Curating/Curadurias

La exhibición propone un recorrido repasando las investigaciones plásticas que Orlandi realizó en las dos primeras décadas de su actividad. En algunas de las más tempranas que datan de finales de los años cincuenta, su interés –atravesado por el informalismo– giró en torno a la línea curva y una paleta de colores oscura; en cambio, en otras, viró hacia las posibilidades rítmicas que le proporcionaba la grilla modernista. Luego, a principios de los sesenta, se volcó hacia un intenso estudio cromático y el uso de bandas de un color que por momentos alteraban la percepción de las formas. Se trata de investigaciones ópticas que realizó en Buenos Aires a la par del desarrollo del arte cinético en Europa y América Latina.

Vorágine: Yente and Cecilia Biagini brings together modern and contemporary abstract artworks by Yente (1905–1990), a pioneering figure in abstraction from Argentina, and Cecilia Biagini (b. 1967), an artist of Argentine origin based in Brooklyn. The exhibition will present a selection of works by Yente from the 1930s through the 1960s, in which the artist experimented freely with the visual languages of the international avant-gardes by working across mediums, figuration, and abstraction. Biagini’s similarly omnivorous approach to artmaking has led her to embrace installation, sculpture, painting, and music, and how rehearsed improvisation leads to expressive interplay between form and color. Together, the two artists’ works narrate an often-overlooked history of women abstractionists in the Americas. The exhibition’s title comes from Yente’s artist book Vorágine, meaning “whirlwind” in Spanish, and serves as a vivid metaphor for the strong creative force and dynamic nature of Yente and Biagini’s approaches to artmaking.