2023-07-19 16:08:10
The Jury of the National Award for Artistic Trajectory of the 111th National Salon of Visual Arts announced the names of the 8 people who won the award. The contest is organized by the National Palace of Arts – Palais de Glace and the Secretariat of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation.
The following people obtained the National Award for Artistic Trajectory:
Martha Cortés Álvarez (La Rioja)
Born in La Rioja in 1946, she is a plastic and visual artist, designer, illustrator and teacher. She has a degree in Sculpture, Superior Professor in Plastic Arts from the National University of Córdoba and graduated from the Private Institute of Contemporary Design Buenos Aires. She worked as a teacher at the Higher Institute of Art and Communication of La Rioja between 1985 and 2010, being her holder in the chairs of Drawing II; Sculpture I, II, III; Visual Foundations I and II; History of art I and II among others, where she was also Rector of the Institute from 1993 to 1997, being elected by the educational community. She published several essays on plastic arts and art in the province. She has illustrated and designed covers for numerous books by Argentine authors. She served as a jury in various salons and contests in the country.
Carlota Beltrame (Tucumán)
Born in Tucumán in 1960, she is an artist, teacher and researcher. She graduated and Doctor of Arts. Among her other publications, the Manual de ella Tucumán de arte contemporáneo stands out. She is a member of the Argentine Association of Art Critics. She organized workshops such as “Meetings on the production and analysis of work for young artists from NOA” (Fundación Antorchas) and worked on projects with Juan Acha, Guillermo Kuitca, Jorge La Ferla, Gustavo Bruzzone, Eva Grinstein, Américo Castilla, Mauro Herlitzka, Kevin Power, Washington Cucurto, Ticio Escobar, Tania Bruguera and Silvia Dolinko. She represented “PLOT. Program of Confrontation and Cooperation between Artists”. She obtained scholarships and residencies both abroad and in Argentina. Among other awards, she was distinguished with the First Acquisition Prize at the 107th SNAV (2018), the Konex Award for Merit in Visual Arts 2022 and the XXVI Klemm Prize 2022. Her works are in various public and private collections.
Monica Millan (CABA)
Mónica Millán was born in Misiones in 1960. She lives and works in the city of Buenos Aires. She received scholarships from the Torches Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2000 she obtained the Trama Scholarship to participate in workshops for the analysis and confrontation of works. She did residencies in Canada and Italy. Between 2002 and 2012 she worked in Paraguay with a village of weavers, advised by the essayist and art critic Ticio Escobar. Her work to recover, identify and recreate her traditional fabrics allowed her to generate a very fruitful link between artistic creation, popular crafts and plastic language. Among other places, she exhibited in the following places: MALBA, MAMBA, Marco La Boca Museum and Kirchner Cultural Center.
Rosana Fuertes (CABA)
Born in Mar del Plata in 1962, she studied at the “Martín A. Malharro” School of Visual Arts. She works in Buenos Aires. Her work has been defined as “pictograms of contingency”, where gender and politics mix with domestic life. She obtained the Guggenheim New York scholarship (1996), the Antorchas scholarship (1998), the Nuevo Mundo Foundation First Prize for New Argentine Painting (1993) and the Nuevo Mundo Prize Winners (1994), the 8M Acquisition Prize (2021). She has exhibited individually in galleries and museums in Japan, the United States, Brazil, Spain, Germany, and France. He participated in the V Havana Biennial (Cuba, 1994) and in exhibitions such as Offside Art and Football (Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England, 1996), Déchirures de l’Histoire (Centre D’Art Contemporain, Montbéliard, France, 2003), The Disappeared (North Dakota Museum of Art, United States, 2005), “Throw papers” World ’78 Between the party and the horror (Parque de la Memoria, Argentina, 2018) among others.
