Artists
Argentina
Florencia Reisz
OPEN Buenos Aires
04.08.22 07.08.22
¨ OPEN Buenos Aires was a very enriching experience on a personal and professional level, exceeding all my expectations. It was not just a fair-exhibition of graphic art, since meetings between the artists and the public were very intensely coordinated, generating instances of talks, tours of the exhibition, demonstration of experimental techniques and open spaces for dialogue and debate.¨
Florence Reisz is a visual artist, Contemporary Engraver and Professor of Visual Arts Specialized in Engraving. Her work is developed from the deconstruction and experimentation of graphic techniques. Since 2014 she promotes her workshop Subsuelo Engraving Laboratory, sharing knowledge of graphic art, conducting workshops on graphic techniques, tutoring in contemporary graphics, production workshops and monitoring of work. She is Co-founder and manages the Yakuz House Project cultural space since 2016. She has held workshops and a work clinic with renowned artists including Lucía Carotenuto, Josefna Fossatti, Claudio Roveda, Inés Raiteri, Inés Drangosh, Ernesto Ballesteros.
ARTIST´S STATEMENT
My work is an attempt to reveal a situation of dimensional simultaneity. The idea of duality and multiverses that coexist at the same time is highlighted. The way to do it is from a language that alludes to that of the monocopy and printing; through space (installations or specific sites), and paper (monocopies, drawings and photographs). The essence of my work is based on the process of experimentation and deconstruction of graphic techniques, from an active way, always questioning traditional graphic processes.
ABOUT HER WORK AT THE OPEN Buenos Aires
On this occasion I presented SOLAR GEOMETRY SERIES, where I use light as a medium in contemporary graphics, two series of works were presented that use sunlight as a medium. An installation made up of 36 20x30cm Photolithographs on Fabriano Rosaspina 285gr paper. arranged on a wall horizontally. And in the second panel, 4 Cyanotypes of 60×50 cm printed on Canson Montval 300gr paper were presented.
BIO
Florence Reisz
1984 | Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lives and works in Mar del Plata, Argentina.
STUDIES
2015-2021 | Graphic workshop with Pablo Delni, Lorena Pradal, Alejandra Dorsh and Denise Carner Lorenzo. Argentina
2010 | Professor in Visual Arts Specialty in Engraving, School of Visual Arts M. Malharro, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
2014-2015 | MUNDO DIOS FNA Vol. II Grant, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
EXHIBITIONS
2022 | OPEN Buenos Aires 2022, International Meeting of Emerging Graphics «OpenBA», Culture House, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2021 | Itaú Visual Arts Award 2021, See catalogue, Argentina
2020-2021 | ¨El Orden y el Accidente”, Eleven Artists from Mar del Plata, Curated by Daniel Besoytaorube, Graphic Installation. SEA Museum, Argentina.
2019| “Indicios de lo Circundante”, Collective Exhibition, Ruda Contemporary Art Gallery, Guillermina Mongan Curatorship, Necochea Cultural Center, Argentina.
2015 | El Eterno Presente, Solo Exhibition, Mundo Dios Scholarship Vol. II of the National Endowment for the Arts, Foyer Bajo of the Auditorium Theater, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
AWARDS
2022| Open BA Award, International Meeting of Emerging Graphics, FIG Bilbao, ´ace Project and CIEC Foundation, Argentina-España.
2017 | Fronteras Suspendidas Scholarship, MAR MUSEO, Mar del Plata, Argentina.
2013 | First Acquisition Prize in Engraving, Municipal Hall of the Castagnino Mar del Plata Museum, Argentina.
Related Activities
Fellowships, Open Calls
OPEN Buenos Aires – Open Call
International Encounter of Emerging Printmaking
30.05.22 03.07.22
Fundación´ace para el Arte Contemporáneo opens the call for emerging Argentinian artists from all over the federal territory –who work with traditional and digital printmaking (both in serial and variable editions), printed art or expanded field graphic practices / installations– to participate in OPEN Buenos Aires, a professionalization event that includes an exhibition of their works, mentoring by guest curators, demonstrations for the public, a networking day, and a round table, which will be opening to the public from August 5th to 7th.
