Look: construct

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Mirar: construer (Look: construct) is the work that most deepens this relation between the literal and metaphorical meanings of the projection. The work is composed of two identical orthogonal structures separated by a mirror: the identity between the referent its reflection materialises itself in the physical repetition of this image. The title is structured as a dictionary entry. To look is to construct, or yet, to construct is to project, in the literal and metaphorical meanings of the term. The projection presents itself as an instrument to take those mechanisms of image analysis beyond themselves, transferring them from a state of response to a state of question, anticipation or expectation. By emphasising the spectator’s perceptual and cognitive domain, the works anticipate the ludic work of the mind, which discovers connections, resemblances and counterpoints in the data it receives. Nonetheless, more than insisting on the artificial character of our perception, Accinelli seeks to involve the spectator in an exercise of greater scope: that the experience of looking constitutes a practical problem.
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Pablo Accinelli is an Argentinian artist living and working in Buenos Aires. His work includes sculpture, installation, photography, and mixed media, and shows subtle influences of prominent artists of the previous generation in South America—specifically those who investigated modernity through an individual’s mental and physical relationship to constructed space. His practice merges object design, the use of industrial and everyday materials, text, and images, seeking to explore both the internal and the external relationships objects have with the spaces around them. For instance in Relación interna 2 (2010), by measuring the space between two notebook pages with a half-cylinder of concrete—a trademark modernist material—Accinelli imbues the empty spaces among and between objects with an augmented depth.
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Pablo Accinelli studied with the artists Alejandro Puente and Diana Aisenberg. Since 2006 he has been part of Actividad de uso with Leandro Tartaglia, a group dedicated to writing books about young Argentine artists (Vicente Grondona, Luciana Lamothe, Verónica Gómez, Tomás Maglione). In 2014 he won the Scholarship and Commissions Program of the Cisneros-Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). In 2012, he won the Lucio Fontana Prize and was invited to participate in the Bienal de São Paulo, curated by Luis Pérez Oramas. In 2012 he also participated in When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes curated by Jens Hoffman. In 2011, his work was presented in a solo exhibition in Frieze-Frame (Londres). In 2008 and 2011 held solo exhibitions in Luisa Strina gallery, Sao Paulo. In 2011, Accinelli was selected for the arteBA-Petrobras Visual Arts award, eighth Edition. In 2009, he participated in the Triennial Poligráfica of Puerto Rico curated by Julieta González. In 2007, he received the Intercampos scolarship from the Telefónica Foundation and in 2006, he received the annual poetry scholarship from Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center, directed by Fabián Casas. He taught as associate professor in Jorge Macchi´s annual workshop of the graduate program for artists in Di Tella University (2011 and 2009 editions). He showed collectively in different spaces (Gb Agency, Universidad Di Tella, MOCADetroit, CCA Wattis, Hacienda La Trinidad, The Goma, Lelong gallery, Proa Fundation, Ignacio Liprandi, Ruth Benzacar, Alberto Sendrós, Belleza y Felicidad, CCEBA, Castagnino Museum, etc).