Exhibitions
Platz + Sartori | El reflejo de lo intangible
Date and place
Place: Praxis BA
Start Date: March 20 2025
End Date: May 22 2025
Description
The distant mountains
are reflected in the eyes
of the dragonfly.
Kobayashi Issa (1763-1827)
Material reality surrounds us, however, there is a deeper and more subtle dimension that we cannot touch or see directly: the intangible, and it is here that in its reflection we glimpse something of its order and it becomes a powerful metaphor to understand how the invisible manifests itself in our visible world with all its vital power.
Platz is a seasoned creator of images resonant with the symbolic. His works present an amalgam of two worlds, the one we consider real and the dreamlike. In his works there are representations of architectural forms that are apparently rational but with a deep symbolic meaning. In his work entitled Multidimensionality, layers are superimposed that revere the civilized and also the natural, the dark and the luminous, and in this fold Platz works, at the intersection of opposites, on the edge and on the limit that is generated between the bright and golden plane – the Apollonian and rational – and the organic and dark plot – Dionysian and visceral. A pilgrim of the liminal.
In her lustrous, reflective and voluptuous works, Sartori deploys forms that battle in space to want to be and in that act they are. Forms that contain all forms, sculptures that reflect the archetypal in its most primordial state, in a time without time, in an archaeology of the future. Forms that contain all bodies, in a precise synthesis that runs through its bright yellow surface from Artemisia to Venus, from prehistoric to current. The veneration of the sensitive and vital becomes embodied with its gravity.
The reflection here becomes an act of transposition. What we cannot touch or see is projected onto a surface, transforming into something perceptible, but in a symbolic way. The intangible becomes visible, but not in its pure form, but in an interpretation, in a shadow, in a powerful reflection of the real.
Cecilia Molina
Buenos Aires, February 2025
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Josemiel Platz was born in San Miguel de Tucuman (Argentina), in 1982. He has a degree in Graphic Design from the Faculty of Design and Urban Planning FADU- University of Buenos Aires. He has participated in 23 exhibitions, 8 individual and 15 group exhibitions, among which Metamorphosis (Praxis Gallery, NY, 2023), Más allá de las imágenes (Intersección Gallery, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, 2022), Neptuno (Praxis Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2022), among others. His work has been presented in the cities of Buenos Aires, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Quito, Neumünster, Mexico City and San Miguel de Allende. Since 2012 he has taught mediation and self-knowledge workshops through symbolic language in its different forms; in order to explore the construction of meaning, between collective and individual practices, around the body, soul and spirit. Currently he lives and works in the city of San Miguel de Allende-Mexico.
Mónica Sartori was born in 1967 in Rome, Italy and two years later she settled permanently in Argentina with her family, where she currently lives and works. She graduated from ENBAPP – Prilidiano Pueyrredón National School of Fine Arts – as a Professor of Drawing and Sculpture. She complements her academic and technical training by attending welding, sculptural pottery and live model drawing workshops. In Claudia Aranovich’s workshop she trains in sculptural techniques with non-traditional materials and with Antonio Pujía she holds the wax seminar. In 2020, she carried out an artistic consultancy with Alicia Candeani at the ACE Foundation. Since 2010 she has run her own workshop and teaching space for sculpture and drawing, in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires. In 2017, she actively participated in the creation and development of activities of the Tigre Artists Association, of which she has been president since 2019. She held national and international individual and group exhibitions and was honored and selected for numerous awards and salons.
