Buenos Aires
Fulgor
NÚÑEZ /
Curator
Gabriel Valansi
Apr. 12, 2023 — May. 26, 2023
About exhibition
Blankets of synthetic material designed to protect space flight devices from Cosmic radiation, envelop a secret: they cover what appear to be works of art with their respective frames and formats. We have no references to them other than their topographies, finely traced by the gold material.
Fulgor, the work of César Núñez results from the sum of these works protected by a material that in turn evokes gold, a precious mineral/symbolic standard par excellence of the monetary value of almost all things.
The operation questions several of the current paradigms in the value system that moves the wheel of the contemporary art market. But above all the most ominous: The one that marks the market value of each work, separating it almost completely from its intrinsic value, always closer to art than to money.
With this operation Núñez protects and hides.
His act is generous and mean at the same time.
His gesture is not new: Aren’t the works that make up some of the most opulent collections on the planet jealously guarded and their exhibition denied to people’s gaze? In that case, based on a safeguard, a vital part that complements the meaning of every work has been denied: That dialogue / bridge that closes a circuit with the gaze of another. In the case of Núñez, the surface he protects is at the same time a work, a mirror and a question.
That denial is his meaning. And at the same time it challenges us. He puts the punctum on our appreciation and the value we assign to what we appreciate.
In the not-too-distant future, when the radioactive storms cease, won’t these wrapped and protected works be the secret treasure that will shine at the foot of a rainbow, on a planet increasingly closer to its explosion?
Gabriel Valansi
Selected works
César Núñez
Historical Museum Project
Historical museum with isothermal blanket protection
39 x 12 x 70 in
2023
CONTACT
GÓMEZ /
Las vestiduras peligrosas
PECCI CAROU /
States of mind
JUNCADELLA /
Behind the eyes
PAREDES / GRADÍN / CORCUERA /
Ecology of beings
HELDEN / SANCINETI /
Entities fleeing
PAREDES /
Shadow and Light Pulsion
NÚÑEZ / CORCUERA / PÉREZ BOUZAS /
Without space, without time, without context
