The rooms of the Chateau – Antonio Seguí Contemporary Art Center will display a tribute to the Cordoban artist Eduardo Giusiano (General Viamonte, 1931), a creator of international significance who also accompanied the training of artists of various generations.
“The painter and his legacy. Eduardo Giusiano & Compañía ”will open to the public this Wednesday the 19th at 6 p.m. The exhibition brings together paintings by the Argentine master along with works by artists who passed through his workshop or received teachings from him.
Since his work began to gain visibility at the end of the 1950s, Giusiano’s progress along the path of painting has been sustained with a vigor rarely seen. From certain Americanist concerns, common to other artists on the continent, he went out towards an expressionist musculature, he visited the wild territory of Fauvist tendencies, Baconian airs crept into him.
Beyond those “notes,” or stations on a path that continues to expand, what has always guided his brush is the strength of a very peculiar temperament, an extraordinary mix of maturity and freedom. Strongly marked by the search for a compositional architecture that ensures balance, her painting has sought chromaticism in hidden lairs, moving more and more furtively between abstraction and a point of figuration that she never stops flickering.
In his rise to the Olympus of the “heroes of color”, Giusiano could have been a lone wolf. He wasn’t. With similar doses of rigor and tenderness, the painter from Córdoba guided the training or empowerment of artists who are located in a very broad generational arc. Those who were (and are) part of the “Giusiano galaxy” are also magnetized by a gravitational force whose primary energy is affection.
Those emotional cords that lead from life to art, and vice versa, made possible the plot with which “The painter and his legacy” is woven. Eduardo Giusiano & Company”.
By Giusiano a set of paintings from different periods is included. From The nest either Wasp hunting machinefrom the 1990s, to works from recent years such as Continuous movement 1 and 2, After the storm either The Alchemist’s Furnace 2. Both at the level of the imagination and in the perpetual formal search for it, the capture of “continuous movement” is one of the artist’s conceptual, existential and visual manias.
In a coming and going between gratitude for having been received and the action of sheltering the master, the exhibition expands with works by Ernesto Berra, Sebastián Silber, Dora Burlet, Carlos del Corro, Jorge Crinejo, Teresa Markman and María Lizoain, who At the same time, he was in charge of curating the exhibition.
One of the challenges of those who teach is to allow each artist to make their own way without imposing themselves. Giusiano crossed paths in the life and art of a handful of people, giving full meaning to a beautiful definition by the Irish poet Willian Butler Yeats: “Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.”
To go
Opening. Wednesday, June 19 at 6 p.m. The exhibition can be visited from Tuesday to Sunday and holidays, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Until September 8. General admission: $1,000. Free admission: every Wednesday.
