NEWSLETTER Nº 14

April 2022  

Editorial

April has its charm, in the southern hemisphere we go through autumn and the landscape acquires its unmistakable tones. This is how we appreciate it on a brief trip to the city of San Juan to enjoy the inauguration of an important exhibition of engravings at its Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts.


In all the institutions of our portion in the world the high season begins; exhibitions, auctions, conferences, book presentations... The activity is renewed and the cultural muscle strengthens its strength. Immersed in this field, we present a new issue of our virtual magazine, prestigious with renowned firms: Irina Podgorny, Sonia Decker, Astrid Maulhardt, Ramón Gutiérrez, Germán Carvajal, Sergio Barbieri and our team, Guillermo Vega Fischer.


In the rest of the planet, life continues in a present full of uncertainties; The war between Russia and Ukraine is not the only armed conflict that alters international peace, although it is the one that most affects European and North American life. The Middle East and Africa are experiencing numerous crises in Syria, Libya, Yemen, the Central Sahel -Burkina Faso, Mali and Niger-, the Central African Republic, Somalia, the Lake Chad region -Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger and Chad-, Ethiopia, Mozambique …and let us remember Israel and Palestine, and Armenia - Azerbaijan. Conflict zones that deserve our attention. All accompanied by deaths, injuries, diasporas, extreme poverty, famine, child recruitment, rape, the Covid-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and other avoidable scourges.


Culture and art build referential frameworks for coexistence, integration, solidarity, and from our tiny space we seek to make visible these efforts at interethnic, intercultural dialogue, always with respect for the gaze of the other and in the search for the most deep, imagining a fairer future.


Robert Vega Andersen


THE VOICE OF EXPERTS
THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

THE MUSEUM OF MR. PERFECTO PACIENTE BUSTAMANTE, OR “MAKE A COUNTRY, TAKE ANDEAN HERBS AND FIGHT AGAINST THE DOCTORS”.

By Irina Podgorny (*)

Fascinating story of this man from La Rioja who opened his "Museum of Ethnography, Paleontology and Ancient Objects" to the public in Buenos Aires in a crusade against doctors, promoting the use of Andean herbs...


The Bustamante Museum - as the business called itself - was the consulting room and office of Mr. Perfecto, who attended personally and, thanks to the museum, was enabled to open every day, even on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. . Among the products stood out the lodestone –used older than rue– and the Chuschampi, a prodigious balm of resinous herbs (...)

THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

PLAN OF THE TOWN OF LA CANDELARIA IN THE JESUIT MISSIONS OF GUARANI, PRESERVED IN THE HISPANIC LIBRARY OF THE AECID.

By Ramón Gutiérrez (*)

Located in the territory of the Province of Misiones in Argentina, the town of La Candelaria, founded in 1628 and moved to its current location in 1665, was considered "the capital" of the group of 30 Guaraní Indian towns that today are distributed in Paraguay (eight), Argentina (fifteen) and Brazil (seven), since the Jesuit who coordinated the tasks of the missions lived there.


This article traces the known steps of the original map drawn by a Guarani Indian in colonial times, a treasure of Jesuit cartography that is preserved in the Library of the Spanish Agency for International Cooperation for Development, located in Madrid.


THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

JUAN DE DIOS MENA, A UNIVERSAL IRONIC.

Por Sonia Decker (*)

Juan de Dios Mena (1897-1954) was born in the province of Santa Fé but Chaco will adopt him for the rest of his life. His hometown is Puerto Gaboto, a small town in Santa Fe where he spends his childhood full of deprivation, in a humble and numerous home but surrounded by a wild nature that allows him to live in absolute freedom.


His link with art began in the field of poetry, but he reached its peak in the field of sculpture. His characters today move in public and private collections, and when one of his works reaches the auction market, the bids show the interest they arouse.

THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

THE PRESENCE OF THE SCULPTOR FELIPE DE RIVERA IN SALTA, SANTIAGO DEL ESTERO AND CÓRDOBA (ARGENTINA) IN THE 18TH CENTURY.

By Sergio Barbieri

The visit to the "San Francisco Solano" Museum in the city of Santiago del Estero, commissioned by the National Commission of Monuments, Historic Places and Cultural Assets, allowed the author of this article to study the imagery preserved there. The most outstanding, the head of a San Francisco de Asís signed and dated in 1764 by Felipe de Rivera.


Experienced researcher, Sergio Barbieri gathers in these lines the different localized works of the master Felipe de Rivera, one of the most relevant image makers of the 18th century active in our territory.


NEWS AND MORE
NEWS AND MORE

OVER A MILLION DOLLARS FOR THE VOID. YVES KLEIN'S ZONE OF IMMATERIAL PICTORIAL SENSIBILITY

By Guillermo Vega Fischer

As often happens in the history of art, in the face of innovation, of what is different, many have cried to the heavens, discussing not only the artistic quality, but also questioning whether it is truly art. However, to the tranquility -or horror- of the orthodox conservatives of the traditional paradigms of culture, there was already an artist born in Nice, in 1928 -almost a century ago!- and on April 28, 1958, he inaugurated a exhibition entitled "The void" at the Iris Clert Gallery in Paris. In it he did not present any physical work, but a space full of "pictorial sensibility in its purest form". We refer to the great Yves Klein, famous for his paintings and sculptures in a particular blue, the International Klein Blue, (...)

COLLECTORS, STORIES AND ANECDOTES
COLLECTORS, STORIES AND ANECDOTES

ED SHAW, THE GREAT COLLECTOR OF ANIMATE AND INANIMATE FRIENDS.

By Germán Carvajal (*)

On March 29, Edward Shaw, journalist, photographer, art critic, cultural manager and collector, passed away. The news prompted us to submit an article about his life, his passionate life, and who could do it better than one of his friends…


The exclusive word of the architect Germán Carvajal gives us a testimonial portrait of Ed Shaw, born “(...) in a kind of United Nations created and cultivated by my paternal grandfather, Albert Shaw... in a spacious property on the coast of the Hudson River, outside of New York. My childhood companions… were the group of people at his service, the closest ones, the gardener who came from the South of Italy and the Finnish carpenter who took care of the three big houses he was in charge of. The couple who cooked and waited in my grandfather's dining room were black, which was rare in our community. My grandfather had hired Willa and her husband on the farm in the South Country, before they traveled north to work on their new home there. The shed was full of treasures, little relics of two generations of acquisition and discard. I loved rummaging through trunks, boxes and shelves”.

CULTURAL TOURS
CULTURAL TOURS

THE TRADITION OF ENGRAVING. FROM NORTHERN EUROPE TO CUYO.

By Astrid Maulhardt (*)

Notable exhibition inaugurated on April 8 in the halls of the Franklin Rawson Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in the city of San Juan, where it will remain until June 26, 2022. The exhibition is organized in two sections. The first presents to the public a collection of engravings by Renaissance and Baroque artists -among others, Schongauer, Dürer, Rembrandt, van Dick and Rubens-, active during the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. And the second pays tribute to the Belgian engraver Victor Delhez (Antwerp, 1901-Mendoza, 1985), a notable figure in Argentine art, for the 120th anniversary of his birth. Bringing together his work with the old engraving of his native territory proposes to emphasize that those prints did not remain in the past: over time they were the object of study and enjoyment.


We bring you here a presentation text made by its curator, Astrid Maulhardt. An authentic guide to tour the exhibition if you plan to visit the province of San Juan in the next two months, a territory that captivates with its landscapes, its people, its wines - how can I not mention it? - and its art.

COLLECTING IS AN ART AND A PASSION

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