Artística Gallery was founded in 2004 in Asunción. It is a project created and directed by architect Laura González. This gallery seeks to disseminate Paraguayan popular and contemporary art to diverse audiences. It works with a staff of artists whose versatile visual languages allow it to address current Paraguayan artistic and artisanal production. A is a commercially managed cultural space that aims to contribute to the culture of its country by creating spaces for production, exchange, and training with the intention of generating opportunities for co-creation and experimentation among stakeholders in the art field.
Exhibited artists
Bernardo Krasniasky
Roberto Morelli
Andres Cañete
Ricardo Migliorisi
Emmanuel Fretes
Eugenia Ortigoza
Gallery artists
Anna Scavone
Lelo Freixas
Donato Grima
"The Imperfect History" is the name of the exhibition that will be presented in our galleries.
Conceptually, the show revolves around a bizarre family tree in which I recreate a family with characters bearing absurd faces and unexpected or unknown familial ties—lines of consanguinity that are incongruent. By exploring my own family, I become aware of my imperfect history.
The work gathers portraits from the 1940s, photo-painted in oil. These are anonymous people to me; I acquire them because their oval frames and convex glass are materials I reuse for a previous series of works called The Eyes. I have been keeping these photos, removed from their frames, out of respect and guilt, with the intention of eventually finding them a place in this world, to remedy their displacement. Adopted into a tree, these individuals are presented in this installation as part of a family nucleus.
The other paintings—such as clouds, eyes, faces, and more—may seem unrelated, but they are contemporary and interconnected. They exist within a context of ominous objects that, nevertheless, engage in a dialogue about the current human condition as mutant beings.
