In the tenth edition of the contest, Liliana Porter was awarded in the Grand Prize Tribute category. Of the 27 selected works, the winners will become part of the entity’s pictorial heritage.
The Central Bank of the Argentine Republic (BCRA) awarded Liliana Porter with its Grand Prize Tribute for her work Viajero (con zapatos negros), which consists of a graphite and collage intervention on eighteen notebook sheets. Like each of the previous Tribute Awards, it will become part of the Central Bank’s assets.
“The work selected for the Prize is called “Traveler (with black shoes)”. It is a work on paper, there are many small sheets that put together a whole and the whole way is done in pencil and the traveler appears.”
Liliana Porter
Porter says that “the work selected for the Prize is called “Traveler (with black shoes)”. It is a work on paper, there are many small sheets that come together as a whole and the whole way is made in pencil and the traveler appears. It is a theme that I repeated many times during my life, in paintings, engravings and drawings. The theme of the walker as a metaphor for time, for us within time”.
“In Fine Arts, in Buenos Aires, I studied everything: drawing, engraving, painting. We didn’t get to video, not even photography. Later, when I arrived in New York, at one point I was interested in photography not as a technique but I was interested in how to use elements without touching them almost,” says Liliana Porter about her career. And about the work in painting, he adds: “Later, painting always interested me because I was interested in how strange the convention is that you put a cloth with four sticks and then everyone is ready to see art. Why did someone invent that convention? So before I start putting any image, half of the work is done, in my opinion.”
The jury of the National Painting Prize also selected the twenty-seven artists who will become part of the exhibition of the X National Painting Prize 2017.
The jury, made up of Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias, Roberto Amigo, Claudia del Río, Florencia Battiti and Lucas Di Pascual, with the presence of curator Eva Grinstein, selected the following artists:
• Valentina Ansaldi | Hotel Salut
• Evangelina Aybar | Romance
• Enrique Bernard | Fairy, prickly pear and the Fireball
• Florence Bohtlingk | One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Juan José Cambre | Elgar
• Alejandro Carosella | Vase with bunnies
• Javier Carricajo | Pressure
• Laura Codega | Clamor and cackling
• Nicolás Domínguez Nacif | Another study on kundalini
• Leopoldo Estol | Untitled
• Guadalupe Fernández | Villa Crespo
• Víctor Florido | Work table
• Florentina González | Untitled
• María Gimena Herrera | Hernán
• José Luis Landet | Landscape and Manifestation
• Federico Lanzi | Untitled 2
• Lux Lindner | Cleaning
• Valeria López | Untitled (Series: Design & Error)
• Ailin Macia | About the sepoys
• Gustavo Marrone | Minors
• José Luis Meiras | Radiophoto Silvio Frondizi
• Kirsten Mosel | Cutout large (yellow black)
• Adrián Paiva | Untitled 2
• Fatima Pecci | The real in fantasy (lying down)
• Ornella Pocetti | Agave
• Juan Rey | Hat
• Leila Tschopp | Stick dance_planos Parallels
On November 30, the winners will be defined and, as in previous years, the award-winning works will become part of the BCRA’s pictorial heritage. Later, it will be transformed into a traveling exhibition that will tour several cities in the country.
The federal scope of the Prize and its traveling exhibition contribute to the dissemination of the expressions of different cultural centers and value artists of different generations, schools and trends deserving of knowledge and recognition by the public.
This year, the National Painting Prize celebrates ten years. In this decade, it had more than 7300 registered throughout the country and 94 jurors. He toured the country with 20 provinces and 34 cities visited. And he was able to recognize the most outstanding artists in the country with the Grand Prize Tribute award: Clorindo Testa, Luis Tomasello, Luis Felipe Noé, Alejandro Puente, León Ferrari, Carlos Alonso, Gyula Kosice, Marica Schartz and Julio LeParc.
The curator of the exhibition, Eva Grinstein, wrote about Liliana Porter:
Currently, Liliana Porter is probably the Argentine artist of greatest international significance. The BCRA will incorporate, through the Grand Prize Tribute, the piece Viajero (with black shoes). It consists of a graphite and collage intervention on eighteen notebook sheets. The character of the traveler or the walker has been and is a constant in Porter’s work, who evokes the great existential themes such as time, meaning, violence or love from the absurd or metaphor, using dolls or decorative figures as the protagonists of his stories”.
