Who is the Mendoza artist who had lunch alone with Alberto Fernández and the President's reaction

Roxana Badaloni

06/15/2021 6:00 AM

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Updated 06/15/2021 6:00 AM

A personalized guided tour of the Casa Rosada gallery.

A meeting alone to have lunch and talk about Argentine art.

This is how the Mendoza plastic artist

Florencia Aise (37) describes

her meeting with President Alberto Fernández, last Friday, which she later shared on her social networks.

“It was more than two hours.

We did not know each other personally but we had been

talking on WhatsApp for several months

.

The President received a painting of mine on his visit to Mendoza during the Harvest (March 6) and that same night he wrote to thank me ”, Aise tells

Clarín

, back at her home in the city of Mendoza.

The hyperrealism painter, who works with images that show her essence linked to nature, grapes, wine, and her two daughters as inspiration, managed to get the highest Argentine authority to

know and praise her work.

"The honorable President of the Argentine Nation invited me to be part of the Argentine-Mendoza artistic entrance to the world. We are going to

take our works around the world

 and show our precious Mendoza, as we always did, and it was always thanks to the support of you, "Aise posted on her Instagram account.

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A photo of her in the presidential office gives more details of the meeting with the president, on Friday, June 11, after noon: "And in this photo I show @alferdezok chivalrous in every way. Thank you for this and thank you all! "wrote the painter.

The image shows Aise

sitting in Rivadavia's chair

, in the presidential seat and, standing next to her, Alberto Fernández poses.

“He offered me to sit in his chair.

The photo was taken by Ana, the President's private secretary

,

”he

explains.

Aise is an industrial designer, specialized in graphics, graduated from the National University of Cuyo.

She has been a 20-year career as a painter.

He has exhibited in art galleries in New York, Miami, Mexico, Barcelona and Rome.

In July

his work will be exhibited at the Arco Madrid art fair.

He has two daughters, has traveled extensively and lived in Miami, where he consolidated his career.

He says that he is not interested in politics and that he had never been to the Casa Rosada, until his life crossed that of the President.

Florencia Aise, the medoncina artist who had lunch alone with President Alberto Fernández.

At the last Harvest Festival, the governor of Mendoza presented Alberto Fernández with a painting by Florencia Aise. It is a 35 x 30 painting made in oil and silver on canvas, which reproduces in a hyper-realistic way

a bunch of Malbec grape.

The president met in a post by the artist who had made the work and wrote to her. Since that weekend in March,

communication between the Mendoza artist and the president continued on WhatsApp

. “Even when I got to the Casa Rosada, I didn't know if I had written to him or to someone else. I was waiting at the door because the guards wouldn't let me in. Suddenly, I saw the helicopter descending and there the president answered my message ”, says Aise.

It was difficult for the painter to enter.

"Come to me with the policemen," he says Fernández told him;

But the Casa Rosada custodians did not believe the woman who claimed that it was the President himself who was going to speak to them to authorize her to enter.

They did not want to answer the phone.

In the end, Fernández sent one of his employees to look for Florencia at the entrance.

"Until I saw him in his office, I didn't think he was going to have lunch with Alberto," the woman admits.

The painting that the Mendoza artist Florencia Aise gave to President Alberto Fernández.

Why do you think the President invited you to lunch?

He knew my paintings.

It seems to me that my way of being caught his attention.

It was the first time I went.

When I entered I went crazy with the paintings and sculptures of the Casa Rosada. We took a tour of the Evita room, the Women's room, the Bicentennial museum and

we stopped to analyze the Siqueiros mural

.

He invited me to lunch in his dining room, in the room that was former President Perón's office.

What did you talk about?

The President is interested and knows a lot about art and it impressed me.

He was very gentleman

;

"It is a pleasure to meet people like you, you are sincere and more interesting than I thought," she told me.

We talk a lot about the family, the children, the history with their father ... And the most difficult thing is when you see that at some point the children have a life of their own.

The meeting took place the day after the controversial phrase in which he said "the Argentines came from the ships, the Mexicans came from the Indians and the Brazilians from the jungle."

How was the President in the mood?

Physically I saw him better, more relaxed, better in person than when I saw him in images.

He took some calls but you could tell that he was really

enjoying the moment we were having

.

During the tour, he showed me a painting of the Conquest of the Desert and commented: "This same painting I showed the President of Spain."

It was the only reference to everything that had happened.

Do you consider yourself a friend of the President?

Yes, we have a friendship, a deal.

I would like us to bring Argentine art to the world.

I have no political inclination, we do not talk about politics.

Where is the painting with a bunch of grapes that you gave her displayed?

He told me that he is in the Quinta de Olivos.

That he hung it next to his guitars, in an ecological house that (former president Mauricio) Macri built with disposable bottles because that place had nothing on the walls.

Does the president know about wines?

He says he is a bad wine drinker and, therefore, prefers white wine.

We didn't drink wine for lunch and she asked me how a woman from Mendoza could not drink wine.

For the hour, I preferred water.

But I brought him as a gift a wine made by my uncle (the great winemaker Mariano Di Paola), a Rutini Anthology, and an orange and saffron liqueur for Fabiola (Yañez), his wife.

There was one more gift from the plastic artist for the President. Aise gave him a

handmade keychain

, with the colors of the Argentine Flag, made by the painter's 10-year-old daughter. In gratitude, Fernández

agreed to film a video for the little girl:

“Oh spectacular. What a nice gift you gave me María Jesús! I love the keychain. I'm going to put my keys in here, I promise. I thank you. I send you a big kiss for your mom. I hope you're well! “, The President dedicated to the girl.

The meeting lasted more than two hours. After 4pm on Friday, the artist left Casa Rosada. Aise asked if she could share the photos of her visit on the networks, and obtained the consent of Fernández. Based on this approach and her friendship with Fernández, the Mendoza artist is confident that she will be able to advance in her project of "spreading Argentine art abroad and Mendoza's art in the country."

His post on Instagram received hundreds of "likes" and several comments from detractors who criticize the praise that the artist made about the president.

Aise responds: "I am an artist and I do not want to enter into the debate of 'You are K, You are from the Pro, You are not K', etc. I will always remember the moment I spent with the President of the Nation and I feel honored and proud.

He was an incredible host, a gentleman ”

, she says proudly.

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