The New Language of Salvadoran Art Automatic translate

The works of six artists who will represent Salvador at the Eighth Biennale of Visual Arts of Central America, which will be held in January 2013 in Panama, were shown these days in the Art Museum of the city of San Salvador.

Melissa Guevara - Untitled. Project No. 3

The change in the Salvadoran language of art is “the use of new methods and, as shown at this exhibition, this technology is very modern,” said Rodolfo Molina, one of the experts who selected six works by artists from El Salvador.

“Always hold paint and other traditional materials, but now we have video, interaction, sound and other things that were not there before,” said Molina, the coordinator who organizes exhibitions of Salvadoran artists.

One of the selected works is “Untitled. Project No. 3 ”by Melissa Guevara (“ Sin título. Proyecto # 3 ”), consisting of dozens of cranes made from all pages of the Bible, in the form of the letter S, accompanied by a video.

“Guevara is Catholic, but considers birds a symbol of peace according to Japanese tradition,” Priscilla Monge, an artist from Costa Rica, who is also a jury member, told the press. Also, new artistic techniques used in other works.

In addition, the sound is the main character of two works: “Evaluation of a test project by silence” by Kabistan Mauritius and “Untitled” by Danny Zavaleta.

Molina said the finalists are artists who have become “part of the panorama of contemporary art in El Salvador - a very representative one that will continue to play an important role in Central America. These works have a very poetic and metaphorical language. ”

“It was a poetic flow of energy, it made us fall in love with the work we chose,” said another jury member, Antonio Arevalo, who noted the growing presence of Latin American artists in international events such as the Venice Biennale.

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