El Reflejo de Otra Realidad

The work is based on the work of the Argentine artist Antonio Berni (1905-1981), painter, engraver and muralist. To make it, he used city waste that was used in poor neighborhoods, cans, wrappers, plastics. In it, Juanito brings food to the factory for his father who was a laborer. metallurgical.Juanito Laguna is the first Bernian character created by the artist during a trip to the interior of Argentina where he visited very poor neighborhoods since the ’30s. The boy in a way represents me for having been born in a lower middle class neighborhood and this I was discriminated against by my friends who lived in other neighborhoods, because of their location, my condition social was a different reflection of their reality. That is why I chose this artist who realized the struggles for social equality and for its criticism of the consumer society and the political repression of that time.

The artist chosen by me is Antonio Berni and I linked him to the texts of Paul Valéry (1928) and José Luis Brea (2008). Berni was also ahead of the 21st century, because he became what José Luis Brea, in His manifesto calls the “Artist as Producer” the one who intervenes in real time according to his experience, and not in the deferred time of his representation, since Berni traveled and visited the places where that other society lacked everything, shared time and meeting between the subjects of knowledge.

Technical, Aesthetic and Conceptual Development

In my work I reflect on inequality, those who exist but do not want to be seen, where the consumer society marks us as if there were different worlds, and that according to Where you live is your only and personal reality, behind the big cities is the reflection of a society that fights to have a better future even if it seems separated from the rest. Antonio Berni understood this and captured that other reality in his paintings and engravings, like Valéry, who according to him saw the transmission and reproduction of musical works or the science faster than works of art did, because no society dreamed of the distribution of “sensible reality” at home. Berni was a contemporary of Valéry, since his great work was “Unemployed” (1930) where a kind of ubiquity is acquired and its immediate presence in the form of movement continuous of those masses of people who suffered from unemployment, marginality and poverty. In a society with excess consumption, he uses waste to make several of his works. As in the past we could not enjoy music at the chosen moment, and now we can choosing the moment one wants to enjoy it, Berni, in the words of Valéry “allowed his creatures resurrect” in a living environment not very different from the one in which they were created, that is why created Juanito Laguna, a boy who wanted a better future, despite feeling marginalized by their poverty.

Literature

• VALÉRY, Paul. (1928). La conquista de la ubicuidad.pdf
• BREA, José Luis-LSA47. (2008). Redefinición de las prácticas artísticas s21.pdf