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Intuición Cósmica [Cosmic Intuition] by Gonzalo Arbutti ● Sub-Marino [Sub- Marine] by Gabriela Horvat & Paula Dipierro

06/07/2012 - 06/09/2012

Never again

Curatorial text by Martin Huberman

“Of all delectable islands, Neverland is the snuggest and most compact, not large and sprawly, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another but nicely crammed.” This is how J.M. Barrie introduces the island where the adventures of Peter Pan and the Lost Boys take place. It is a fitting description as well of Gonzalo Arbutti’s studio, a microcosm where he develops his morphological adventures, a minute space that holds a vast experimental universe full of small and simple, yet lovely, tentative compositions that give shape to a rich constellation of materials, forms, and colors.

Monoambiente asked Gonzalo Arbutti to participate in its series of interventions, challenging him to move beyond that island crammed with “lost objects” and grow, like Peter Pan, in order to occupy the gallery’s space and, in so doing, enrich his own formal language by tackling basic ideas like scale and volume.

In Gonzalo Arbutti’s words:

“The basic idea is the assemblage of different elements, the way they meet and interact to form a unit.”

“It is not only a question of sensibility, but also of aspirations and inspirations, of cosmic intuition.”

* J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan, 1901

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Gabriela Horvat’s work ensues over the body as it combines age-old techniques and pure and local materials. Her work in jewelry upholds the natural quality of the body and underscores curves in organisms made in silk, agave fiber, and rustic wool. The mother-daughter duo—Horvat is the daughter and Dipierro the mother—combines two generations of textile knowledge to move beyond the body as support in an attempt to render space visible and, mostly, tactile. This cross-generational dialogue gives rise to new textured environments that can be caressed, material spaces like the one “behind the curtain” that, as children, we discovered while playing hide-and-seek. In their words, “to build, we make use of simple, clear, basic—even primitive—modalities. Our construction is based on the ideas of continuity and gradualness, repetition and variation, the everlasting and the beautiful. We explore childhood memories tangled up in fabrics, undoing balls of wool, building spaces.”

Intuición Cósmica [Cosmic Intuition] by Gonzalo Arbutti

The fundamental idea is an assembly between different elements, the way in which they meet and are related, forming a unit. It is not only a question of sensitivity, but also of aspirations and inspirations, of cosmic intuition.

Intuición Cósmica is the title of a cosmological series of pieces through which Gonzalo Arbutti reworks the scale of his universe, extending and growing as he ventures into the conquest of space.

Sub-Marine by Gabriela Horvat

We build through simple, clear, basic and even primitive modalities.
This construction is centered on the continuous, the progressive, the repetition and the variation, the eternal and the beautiful.
We explore childhood memories, entangled in fabrics, dismantling balls of yarn, building spaces.

Sub-Marino is a series of textile compositions that occupies space like a sensual parasite, an organism reminiscent of lichen taking over tree bark. As if they were inhabitants, these elements are steeped in Gonzalo Arbutti’s geometric cosmos, turning some of his pieces into habitats for organisms found in nature that are sensitive to the vision of the gallery’s visitors.

Posters

The new series of posters designed by Negro™ illustrates the natural evolution of the process of making by mastering new techniques and incorporating previously unknown languages by means of close collaboration.

The Phoenix series is a first step towards what promises to be a unique collection to be developed over the course of a year. The graphic curatorship of Negro™ means expanding the playing field, moving beyond the flat surface of the sheet of paper to gain materiality, volume, and density.

Phoenix – Series of 10 posters in walnut root veneer laser traced.

Communication

Flyers by Ariel di Lisio

Trailer

The video, the second in the series, explores certain moments in the processes of Gonzalo Arbutti, the Horvat-Dipierro duo, and Negro™.

Exhibition opening event 02

B Side

Montajes [Production and installation of the exhibition] is a series of videos on the processes of constructing the space; it tracks the efforts made in the production of the pieces that have intervened in the Monoambiente gallery space.