Laura Braverman
Eugenio Dittborn:marcas Primordiales
Las rutas aéreas que toman las Pinturas Aeropostales para llegar a diferentes lugares del mundo a menudo han sido representadas en los catálogos del artista como líneas que atraviesan la superficie de la Tierra. “En el mapa del mundo,” señala Dittborn, “esta circulación es como una escritura a gran escala: estas pinceladas multi kilométricas y multicolores son pintura que cuelga del cielo.”
Primordial Marks.eugenio Dittborn’s Recent Airmail Paintings in New York
While the recent works by Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn retain many of the hallmark features of prior «Airmail Paintings», the ones currently exhibited at Alexander and Bonin in New York are marked by multi-chromaticity and the incorporation of dynamic bars of color, which imbue the work with a strong aesthetic presence. Here we share an essay by Laura Braverman, published by Alexander and Bonin to accompany the exhibition. In it, she delves into the pre-writing strokes («palotes») that are a pervasive pictorial mark in this series, a key feature that also appears to echo many of the conceptual and poetical themes that have become central to Dittborn’s «Airmail Paintings».