BUENOS AIRES ADDS A NEW SCULPTURE BY FRANCO-ARGENTINIAN ARTIST PABLO REINOSO
This Monday a new sculpture was inaugurated in the city of Buenos Aires. It is the work "Aires de Buenos Aires", by the French-Argentinean artist Pablo Reinoso, and can be seen in Ramón Cárcano Square, between Quintana Street and Alvear Avenue, in the Recoleta neighbourhood of this city.
The sculpture is six meters high, with the intention of being "a mixture of art and tree", as the artist himself said during the inauguration.
In this context, Reinoso said "it is a very strong emotion because I have a visceral relationship with Buenos Aires. I left a long time ago, but my soul remained in Buenos Aires". …..
ARGENTINA LEADS A RANKING TOP 100 SPANISH LANGUAGE FEMALE WRITERS OF THE LAST CENTURY
With more than twenty names ranging from Alfonsina Storni and the Ocampo sisters to Alejandra Pizarnik, Beatriz Sarlo and Camila Sosa Villada, Argentina leads a ranking of the Colombian cultural magazine Arcadia, on the 100 best books written by Spanish language authors in the last 100 years.
With the idea of "rescuing good literature written by women" and "turning the spotlight" on "those who opened the way" and "those who followed them," the Arcadia List of the year's best 100 books presented an extraordinary selection in 2019 by an international jury of 91 members, which included critics, academics and writers like Alejandro Zambra, María Negroni, Leila Guerriero, Juan Forn, Jorge Volpi and Jorge Carrión.
MARIA KODAMA'S PHOTOGRAPHIC GAZE LANDS IN BUENOS AIRES
A photographic exhibition by María Kodama, made up of some 50 images, many of them unpublished, about places she visited on her travels around the world, can be visited until the end of January at the Borges Cultural Center in the city of Buenos Aires.
Curated by Virginia Fabri on a pre-selection by Amanda Ortega, the exhibition thus covers a little-known facet of the widow of writer Jorge Luis Borges.
THE WALLS OF CHILE ARE AN OUTDOORS MUSEUM OF THE SOCIO-POLITICAL CRISIS
The walls of Santiago de Chile are witness to the largest wave of protests in the country's democratic history, and have become "improvised canvases" where dozens of known or anonymous artists express social discontent in the form of graffiti, collage or posters.
In the Lastarria neighbourhood, on one of the outer walls of a church, there is an adaptation of the well-known "Guernica", which Pablo Picasso painted in 1937 at the height of the Spanish Civil War.
Instead of the bull, the horse or the mother with her dead son in her arms, there are mutilated eyes, tear gas bombs, burnt-out subway stations and "pacos", the colloquial name by which the Chilean police are known, the target of criticism and denunciations for alleged human rights violations during the repression of the marches, in which they fight against inequality and in favor of a more just economic model.