understands it,” he says in dialogue with this newspaper. “Some have spoken of neofigurative, others of neo-expressionism; In short, the history of art is marked by labels, but the most important thing is the work itselfwhat that work can say and not what movement it belongs to”.
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Composed of fifteen recent large-format works (around 1.60 m. x 2 m.), and another ten smaller ones, “iron art” aims to translate that to the viewer corporality broken by the palette to the point, in some cases, of making that original human form unrecognizable, or with not profound modifications. “I never propose to reach a certain point in the deconstruction of that face, or that figure”, he continues saying in the dialogue. “I let myself be carried away by what the work itself requires, by the accidents that run through it, even by some mistake that I may make and then integrate it, make it part of the result. That is very stimulating, and it also happens in other arts.” We remind you, then, that film directors like Federico Fellini o, especially, Werner Herzog, they left in the final cut of some of their films a cat that crossed the frame, or some object that fell outside of what was planned. “It’s exactly that,” says Acevedo. “Let the unforeseen, let chance, collaborate with the conscience of the artist, which often improves the result. I was always attracted to those cinematographic forms where the unexpected bursts in. Or the force of what deviates from the geometric, as in those horror classics from the silent era like ‘Nosferatu’ o ‘Dr. Caligari’s office‘. In short, yes, it is also expressionist art”.
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Although some of the paintings seen in the exhibition were created with the direct influence of the pandemic, which is socially concerned with hiding or suppressing bodies in the real, Acevedo denies that his works transparently reflect a meaning. “The painting expresses its own meanings by itself, and in no way is it responsible for ‘reflecting’ an external fact in a mechanical way. If a part of this exhibition was born from the pandemic, since it was internalized in me while I created. I did not translate her, in any case she spoke through me.”
Among his most beloved models and references are Lucian Freud y Francis Bacon, two notable artists of the 20th century who also worked to “deconstruct” the human figure. “And among ours Carlos Alonso, of course, and also another series of artists who They don’t have a first name but they seem exciting to me.”. The curator of the current exhibition is another Argentine master, Eugenio Cuttica, who learned about his works last year and encouraged him to inaugurate the exhibition that opens tomorrow.” The work of Silvio Acevedo It is defined by its focus on the human figure as a starting point to construct and then dismantle the cliché through a pictorial catastrophe, taking it almost to a conceptual level,” Cuttica wrote in his curatorial text, and adds: “In this process, his work experiences a violent dislocation, the result of emotionality, error and mistakes, which ultimately are what define his expressionist identity. Beauty lies in chaos, revealing the unique essence of your artistic expression”.
Architect and professor of Architecture, Acevedo (51 years old) began painting relatively late, at 39 years old. “Although I have painted since I was little, shortly before I turned 40 I felt the need to approach painting in a definitive way.. Since then I haven’t stopped,” she says. Gabriel Busquets and Christian Mazzuca were some of his teachers. Throughout her career, she participated in several national and provincial salons, and received recognition from the Provincial Salon of Surveying and the Molina Campos Provincial Salon, both from the Emilio Petorutti Provincial Museum. His work has also been exhibited at the Art Box Gallery in Houston, United States. The exhibition will remain open until November 30.
2023-10-27 04:34:13
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