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) inaugurated its X National Painting Award 2017 with a ceremony in which the winners of the different categories were announced. This year, the BCRA awarded Liliana Porter with its Grand Tribute Prize 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 inauguration, which took place at the Central Bank Museum, was attended by Lucas Llach, vice president of the BCRA; the Minister of Culture of the Nation, Pablo Avelluto, and various personalities from culture and other fields.
The first Acquisition Prize went to Guadalupe Fernández Santamaría for her work “Villa Crespo”, and the second Prize in that category went to Florencia Bohtlingk with her work “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. The third Acquisition Award went to Lux Lindner for “Cleaning”. Meanwhile, in the category of Incentives for people under 35 years of age, the first Acquisition Prize was awarded to María Gimena Herrara for her work “Hernán”, while the second Acquisition Prize went to Evangelina Aybar for “Romance”.
As in previous years, there were acquisition mentions for each category. The first mention of acquisition was for José Luis Landet and his work “Landscape and Manifestation”. The second acquisition mention went to José Luis Meirás for “Radiofoto Silvio Frondizi”. In the Youth category, the mentions went to Valeria López and her work Untitled (Series: Design & Error), Florentina González for her work without a title and Ornella Pocetti for “Agave”.
In the exhibition you can see the work of Liliana Porter as Grand Prize Tribute, and the 27 finalist works that were selected among the more than 900 artists from all over the country who participated in the contest.
The winning works were chosen by the jury made up of Mariana Rodríguez Iglesias, Roberto Amigo, Claudia del Río, Florencia Battiti and Lucas Di Pascuale, with the presence of curator Eva Grinstein, selected the following artists:
The exhibition of the X National Painting Prize 2017 will be on display at the Central Bank Museum (San Martin 216 – CABA) until February 28, 2018. It can be visited from Monday to Friday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Subsequently, and like previous editions, 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”.
