Mourning September, 2014

Piece shown at show "Videorover #8" at Nurture Art Non Profit./ Obra exhibida en la muestra "Videorover #8" at Nurture Art Non Profit.

Show curated by Rachel Steinberg

 

2014, TV, projection on drawing and tape 9 x 10 x 8.1 feet

The videos show 3 scenes happening in a room. ( projection and one of the videos shown above, the third one was just a still of a piece of tape stuck to a wall ) 

The different beats compose the totality of a space playing to each other in a visual rhythm. There is no sound

 

Nurture Art: Videorover #8 - Press Release
Opening on June 27, the third installation involves artists Dave Greber, Derek G. Larson, and Sofia Quirno. Relating again to the idea of reconfiguration, this time through humor, these works transform the gallery into an almost unrelatable space. Deeply rooted in the uncanny, these works borrow from the sensibilities of painterly abstraction to create a space of overwhelming stimulus. Confronting us with a cocktail of comic absurdity and mundane but somehow chaotic repetition, we are presented with the more vibrant potential of video.
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NURTUREart's Videorover: Season 8 is curated by Rachel Steinberg and features works by artists Dave Greber, Victoria Keddie, Derek G. Larson, Brendan Lee, Beatriz Meseguer, Sofia Quirno, Alona Rodeh, Adam Douglas Thompson and Raul Valverde. Videorover, NURTUREart’s dedicated video program, aims at becoming an ever-expanding forum for emerging and underrepresented artists working in video.

This season’s video works explore the idea of video as installation, highlighting the immersive potential that time based media hold. Through audio and visual tools and using the body as a reference point, this exhibition aims to interrupt our exteroceptive senses. For three weeks in June, Videorover: Season 8 will take over NURTUREart’s main gallery space; opening in shifts for a series of three consecutive installations. Each installation will feature three of the selected artists, to allow for the works to expand in the space, while still in dialogue with the larger group of works.

 

El que quiere celeste que le cueste, 2013

Site specific at Parsons The New School, 2013

Projection and mixed media on room, 9 x 9 x 8.1 feet

The Projection, a still image, was invaded by a GIFF every seven minutes imitating a screen saver and turning the screen blue for 2 seconds.

The title refers a word play of an Argentine saying in a literal and conceptual way. Translated in English this would mean: No pain no gain. Literally though : the one who wants blue has to do the effort to get it - or something like that

This piece made an ironic comment on wanting to succeed as an artist in NYC as to the  fact that the audience had to actually make the “effort" to stay in the piece to be able to see the color blue and fully experience it.

Un dia sin lluvia, 2011

Muestra Paseo Cultural Carlos Nuñez, Buenos Aires- curada por Leonel Luna/ show at Paseo Cultural Carlos Nuñez, Buenos Aires- curated by Leonel Luna

 

Text by curator Leonel Luna

Abstraction is young since art was freed to represent the real, photography assumed that destiny and painting its liberty of form.

The immanence of form, it’s continuous present is not just it’s ephemeral gesture as an affirmation to life nor the unfinished not the fickleness of accepted abandonment but the disposition of what can come from attention and await.

The disposition of what is constantly in process. The task of art is not to generate a script for society to organize its diversity but to value the essential and that is that in the disagreement is possible in the construction of new experiences.

In the pieces by this artist painting, drawing and installation are one.  Transforms painting in an invasion for the senses, her works seam to want to escape their bidimentional limits to claim what it is theirs as right; a real space where they can project into the limitless landscape. There is no illusion, in her work color hovers exceeding all structure. One can literally walk inside the piece. Painting here becomes an experience as well as a place, a habitat where one can choose to enter, an open door to our senses. 

 

Texto por Leonel Luna curador de la muestra

La abstracción es joven,  desde que el arte se vio liberado de representar la realidad y la fotografía asumió ese destino, la pintura asumió para si la libertad de la forma.

La inmanencia de la formasu presente continuo no es tan solo el gesto efímero, tiene mas que ver con lo efímero como afirmación de la vida ylo inacabado no es la inconstancia aceptada ni el abandono, sino la disposición de lo que puede llegar como atención y espera.

La disposición de lo que esta continuamenteen proceso. La tarea del arte no es darle un relato a la sociedad para organizar su diversidad sino valorizar lo inminente donde el disenso es posible construyendo nuevas experiencias.

En las obras de esta artista la pintura el dibujo y la instalación son uno

Sofía Quirno transforma la pintura en una invasión de los sentidos.  la pintura y el dibujo no intenta mostrarnos el mundo, y como en un sueño que no recordamos nos deja vagas sensaciones, sus trabajos parecen querer escapar de su propios limites bidimensionales para reclamar lo que por derecho le es propio; un espacio real donde proyectarse en el entorno sin límites precisos, no hay ilusión, en su obra el color se desplaza fuera de toda estructura. Podemos entrar, literalmente, en ella;

La pintura aquí se convierte y pasa de ser una experiencia para poder ser también un lugar, un hábitat donde uno puede elegir entrar,  una puerta abierta a nuestros sentidos.

Copy of NY might, 2015

Piece for Parsons graduate show at The Kitchen NY/ Obra para muestra de graduacion de Parsons en The Kitchen NY

The drawing projection, a Photoshop drawn line, redraws the horizon for a skier who is about to jump to the abyss.

The adrenaline of living in NY city where the possibilities of success and failure seem to be at stake on a regular basis.