A retrospective of the artist Romina Orazi (Trelew, 1972) at Praxis Gallery (Arenales 1311) brings together reversions of canonical works of national painting – El rodeo by Prilidiano Pueyrredón, La cascada del Iguazú by Augusto Ballerini, La vuelta del malón by Ángel Della Valle and Sin pan y sin trabajo, by Ernesto de la Cárcova, which make up the collection of the National Museum of Fine Arts, the monumental Incendios (ten meters long, which could be seen at the CCK in 2021), ceramics, burned and intervened logs with colorful scenes. In Partículas del fuego, which occupies two floors of the gallery, there is also an installation with the sound of a chainsaw making its way through a forest.
The exhibition includes works from different periods, such as “remixes” of national art classics; to the emblematic scene of Sin pan y sin trabajo, which records the social crisis within a family, is added the environmental impact. “The idea of these pieces is to start thinking about the idea we have of progress and how it affects the landscape and nature,” Orazi tells LA NACION. In 1900 began the period in which the landscape of la Pampa began to be industrialized; that’s why I like to do the before and after of these community ways of thinking. If we had adopted another idea of progress, which is not intrinsically bad, perhaps today we would have a different relationship with water, with the landscape.”
