Artists
Argentina
Julián Pesce
#7: Cohabitar Fronteras
03.02.22 03.03.22
Visual and sound artist. He lives in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Graduated in Electronic Arts from the National University of Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires. In his works, his interest lies in the expanded graph due to its multiplier and scalable capacity. During 2012 he was awarded the Scholarship by the Law of Patronage in the Cromos Art Foundation, Readings in Arts, dictated by Alicia Romero and Marcelo Giménez. In 2007 he won the ProjectArte Scholarship recieved from the Casa Escuela Arte in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
ARTIST´S STATEMENT
My practices are based on the flow of energy between our doing and what remains of that. The traces on the different supports. The body in movement, the rhythm and its possible plastic translations. The permeability of thinking and working in collaboration are a constant in my practice and my research.
ABOUT COHABITING BORDERS
Together Apart — COHABITAR FRONTERAS was an enriching experience due to its great attendance which led the meeting between artists who are at different stages of their career, from different places without age limit. The dynamics of working in randomly chosen groups among the members helped us get out of our comfort zones to solve exercises of thought and artistic practice in a limited period of time. Although the ties can continue beyond the program.
BIO
Julián Pesce
1988 | Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in Buenos Aires City, Argentina.
EXHIBITIONS
2021 | VaeVieni, Mar Dulce Gallery, Argentina
2013 | Convivencia, Recoleta Cultural Center, Argentina
2015 | “Grabados en el Fondo”, Engraving exhibition next to the National Patrimony of the FNA, Argentina
2012 | “Polinomio” , Aldo de Sousa Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2011 | Young argentinian artist, Argentine Consulate of New York City, USA.
RESIDENCIES
2022 | Together Apart: #COHABITAR FRONTERAS, Proyecto ´ace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
AWARDS
2013 |Honorable mention at the 102nd edition of the National Hall of Visual Arts, Engraving Discipline, Palais de Glace, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
2013 | Artist Program Scholarship, Taglit, Israel
Related Activities
International Projects, Exhibitions
The World IN a Handkerchief
´ace´s genealogy
23.03.22 06.05.22
The World IS a Handkerchief : El mundo es un pañuelo
A Wandering Genealogy curated by Claudia DeMonte & Cecilia Mandrile
The World IN a Handkerchief : El mundo en un pañuelo
Guest Curator, genealogy Proyecto’ace: Alicia Candiani
Exhibition of pieces
selected from the Fundación´ace´s collection and Alicia Candiani’s personal collection of the participating artists in “The world IN a handkerchief”
For a month and a half, the Políglota Room is hosting three exhibitions on a rotating basis. From March 23 to April 1, “The world IS a handkerchief” and “The world IN a handkerchief: the genealogy of ´ace” were exhibited simultaneously, paying special tribute to the Argentine artist Graciela Sacco. While the original series returned to New York from where it will soon travel to England, the ‘ace genealogy collection was joined by a new exhibition of large format pieces of the participating artists, some belonging to the Fundación’ace collection and others to the private collection of Alicia Candiani.
The World IS a Handkerchief is a travelling exhibition rooted in the Spanish saying ‘el mundo es un pañuelo,’ which translates into English as ‘this is such a small world’. The project traces serendipitous encounters, moments of discovering personal connections in distant places or unexpected contexts. The project began with the meeting of Claudia DeMonte and Cecilia Mandrile as a mentor and student respectively at the University of Maryland, United States in 1995 and has expanded through an international collaborative network between mentors, students and
peers.
The World IN a Handkerchief is a new chapter of the project, a graphic, soft and traveling portfolio curated by guests artists from the core genealogy. Artist and curator Alicia Candiani, essential mentor of this genealogy, Founder and Director of Proyecto´ace, has been invited to curate this new collection that reflects her close creative family.
ABOUT THE WORLD IN A HANDKERCHIEF by Cecilia Mandrile
Handkerchiefs have accompanied people in celebrations and farewells in many cultures for centuries, offered bodily protection and coverage, and sustained expressions of political tenets and spiritual beliefs. In this project, handkerchiefs become vessels of memories and itinerant narratives; containers of emotions; translators of wounds, signals of ideological resistance. Each piece epitomizes a soft space that holds disappearing recollections of homeland as well as reflections on displacement and identity that can be carried as a tangible memento. In times when touch appears as a dangerous sense, every single printed handkerchief means a meaningful testament of the continuous nurturing mentorship among artists and educators, reminding us that the soft touch remains both an intimate and universal need of communication.