OPEN Buenos Aires –organized jointly by Fundación´ace para el Arte Contemporáneo and the Arthazi/FIG Bilbao Association of Spain– is part of a larger event: FIG Bilbao’s OPEN PORTFOLIO which has been held in the city of Bilbao since 2014. With its landing in Buenos Aires, this 9th Edition of the OPEN PORTFOLIO FIG, International Encounter of Emerging Printmaking, becomes even more international by celebrating two independent in-person editions: one in Buenos Aires, the OPEN BUENOS AIRES (exclusively for Argentinian artists) and the other in Bilbao, the OPEN PORTFOLIO FIG (for Spanish and international artists).
OPEN BUENOS AIRES will inhabit the impressive Casa de la Cultura-La Prensa building (in the same spaces where the print workshops of La Prensa newspaper used to be) during a week of intense programming, in which the activities will be carried out both for the artists (such as mentoring, portfolio review, professional advice on assembly, networking, etc.), and for the public (such as exhibition of the artists’ works, workshops and demonstrations given by the artists themselves, and talks).
Of all the applications we receive in this first phase, 16 artists will be selected to participate in these sessions in August. On August 7th, the last day of the OPEN Buenos Aires event, an international jury will select: four artists who will participate in the final phase of the program and will travel to Bilbao to exhibit at the FIG Bilbao XI Edition from November 24th to 27th, 2022; two artists to attend the residency offered by the CIEC Foundation of Galicia, Spain in 2023; one artist to attend a residency at the Basque bioDesign Center lab in Bilbao, Spain; and another for a residency at Fundación´ace’s ´acePIRAR Artist-in-Residency International Program.
Likewise, the artists who travel to Bilbao in November will also be able to compete for another residency at the CIEC Foundation and an exhibition space at FIGBilbao 2023. Finally, the selected artists will become part of the traveling exhibition Open Itinera, an exhibition program with multiple venues in the territory of the Basque Autonomous Community, which arises with the firm intention of supporting and further promoting the emerging printmaking work that the Open Portfolio and the FIG Bilbao International Festival of Engraving and Art on Paper has been doing since 2012.
HISTORY OF THE OPEN PORTFOLIO @ FIGBilbao
Open Portfolio was created with the aim of supporting and giving visibility to the work of new printmaking talents and promoting their professional career. This event is a platform for the promotion, dissemination and professionalization of emerging creators. Throughout these nine years, Open Portfolio has given space to more than 150 artists from all continents.
Related artists
August 05th-07th, 2022
Casa de la Cultura (La Prensa)
Av de Mayo 525, CABA
FELLOWSHIPS
16 participation fellowships of $50.000 each
AWARDS
– 2 First Prizes: two finalist artists at Fig Bilbao Fair November 2022 + AR $250,000 + accommodation in Bilbao
– 2 Second Prizes: two finalist artists at Fig Bilbao Fair November 2022 + accommodation in Bilbao
– 2 residency scholarships at Fundación CIEC, Spain for two months in 2023
– 1 residency scholarship at Basque bioDesign Center, Spain
– 1 residency scholarship at Proyecto´ace, Buenos Aires
NATIONAL JURY–PRESELECTION
Juan Canavesi (Córdoba, Argentina)
Adriana Moracci (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Alicia Valente (La Plata, Argentina)
INTERNATIONAL JURY–SELECTION
David Arteagoitia (Bilbao, Spain)
Director of the Open Portfolio Bilbao and Professor at the Basque Country University
Javier Martín Jiménez (Madrid, Spain)
Resident Commissar at Conde Duque Center for Contemporary Culture, Madrid
Pedro Galilea (Betanzos, Spain)
Director at Fundación CIEC, Galicia
AWARDING JURY
David Arteagoitia (Bilbao, Spain)
Director of the Open Portfolio Bilbao and Professor at the Basque Country University
Alicia Candiani (Buenos Aires, Argentina)
Director of the Open Buenos Aires
Pedro Galilea (Betanzos, Spain)
Director at Fundación CIEC, Galicia
Encounters, Exhibitions
OPEN 2022 | Awards
Award Ceremony
05.08.22 07.08.22
Between August 5th and 7th, 2022, we launched OPEN Buenos Aires: international encounter of emerging printmakers at the Casa de la Cultura—La Prensa Building in the City of Buenos Aires. Throughout its 3 days of opening to the public, the selected artists shared their works in traditional and contemporary graphic and printmaking techniques with the visitors, celebrated the opening of their exhibition, offered workshops, demos and open talks, and, on the last day, 8 artists received the prizes awarded by the organization of the event.
