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This exposure arises from evidence: a number of contemporary artists revisit episodes and figures of national history. The review of the past as history, stories and crannies and its visuals, is an increasingly incisive activity for recurrent number of local artists who work with very different procedures. A pantheon of heroes is the place where we honor the "Founding Fathers" (as opposed to mothers), but also a mausoleum where they lay, inert. To a large extent, the survival and activation of these figures is by means of credible and material representations, images selected and scattered monuments, paintings, prints, books and manuals. The title of this exhibition refers to the pompous patriotic imagery that looks (acidic, sometimes) of contemporary artists into question. In their works, delineate particular histories, plural tested alternative representations, distort, quote or engage the icons of our history. That shredding native representations of the past is only possible if you understand the story less as a great feat organized as a story from a selective tradition of heroes and key events. Profane certain emblems (return certain items off-limits to the free use) also involves two issues: size the power of visual imagery and understand the nation not as an artifact of organic growth but as an imagined community, that is, at once created and putting in pictures.
course pantheon of heroes is not intended to view a pictorial history of Argentina and rescue of a gallery of national heroes last complete and intact. The task was, indeed, in the opposite direction: from those figures and
themed episodes in the recent works, then include some "study materials" produced between the early nineteenth century and the centenary of the May Revolution that could resonate with the first set. In this regard, and in accordance with the work of contemporary artists, the curatorial proposal is to test the selections and representations inherited. Visual artifacts that make you laugh, remember, distrust, post information, arouse loyalty, generate identities, restrict or encourage the imagination. Pantheon of heroes aims to bring together a gallery of works to replenish the working lives of historical conflicts, as well as contribute to the analysis of the ways in which images operate in relation to memory and forgetting.
Isabel Plante - Sebastian Vidal Mackinson
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