By María Eugenia Cazeneuve
Broom bristles, rags purchased from window cleaners, household cleaning dusters, and used clothing purchased from a charitable NGO are some of the ordinary materials that visual artist, architect, and curator Gaspar Libedinsky turns into extraordinary works of art.
Libedinsky’s work broke the select barrier of the art circuit due to a fortuitous situation. In June 2020, when we were all locked up in full quarantine, an image of the technical director Marcelo Gallardo was known in a virtual chat with the coaches and players of the Club Atlético River Plate youth teams. Many were struck by the paintings that appeared hanging in the DT’s house.
Behind the coach, on the wall of the living room of his house, three pieces by Libedinsky were displayed that were part of the work Kunstformen der Natur (Artistic forms of nature), exhibited in 2018 at the Praxis Gallery . The paintings are made with plastic bristles from brooms converted into a kind of brushstrokes on the canvas, which in this case is acrylic.
