“The Atelier, a room of one’s own to create” reveals a new feminine power in art

To a packed house on a warm March evening in Buenos Aires, the Rojas Cultural Center staged its first show of the year, complete with a live band and an atmosphere of serene joy. As part of the 8M week, The workshop, a room in its own right to create, curated by historians Gisele Asmundo y Luciana Garcia Belbey, brings together the view of a dozen young women artists who work in the shared space of the Constitución district. Freshness, sharpness and passion are at the rendezvous of the works that make up this essential exhibition.

“When I saw the girls working with this freedom, it caught my attention. A freedom that should be obvious but isn’t. Women in the arts find it harder than ever to be able to fit in. as he says Bourdieu: the physical forces try to continue to maintain a field made up of hegemonic values. It is very difficult for women to enter this field and make decisions,” she points out. Gisele Asmundo, who is also a collector of works by women artists and from different generations. His collection includes pieces from Elda Cerrato, Delia cancels, Marta Minujin there To Minolitiamong many others.

The workshop, a room in its own right to creater brings together the works of 9 visual artists: Antonelle Agesta, Dani Ray, Marie-Florence Bruno, Stephanie Arias, Melina Lobue, Laura Antonella Cantisani, Aline Macia, Nazarena Mastronardi, Vico Bueno y Tamara Goldenbergwhich presents the photographic sample walks. They are all artists who have found their own space, isolated and at the same time shared with other peers who follow their own path. The objective: to sublimate the gaze, to nourish oneself by sharing.

All are related to baro studios, which operates in a century-old French-style mansion in the Constitución district. It is a shared workshop, a community of exchange and support for those who live there. In the workshop, led by Antonelle Agesta y Dani Ray, restoration work is carried out. They seek “the construction of a space where reciprocity between artists prevails”. Courses in different trades, artist conferences and international residencies are provided in collaboration with RARO.

“Absolute freedom caught my eye and immediately came to mind my bedroomthe text of Virginia Woolf. It’s an essay she wrote in 1928. In this text, she says that a woman needs money and her own room to be able to create. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, she referred to the fact that you had to be an upper-class woman with money to be able to have the freedom to go to college, enter a workshop and to have your own place of creation”, she says. Asmondowho also manages the art site The eye of art.

And he adds: “I like to claim the role of the woman, not as a muse who has gone through history, but as a creator capable of producing and being equal to all the circumstances that have to do with art. In the 18th century, it was believed that one had to be born with a certain genetic predisposition to be an artist. This predisposition was generally held by Central European men and, of course, white men. Women did not fall into these categories, but we know that not only in the Renaissance but in ancient Greece there were great artists.

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A showcase of artistic variety

Antonelle Agesta he reinterprets classical works: his “Three Graces” show small angelic expressions. Stephanie tunes she uses the dress to allude to the body, to desire and to the construction of identity. Mary Florence Bruno presents a series of chalk pastel paintings in which light and vibrant color take center stage. From the reiteration of shapes, lines and movements, Laura Antonella Cantisani he creates paradoxical abstract landscapes with colors that refer to a fantastic organic world.

Melina Lobue investigate scientific and fantastical scenarios of the plant world and the relationships between different species. The pieces that make up his polyptych look like tools and fossils from an as yet unknown civilization. With his works in chlorine and ink, Nazarena Mastronardi invites you to visit an organic universe that becomes magical and apocalyptic. Several pieces present dichotomous tensions.

Vico Bueno puts the axis in the decreasing direction of view. AND Tamara Goldenberg She has a personal story linked to her art: she started her photographic exhibition thinking about her own visual limits since she was a myopic and stigmatized girl. His work, with framing and cropping of his own photos and others from the General Archives of the Nation, is linked to the way he looks since he can remember. And do not forget.

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