Claudia Aranovich is an Argentinean artist. However, she reminds us of our commonly shared ties to nature, ties that are not confined according to national boundaries, and creates a body of work that is diverse, yet universal in its meaning. Her latest sculptures either incorporate or are realized in translucent resins, a material that can be molded or poured in layers. In a metaphorical sense, it allows the artist “to create organic masses that could appear as a sea of amniotic liquid where memories may be found floating…” In Rupture, one of her more powerful pieces. Aranovich has combined a hard-edged geometric form of steel with a resin interior that protrudes from one end. It appears that the clear portion is being revealed, and through its light and energy is dissolving and destroying the constricting metal encasement. Aranovich is well recognized as a leading contemporary artist in her native county. She has participated in more than one hundred and forty group exhibitions in museums, art centers and galleries in Europe, South and Central America, and the United States during the past twenty years. She was also invited to the IV and VI Biennials of Havana, Cuba, held in 1991 and 1997, and to the 1st Biennial of Buenos Aires held last year. One of her highly regarded and significant public works is the Mankind Monument built in Resistencia, Argentina, in 1994. Aranovich has been the recipient of many awards and grants including a Pollock-Krasner grant in 1994, and Fundación Asntorchas grants in 1995 and 1999/2000. In 1999, she was the artist-in-residence at the Kent Institute of Art & Design in Canterbury, England, and at the Villa Montalvo Center in California. Aranovich also served a residency in the spring of 2001 at Sculpture Space in Utica, New York, where she made Rupture. | | 
Rupture, 2001
welded steel, fiberglass
28" x 18" x 112"
Courtesy of The Sculpture Foundation, Inc.
Photo: David Steele |
