Photograph courtesy
Nicola Costantino
Venice 2013 - Arsenale:
55th International Art Biennale; National Pavilions – Argentina. At the
Argentina Pavilion, Nicola Costantino
embodies Eva Peron, the exhibition, Eva-Argentina. A Contemporary Metaphor, is commissioned by Magdalena
Faillace and Curated by Fernando
Farina. For the first time, the
myth of one of the most emblematic women of the XX century is addressed in the
language of contemporary arts. Rapsodia Inconclusa (Unfinished Rhapsody) introduces
the problem of a representation that has, either in one way or another, always
been too partial and too constrained. Two
video-installations Eva the Dreams,
above, and Eva the Mirror, an
object-machine, Eva the Strength and
an almost abstract Eva the Rain: all four works try,
from different angles, to portray Eva at
the same time in between what is personal and what is political, real and
fictitious, private and public.
Photograph courtesy
Nicola Costantino
Argentinian Pavilion. Eva the Rain, ends this unfinished rhapsody. The atmosphere of
the installation is that of an autopsy or embalming room. A stainless steel table is covered by a
mountain of ice tears which, when melting, become falling drops that increase
the monotonous background sound of rain, standing for the people’s never-ending
sorrow.
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