On November 3rd 2012, the public-intervention-performance art proposal that the artist Cecilia Stelini (Brazil) developed during her residency in ´ace was held in Plaza San Miguel de Garicoits in the Barrio de Colegiales.

There were many participants present besides the artist: a group of people traveled from Brazil especially for the project (among which was the critic and curator Paulo Klein), the ´ace team, volunteers, artists and residents of the neighborhood of Colegiales. In addition, the artist César Forero (also in residence in ´ace) participated in the action and performance and Noelia Andía who worked in the pre-production of the intervention had an outstanding participation.

Como Meca [Rugs], is an artistic intervention project on a public space which established contact bridges (through work with interventions and performances) that highlighted the power of artistic language to establish notions of care and preservation in the community environment (both public green spaces and nature in general), investigating the polarities between matter / spirit, perennial / ephemeral, devastated / preserved, abandoned / cared for, male / female, sacred / profane, ordered by means of the elements selected natural to perform them.

ABOUT Como Meca [Rugs]

The project Como Meca [Rugs] had the purpose of working with a group of people associated by a common interest (in this case of caring for the environment) in an artistic intervention (public art) that consisted of the construction of individual rugs with the use of natural materials (flowers, branches, fruits) previously collected in public spaces.

The idea of ​​this practice was to bring to a common space (in this case the plaza) the condition of a personal and collective preserved-sacred space, enabling its experience with almost fifty people who participated, and transferring the concept of the need to consider nature as a space that must be protected and respected.

The project sought to provide new perceptions of the public spaces of the city and therefore transform those spaces and the attitude of people towards them as well as achieve an exchange (of experiences, energies and knowledge) with a group of people of different sexes, religions and ages when sharing the realization.

Save the date! On Wednesday November 7th at 7.00pm join us for the opening of Shared Conscience, an exhibition that brings together three artists whose interests are linked from the concept of the collective, the community and the experimental.

The Boustrophedon book, an installation by César Forero, will be exhibited in the Políglota Gallery. Forero, a canadian citizen who was born in Colombia, produced this whole body of work during his residency at ´ace, which took place during the month of October.

At the Central Hall, there will be a video projection, Como Mecca, an urban intervention led by the Brazilian artist Cecilia Stelini. This project was filmed in the City of Buenos Aires on November 3rd, 2012 and involved the participation of fifty people. As the artist says, “This is a work in collaboration, it is a shared piece”.

As part of the In Dialogue Program, we will introduce the collaborative work of Brazilian photographer Amanda Coimbra. Her project Brazil in the collective consciousness brings together more than 20 Argentine artists who reflected and worked on the various ideas we as Argentines have about the artist’s country, Brazil.

We are grateful to the Embassy of Brazil in Buenos Aires for the patronage of the Brazilian artists, as well as to the Botanical Garden, the German and British Cemetery, the Market of the Flowers and the volunteers who took part of the project Como Mecca. Also to the artists and neighbors of the city that participated in both projects amongst the Brazilian artists.

ABOUT ´aceNITE

Is an event that occurs periodically, on Wednesdays from 7pm to 10pm. During these time ´ace opens its doors and exhibition spaces to the community to show projects made by the artists in residence as exhibitions, installations and audiovisual presentations, art works of Argentine and Latin American artists selected in a free way through Fusionarte Contemporaneo, present books, art critics, hold performances or to do everything together!