OSÍAS YANOV I MARINA DAIEZ
February 5th-9th
Booth EJ25
Ejes Section
Curator: Bernardo Mosqueira
Centro CitiBanamex, CDMX, Mexico
OSIAS YANOV
Faced with a world in crisis, Osías Yanov wonders about spirituality from the perspective of experiences that de-program the contemporary processes of technological optimization and of imposition on the living world. He investigates possible morphologies to enunciate his own as well as collective feelings. The sculptures combine artisanal techniques of blacksmithing and wood carving with found elements. A telling work, Rebelión y fuga en mi corazón, includes a significant detail: beads with letters that form the phrase: “Cruelty in the world, fade away! (“Crueldad en el mundo, disípate!”), the artwork as a talisman.
Yanov’s work has been exhibited at the 11th Berlin Biennale; XI Gwangju Biennale; 12th Göteborg Biennale; Gasworks London; Ford Foundation and Amant, New York,; Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires; MALBA Buenos Aires, among other institutions. He is currently developing a new long-term collaborative project in a jungle area in the Northeast of Argentina. His work is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Rose Museum, USA; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) and Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; FRAC du Pays de la Loire, France; Centro de Arte Reina Sofia and CA2M, Madrid, Spain, among others.
MARINA DAIEZ
The artist presents her Ombú paintings, which portray a native tree of the Americas, particularly common in the Pampas (flatlands) of Argentina. The ombú has a past full of full of symbolism: in pre-Columbian times, they were guardians of the ancestors; then these trees were planted by the Spanish colonizers as landmarks of territory conquered from the indigenous people. Over time they became symbols of shelter from the sun and heat, a place of leisure and meeting under the protective shade of their wide leafy canopy. The ombú is part of the Argentine cultural imaginary. In her fantasy portraits of ombú trees, Marina Daiez emphasizes their potential anthropomorphism. The surfaces of these oil paintings are subtly modulated, entirely loaded with details, a usual characteristic of this artist’s paintings.
(B. Buenos Aires,1992) In 2022 she had a solo exhibition at Fundación Cazadores, Buenos Aires, after receiving the First Prize awarded by this Foundation; also at Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, and at the Biennial of the Art Museum of Bahía Blanca. She participated in group exhibitions at Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario and the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, among others. Her work was selected for the Central Bank of Argentina Award, and the Klemm Foundation Prize. She participated in residencies in CDMX; Madrid and at Bruce High Quality Foundation, New York. In 2024 Daiez received a commission to develop an interactive installation based on the idea of healing, which will be exhibited at the Palacio Libertad (former CCK), Buenos Aires, during most of 2025.