The Jury of the National Artistic Trajectory Prize of the 111th National Exhibition of Plastic Arts has announced the names of the 8 people who won the prize. The competition is organized by the National Palace of Arts – Ice Palace and the Secretariat of Cultural Heritage of the Ministry of Culture of the Nation.
The following people have obtained the National Prize for Artistic Trajectory:
Martha Cortés Alvarez (La Rioja)
Born in La Rioja in 1946, she is a plastic and visual artist, designer, illustrator and teacher. Graduated in sculpture, senior professor in plastic arts at the National University of Cordoba and graduated from the Private Institute of Contemporary Design in Buenos Aires. He worked as a teacher at the Higher Institute of Art and Communication of La Rioja between 1985 and 2010, holding the chairs of Drawing II; Sculptures 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. He has published various essays on the plastic arts and the art of the province. He has illustrated and designed covers for numerous books by Argentine authors. He has served as a jury in various fairs and competitions across the country.
Carlota Beltrame (Tucuman)
Born in Tucumán in 1960, she is an artist, teacher and researcher. Bachelor and Doctor of Arts. Among other publications, his Tucumán Contemporary Art Handbook stands out. Member of the Argentine Association of Art Critics. He organized workshops such as “Meetings on the production and analysis of the work of young artists of the NOA” (Antorchas Foundation) 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. It stood for “PLOT. Program of Confrontation and Cooperation between Artists”. He obtained scholarships and residences abroad and in Argentina. Among other awards, she has been honored with the First Acquisition Award at the 107th SNAV (2018), the Konex Award for Merit in Visual Arts 2022 and the XXVI Klemm Award 2022. Her works can be found 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. He has received grants from the Antorchas Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts and the Rockefeller Foundation. In 2000, he obtained the Trama scholarship to participate in workshops for the analysis and confrontation of works. He has done residencies in Canada and Italy. Between 2002 and 2012, she worked in Paraguay with a city of weavers, advised by essayist and art critic Ticio Escobar. Her work of recovering, identifying and recreating traditional fabrics has allowed her to generate a very fruitful link between artistic creation, popular crafts and plastic language. Among other places, he has 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 School of Visual Arts “Martín A. Malharro”. He works in Buenos Aires. Her work has been defined as “pictograms of contingency”, where gender and politics intertwine with domestic life. He was awarded the Guggenheim New York Fellowship (1996), the Antorchas Fellowship (1998), the Nuevo Mundo Foundation First Prize for New Argentine Painting (1993) and the Nuevo Mundo Prize Winners (1994), the Prize for acquisition 8M (2021). He has exhibited individually in galleries and museums in Japan, the United States, Brazil, Spain, Germany and France. He participated in the V Biennial of Havana (Cuba, 1994) and in exhibitions such as Offside Art and Football (Manchester City Art Galleries, Manchester, England, 1996), Tears of History (Centre D’Art Contemporain, Montbéliard, France, 2003), The Disappeared (North Dakota Museum of Art, United States, 2005), “Throw away papers” World ’78 Between party and 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 Provincial School of Fine Arts “José Figueroa Alcorta” in the city of Córdoba, d where he graduated with the titles of Master of Plastic Arts and Superior 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 of his first individual exhibition, he has participated in numerous collective and individual exhibitions. He has won awards and honors in provincial and national halls, 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 follows the family mandate and studies economics. In 1980, he abandoned his diploma and went to Boston (United States), where he discovered photography. He studied at the New England School of Photography and participated in 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 the opening and management of the Photogalerie of the Rojas Cultural Center, a precursor space in the dialogue between photography and contemporary art, where photographers of the new generation and confirmed photographers carry out their first individual exhibitions. . In 2016 the publishing house Adriana Hidalgo published an anthology of her work. In 2018, a retrospective of his work took place at the Museum of Modern Art in Buenos Aires, an exhibition accompanied by a catalog book. In 2022, he received the Konex Award for Merit in Photography. He currently coordinates the labor 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. Fellow of the Fundación Antorchas Stimulus for Creation program (1993-1994) and Fundación Proa fellowship for training and development directed by Guillermo Kuitca (1994-1995). He participated in 2010 in “Entre Campos Mendoza” held at the ECA, directed by Fernando Castro Florez and Patricia Hakim. In 2010, he took part in 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 Art Fair Contemporary (Chile) in 2011, among other exhibitions. In 2012, he received the second prize for painting at the National Visual Arts Fair.
Pedro Roth (CABA)
He was born in Hungary in 1938. A graduate in Cinematography from the University of La Plata, he began his career as a photographer in 1960 and his career as a visual artist in 1973. He has held numerous exhibitions in Argentina and abroad. It has 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 Iberian Institute Latin American in Berlin and the Torteneti Museum in Budapest. He published the book Urban Thought and Rural Thought. He has participated in various artists’ collectives such as Cruz del Sur, Cantamessa, Borobio, Inchauspe and is currently part of the Estrella del Oriente collective. He has obtained numerous prizes and awards both in Argentina and abroad.
This award recognizes artists with a relevant career, over the age of 60 at the time of presentation, who have made a decisive contribution 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 prizes are part of a public policy made possible thanks to the collective effort of a community which 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 competition that takes place without interruption in the territory of our country and rewards the most representative works of Argentine contemporary art. To reinforce its federal and inclusive nature, the quotas of Participation of 50% of people residing outside the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, 50% female participation and 5% non-binary and transvestite/transvestite participation. In addition, the payment of transport costs for works selected by artists residing outside 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 reinforces the federal, accessible, diversified and inclusive character of this centenary artistic event.
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