Art Events
Córdoba: Hills and Watercourses
The immense Argentina geography, in its diversity of climates and sights, also encloses vast zones of solitude and silence. One of them, located in the heart of the territory, is called the ???Serranía Cordobesa??? (Hills from Córdoba). Even though nowadays it is still a proper environment to cross unconcerned broad touristic flows, up to several decades the stone and the quite sparse vegetation imposed its rustic nature, characterizing a region where the human presence acquired epic dimensions.
At equal intervals from the fertile Pampa plains and the dryness of the Andes heights, these area sets a space of balance and serenity that, at the time, brought an inevitable attractiveness to a plethora of artists that, in their eagerness of recreate its natural charm, settled down in small villages, besides the roads, on the banks of the watercourses, or under the protection of their churches and chapels.
From Fernando Fader, the mendocino who knew how to find the harsh area sights, the incantation to repel its ghosts and to erect in the name of the greatest art of the Argentineans, to the porteños Aquino and Tessandori and Malanca (el cordobés), many of them were greatest masters who resided immerse in that tough and sifted light that even though limited their palettes of paints, it added unprecedented tones in the National Art.
In today???s exhibition, inside the monthly cycle of events, Estudio Garrido Abogados contributes with the Paideia pieces of artwork collection to pay memorial tribute to a group of those artists who made as their own the sights of the Sierras Cordobesas.
These artists came from different corners of our country: porteños like Italo Botti, Ceferino Carnacini, Juan Carlos Faggioli, Adán Pedemonte, Francisco Mariani, Armando Repetto, Angel Vena ,Vicente Vento, and Jorge Villar Mathis, a marplatense like Juan Carlos Castagnino, an entrerriano like Carlos Delgado Roustan, a tucumano like Vicente Indalecio Pereyra. Also natives from Córdoba like Fray Guillermo Butler and José Américo Malanca. The immigration also provided its values. From Spain arrived Luis Macaya, Enrique Rodríguez and Francisco Salat. The Italian contribution is represented by Egidio Cerrito, Fausto Eliseo Coppini, Tomás Di Taranto y Luigi Zago.
Because of the contribution that they made to the cordobés sightseeing, the paints exhibition could be showed today. Visions of the sierras, and their inhabitants, their rustic animals, clear watercourses, the paths that winds through the cliffs, the gardens of bloom fruits, minimum places of drywall (pirca), and ancestral chapels that set up a testimony of spirituality in an environment that, as we pointed out, knew to be a place of solitude and silence.
At equal intervals from the fertile Pampa plains and the dryness of the Andes heights, these area sets a space of balance and serenity that, at the time, brought an inevitable attractiveness to a plethora of artists that, in their eagerness of recreate its natural charm, settled down in small villages, besides the roads, on the banks of the watercourses, or under the protection of their churches and chapels.
From Fernando Fader, the mendocino who knew how to find the harsh area sights, the incantation to repel its ghosts and to erect in the name of the greatest art of the Argentineans, to the porteños Aquino and Tessandori and Malanca (el cordobés), many of them were greatest masters who resided immerse in that tough and sifted light that even though limited their palettes of paints, it added unprecedented tones in the National Art.
In today???s exhibition, inside the monthly cycle of events, Estudio Garrido Abogados contributes with the Paideia pieces of artwork collection to pay memorial tribute to a group of those artists who made as their own the sights of the Sierras Cordobesas.
These artists came from different corners of our country: porteños like Italo Botti, Ceferino Carnacini, Juan Carlos Faggioli, Adán Pedemonte, Francisco Mariani, Armando Repetto, Angel Vena ,Vicente Vento, and Jorge Villar Mathis, a marplatense like Juan Carlos Castagnino, an entrerriano like Carlos Delgado Roustan, a tucumano like Vicente Indalecio Pereyra. Also natives from Córdoba like Fray Guillermo Butler and José Américo Malanca. The immigration also provided its values. From Spain arrived Luis Macaya, Enrique Rodríguez and Francisco Salat. The Italian contribution is represented by Egidio Cerrito, Fausto Eliseo Coppini, Tomás Di Taranto y Luigi Zago.
Because of the contribution that they made to the cordobés sightseeing, the paints exhibition could be showed today. Visions of the sierras, and their inhabitants, their rustic animals, clear watercourses, the paths that winds through the cliffs, the gardens of bloom fruits, minimum places of drywall (pirca), and ancestral chapels that set up a testimony of spirituality in an environment that, as we pointed out, knew to be a place of solitude and silence.
Adrián Gualdoni Basualdo
Julio de 2011
