Florencia Böhtlingk, the Argentine artist who presented her intimate diary with nature at ARCO

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In the cycle of conversations organized by Ñ, Clarín's cultural magazine, as part of the celebrations for its 1,000th edition and 20 years of weekly publications, its general editor, Matilde Sánchez, spoke with the Argentine artist Florencia Böhtlingk,

work He came to ARCO thanks to the Buenos Aires gallery

.

In ARCO's Speakers' Corner, Sánchez postulated that Böhtlingk's paintings discover

The artist agreed.

“In '92 I began to travel to Misiones.

, I was beginning to do therapy at that time.

a current where the landscape is dominant, and nature immediately struck me, ”she recounted.

“I was stunned.

It was a meeting of the world of art history, which I had been following, and nature.

,” she added.

Florencia Böhtlingk spoke with Matilde Sánchez at the Ñ Magazine stand at ARCOmadrid.

Photo Clarin.

And so it was that he began to train his own gaze on that landscape: “When I get closer to the jungle, I see that total chaos: in the jungle everything gets tangled up, everything is on top of each other.

It is difficult to distinguish one thing from the other.

Then

, even if it is in painting”, explained Böhtlingk.

But he clarified: “It is key to know that, when one is painting, that is not nature.

It's a painting.

The inspiration, the desire, the painting is about nature but it is of the order of the pictorial, of the artistic”.

He emphasized it because not having this concept present brings, for Böhtlingk, frustration.

“If I wanted to copy, possess, represent, it would be impossible…

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They are two different worlds, ”he stressed.

“How would you define psychedelia in your work, taking into account that the original was associated with an expansion of the senses?” Matilde Sánchez wanted to know.

"Studying the bamboo cane, the ferns, getting into the veining of the leaves, I begin to decipher that landscape and the landscape asks me - the artist described it -.

You get out of the green and there begins a psychedelia that arises from observing nature.”

Fabiola Yañez together with the artist Florencia Böhtlingk and the gallery owners Silvina Pirraglia and Herminda Lahitte de Hache.

Photo Clarin

And he recounted an experience: “After doing certain types of very psychedelic paintings of nature, I came across a very old tradition in Brazil of Amazonian painting that has nothing to do with Western canons,” he said.

This painting depicts the visions produced by ingesting ayaguasca”.

Sánchez was interested in delving into the way in which Böhtlingk harmonizes the vegetal universe that he paints with the geometric.

He replied: “Within the pictorial language I began to find that geometry is very powerful.

And I began to put geometric patterns on the painting,” he pointed out.

It was at a time when the formality of the landscape tired me, bored me, and I wanted to look for another optic that was not the formalism of the painting.

Then I got hooked on geometry and began to order in a different way.

I no longer painted according to formal representation or following the canons of the West”.

“I still have the vision that if there is no explanation it is art, and if there is an explanation it is not art”,

summarized Böhtlingk.

“It can be outdated.

But for me, art is that terrain where there is no explanation”.

Madrid.

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