During the inauguration, there were different guided tours by the OPEN Buenos Aires team and participating artists: we began with a guided tour by Andrea Auzmendi for high school students from the Cultural Pass program of the City of Buenos Aires, then María Romero Alves gave a demo of pinhole camera, and Florencia Reisz offered an approach to contemporary graphics through the works of the OPEN artists. Lautaro Parada offered Tarot readings, there was a guided tour for special guests by David Arteagoitia, Director of the FIG Open Portfolio and we closed with a collective toast thanks to the labels provided by Vino El Salvador.
After completing all the activities of OPEN Buenos Aires, the following 8 prizes were distributed, in addition to the 16 participation scholarships awarded to the finalist artists:
- 2 First Prizes: two artists with a stand each at the Fig Bilbao Fair in November 2022 + $250,000 for mobility + accommodation in Bilbao (awarded to Leticia Barbeito and Agustina Girardi)
- 2 Second Prizes: two artists with a stand each at the Fig Bilbao Fair November 2022 + accommodation in Bilbao (awarded to Solange Baqués and Lautaro Parada)
- 2 artistic residency scholarships at Fundación CIEC in Betanzos, Spain, for 2023 (awarded to Mariana Gayoso and Agustín Begueri)
- 1 residency scholarship at the BDC—Basque bioDesign Center in Bilbao, Spain (awarded to Julián Pesce)
- 1 residency scholarship at Proyecto´ace, including accommodation (awarded to Florencia Reisz)
The prizes were awarded by a Jury composed of David Arteagoitia (Bilbao, Basque Country, Director of the FIG Open Portfolio), Pedro Galilea (Salamanca, Spain, Vice President and Director of Fundación CIEC) and Alicia Candiani (Buenos Aires, Argentina, Director of the OPEN Buenos Aires and Fundación´ace) based on the quality of the works presented and the activities for the public proposed and carried out by the artists.
Encounters, International Projects, Workshops, Exhibitions
OPEN Buenos Aires | Activities
Workshops, talks and demos by artists
05.08.22 07.08.22
Between August 5th and 7th, 2022, we held the OPEN Buenos Aires: an international meeting of emerging graphics at the Casa de la Cultura—La Prensa Building in the City of Buenos Aires. Throughout its 3 days of opening to the public, the selected artists shared with the public not only their works in traditional and contemporary graphic and printmaking techniques, but they also offered workshops, demos, participatory practices and open talks.
OPEN Buenos Aires is a professionalization event for emerging artists and for the dissemination of graphic and printmaking practices for the local public, whether specialized in these fields or without previous knowledge in graphics in particular or contemporary art in general. As part of the application to the OPEN, it was the artists themselves who proposed different instances of exchange with the visitors of the event, bringing them closer to their techniques, their projects, their portfolios and their working methods.
The activities that the visitors of the event enjoyed are:
- Guided tour by Andrea Auzmendi (CABA).
- Pinhole camera demonstration by María Romero Alves (CABA).
- Approach to contemporary printmaking through the work of the selected artists, by Florencia REISZ (Mar del Plata).
- Fortune telling by Lautaro Parada (CABA): ask a question and the Black Mallet answers, and take your card as a gift at the end. Poetically appealing to the origins of xylography in the West – used to print playing cards and Tarot cards – the artist offered us a personal experience through his xylographic work Mazo Negro.
- Participatory workshop on perennial monotypes por Noelia Toscano (CABA), Wenceslao Paunero (Pcia. de Buenos Aires) y Rocío Barzola (Salta): taller de fabricación de tintas con tierra e impresión botánica con la técnica de monotipos.