To celebrate this constant and sustained creative dialogue, in 2019 the curators developed a portable exhibition of 50 handkerchiefs that explored the meaning of belonging and interconnectedness that this Spanish saying so tangibly evokes. In the reconstruction of this alternative family made up of artists and collectives from different latitudes and generations during the last two decades, both printed an edition of 25 handkerchiefs, and sent a printed handkerchief along with a blank handkerchief to 50 invited artists to intervene with their own reflections
on home, identity and belonging. From this exchange a “wandering genealogy” was born, a tribute to the strong threads that have woven this shared territory as itinerant artists and educators.
A limited edition catalogue including the work of 50 invited artists was published by Impact Press, Bristol, UK and includes an essay by Gill Saunders, Senior Curator of Prints, Victoria & Albert Museum, London. Currently, the catalogs of workshops and portfolios remain as digital publications, thus allowing to document the constant growth of this genealogy. Chris Knollmeyer, a sound artist in residence at ´ace at the same time, composed for this exhibition a special piece: “Sound of the Handkerchiefs”. The piece is a piano study made up of 25 melodies. Just as the handkerchiefs are tied to each artist’s history and sense of home, Chris feels a connection to the piano.
Related artists
Graciela Sacco
In Memoriam
Claudia DeMonte
Guest artist
OPENING
March 23, 7PM. Sala Políglota
FINISSAGE
April 27th, 1PM
The World is a Handkerchief |El mundo es un pañuelo
Exhibitions
2019 | London Print Studio Gallery, London, UK
2020 | Galería Blackburn 20|20, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts,New York, USA
2021 | IMPACT11, Hong Kong, China
Catalogues | Instagram |Vimeo
Fellowships, Together Apart
#7 | COHABITING BORDERS: results
Artists in dialogue
23.03.22
From cohabiting to collapsing, and vice versa, those were the movements and actions that we proposed from ‘ace for the seventh edition of Together Apart. We chose the title Cohabiting Borders with the intention of exploring the complexities that occur in the exchange of living together, and because we understand the meeting format of this program as an exercise in itself of cohabitation of a frontier: the border between our online and offline existence.
For this collective research, we also defined three axes that helped us review some possible strategies for cohabiting borders, these were: pointing frontiers, deprogramming frontiers, and metabolizing frontiers.
In this way, we were also able to observe different types of borders that contemporary artistic practices explore, from geopolitical, climatic, and technological borders, as well as the borders between forms of knowledge and methods of linking with the world.
The participating artists designed collaborative dynamics based on their areas and disciplines of knowledge but above all, opening themselves to the encounter with the experience of the other(s). In this way, great relevance was given to the exchange and the works generated from the reflection on the possible points of articulation between artists from very varied contexts.
In tune with the online environment of the program, many artists used that condition of “being connected” as an object and means of research, development and presentation of their works. They used streaming platforms such as Twitch and social media visual resources (Instagram filters) or video games. Also, several of Google's tools were used. In some cases these were useful to observe photographic records of artificially generated borders between countries (Google Street View) and in others, the artists resorted to them to point out the limiting or creative interactions that are possible between human knowledge and artificial intelligences. (Google translate). In turn, there were many proposals that involved leaving the online world towards an exploration of the environments where each artist was and the records of it through
photographs, videos and the creation of video-essays.
Moved from the beginning by the desire to understand borders as membranes rather than walls, during the month of work, the artists began collaborative creative searches that have led to visual exercises that will be presented at the ´ace Foundation on Wednesday March 23 and that in many cases, they will be ongoing investigations.
Related artists
FACILITATING TEAM
Daniela Ruiz Moreno (curator), Alicia Candiani (Director at ´ace) and Andrés Knob (Executive Coordinator at ´ace).
Assistant: Florencia Alborcen.
