Last night, the terrace was alive with energy, excitement, and hopeful nerves. freedom palaceBack of the Whale, under the blue light of the Great Lamp, the audience was full of smiling artists. They are Argentina’s great art competition, 112th National Visual Arts Hall. they surrendered Winner of 33 awardsget 3 of them. It was excellent federal representationHowever, fares are no longer applicable to participants who do not live in Buenos Aires. Gender equality was also maintained, but bases no longer required quotas. From the appearance of the building Palais de Glaceno news. What’s new is the addition of categories such as design. This is also the first edition in which this 100th anniversary institution has received support from the Society of Friends.
Rodrigo Alonso has done a great job of turning these 219 works into an exhibition., Design of fluid reading assemblies in the 4th floor room and Great Ramp (6th floor) that are not grouped by category. “The curatorship followed above all the criteria of a reading direction, without having a theme or a strong curatorial line, but rather considering the relationships between works, making all works interrelated,” he said. It can be visited until March 2026.
3 prizes won did not include paintwhich is typically the field that has historically won the most awards. Juliana Iriardo, Martin Di Girolamo, Leo Vacathe three laureates contributed videos, sculptures and photographs to the national heritage. They became part of the Palais’ collection and are now housed in various museums. Restoration work on the building is pending. “We have just arrived, but we have no information about this. The Palais is very active and we have a great program for 2026 with a friendly National Museum that has opened its doors to us. We are deep in our archives, and there are more than 8,000 biographies of artists,” she told LA NACION. Christina Santa Cruz Director of the Palais de Glace.
“In these three categories (videos, sculptures, photos) We can see that there was a consensus not only in the diversity of languages, but also in the artist’s position regarding language, and in the sensitivities of which works were selected, from a political point of view, quotations from the history of art, and from a point of view in the social sphere,” he said. Daniel Fisher The selection and award judges were made up of: Alonso, Marina Cisneros, Daniel Fisher, Virginia Buitron, and Estanislao Florido.
“I feel like this work is part of a chain, because there is an intention in these works to not dim the light of someone who inspires them,” Illiato says. His work is a video opera of paintings Mildred Bartona modern reinterpretation of his work. “Their words and beliefs are translated into action through lyrical singers, musical instruments, painted models and paintings,” he explains.
leo ox The winner was a silent photo titled “A wall showing the remains of a removed painting.” National Military University. “I’ve been photographing these issues related to human rights for 30 years,” he said. works of Di Girolamo, last tripis a surreal sculpture that emerges from a dark wall as a white allegory.
That very base no longer belongs to Feda Baeza. In February last year, the government abolished Article 3 of the General Regulations for the National Arts Hall (SNAV). The rules provided for respect for “the equal participation of men and women in the selection of juries, the selection and awarding of works, and the nomination and awarding of National Arts Career Awards.”
Anyway, Careful attention to diversity appears to be paying off.: “We always looked at it, so much so that there was a category that was very feminine…We kind of laughed and said, “You know what? We should think about the quota of men.. allocation It tends not to segment, but rather to focus on some inequalities. And when you see them, like in this room, they’re already part of the assemblage,” Fisher says. In Arts of Fire, the winners were five women and one man. Lucia Eugenia López, Maria Candelaria Traverso, Diana Ares, Evi Tartari, Luciano Polbergani.
a The difficulty with fair representation of the federation is that it no longer serves to pay for freight To carefully selected artists living in local areas. For artists from Tierra del Fuego, for example, it will be much more difficult to compete. Still, prizes were distributed throughout the territory. In category drawingnearly all of the victors came from the opposite side of the Pass General. Patrick Glasher graphite genius Only porteño, Virginia Jurinich of Misiones, Maximiliano S. López of Tierra del Fuego!, Leo Guardianelli of Chaco, Juan Castillo and Fran Heredia of Mendoza.
in paint geometry of gilda picabeabanner of Sil Buffone Mariano Moreno’s tragic end, Noelia Villacorta, Agustina Lazarte (Lemon wooden box painted to look like Dutch porcelain with a scene from the Tucuman market)Veronica Calfatto (The figure of a woman in the landscape is beautiful)Marina Daiez, Andres Romero von Zeschau (Scene of Corrientes with Pombero) Alejandro Carosella and There is a gallery of gray suburban landscapes.
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category design It debuted with a highly desirable award for artists. It was called a small portable printing press. copy, of a group consisting of Javier Nocete and Yasmin Ouasuf (Santa Fe). Further features Alexia Simciloglu, Francisco Miranda, Monica Sartori.
Discipline erases your limitations. The first prize in sculpture There was also a chance it would win in the textile category. “nevertheless victoria pastrana A soft sculpture of blankets, clothing and typical textiles from the Calchaqui Valley from Tucuman encased in a plastic net. Other award winners are Alejandro Gabriel, Cecilia Teruel, Gabriel Sacia, Barbara de Lellis (Since it is made of enamel ceramic, it could have been entered in Artes del Fuego.) in fiber, Record number of presentations and buckets of threads awarded Eisen Erika It is both a sculpture and an installation. Other awards Nilda Rosenberg, Carina Granieri, Pablo Paysino, Eli Palavecino. “textiles and ceramics, The amount of languages is starting to increase, which can make it difficult to choose. Then a trajectory emerges, an artist’s work, their territory, their quota, and the good work that always wins,” Fisher said.
This freedom is also evident in categories such as: undisciplined space (They won an award Javier Soria Vázquez, Roxana Ramos, Andres Garaveri, Monica Fierro) and Installation and alternative media (collaboration with Victoria Papani and performers Tobibi Bienz, Valentin Asprela Lozano, Sergio Lamanna, Paula Massalutti, Milagros Weygat, Juan Sporidor and Javier Plano).
in photograph Leandro Arrokis’ Portrait of Sergeant Cabral was an outstanding work (there were also models that interpreted this work). painting pictures Guillermo Slodek-Hart. Other awards include Pompi Gutniski, Clara Nerone, Carolina Baldoma, Diana Rodriguez Q. and Julia Roman.Either. in graph, prize of Ana Lia Vertein, Mili Montejo Echeverría, Carolina Fernández, Daniel Juárez, Hernan Borches.
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