Curiously, “Peli” was born on June 10, 1975, at 10:10 in the morning in room 10 of a hospital in Buenos Aires (the birth required special attention). Four days later she was already in the province of San Juan. From a very young age she learned to develop and print in a laboratory and, unintentionally, she ended up exhibiting, at a very young age, in numerous museums in Argentina and Uruguay.
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One of Orlando Javier Pelichotti’s paintings that tours cities and countries
He settled in Mendoza in 1994 and immediately began working at Los Andes Diario, a task that continued for almost 30 years. “However, the roots are from San Juan. I continue to vote in my province, in the same school where I studied, Bartolomé del Bono, around the corner from my birthplace, where I still have the same neighbors.
“My first exhibition was in an art gallery in Córdoba Capital, at the end of 1993 and there were 20 monochromatic photographs of the different regions of Argentina. Then I exhibited in more than 30 museums and galleries, until in 1996 I opened the season at the Museum of Modern Art in Mendoza and later in several cities in America,” he reviews.
“A lot of traveling, something I love and enjoy. I try to make the exhibitions participatory and collective so that the community itself is part of that work. Thus, an idea that is born in San Juan is developed in Argentina and ends up intervened in Madrid or Caracas… And in that evolution is when I see that my work is concluded,” he highlights.
Orlando says that he usually “plays” with his camera in the middle of nature to later interpret it and show it in a Land Art project.
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The works of Pelichotti, from San Juan based in Mendoza, transcend borders
“Although then I abruptly move on to another function, for example on Sundays, already on a court, immediacy is essential. The task of communicator and journalist requires other times,” she compares.
“I was thinking last week, while walking in the snow, about the privilege of this profession, which often manages to share a feeling that the image produces. The picture, as they say, is sometimes worth a thousand words,” he says.
At this time, Orlando is preparing to travel to the province of Río Negro at least three times in a month, since he was selected to exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts in that province.
“I will bring a series of mixed media works, in large format, referring to working women,” she indicated, adding that she will give workshops and conferences at different universities and educational institutions.
It will also participate in the Río Negro Biennial, which will take place in the city of Valcheta, and will make a large release of hundreds of works in small formats during the days that this event lasts. He was also summoned to create a mural on public roads. In that same province he will restore a mural located in Las Grutas.
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Angel’s hands, this is the name of this work by Pelichotti
“Among so many projects, I will also be in Buenos Aires, for an exhibition and then Caracas awaits me and in November I will travel to the XV Havana Biennial, in my beloved Cuba,” he anticipates.
Cuba is, precisely, one of his favorite places in the world. “I have many friends and many exhibitions made. We have come a long way in Cuba and Venezuela, but also in other countries like France. However, I still have friends and students from Cuba and Venezuela, something incredible,” she says.
“I traveled almost all of America. I couldn’t count all the countries visited, but there are probably more than 30. I teach, I make samples, I paint murals. I don’t travel too much, but I do meet a lot of people and make unbreakable bonds. I drink mate with French people, we talk. The same thing happens to me in Rome, but I think I would not stand in line to visit the Colosseum,” she warns.
Orlando, who is married and has two children (Larisa, 24, and Vinicio, 18), incorporated painting into his work and always with the concept of nature. “I love nature and, in fact, my works contain elements and pigments from that environment,” he adds.
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Another work that will be presented soon in Río Negro
Love for its origins
“San Juan is my favorite place in the world, there I find my aromas, that Andean culture that is wonderful, as well as friendships and beautiful memories of my own childhood. Although I feel a special affection for all the places visited, there is nothing like a mate with semitas in some San Juan mountain. I never completely left San Juan and every time I go I bring something back. I played hockey, I have friends who are journalists and photographers, schoolmates and a great family,” she details.
Among the countries where he took his art are Chile, Uruguay, Bolivia, Ecuador, Brazil, Colombia, Venezuela, Paraguay, Peru, Japan, India, Mexico, Costa Rica, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, France, Italy, Cuba, El Salvador, Canada, Portugal, Iceland, Norway, Russia, Holland and Greece, among others.
