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Rosario Arostegui and Carolina Boettner

Rosario Arostegui (Buenos Aires) is a visual artist. After graduating from the University of Buenos Aires she continued her studies in the USA. In 1995 she moved to Germany. Currently, she works at her atelier in Basis e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany. Her work is a process of personal exploration and questioning. She is inspired by human nature: man’s constant confrontation with himself, and his desire in finding a balance when facing a world in constant transformation and in which the ephemeral predominates. Arostegui deconstructs and reconstructs to obtain poetic images and objects in order to reach a spiritualy introspection and silence. Her works were exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, among them the IntaKt-Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2021), Basis, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2019) and the Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016). Carolina Boettner (Buenos Aires, 1980) is a transdisciplinary artist who placed her interest on a deconstructive attitude towards reality. In her audiovisual works she reveals the reasons for our reality interpretations while dismantling them and exposing their deception of enslavement and salvation. Boettner has graduated the Film School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, FADU), obtained a DAAD scholarship to study at the Städelschule (Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste) in Frankfurt am Main, where she obtained the certificate of Arts Meisterschüler, in 2010. Shortly before, she was invited to participate in the Master Program of the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba. Her works have been exhibited in international festivals around te world, among them the Paraflows XI - Identidad, the Vienna Digital Arts Festival, NodeCCS in Caracas, Miami New Media festival (2017) and the III International Biennial of Video Art and Animation, Puebla, Mexico (2018). She received several awards such as the First Prize for Visual Arts at the FunkaFest Festival, Guayaquil, Ecuador (2016). Carolina Boettner is co-founder and general coordinator of FlussLab, an interdisciplinary residency as a platform for traditional practices and innovation processes, based in Berlin and Buenos Aires. Her activity is developed both individually and in collaboration with other artists, always looking for interdisciplinary crossings.
Rosario Arostegui and Carolina Boettner

Works

Rosario Arostegui

Rizoma corte Lateral I, 2022, analog negatives, yarn, 50 x60x4 cm

In 2021 Rosario participated in the Postgraduate Program in Contemporary Art at UNSAM, Argentina. Her first biography was the Rhizome: diversity, openness, new paths, non-linear thinking, relevant themes that are being explored in all different areas not only in the visual arts. Deleuze and Guattari write, Rhizomes are multiplicities, strata and segmentations and vanishing lines, organs that grow indefinitely.
Continuing with the use of film, analog negatives and recycled material, this series explores the rupture of space through the crossing of materials, ideas and techniques.

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