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EdUARdO PLA
Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Achille Bonito Oliva
 LOs ParaLeLOs DeL mUNDO
SCULPTURE, PUNTA DEL ESTE, URUgUAY
www.eduardopla.com.ar
REFLECTIONS AND TRANSPARENCIES OF ART
Eduardo Pla’s project for the tenth edition of OPEN, the International Exhibition of Sculpture and
Installations, is inspired by a permanent sculpture, installed this January in the city of Punta del
Este to mark the centenary of its foundation. The sculpture is made of parallel metal planes into
which bursts a sphere that looms over the permanent imminence of the plane.
The idea of the work that is to be installed at Lido reproposes this rupture of space, but in this
case the material used and a few changes made to the surface of the sphere aim to represent
the importance of transparency and luminosity that goes beyond the spherical concept. In
choosing glass as the basic material and light
as the support that represents the work,
the implied idea is to redeem earthly poetry
from its obscure contemporary status. Pla’s
work is typically convoluted, in the mannerist
sense of the term which, through the
elegance of the image, presents the artist’s
melancholy universe, always veined with the
sense of increasing mental doubt and with
existential attention. Pla’s open-air sculpture
follows a thread of intentional lightness that
aims to pass through feelings and establish
the precariousness of a moving significance
in the awareness of the spectator. while art
traditionally disconcerts and frightens the
beholder by altering present meanings, the
art of Edoardo Pla tries to drive out such easy,
apocalyptic ghosts, which produce only a
shock to the emotions, and to open a door
in knowledge.
The modern “absurd” of Edoardo Pla lies in
the acceptance of a constituent absurdity of
things which leads him not to force the image
with material impetus, but rather to organise
it, backing up that residue of inexplicability
of art which corresponds to that of life. But
whereas life sometimes places man in a
state of siege to attempt rationalisation,
artistic creation replaces this attempt with
the possibility of an interpretation that
always respects the unexplainable rest. To
keep up this duality, Pla shifts the clarity of
this concept into the gleam of the image,
he adopts objects in a design without flesh where visual naming does not replace things but
reproduces a suspicion of them. In this way art is not a dogmatic and assertive practice, it
relinquishes the role of a strong refoundation of reality to assume the one that reminds us of
the transient sense of appearance and, at the same time, the definitive role of the conceptual
grid that supports it.
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