Being part of the Argentine cultural scene, this exhibition has grown year by year with a high participation of artists and proposals that renew and expand the artistic and textile field.
Delia Tossoni, the alma mater of the project, has coordinated from the beginning. She contributes her experience and knowledge as a textile artist, this Salon has become one of the most important stimuli for the work of textile artists in the country and it has been recognized by the Legislature of the city of Buenos Aires for 19 years.
We also highlight the work and expertise of the jury in the selection and awarding of pieces given the high quality and variability of the artworks. On this instance it was made up of Marian Cvik, Silvio Fischbein and Liliana Rothschild.
The visitor will find in the selected and awarded works of this exhibition the richness of techniques that combine the traditional with the experimental and the use of various organic, inorganic or synthetic materials and that are as a whole, a harmonious set of textures, volume and color.
The expression textile art refers to works that are made up of warp and weft so that, unlike handicrafts, they do not require a utilitarian function.
1st Prize. Medium Format
El Khipuneta. Gustavo Alfredo Larsen
Conceptual memory: This piece was carried out during the development of the football world cup with the colours of our flag, with the idea of generating an artistic object that can be integrate into the popular festivities of the moment. It is based on the Andean khipu from the American culture.
2nd Prize. Medium Format
Ojos del Salar. Romina Bassi
Eyes watchful of the great layers of salt.
Protective eyes of those who fight for them.
Eyes that control those who come to exploit them.
Eyes that guard the source of life.
The Andean salt flats, which include Bolivia, Chile and Argentina (lithium triangle). They are the main reserve of lithium in brine in the world.
Lithium is the great star of global mega-mining.
For the native communities, it represents much more than a source of lithium.
It is part of the Pacha, culture and ancestral wisdom. That is why since their ancestors they have cared for and managed each year's salt harvest with respect.
The salt represents many things for the territory, and the water unifies the criteria of all the communities regarding the fight against this activity.
The massive exploitation threatens to definitively transform desert areas where rainfall does not exceed 200 mm per year. Water scarcity is one of the main environmental problems.
Salt and water thus become the protagonists of a battle, since the exaggerated exploitation of the first can exhaust the existence of the second. Which in itself is scarce in this desert environment.
3rd Prize. Medium Format
Paseo por las constelaciones. Maria Eugenia Bargero
My work within textile art allows me to build my own environment, my
inspiration is what surrounds me, nature and rurality. I work with embroidery as a way
to tell women's stories, experiences related to my environment, pains that I have gone through
and that with my actions I was able to accept and thus I learned to live with those scars.
On a daily basis I collect elements of nature for my inspiration and my work.
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1st prize. Small Format
Almohada para antropólogos. María Paula Wendel
I make textile works thinking about different aspects of violence against women. I have attended different textile art courses at the National University of the Arts in the city of Buenos Aires and on my own.
2nd prize. Small Format
Bio Grafias de la Pandemia. Luz Marisol Molina
My piece of work narrates my emotional process in a pandemic: I explore textile fragments of my (elastic) chinstraps and sanitary caps. The elastics are intertwined emulating vegetative forms, creating the metaphor of communicating vessels that are sometimes hidden under the translucent textile and other times emerge from its containment as growing shoots. The material, delicate, fragile but not biodegradable, let me think about the ephemeral nature of our human condition and what we do to our Earth with so much garbage. I also try to reflect on recycling, and new opportunities for materials.
3rd prize. Small Format
Micro Universo 1. Gustavo Damián Sampayo
My work refers to the complexity and diversity of life, constituted both by those ways of existence that we can know with our senses, such as those discovered by science or those that are perceived only through the soul.