The interactive art exhibition DESATAR (“untying”) by the artist María Eugenia Llorente, which will run for the next two months at the British Arts Centre (Suipacha 1333) with free admission, was inaugurated there on the evening of Friday, March 14.
A Patagonian, Llorente has a background as a computer science graduate finding work in the world of Formula 1 racing in a technical job at the Red Bull boxes in Britain for almost a decade before abandoning all that to pursue her creative instincts in an artistic career back here in Argentina and this shows in the ad hoc techniques of this self-taught painter – both manual and mechanical methods go into the prototypes for interaction with the general public. These take the form of anything from owls to zebras depicted with numerous intricate “painting by number” spaces demarcated in ink for the onlooker to brighten watercolours – her works are both richly coloured and black and white, with the latter as an invitation to the public. Mark Rothko it isn’t.
Do interactive artists interact with other interactive artists as well as the public, the Times asked the exhibitor? Not in her case, she is a free spirit who prefers her work to do the talking with everything coming from inside, not the art world at large. But beyond the gallery, she is very good at self-promotion where the Formula 1 background shows – like Franco Colapinto she seems to believe that fame can precede as well as follow achievement.
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