Ricardo Piglia-Eduardo Stupía
Jorge Mara-La Ruche, Buenos Aires
In the face of the power of the new multimedia text supports, the beautiful volume Ricardo Piglia-Eduardo Stupía. Fragments of a diary appears as a statement on the permanence of the printed book. Piglia (Argentina, 1941) has kept a private diary for over 50 years and Stupía (Argentina, 1951) has been in the public scene since his first solo show in 1973. At the intersection of the artistic sensibilities of these authors, volume and show share the intensity of poetry and the fertile discomfort of critical thought.
As a recollection of the years he spent teaching at Princeton University, Piglia writes − split and multiplied − and like all memories, this one is considerably more than the author’s voice; it conveys the atmosphere of an epoch; it highlights data about a time in history. Stupía’s works do not illustrate the content of the diary but rather form the link between two related spirits. Thus, he exhibits 22 images (mixed media on paper, 15.7 x 23.6 in. – including the 10 original images of the book – which condense the two aspects of his work: drawing and collage. Stupía adds clippings of publications to the drawings that he writes and re writes, producing inspired calligraphies, bizarre lines, blots and accumulations of stains and glazes.
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Paisaje XIV/Landscape XIV, 2008 Charcoal, pencil, graphite, pastel and oil on paper glued onto canvas, 70.8 x 55 in.
Carbonilla, lápiz, grafito, pastel y óleo sobre papel pegado sobre tela, 180 x 140 cm.
