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Maps of Memory

The project Maps of Memory was born in 2000, dynamic, each time with new works, has been exhibited in Switzerland (Lugano), Argentina (Buenos Aires, Tucumán), Italy (Pietrasanta) and France (Paris).
Initially the first map was the landscape of my grandparents'land, emigrated to Argentina, until it became a language that encompasses the personal and the collective.
I am fascinated by the content of the map and the cartography seems to me a fantastic world, full of an enormous symbolism. My idea was to create an almost anatomical metaphor for how our landscapes become part of our body and how our paths permeate our anatomy. So I found the metaphor of the river that becomes anteria or vein and mountains that become our muscles.

Gabriela Spector

Alexander

Plaster bandage and geographical maps - H 135 x W 58 [cm].

We live with the traces of our memory, with maps of our experiences. Those that tell our everyday lives, the streets that have marked our childhood and the cities we love. They tell of our journeys and our deepest emotional moments.

Gabriela Spector

Isa

Plaster bandage and geographical maps - H 135 x W 58 [cm].

In Hebrew sons we say banim, a word that comes from the verb boné, which means 'to build'.
According to tradition, it is the children who are called to finish the work begun by their parents. Completion is the duty of every generation. Gabriela takes on this task, a task that should be infinite. There is nothing more authentic to strengthen one’s identity than returning to the widely-held Promised Land. Maps of Memory, which the artist presents with his art, is a starting point and arrival.

Mirtha Shalom, writer, September 2010.

Catherine

Plaster bandage and geographical maps - H 135 x W 58 [cm].

Landscapes of transit to portray an identity in search of itself. Like the footprints we carry on our fingertips, each place we've lived retains a scent that can only be recognized there, when we return. Maps point the way to those unique, inalienable aromas.

Isabel

Plaster bandage and geographical maps - H 135 x W 58 [cm].

The artist seeks perfect integrations between the things of man and the things of nature.

Domenico Lucchini
(then Director of the Swiss Institute in Rome)

Wanderer

Cast in plaster bandages and maps. - H 150 x W 55 x D 25 [cm].

A research on man, on the inscrutable geographies of feelings, on the most hidden landscapes of the soul, on the paths of memory and emotions... Whether they are oils or sculptures, the artist seems to say, man is a pilgrim, always moving towards new destinations, new experiences of reason and spirit.

Lorenzo Madaro, Exibart

World of the Winds

Map - Oil on geographical map - H 178 x W 168 [cm].

In Greek mythology, Zeus gave Aeolus the power to control the winds which, according to Homer, were four: Boreas (north wind), Notus (south wind), Eurus (east wind) and Zephyrus (west wind). Depending on which of them blows, the compass points in different directions. The name Aeolus in Greek means swift, changeable. These adjectives are suited to describing not only the nature of the winds, but also the volatility of the human condition and how unpredictable it can be.

Balkans

Oil on geographical map - H 162 x W 132 [cm].

I intervene with figures that move continuously, that transform themselves. My first figures on the maps were loaded with the weight of uprootedness and nostalgia. I used Salgado's photographic images as inspiration, then I proposed another mode of immigration, where there is also a project, energy and construction. I used images by Mybridge on kinetic movement, from the end of the 800s, a study of a man who runs, who walks.

Gabriela Spector

Sweden Finland

Map - Oil on geographical map - H 189 x W 164 [cm].

Art always requires visible unrealities (…) The work that endures is always capable of an infinite and plastic ambiguity (…) it is a mirror that reveals the reader's features and is at the same time a map of the world.

Jorge Luis Borges

Europe The Fight

Map - Oil on geographical map - H 180 x W 210 [cm].

The most unbearable injustice is that which possesses arms, and man is naturally endowed with arms in the service of good sense and virtue, but he can use them for the most opposite things. Therefore, without virtue, he is the most impious and savage being, and the worst in his lust and gluttony.

Politics, Aristotle

Europe The Jump

Map - Oil on geographical map - H 180 x W 210 [cm].

The desire of those who live in Africa to jump into Europe.

Switzerland 4

Map - Oil on geographical map - H 185 x W 132 [cm].

These maps constitute, through fragments of stories or rather situations (memories, dreams, experiences, concepts), a pictorial universe in which the artist, but also the viewer, creates a new reinvented world of reason and heart.

Domenico Lucchini
(then Director of the Swiss Institute in Rome)

Upside-down world

Oil on geographical map - H 142 x W 218 [cm]

They Run to the Sun

Oil on geographical map - H 100 x W 100 [cm].

This work is part of a series of oil paintings on large original canvas maps and corresponds to one of the artist's most representative themes: travel, emigration and identity.

They Run to the Sun 2

Oil on geographical map - H 100 x W 100 [cm].

Ghosts

Oil on geographical map - H 120 x W 120 [cm].

The map looks at me, a dialogue takes place which I then transform, and there is a path there, there is movement there too, like the artistic one and like that of life.