Leonardo Trombetta What will give light must endure burning “Dream a castle and make a refuge from it, do not block the madness, make way for its ghostly figure, transforming it into a metaphysical space, that is, a machine for producing emptiness” María Negroni The techniques with The ones I work with are ancestral, Raku ceramics from the 16th century and bronze casting, processes where fire is involved. Fire is the fundamental element for the realization of my works, a collaborator, an ally that transforms, purifies and creates. These rituals with him also represent my intuitions, thoughts, perceptions and emotions regarding the work of creation, in which there is no control or will since the initial idea is punished and subjected to transformation and purification in the process. In raku ceramics, When the piece is at its highest degree of temperature, “red hot”, the piece is removed from the fire, there due to the great thermal amplitude it undergoes abrupt transformations: oxidations and shocks, then new shapes appear. In those architectural and organic forms of burnt ceramic, with a texture similar to that of the surface of a meteorite, I add small bronze inhabitants that, supported by a black reflection of water, together make up a landscape. The anachronistic landscape of excess.

Nicolás Trombetta The photographic shots through several seconds of exposure show smoking bodies that unravel in themselves while time does and undoes. The tattoo of the body on the earth seems to be the essence of nature, leaving traces of a past that returns as a presence. In these cases, photography seems to free itself from its truthful character to build territories in continuous displacement. Bodies merge in moments, they are modified, making the tactile sense impossible and creating possible imaginaries that allow us to forget the body as a substance.