MOLAA’S INAUGURAL LIVE ART AUCTION

LOT #25EUGENIA CALVO (Argentina, b. 1976)Sin título / Untitled, 2010Digital print, ed. 1/5 + 1AP17 3/4 x 23 1/2 in (45 x 60 cm)Gift of the artist and Alejandra von Hartz Gallery, MiamiEstimated price: $1,500-$2,500Since the early 2000s, Eugenia Calvo’s work has been characterized by the use of photography and videoin order to deconstruct iconographies of domesticity and bourgeois taste, which are associated with the constructionof a fixed notion of femininity. The disruption that the artist creates consists in the rearrangement of domesticobjects in the form of stacking furniture to make their purpose useless, such as in Barricadas, 2005 or tocut an object until it is rendered dysfunctional as seen in Juego de dormitorio, 2006. In the series of photographsGardening, 2004, the artist produced life size photographs of flowery sheets that she has folded which modifiesand interrupts the designs of the flower patterns. In the Series Enthusiasm and Generosity, 2007, Calvointerrupts decorated domestic interiors characterized by floral designs on the wall paper and bourgeoisfurniture, with large mounds of dirt, sand or stones, thus creating a strong contrast between the controlledartificiality of the interiors and the chaotic and implausible destruction of the natural elements.Her Untitled photograph from 2010 belongs to the series Supervivencia y reproducción, where domesticsettings are transformed by carefully arranging furniture in space into abstract compositions of planes of color,patterns and shapes. The planes, which at first appear to be abstract forms, we later realize are arrangementsof furniture in a domestic setting. Here the decorative nature of flowery patterns in bed and wall paper becomesabsurdly flat and modern by losing their accustomed decorative and homey connotations.Calvo studied fine arts at the School of Humanities of the Universidad Nacional de Rosario, Argentina and laterstudied photography at the Centro de Estudios de Cataluña in Spain. Selected exhibitions include: Sabotaje enel Macro, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina, 2011; In Transition, CIFO, Miami, 2010; Survivaland Reproduction, DPM Gallery, Guayaquil, Ecuador, 2010; The Prevailing Forces, 713 Gallery, Buenos Aires,2009; Violences, El Museo del Barrio, New York, 2007; and El Método Tradicional, Juan B. Castagnino MunicipialMuseum of Fine Arts, Rosario, Argentina, 2003. Calvo lives and works in Rosario.27