Michelle Sabaj
09/10/2021 4:53 PM
Clarín.com
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Updated 09/10/2021 4:53 PM
Between the reduction of the ticket in the
Tren de la Costa
in order to urbanize it and the reforms that were carried out in the
Maipú
and
Delta stations
-both heads of the branch- to improve the quality of service and the comfort of passengers, the line that runs through four municipalities in the northern suburbs has been in the news in recent months. Now, a new intervention by the plastic artist
Alejandro Marmo has
arrived at the transport to beautify the
Vicente López
station
and pay tribute to a great musician.
It is a sculpture whose protagonist is
Gustavo Cerati.
The work, which shows the singer's face between black lines and flashes of light, was inaugurated in
Puente Maipú
on Saturday 4, the day that commemorated the seventh anniversary of his death.
The intervention was in charge of Alejandro Marmo, a plastic artist born in Tres de Febrero who has already left his footprints - or rather his hands - in various corners of the country.
Some of his most recognized works are: La
Evita
in the Ministry of Public Works, the face of
Arturo Jauretche
on Avenida 9 de Julio or the emblematic figure of
Charly García in
front of the Vélez Sarsfield court, among others.
On Saturday 4, in tribute to a new anniversary due to the death of Gustavo Cerati, an artistic piece with his face was inaugurated.
It is in Puente Maipú, a station that connects the Retiro-Miter branch and also the Tren de la Costa
The artistic piece is two meters high by two and a half wide and maintains an iron aesthetic, similar to other works that Marmo made previously.
In addition, the tribute is paid a few blocks from Tapiales street, almost on the corner of Hipólito Yrigoyen, where Cerati lived from 2008 and
became a regular in the northern neighborhood.
The proposal for the work came from the artist from the western area, who had already worked with this aesthetic in other train stations such as "El Abrazo" in Retiro and who also presented the idea to the president of Argentine Trains, Martín Marinucci .
The initiative was also linked to the renovation of the Maipú station.
For his part, the manager of the Miter line, Iván Kildoff, said: "It is an honor for Argentine Trains to be able to interact with culture and use the spaces that we are leaving again to express art"
The tribute is made at the station that is located in the municipality of Vicente López, a few blocks from Tapiales street where Cerati lived for a time.
Regarding the work of execution that the sculptures can take him, Marmo expresses that there is no physical time.
"It is relative and it is spoken in a more abstract way. It almost always happens that ideas are present much earlier, but the time it takes to realize them is different, it is invisible"
And he adds:
"The characters, such as Eva, Charly García, Spinetta, are already installed long before the artistic sculpture itself because they are symbols of the country.
The only thing I do is capture those invisible postcards and defend that idea through art. , of the poetic ".
For this reason, the artist defines himself as a
transformer of the living room of the people
and not as a political or religious follower who takes over the works because of his ideologies.
"Here the popular is reflected, that is, to capture social emotion. I am not a Catholic, but I also agreed to work in the Vatican to leave the symbol of the Virgin of Luján.
I believe in the popular as an aesthetic language"
Alejandro Marmo is the author of the Evita Murals installed in the historic MOSP building on 9 de Julio.
His first steps in the trade began in the late 1990s when the country's productive system was being dismantled.
"At that time I was an emerging artist of the conurbation and a group of workers who were unemployed began to transform waste from factories into a metaphor of hope and
build human beauty"
.
So it was that little by little, he began to know what captivated the people of each place where he worked and also himself.
"It's already been 25 years of being on the street, of transforming spaces into art. I always say that
works have that ability to transmit like an iron social network."
His first artistic pieces, which symbolize one of the most traditional cultural postcards of the country and of Avenida 9 de Julio itself, are the two murals by Eva Perón that orient the north and south of the city.
The work was inaugurated in 2011 and Marmo details that "it was not an easy job because it was a heritage building and there were several political decisions before carrying them out.
At that time I created the new postcard of that avenue and for me it was to resignify the history of the 20th century "
Gustavo Cerati in Maipu
Currently the plastic artist, together with his work team, are about to place a new sculpture of the singer of
Soda Stereo
in the Obras stadium located on Avenida Libertador.
"What is characteristic of the Cerati at the Maipú station is that it is closer to the people so that they can stop and see it in more detail."
The objective of placing the artistic piece by Gustavo Cerati in the Obras stadium, together with other great artists from the Argentine musical world such as Mercedes Sosa, María Gabriela Epumer or Luis Alberto Spinetta is to bring the concept of those melodies that sounded in the '80s .
"The idea is that all those who passed through the stadium, have a space in some of those walls. There are already two, but we are going for more," he concludes.
Another of the emblematic works that Marmo has worked in our country was that of Charly García.
It is currently in the warehouses of Ferrocarriles Argentinos next to the Vélez Sarsfield field Photo: Rafael Mario Quinteros - FTP CLARIN RMQ_7977.JPG Z
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