Karina Peisajovich

Vasari, Buenos Aires

By Victoria Verlichak | May 29, 2013

Karina Peisajovich (Buenos Aires, 1966), whose work in recent years has been linked to her experiences related to the perceptive possibilities of light and movement, presented Totalmente, tácitamente at Vasari Gallery.

Karina Peisajovich

The grand drawing in color pencils on paper displayed in the window invited visitors to step into the gallery and confirmed that the artist persists in her investigation on color with increasing or decreasing intensities of brightness /darkness. Inside and set up in the manner of an installation, an assemblage of seven drawings of different sizes and formats aroused an emotional response in the viewers through their chromatic rhythm and fusion.

Peisajovich once more intervened in the architectonic space with the immaterial quality of light, but now she widened her search creating some objects which referred to the light quality, and which were as delicate as they were powerful. In a corner of the gallery, the installation Los amantes comprised two lit common light bulbs, which rose, oscillated in parallel and then made concentric spins. The movement of the piece – achieved through a hidden device which generated electrical current and programmed the fluctuations − was reminiscent of the nuptial flight of birds or the love play of two persons who seek and want each other. The end was open.