Exploring the possibilities of visual art through the artworks of Argentinian contemporary artists Gloria Matarazzo and Karina Glocker
Presented by Skiascope Gallery, artists Gloria Matarazzo and Karina Glocker share both Argentinian roots and an interest for exploring contemporary visual art possibilities.
Gloria Matarazzo, born in Buenos Aires in 1948, has studied Art Theory with Professor Jorge López Anaya and Philosophy and Aesthetics of Modern Art with Elena Oliveras, Doctor in Aesthetics from the University of Paris. Throughout her artistic career she has explored different formats and languages, from painting to objects and installations, artist books and photographs. Many of her artworks are part of important collections in the USA ,Canada, Peru, Italy, Japan, Chile and Argentina. Her works have been exhibited in international fairs such as the Hamptons Fine Art Fair in New York (USA, 2021), Photo Basel in Basilea (Switzerland, 2024), Pinta Miami in Miami (USA, 2023), BA Photo in Buenos Aires (Argentina 2022) and many others in the last thirty years.
The use of different means of expression have allowed her to address different themes, having as axes different moments of her personal life. When speaking about her work as an artist, she talks about how she investigates her affectivity and interests in relation to life, the world surrounding her and the reality she has to live.
Her latest works are digital photographs, printed on methacrylate. These photographs superimpose objects fading over landscapes. Her work “Atmosféricos” (Athmospherics) represents the interior of a room fading into seascapes and landscapes. A lamp emerges from the silhouettes of trees, encapsulated by a quasi-transparent cloud-shaped lamp that merges with the cloudy sky. In “Un cristal” (A crystal) a beautiful shell-shaped glass vial fades into waterscapes and red leaves, in a dreamlike composition.
Karina Glocker, born in Buenos Aires in 1970, has studied visual arts at IUNA, focusing on contemporary graphic expressions. After working for thirteen years in film as costume designer and set designer, she is now investigating the possibilities of graphic arts in Adriana Moracci’s workshop. In her continuous exploration of artistic practices, she focuses on how art expands in the interdisciplinary fields of science, culture and nature. Her artistic work is characterized by fragmentation, order, search and experimentation.
In the artworks from the Serie “Deriva Intimista”, 2022, she arranged fragments and patterns in polyptics printed on paper. Being the fragment central to her artistic expression. "As a city dweller” she says “the city presents itself to me as a big box of fragments, patterns, my own drawings, which I collect and then carefully select for my works.” She investigates the role of fragments and patterns in giving shape to the creative processes. These elements allow her to explore the edges of the work, between inner and outer space, where there is a visual and a tactile quality. She describes her system as a way to “sublimate a house of configurations to inhabit”, quoting Didi Huberman "[...] every space for reflection is carried by a thought that relates the parts, but this thought is not created anywhere". Her focus is on exploring these thoughts of external and internal spaces, “the fragment stripped of its own becoming, forming a space of reciprocal relations in another happening”.
Cover photo: Gloria Matarazzo, Atmosféricos - Atmospherics, 2023. Courtesy of Skiascope Gallery