Aída Carballo's legacy at the Museum of La Cárcova in Buenos Aires

September 25, 2024 | nadiaevangelina

The exhibition “Aída Carballo: An Open Door to the Infinite” celebrates the legacy of the Argentine artist, known especially for the unique style of her engravings in which she combines elements of everyday life with a deep social commitment, as well as her teaching role. The proposal, held at the Museum of La Cárcova, is curated by Lucía Laumann, author of the book “Aída Carballo, teacher: Graphic Production and Institutional Paths in Buenos Aires in the Second Half of the 20th Century”.

Aída Carballo. Museum of La Cárcova
The exhibition brings together engravings, drawings, documents, ceramics, and photographs, organized into three sections: “La Cárcova”, which focuses on her time at the Ernesto de la Cárcova School of Fine Arts; “The Soul of the City”, which shows her ways of inhabiting urbanity that, in some way, was reflected in her work, and “Between the classrooms and the workshop”, dedicated to her job as a teacher.

The Museum of La Cárcova previously functioned as the Ernesto de la Cárcova School of Fine Arts, a key training instance for the artist. Hence, the exhibition space becomes a key player in her artistic career. This takes on greater importance in the “La Cárcova” nucleus, focusing on the artist's training since her youth.

Aída Carballo. Museum of La Cárcova
“The Soul of the City,” meanwhile, focuses on the city of Buenos Aires and the people who inhabit it, constants in Carballo's work. From the whirlwind of traffic with the characteristic bus to the neighborhood residents getting together, the heterogeneity of the city of Buenos Aires comes alive in her works. In many cases, she alludes to the social-political context. Such is the case of posters, part of urban visual culture, which had a particular boom during the sixties. Carballo first represented them in her prints and, towards the end of her life, they became a support to celebrate the return of democracy.




Aída Carballo. Museum of La Cárcova
Finally, “Between the Classrooms and the Workshop” focuses on the more than thirty years she devoted to teaching. Since the mid-fifties and for more than thirty years, Carballo taught several generations of artists. She taught Drawing, Engraving, and History of Engraving at the Manuel Belgrano and Prilidiano Pueyrredón National Schools of Fine Arts. She also organized student exhibitions, gave lectures, and supported student projects and demands. Her participation in these activities reflects the place she occupied as a reference in artistic education. This bond with her students was recorded in some of her prints, where their faces are represented. Carballo's artistic and teaching performance was also engraved in the memory of the new generations of artists.


“Aída Carballo: An Open Door to the Infinite” 
Location: Museum of La Cárcova, Av. España 1701, CABA, Buenos Aires (Argentina)
Opening Date: 10th August 2024 
End Date: 27th October 2024
Working hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10am to 5pm

Artist:
Aída Carballo

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