Alfonsina

This piece is inspired by the woodcuts of the plastic artist Antono Berni. His career was always linked to political art, having a strong militancy in social-political-economic issues that surrounded the world at that time, being also recognized for reusing recyclable materials, managing to make a piece of burlap a canvas that would cross the entire world.

Technical, aesthetic and conceptual development

At one point in his life, Antonio Berni ventured into the digital world, creating works (NFTs), along with other colleagues, where he presented “Art and Cybernetics”, in 1969. This proposal proposed uniting the traditional circuit with the latest emerging art of that time and in his work he proposes a metamorphosis, a synthesis, of the image of a body that changes, becoming a butterfly.

Although the work presented in this work is an inspiration, as mentioned above, from Berni’s woodcut art, it also contemplates this change, this metamorphosis when taking the traditional art that he made throughout his life to a digital device and thus also transforming the initial object of said work. As Natalie Heinich suggests, in “The work of art beyond the object”, contemporary art breaks with the traditional schemes where the work was in the object proposed by the artist, to open the game to other possible channels, such as the story. We are talking about the art of narration or, as the author mentions, “An art of commentary and interpretation”, where the work is open, not reduced to the material limits of the object, but rather enriched by comments, sensations and/or interpretations. It is the latter that Alfonsina proposes, that the work is not reduced only to its materiality, nor its technique, nor proportions, etc., but that it allows itself to be encompassed from the sensations of each person, its history, its interpretation, that it be uncomfortable and that it passes through, that it be destroyed and reconstructed as many times as necessary for the person who is seeing it.

Between the physical and digital world, the traditional and the future, we find a range of possibilities and tools to continue creating and transforming, with awareness and responsibility, artistic expressions becoming, in this case, a link between these worlds and the sensitivity of the visual arts.

Literature

HEINICH, Natalie. (2014). “La obra de arte más allá del objeto”.