Urbanautica: an interview by Fredi Casco with Hugo Aveta
February 23, 2012 by Manfrotto
Filed under Experience
Another special insight by Urbanautica for Manfrotto Scholl of Xcellence featuring interview by Fredi Casco with Hugo Aveta. The Argentinian artist and photographer was born in the city of Cordoba, where he studied architecture and visual arts, after what he got fully involved into photography. His works start exhibiting in the early 90’s: “Young Generation” in MNBA, and publishing: “Argentinean Photography Actual Two”, showing us an artist whose focus is already set on the running of time and its memory. Today the museums MNBA and MAMBA of Bs.As, MACRO and Castagnino of Rosario, Caraffa of Córdoba and MOLAS of the USA have acquired works of his authorship. The Forthcoming, the Time and the Spaces are the protagonists of his most recent work, mysteriously loaded with a vacuum and full that puzzles our reading of the inside and outside, our understanding of what exists and disappears. His pictures, mainly produced on basis of scaled models, induce us to an observation of the time.
«All that I care about is an influence. I must confess that I saw Stalker last year and I was very surprised at the similarity that existed between the spirit of this movie and some pictures and video I had done. Without having seen so far Tarkovsky’s films, I found, however, there was an image processing and time seems… as suspended… very similar. My photographs are staged in places that exist… I build a model (maquete) of a certain place, I observe it, I prepare it, and finally when I think is ready I photograph. The process of my work is related to both the film and the theater».
«My photographs speak of the absence, the memory, of time and death… I build small ruined models to finally photograph them and in so doing try to speak of the absence as an end. The construction process is slow, reflective, generally I select the spaces that are dense places, that have a history behind them, that are about to be destroyed. Places with memory, since memory is always memory of an absence and it is this absence that leads us to speak. All my work somehow refer to a disaster where the absence is the protagonist and who causes the sensation of catastrophe».
«I think art as an event exists when the factual occurrence of linear time is surpassed. It is what we can experience beyond the perceptions, and that’s incredible, the possibility of the nonperceptive experience in the literal sense, we know that we are participating, living, feeling, although our biological senses are not acting.. From there I also see the imminence closely linked to intuition, to those states where the coordinates of emotional time and place reveal other rhythms».
