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Inés Szigety

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I was born in Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires), and I currently live in Tandil (Buenos Aires). I’ve always been interested in visual aspects. I used to love cinema as a child, and wanted to be an animator. I move through several disciplines and languages: video, installations, interventions, drawings, performances. I’m currently working in a medium-length film.
El Galpón (The storehouse), a workshop I had with some other artists; the Antorchas Foundation’s clinics on Work Analysis and Production for regional artists; and the Kuitca scholarship in the Abasto workshop have been some of the most important artistic experiences of the last few years for me.
I’ve been part of several exhibitions, both in Argentina and abroad, and I’ve received some accolades on my work: New media and installation mention (2004), National Hall of Visual Arts / mention at the Last Venus Biennial (2003) / Experimental video, Jury’s mention, Mamba Arts and New Technologies Prize (2002).

WORKS

tissue

ephemeral intervention

tissue

ephemeral intervention

tissue

ephemeral intervention

tissue

ephemeral intervention

VISION OF ART

Choose a work that represents you, describe it in relation to its format and materiality, its relation with time and space, its style and theme; detail its production process.

I’ll choose “Tissue”, an ephemeral intervention in a housing complex in Montreal, which gives new meaning of an everyday space with elements related to the industrial and architectural history of the place * * The cooperative is located at the Sainte-Marie and Saint-Jacques district, in the Northeastern section of the city, an industrial area with several buildings and warehouses which are [more]

In general terms, how would you suggest to approach your work?

I want it to be read as an old or common idea that is part of a new scenario, which spurs laughter or surprise and gives new meaning to everyday situations.

In reference to your work and your position in the national and international art fields, what tradition do you recognize yourself in? Who are your contemporary referents? What artists of previous generations are of interest to you?

I’m interested in the Di Tella Institute’s experiences and happenings, in Alberto Greco and his Vivo Dito, the more conceptual practices in the art of the mid-sixties. I’m also interested in Ana Mendieta’s, Lygia Clark’s and Helio Oiticica’s work related to the body, to games, to healing and therapeutic aspects. Internationally, I must mention Surrealism, Dada and Fluxus as movements [more]

Choose works or exhibitions from the last ten or fifteen years which in your opinion were very significant and explain why

Le Parc at the National Museum of Fine Arts, in 2000: light, movement, illusion and immersion; Liliana Porter at Ruth Benzacar’s Gallery: videos with little objects from her collection and drawings on ruled paper, in 2000; Art in progression [Arte en progresión] at the San Martín Cultural Center, an exhibition with many artists and formats, curated by Graciela Taquini, stimulating and [more]

What tendencies or groupings from common elements do you see in argentine art of the last ten or fifteen years?

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