Iván Argote: Mamarracho (Illusion), 2014
In the Mamarracho series, doodles are drawn, digitalized, enlarged 1000 times and then painted on white canvases. The black lines haphazardly cross the canvas, overflowing onto the wall, making these works hybrid image-objects.
Marcelo Cidade: Tentativa de apagar o cotidiano 16/07/2018
In Tentativa de apagar o cotidiano [Attempting to erase the quotidian], Cidade establishes a daily practice of painting on local newspapers. The artist seeks to erase the news and images of the periodicals, leaving in evidence geometric traces. Lines of different colors, sizes and shapes emerge, and graphics lose their original function by arranging themselves in new patterns.
Tania Candiani: Manifestantes - de la serie Manifestantes y Obreras
"This series has as its starting point an investigation on the Soviet textiles in the 20's and 30's, and the social role of art linked with clothing and textile design, specifically the work done by Varvara Stepanova, Nadezhda Lamanova, and Vera Lotonina. This type of thematic and also propagandistic design included, among the more general issues, industrialization, the glorification of progress, and working conditions in factories, in the field, in shipyards ...
The artistic impressions of these themes were used as unusual propaganda instruments. In Manifestantes y Obreras [Protesters and Workers], I adapt these representations, to create graphics based on contemporary images of working women, and women in demonstrations and protests. This series has as an immediate antecedent in my research the Mexican textile tradition (Huipiles, 2016-2017), with which I reinterpret the design of the huipiles (traditional Mexican indigenous garment) as a pictorial abstraction. Thanks to this series of pieces I found a formal rela-tionship with the lines of Russian constructivism, specifically related to textile design.I am interested in making a connection between the relations that existed between Soviet "dynamic dresses" and the doctrine of Taylorism: the industrial gesticulation. For this reason, the pieces emphasize repetition understood as a rhythm, which in this case represents a choreography of the work, or of the struggle." - Tania Candiani