- Demonstration on contemporary Gyotaku by Agustina Girardi (La Plata), Jorgelina Buchara (CABA) and Leticia Barbeito (La Plata): Gyotaku is a traditional Japanese method of naturally recording the best catch of the day. Inspired by his processes, this workshop proposed to discover the potential of the things that surround us as possible printable matrices to generate their own discourse from the imprint that they leave printed on paper—the public was invited to bring their everyday objects to print on them and take them with them.
- Intervened photography by Solange Baqués (Pcia. de Buenos Aires): the artist exchanged with the public her work process and photographic intervention on paper.
- Infinite patterns workshop by Mariana Gayoso (CABA) and Ale Giorgga (CABA): this workshop approached the notions of contemporary art through graphic experimentation to the public. From the superposition of various materials, textures and graphic qualities, the importance of repetition and fragmentation is recognized, knowing and internalizing what a pattern is and how it is created graphically and continuously (notion of rapport, stamp, impression and stamp).
- “Processing the digital weaving” talk by Julián Pesce (CABA) and Juan Pablo Ferlat (CABA): memory storage to create repeating patterns, physical and temporary units.
- Participatory workshop “Building a xilomural” by Agustín Begueri (Córdoba) and Ale Giorgga (CABA).
Encounters, Portfolio Review
OPEN 2022 | Encounters
Portfolio reviews and panels
05.08.22 07.08.22
Between August 5th and 7th, 2022, we held the OPEN Buenos Aires: International Encounter for Emerging Printmakers at the Casa de la Cultura—La Prensa Building in the City of Buenos Aires. Throughout its 3 days of opening to the public, the selected artists shared with the public not only their works in traditional and contemporary graphic and printmaking techniques, but also offered workshops, demos, participatory practices and open talks for the public.
OPEN Buenos Aires is a professionalization event for emerging artists and for the dissemination of graphic and printmaking practices for the local public, whether specialized or without previous knowledge in the field of graphics, in particular, or contemporary art, in general. As part of the professionalization of the artists, on Sunday, August 7th, a portfolio review was carried out by a jury specialized in graphics and engraving, both traditional and contemporary.
The portfolio review was carried out by the national pre-selection jury, made up of Juan Canavesi (Córdoba), Adriana Moracci (CABA) and Ali Valente (La Plata), who over 3 hours offered portfolio reviews, feedback, criticism of works, feedback and professional guidance to both OPEN Buenos Aires artists and independent artists who previously signed up to participate in this free activity. Once the portfolio review was completed, the open conference on contemporary graphics was launched, with the participation of David Arteagoitia (Bilbao, Basque Country, Director of the FIG Open Portfolio), Pedro Galilea (Salamanca, Spain, Vice President and Director FundaciónCIEC), Iratoi Retolaza (Bilbao, Basque Country, guest artist-in-residency and part of the Basque bioDesign Center team), and was moderated by Alicia Candiani (Director of OPEN and Fundación´ace).
Exhibitions
Geometría solar
Florencia Reisz
29.03.23 30.03.23
Geometría solar (Solar Geometry) is the project developed by Florencia Reisz during her residency at ‘ace as the winner of one of the grants awarded in OPEN BA. This work aims to reveal a situation of dimensional simultaneity, where the idea of duality and multiple universes coexisting at the same time is highlighted. It is carried out through a language that alludes to printmaking; through space (installations/specific sites), and paper (monoprints, drawings, and photographs). The construction of this work is based on the process of experimentation and deconstruction of graphic techniques, questioning traditional printmaking processes.
In her effort to bring together the borders of two formats, on the one hand, monoprints printed on paper and on the other, installations/site-specific works, the artist began working with machinery that projects light in an analog way (overhead projectors, slide projectors, reflectors, and sunlight), using the reflection of the same elements she previously used to make monoprints (tinted glasses, acetate matrices, cardboard cutouts). As a result, she obtained a series of photolithographs exposed directly to sunlight, using the reflection of geometric cutouts of 6mm tinted glass with graphic ink. They were later printed on Canson Edition paper using an intaglio press.