Frida, Van Gogh immersive, augmented reality, Argentine art and anniversaries: what brings 2022

(By Mercedes Ezquiaga) the immersive sample dedicated to the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh, with a technology never seen in Argentina, which inaugurates in February in the rural one, and the presentation to the public in September in the malba of the painting "Diego and I"From Frida Kahlo - the most expensive in the history of Latin American art - promise to be the international milestones of a 2022 that in terms of exhibitions will look in and revalue the own and Argentine collections, in tune with the new rules of the game thatHe imposed the pandemic.

While in Coronavirus times it is difficult for works of art - especially those of greatest value whose transfers have always been onerous - travel from one place to another, the main highlights that Argentina holds in the year that begins have to do with two artistsForeign.But for everything there is an explanation: Van Gogh will not see the authentic works, but more than three thousand images of them in a very high resolution.While the Frida we will see in Malb.

It must be said that the Calendar of Artistic Exhibitions 2022 will reach a high point very difficult to match, when on February 16 it opens its doors in the rural "Imagine van Gogh", the first immersive art show that lands in Argentina, with more than60.000 tickets already sold, a spectacle in tune with Covid-19 times, since it allows-in the immense property-the social distancing, as producer Daniel Grinbank told Télam, responsible for this arrival.On the other hand, it is possible to think about this immersive show as the first of many who, with probability and luck, could reach the country.

To see "Diego and I", iconic work by Mexican Frida Kahlo, acquired by a millionaire sum, we will have to wait until September, when a new set of the permanent collection of the Malba is presented that will include the masterpieces belonging to her collection.But before, on March 11, the Museum of Avenida Figueroa Alcorta will begin its temporary exhibitions with Yente (Eugenia Crenovich) and of the PRET.

Then, in April, it will be the turn of the exhibition "Episodes of textile art in Paraguay", which will bring together Claudia Casarino, Mónica Millán, Feliciano Centurión, among others.

A classic to visit, the National Museum of Fine Arts will begin with a temporary jewelry baptized "Ancient drawings", with works by artists such as Guido Reni, Federico Barocci, Parmigianino, Giorgio Vasari, Giovanni Lanfranco, Pieter Paulus Rubens and Giuseppe Cades, betweenothers.

That same month will be the turn of the sculptor Juan Carlos Distéfano in the exhibition "Residual Memory", with Cuaduría de María Teresa Constantín and in August the exhibition "Carmelo Arden Quin and the plot of constructive art" will address the transformations of plastic production and thelinks that he woven throughout his career with constructive artists, including Uruguay.

October will be a special month in the Fine Arts with the tribute to Raquel Forner, "Spatial cycle" an exhibition cured by Marcelo Pacheco that will include paintings, drawings and engravings, organized in the series "La Moon", "Astrotauros", "Astronauts", "Los Teráqueos", "Great mutants", "Revelation on the planet Earth" and "Meeting with Astroseres in Ischigualasto".

On the date to be confirmed, but in the second half of the year, works by the Italian Archaeological Museum of Taranto will be presented, one of the collections that illustrate a fascinating historical period: from prehistory to the Middle Ages.

Outside its headquarters in Avenida del Libertador, the Museum will present exhibitions of its heritage in other public spaces, such as the Kirchner Cultural Center, where it will be seen from May, in the large lamp, "contemporary scenes".It will be right there, in the CCK where there will also be an immersive room with 15 latest generation projectors that will wrap the environment, with a tribute to the master Astor Piazzolla.

After the successful exhibition dedicated to the centenary of Fellini's birth, the National Museum of Decorative Art starts the season in April with the exhibition "Casa taken", the first retrospective of artist Gaspar Libedinsky, a selection of interactive and immersive emblematic works chosen forintervene ("take") each museum environment resigning it from the dialogue between art, design and heritage.

In July, the decorative will be focused on "icons of the Italian design of the 20.Furniture, everyday objects and industrial design, including the famous writer writer 22 of Marcello Nizzoli for Olivetti (1950) or the coffee maker by Renato Bialetti.

And in October, there will be a retrospective of the great artist and designer Pop Edgardo Giménez, under the title "Design and Pop Art in Argentina".A deserved tribute to the painter, publicist, designer of objects and environments that in 1965, along with Charlie Squirru and Dalila Puzzovio, rented an advertising space in the busy corner of Viamonte and Florida to place a gigantic poster with their portraits crowned by the question: Why are they so great?.

Symbol of the mouth, the Proa Foundation, which presented days ago the wonderful "art at stake", dedicated to a playful look on Argentine art, presents in February "Acute Art", an exhibition of augmented reality that will allow you to discover in the RiachueloAnd on the facade of Proa works by Kaws, Olafur Eliasson, Julie Curtiss, Tomás Saraceno, Lu Yang, Koo Jeong A and Nina Chanel, with the curatorship of Daniel Birbaum and Solana Chetman.

Interactive works, some immersive, others with movement and even with sound, emblematic spaces such as Caminito, El Riachuelo, El Trasbordador, La Vereda and the Front of the Foundation will intervene, modifying the landscape of the Barrio de la Boca.Meanwhile, confirmation is expected for the second half of the year of a sample from the Lille Museum collection, they advanced to Télam.

The Modern Museum plans to open exhibitions of the Colombian artist Delcy Morelos, an anthological of Mónica Girón and another individual by Eduardo Basualdo, while the Fortabat Museum (or Amalita Collection) will present exhibitions of the artists Miguel Harte and Eugenia Calvo, in addition to aCollective dedicated to the "90s in Argentina", with Cuaduría de Francisco Lemus.

2022 will also be the year in which the National Museum of Oriental Art and the Palais de Gaceand the 20 years of the opening of the museum.

Another anniversary will be that of the Museum of the History of the suit, which turns 50 and will develop a virtual book with 50 pieces of the museum with different thematic axes, and a main exhibition, cured by Victoria Lescano, in addition to a sample in November dedicated to thePaco Jamandreu figure.As the Malvinas Museum and South Atlantic Islands will do, which plans a great program with documentaries, theater, music, publications and activities to commemorate the 40 years of the military conflict rided in the islands that give name to the museum.

Finally, the Casa Carlos Gardel Museum, in the supply (where the Creole Zorzal lived) will house a sample dedicated to the pioneer women of tango.And the factory columbus, a wonderful space that opened in the mouth to exhibit all the scenographies and costumes of Turandot, La Bohème or Aida, made by the scenotechnical area of that lyrical room, will continue to be one of the unmissable attractions.All this, of course, if pandemia allows it.

With Télam information