The Rosario native artist Daniel García presented four pieces that will be exhibited in the cultural space of the Centro Cultural Contraviento. The exhibit, Lights and Shadows, is part of the theme of Blackness. It is free and open to the public.
The three paintings, which belong to the series Ad astra per aspera, and the video, Stardust, make up an accomplished immersive and conceptual installation that builds up from blackness, thinking about blackness and inhabiting it.
The depth of García’s blackness is surprising. The artist proposes a night full of stars, daughters of fate, flashes, bursting—in short, parapraxes of the vastness of blackness. There’s silence, there’s reflection, there’s infinity.
In Contraviento, blackness is night, it’s celebration, it’s darkness, it’s dreams. It is also past and future: it’s a retrofuturist atmosphere. The attendees at the opening day were able to confirm this, being part of the space-like environment that was created in the front gallery of Contraviento.
“The influences that brought me here are multiple. But I believe that I wouldn’t have been able to tackle these paintings without the starry nights I spent on the deck of the Paraguay cruise, along the Paraná Ra’anga journey during 2010, where the nights of my childhood were actualized. During those nights, spent in my home’s rooftop with my grandpa and my brother, we used to do our best trying to guess the constellations’ names,” García remembers.
In addition to the strokes, there is sound: the video emits a rumor that reproduces the electromagnetic waves that are cast out by the stars and planets. The “stars” that appear in the video are the effect of the amassed dirt and the deterioration of old rolls of film.