Fernando Allievi (Cordoba)
He was born in Chubut in 1954. He began his drawing studies under the guidance of Leopoldo Garrone in 1976. In 1978 he entered the “José Figueroa Alcorta” Provincial School of Fine Arts in the city of Córdoba, from where he graduated with the titles of Master of Plastic Arts and Higher Technician of Painting and Drawing. On the advice of Marcelo Bonevardi, in 1985 he moved to New York, from where he returned to Córdoba in 1988. Since 1980, the year in which he held his first individual exhibition, he has participated in numerous group and individual exhibitions. He obtained prizes and distinctions in provincial and national salons, and his work is part of public and private collections in the country and abroad. In 2022 he obtained the Lifetime Achievement Award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Alberto Goldenstein (CABA)
Born in the city of Buenos Aires in 1951, he followed the family mandate and studied economics. In 1980 he gave up his studies and traveled to Boston (United States), where he discovered photography. He studied at the New England School of Photography and attended seminars and workshops with John Szarkowsky and Joel Meyerowitz. From 1991 to 2016 he gave workshops at the Rojas Cultural Center in the city of Buenos Aires. In 1995, he was in charge of opening and directing the Fotogalería del Centro Cultural Rojas, a precursor space in the dialogue between photography and contemporary art, where photographers of the new generation and established photographers had their first solo exhibitions. In 2016, the Adriana Hidalgo publishing house published an anthology of his work. In 2018, a retrospective of his work was held at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, an exhibition that was accompanied by a book-catalogue. In 2022 he received the Konex Award for Merit in Photography. He currently coordinates work clinics.
Egar Murillo (Mendoza)
He was born in Jujuy in 1957. Between 1981 and 1986 he studied at the Faculty of Art and Design of the University of Cuyo. He received a scholarship in the Fundación Antorchas Stimulus for Creation program (1993-1994) and a Fundación Proa Scholarship for Training and Development directed by Guillermo Kuitca (1994-1995). He participated in 2010 of “Entre Campos Mendoza” held at the ECA, directed by Fernando Castro Florez and Patricia Hakim. In 2010 he was part of the Visual Poetry Workshop dictated by Juan Carlos Romero. He participated in ArteBa, Arte Américas Latin American Art Fair (Miami), Interfaces Visual Dialogues between Regions Argentine Contemporary Art (Salta-Buenos Aires-Mendoza) in 2006, Expotrastienda in 2007, EGGO Fair (Buenos Aires) in 2007, CHACO Contemporary Art Fair (Chile) in 2011, among other exhibitions. In 2012 he received the Second Prize in Painting from the National Salon of Visual Art.
Pedro Roth (CABA)
He was born in Hungary in 1938. Graduated in Cinematography from the University of La Plata, he began his career as a photographer in 1960 and his plastic career in 1973. He held numerous exhibitions in Argentina and abroad. He recorded the most relevant artistic movements since the 1960s, creating a unique historical archive in our country. His works have been exhibited at the National Museum of Fine Arts, the Recoleta Cultural Center, MAMBA, the Jewish Museum of Buenos Aires, the Caraffa Museum, the MACRO Museum of Rosario, the Jewish Museum of Frankfurt, the Ibero-Latin American Institute of Berlin and the Torteneti Museum of Budapest. He published the book Urban Thought and Rural Thought. He has participated in various artist collectives such as Cruz del Sur, Cantamessa, Borobio, Inchauspe and is currently part of the Estrella del Oriente collective. He obtained numerous prizes and awards both in Argentina and abroad.
This Award recognizes artists with a relevant career, over 60 years of age at the time of presentation, who have made decisive contributions to the art of this country. The winning artists receive a lifetime pension equivalent to five minimum pensions and donate, as a donation to the national State, a significant work of their production. The donated works will be part of the heritage of the National Museum of Fine Arts (MNBA).
The following works will be part of the heritage of the National Museum of Fine Arts:
These awards are part of a public policy that is possible thanks to the collective effort of a community that guarantees its artists a new platform for work and reflection on their own artistic practice. This collective effort is justified by the role that artists play in rereading our history and imagining other worlds and possible futures that express the plurality of voices of our Nation.
He National Hall of Visual Arts It is the oldest contest that is held without interruption in the territory of our country and rewards the most representative works of Argentine contemporary art. To strengthen its federal and inclusive character, the quotas for 50% participation of people residing outside the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, 50% female participation and 5% participation of non-binary people and transvestites–trans. In addition, coverage of the cost of transporting selected works by artists who live beyond the AMBA continues.
Organized by the Secretariat of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture and the National Palace of Arts – Palais de Glace, the 2023 edition strengthens the federal, accessible, diverse and inclusive character of this centenary artistic event.
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