“Diario Derrota” by Artist Martin Kazanietz
Born in Buenos Aires and raised in Common Pico, La Pampa, artist Martin Kazanietz has devoted years of his apply to creating work about novice futbol tradition. His present exhibition, “Diaro Derrota,” consists of 11 work about his each day relationship to futbol and basketball, and the way these sports activities manifest South American social commentary.
“I couldn’t assist to consider this being my first solo present within the US, and my consumption of North America’s urge to compete and win,” Kazanietz says. “In Latin America and in my case, Argentina, we’re extra closely associated to loss and defeat. We’ve skilled political and financial domination by the North and West and their try at cultural dominance as nicely. I ponder if that is most likely why we now have thicker pores and skin in terms of disaster, and I additionally marvel if defeat may very well be regarded as one thing extra human, because it’s one thing all of us expertise commonly.”
“Diario Derrota” is on view by way of June thirtieth at ALLCITY in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. See extra beneath!
