Un hombrecito que no supera un par de centímetros está rompiendo la base de madera que lo sostiene. Un caballo de porcelana cuya crin es un cepillo para lustrar zapatos mira fijo a una mujer diminuta. Una abuelita teje un mundo de lana que la centuplica en tamaño. Otra abuela sostiene un extremo de un océano de flores de tela azul.
The universes that Liliana Porter builds feed without rest of small objects and figures that the artist detects and acquires in each place he visits.Then, they add to a kind of cast in stand by that awaits the moment of the call: they can be put in "dialogue" with another similar figure or destined for a poetic confrontation with toys of another radically different species or nature.
Everything is possible in these meetings, but what happens most often is a break, a brief trip to the unexpected and the almost simultaneous conviction that those two things that are found were born for each other and that nothing in the world couldbreak the relationship just established.
A doll, a traveler, a clock whose pieces generate the stupor of a little man (last diminutive, promised) that does not know what to do with that delayed mechanism, a bear that looks at an old lady (broken promise) stamped on a sugar, a Christ-Lampara faced with a plastic penguin.The potential cast is infinite, as well as the possibility of crosses.
Part of those worlds and other works by Liliana Porter can be seen in the Carafffa Museum.The exhibition includes photographs, engravings, collages, facilities, drawings and videos of this artist born in Buenos Aires and based since 1964 in New York.
Some pieces such as task (blue flowers) are emblematic.There Porter condenses a series of favorite for "forced labor" (often, situations show miniatures against impossible tasks), staging in an empty context and frozen time layers: although nothing moves, the narrative isActive.
Porter rarerates his gaze, makes a brief trap (like those white lies that hide a beneficial purpose), but that is only the first step in his poetics of confusion, since the charm that produces the work lies in his ability to make him make himThe strange scene becomes familiar and that the visual trip can be, as the case may be, as sinister as beautiful, as dramatic as tender.
To see.Liliana Porter's sample is exhibited at the Caraffa Museum (Poet Lugones 411).Tuesday to Sundays and holidays, from 10 to 20.General entrance: $ 15.Retirees, students and minors: free.Wednesday: Free entrance.
