New York, Jan 16 (EFE).- The Argentine artist Ana María Hernando inaugurated her new project this Tuesday in the New York plaza of Madison Square Park, a spring landscape composed of clouds and a waterfall of pink tulle that break with the gray tone that Today brought the city the first winter storm of the year.
Under the snow and cold, the structures – which can be seen until March 17 – bring light and warmth to both the landscape and the viewer: “I wanted to bring forward spring and meet that longing we have for what is soft and light, so it helps us continue walking,” the artist told EFE.
“I intend to feed the good in us so as not to freeze, because if we freeze we cannot move towards better things,” he added.
The installations are somewhat reminiscent of flowers that rise in front of the viewer and float over the park, and the fact that they woke up today full of snow further sharpened the contrast between the harsh winter that the city is experiencing and the spring sensation that the city is experiencing. to evoke the artist.
Hernando made reference to a winter “that devastates all of humanity” and that fills the world with darkness: “I wanted to make a work to remind us that we are much more than darkness, that we are much more than our sadness,” he explained.
In this sense, the Argentine stressed the importance of social unity as a way to combat darkness, the winter months and the weight of contemporary life, and the works that are exhibited in this Manhattan square from today are a metaphor of the shared human experience.
Following this premise, her project tries to convey hope, power and resistance to the viewer through the use of pink tulle of different shades, which also adds volume to the sculptures and generates a sensation of movement.
The title of the set of clouds, ‘Let the sky know’, is a “poetic gesture” that invites the viewer to reflect on what they want to tell the universe, while the name of the tulle waterfall, ‘A spring of wild goodness’ ‘, evokes the “jungle of kindness” of New York City, full of charitable gestures between strangers.
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Women weavers as inspiration
Women who work fabrics by hand are fundamental in the works of Hernando, who when he was young worked in his family’s textile factory in Buenos Aires, where he sewed alongside other women for whom he now shows deep admiration.
Her projects are also inspired by the afternoons when her mother and grandmothers would gather at her house to chat and crochet: “I admire the circles of women who have gathered over the centuries to collaborate and work together, to accompany each other. others. In my work I look for these moments of unity,” he said.
In his works, Hernando is inspired by the traditional and contemporary creations of Latin American women and Latin Americans who have emigrated from their countries of origin, as well as the embroidery of the cloistered nuns of Buenos Aires and the fabrics and merchandise of the Peruvian women of the Andes.
Her passion for tulle did not arrive until 2020, during the Covid-19 quarantine, when she only had this material at home: “When something happens that is out of our control, one can fight or join the movement and flow with what is coming. I took it as an opportunity,” he said.
The project is part of the twentieth anniversary of the Madison Square Park Conservance arts program, which to celebrate will host other events such as a meeting with artists or the broadcast of a short documentary.
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2024-01-17 01:46:00
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