26 July - 06 September 2019
Honduras 4861, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ARTISTS: Constanza Chiappini, Gonzalo Maggi and Julia Rossetti.
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Intemperie presents: La primer espada fue un regalo, a group exhibition that brings together the works of Julia Rossetti, Constanza Chiappini, and Gonzalo Maggi.
THE FIRST SWORD WAS A GIFT (Gallery text)
1
Nobody can escape from the Topic of Cancer. Bitten by a weapon in its ankle, listens to the croakings of the night pack. After the descent, a tiger with a guttural voice that was watching him with dazzled eyes tells him: the first sword was a gift. And stabs it in his heart.
2
On the radio it is announced that a grave was desecrated at dawn. One of the brothers dies and the other escapes to the desert, where he is cornered and stabbed with the second sword in the heart.
3
Prince of Persia meets Rothko and gives him the third sword brandishing it in a grey floating rectangle, a black floating rectangle. The sword now turns to him and with both hands he plunges the sword in his chest. In him, the tears of three days of loss in the desert.
4
The closer he gets to opening the metallic trap, more pressure feels the tiger in its jaw.
Its jaws open like a carnivorous flower. Now the pain is so strong, that he drops a tear and does not understand how the mirror works, but the ankle of his friend is set free from its maw. They fall exhausted to the ground and say to each other: “I want to comfort you rinsing your tears with my love.” They stab the fourth and fifth sword.
5
If you rested your hands in search of the heat of your own reflection, they would go through into the other side. In Orpheus’s will a Marquina black painting falls to the ground of the octagon Chapel in Texas. On the other side, the same chapel at the cemetery and a tin mirror.
6
Orion could touch submarine soil and keep his head above the water whenever he wanted. It was beautiful, all the twinkling reflections of the sea were printed in his pupils and during the night you see two stelar maps. Sunk into an abyss by the mirror in the water he had to be avenged by Artemisa with the help of a black scorpion. With its poisonous pincers die-cut a red cross in his skin initiating the descent to the depths of the cross.
7
In the depth, stratums before arriving at the same place on the other side, a thin layer of snow is buried and preserved. The white mantle that was once in contact with the surface has in its ozone particles memories of the Sands of Time and the Forgotten Sands. When the heat goes up, it is expected that this whiteness rises and emerges until it leaks into a chamber of weapons. During a sword duel, in a hectic and cold inspiration, a tenser will lose its head, huge pressure will command its jaws, the ring will fill with water up to the ankles, a small red emanation will appear in his white suit right on the chest, increasing its circumference and with it, the pain. They stab the seventh sword.
Camila Carella