Biography
The group Rallyconurbano is formed in January 2004 with the organization of the summer workshop of the same name in the Architecture Department at the University of Buenos Aires. At that time its members were Ignacio Queraltó, Javier Queraltó, Silvina Esposito, Maria Elisa Rocca and Martin Di Peco. After that experience, the project explores the exchange with other institutions and in this second stage, the group becomes multidisciplinary, with members coming and going as Diego Melero, Gustavo Dieguez, Ricardo Bravo, Lucas Gilardi, Victoria Marquez, Ignacio Queraltó, Mint, Eric Londaits and Martin Di Peco. In 2006 rallies 5 are organized: Basin massacres (Riachuelo), Furor and decay (Munro), Utopian Communities on rails (Caballito - Escalada) Earth Cooperative (Moreno) and the Accessible Rally (downtown), along with the NGO " Access Now! ". The 2007 was spent in making several rallies to the Salada (Salty), together with the group "Your Salty Part”. In 2008 we made rallyNewneighborhood (Puerto Madero) and the Rally Not Made (Cintura Road and Riachuelo) with the boys of "Not Made in China".
In May 2007, the group is presented in Barcelona, in the Krax journeys / Cracks in the city, and in August of that same year the group traveled to Brazil representing "Your Salty Part" in the Architecture Biennial of Sao Paulo. In June of this year, the group presents in Berlin within the "Urban Planet" journeys.
Vision of art
1. Choose a work that represents you, describe it in relation to its format and materiality, its relation with time and space, its style and theme; detail its production process.
We can describe our general “modus operandi”: On certain place (usually rural-urban) that interests us to investigate, we plan a journey using public transport complemented with walks and we make an open and public invitation to participate in the experience. During the rally we discuss / comment / exchange views and recorded the location (photo-video-audio-notes) then those records and experiences are shared on our blog, opening up the process of collective thinking. The "work" is amended according to the territory where it occurs, the people involved, and partner organizations.
2. In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
Like an collective aesthetic, open and participating experience.
3. In reference to your work and your position in the national and international art fields, what tradition do you recognize yourself in? Who are your contemporary referents? What artists of previous generations are of interest to you?
The beginnings of the group are on the architecture department at the U.B.A., in the workshops of Robert Lombardi, Martin Zaitch and Alberto Delorenzini seminars. Our contemporary reference are M7red (Pio Torroja - Mauricio Corbalan) a77 (Gustavo Dieguez and Lucas Gilardi) and also Diego Melero's gas station talks and the glossary of urbanity of the Architecture Club.
4. Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
A very significant (from the '98?) was the coverage of the pin k house with a facade poster replicating the original while the house was being “fixed”. Closer in time, we were surprised by the inflatable bulls, the giant eggs and the eclectic camping in the square of the two congresses. But there are many more works and artists...
