MOLAA’S INAUGURAL LIVE ART AUCTION

LOT #21MARTA CHILINDRÓN (Argentina, b. 1951)Nine Triangles / Nueve triángulos, 2009Black, white and transparent acrylic with hinges9 x 18 x 9 in. (23 x 46 x 23 cm), upright, variableGift of the artist, courtesy of Cecilia de Torres, Ltd., New YorkPhotograph: Arturo SánchezEstimated price: $8,000-$12,000Marta Chilindrón’s work is an investigation of geometric and abstract forms, structure and movement, andmore recently, of natural forms in relation to the body in space. Early in her career she explored furniture inperspective and architectural spaces and planes, and in the early 1990s Chilindrón collaborated withconceptual artist Eduardo Costa in various projects which included a projection of a hand in differentcolors on buildings, titled Touched by Light, 1992. Chilindrón moved to the medium of acrylic and the useof color in the year 2000.Nine Triangles, 2009, is a small sculpture of acrylic and hinges that changes configuration, making flat trianglesor three-sided pyramids depending whether or not the sculpture is opened or closed. The transparencies ofthe color black become gray-toned as they overlap with the clear acrylic layers, working both in the pictorialrealm and as tridimensional sculptures as they become activated by the re-configurations.Chilindrón studied fine arts at the State University of New York in 1980 after having completed two summerinternships at the Camnitzer-Porter Studio in 1977-78. Selected exhibitions include: The Constructive Elan,Alejandra von Hartz, Miami, FL, 2010; Marta Chilindrón, Cecilia de Torres, New York, 2010; The Sites ofLatin American Abstraction, CIFO, Miami, and MOLAA, Long Beach, 2009; The Last Days of Summer,Alejandra von Hartz, Miami, 2008; and Sculptures, Dot Galerie, Geneva, Switzerland, 2001. Chilindrónlives and works in New York.23