GABRIELA GOLDER: REVISITING THE WORKS OF FACIO HEBEQUER
The exhibition at Rolf Art REVUELTAS by Gabriela Golder - one of Argentina's most internationally recognized audiovisual artists - presents video works in dialogue with the historic lithographic works of master printmaker Guillermo Facio Hebequer.
and Escenas de trabajo [Work Scenes] (2020), in dialogue with a careful selection of two historic lithographic works, La internacional [The International] (1935) and Tu historia, compañero [Your Story, Mate] (1933), by the renowned engraving master Guillermo Facio Hebequer (1889, Uruguay – 1935, Argentina), guided by micro-narratives, documentaries, conceptual, and graphic elements; revealing the concerns and explorations of the artist.
Facio Hebequer spread the ideas of proletarian movements through lithographs in flyers, publications, and independent works. Tu Historia, compañero (1933), a series of 12 lithographs focused on the working class and their struggle for freedom, published in issue 21 of the magazine Nervio, marked a crucial point in his work, adopting a more combative and militant tone that is later consolidated with works such as Bandera Roja (1934 – 1935) and La Internacional (1935).
Gabriela Golder presents a reinterpretation of Hebequer’s historical works, translating the scenes from the lithographic series into a contemporary audiovisual language and presenting an unprecedented piece of paper cinema with over 250 images from her own archive, capturing the inherent concerns of her work – the world of labor, the representation of crowds, institutional violence, resistance, rebellion, upheavals – in a contemporary atlas.
“Building upon this ‘encounter’ with the past and with Facio, Golder’s treatment of these images, as the artist points out, focuses on the deconstruction of the gestures of workers’ struggle through still frames and the slowing down of certain movements as a means of capturing the birth, development, and fading away of these struggles. This sequence of certain continuous and slow movements that repeat themselves allows the spotlight to be placed precisely there: on those gestures that, imbued with the suffering of oppression, can transform into action that evolves into rebellion”.
Roberto Pittaluga and Magalí Devés.
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Gabriela Golder. Rebeliones | Rebellions, 2022. Video. Single channel video 4K - 16.9 - Color - without sound. Duration 28’ 35’’ Loop
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Gabriela Golder. Work scenes | Escenas de trabajo , 2020 Scenes [#1]. Video. Single channel video HD - 16.9 - Color - without sound. Duration 12’ Loop
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Gabriela Golder. Work scenes | Escenas de trabajo, 2020. Scenes [#6]. Video. Single channel video HD - 16.9 - Color - without sound. Duration 12’ Loop
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Gabriela Golder. Work scenes | Escenas de trabajo, 2020 Scenes [#7] Video. Single channel video HD - 16.9 - Color - without sound. Duration 12’ Loop
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Gabriela Golder. Work scenes | Escenas de trabajo, 2020. Scenes [#11] Video. Single channel video HD - 16.9 - Color - without sound. Duration 12’ Loop
REVUELTAS. Exhibition by Gabriela Golder.
Until July 31, 2024.
Rolf Art. 1353 Esmeralda St., Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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