Packages of potato chips and other delicacies on Enrique Larreta’s desk

Simultaneously with Adolf Methfessel. The scientific painterthe meticulous exposition in the Larreta Museumit was inaugurated Minimal interventions II. The expo, which is part of a cycle inaugurated in 2023, brings together three female artists who, with their works, occupied the room where Enrique Larreta had his desk; right there in the labyrinthine garden.

Conceived “to establish a dialogue between works of contemporary art and the permanent collection without obstructing the route, so that the visitor encounters contemporary works that ‘discover’ them and refer them to themes, techniques, visual approaches in relation to a collection of previous centuries. I always try to show different proposals: different artists, with different visions, who turn the place into something else,” according to Ñ its curator and owner of the museum, Delfina Helguera. Her chosen ones work in different formats: the photographer Andrea Alkalay; the ceramist Alita Olivari and the visual artist Luciana Rondolini.

The ceramics camouflage themselves with the environment, the paintings combine and the intervened potato chip packets They stand out scattered with other objects from solid wood antique library shelves and even resting next to the bust of a head.

Olivari intervenes in the display case where there are Talavera ceramics. Take and subverts traditional models and motifs in pieces where he prints a universe of his own images that refer to childhood, popular art and fantastic stories. The works emerge from the most varied sources, the ovals are heads with a plant each, a Alocasia Odora (elephant ear) and a Sprekelia (Fleur de lis), the duo william It is a tribute to the Scottish architect William Morrisand the library piece – a kind of vase – emerged from a poem of his own.

Alkalay exhibits three photographs of the Kutho seriesmade in Burma and based on their concept of merit. He covers his photos with gold sheets following an ancient Buddhist tradition in Indochina, where sacred relics are covered in a quest for the soul’s ascension, towards a better reincarnation. Exclusive activity for men since women are considered impure and do not collaborate in this process.

Rondolini makes a “quite irreverent” intervention with painted potato chip packets, says Helguera and adds that her oil paintings on bags taken as a support “express a cry of resistance, she tells us that despite everything you can continue painting.” In a country with constant economic crises, “Rondolini not only appropriates waste to turn it into something meaningful but puts a value system in check where painting is considered the most expensive technique in the art market. His work They criticize superficiality, supposed glamor and consumption rampant supply of high-end products that must then be replaced by newer ones. By placing them here the public will be able to make their own reading, that is the challenge.”