Exhibitions
Gaspar Libedinsky | Arrecife Para Vestir
Date and place
Place: Praxis BA
Start Date: May 21 2021
End Date: July 08 2021
Description
Images of a kaleidoscopic reef to be dived.
The works generate an immersive experience.
The imaginary arises from the site-specific installation “The Origin of Species” (Praxis, 2018): a coral reef made from bundles of bristles from domestic brooms.
Exploration invites the discovery of animal, plant, archaeological and mythological figures.
Each print is characterized by varying degrees of focus and distortion typical of an underwater world where perception is altered.
They are mirage operations and double symmetries of patterns that act like Rorschach spots: a true underwater psychology test.
“Reef to dress” both the space and the body.
Exhibition:
Team: Mamitek Vibradios, Elia Gasparolo, Natalia Kerbabián, Mariana Castiglione, Lara Simanvicius, Federico Krieger, Leandro Dippolito, Associated Trades.
Acknowledgments: Luisita Levinton, Liliana Levinton, Cata Libedinsky
GASPAR LIBEDINSKY + MAMITEK VIBRADIOS + ELIA GASPAROLO
“Pajamas” from the Arrecife Para Dress series
A performative installation occupies the Vidriera Space where the site-specific work The Origin of Species was exhibited in 2018: a coral reef made from bundles of bristles from domestic brooms.
On this occasion that coral barrier rises from the plane to wrap the body in the form of clothing.
The stained glass window operates as a screen. Domestic life made public and public life made domestic, systemic adaptation typical of pandemic times.
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Gaspar Libedinsky was born in Buenos Aires in 1976, where he currently lives and works. He is a visual artist, architect and curator. He studied at the Architectural Association (AA) in London where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and graduated as an Architect. He was awarded the Runner-Up Part 1 Medal from the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA). He worked for the studio of Rem Koolhaas/OMA in Rotterdam and for Diller Scofidio + Renfro in New York as designer of the new High Line park in Manhattan. He was a professor at Harvard (USA) and at the Architectural Association (AA). He currently works as a professor in the Design Degree at the University of San Andrés (UdeSA) in Buenos Aires. As an artist he was awarded the Kuitca/UTDT Scholarship 2010-11. His work has been published and exhibited internationally. In 2013 Gaspar Libedinsky served as curator of ‘Draft Urbanism’ – Biennial of the Americas in Denver (Colorado, USA). During 2022 he exhibited his retrospective exhibition Casa Tomada at the National Museum of Decorative Art in Buenos Aires.
