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Graciela Arce

Graciela Arce
 
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I was born in Santa Fe, June 1st, 1972. In the year 1991 I started my visual art’s studies. From 1995 onwards, I joined other artists such as Marcelo Froia, Rosana Storti, Roberto Strada, Sandra Cugini and Daniel Galettiand I took part of Entartete Kunst. Out of complete ignorance we used to wonder about the role of art, and our own role. We produced in relation to our context and created interaction with other groups out of the art field. It was, and it still is of great importance to what I am now-a-days, what I produce, and from where I do so. I believe it’s because of this, that almost every exhibition I participated in on those, and following days, are collective.
After an irregular production, from 2004 on, I felt the need to brothen my knowledge and formation and that is when the art clinics started, basically as a scholarship from the Antorchas Foundation at the production and art analysis meetings in Paraná, Entre Rios. From 2005 on, the El Levante workshop in Rosario, Santa Fe. These helped me get nearer other cities productions. In 2005 I participated with El Levante and Germina Campos in Perisférica in Buenos Aires. In 2006 I was a resident at El Basilico, residencies program for visual artists from Argentina and abroad in Buenos Aires.

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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.
I considerate representative of my production the following selection: “Myths and not that much”, “No Title for playful” and “No title for sensitive girls”. In these works I choose popular figures from diverse environment and I connect them inventing stories, but I don’t tell them, I suggest. Wonder Woman turns into one of her characters and I get to go back to my childhood, and [more]
 
In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?
In general, when I show my work, and I tell their relations, people take it in a very humorous way, and I like that, because no matter the detail, or even if it is a self-referred situation, they are experiences that can translate everyone to its own childhood and generate some kind of complicity. And further from my narration I like them being approached with humor and some skepticism.
 
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?
In the art field I’m interested in the Works by Marcos López, Omar Schirilo, Guillermo Gómez Peña, Mariko Mori, Chio Ahoshima, Tokidoki…But I believe that in my work, though I don’t reject some influence form certain traditions, sources are not exactly in the art area, but in relation to the mass media images that become part of my iconic universe, attitude in which certain traditions [more]
 
Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why
It’s hard for me to answer this question, I believe I lack the necessary elements, since I don’t really get, in a direct mean, to most of the exhibitions that could be considerate meaningful in a wide level. More than significance in exhibitions or even in artists, I can talk about significance in pieces of art in a very personal level, and, even then, It doesn’t mean I have direct contact [more]
 
What tendencies or groupings from common elements do you see in argentine art of the last ten or fifteen years?
 
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