NEWSLETTER Nº 17

July 2022  

Editorial

The months advance and the world continues its course; wars continue even if they are removed from the front pages, exiles grow in number and adversity, famines deepen and spread, global warming manifests itself in various traumatic ways, and the pandemic is hardly talked about. In this perverse cocktail that involves our planet, we are willing to find beauty in its most varied expressions.


What kind of madness drives us to follow this route? Perhaps it is not even worth delving into this unknown. The truth is that we do it convinced and passionate. From Hilario, every month, we build this hopeful breath with the support of an orchestra of specialists, and with the tenacity of you readers who follow us and join us.


In this installment we bring you new expert views: Cecilia García Huidobro investigates the Golden Lion she won for Cecilia Vicuña at the 2022 Venice Biennale; María Elena Babino wisely approached the artistic practices of Alfredo González Garaño at the beginning of the 20th century; Guillermo Palombo introduces us to one of the most qualified specialists in Argentine Creole horsemanship, Justo P. Sáenz (h), and Carlos Fernández Balboa investigates the literary creations of Guillermo E. Hudson, while Enrique Taranto and Teresita Donadío share impressions and reflections of his last trip through Catamarca, land of weavers, and the architect Ramón Gutiérrez comments on a piece of news that makes the Catholic flock happy. Lastly, whoever writes these lines, once again addresses the figure of Alfredo González Garaño, this time from his lineage as a collector and benefactor of public heritage.


Each delivery requires a maturation time, it is easy to understand. Right now we are working on the texts that we will publish in the coming months and it also happens to us that some ideas are shipwrecked before reaching a good port. In that somewhat random game, this publication is built and emerges, without a doubt, as part of that chaos that governs the world. We made it available to find beauty in a gesture, in an act... around every corner.


Roberto Vega Andersen


THE VOICE OF EXPERTS
THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

Justo P. Sáenz (s) and the Creole world.

By Guillermo Palombo *

A passionate student of the customs and traditions of the rural environment, Justo P. Sáenz (s) was the author of a masterpiece of the Creole tradition, Gaucho Riding in the Pampas and Mesopotamia. We present here details of his life and of this noble project through the pen of historian Guillermo Palombo.

 

In Hilario's online auction number twenty, scheduled for the end of July, we include a large part of his coastal message, a treasure for lovers of Argentine equestrian arts.






THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

Algunos apuntes sobre Alfredo González Garaño.

By María Elena Babino *

Alfredo González Garaño (1886-1969) was part of a circle of artists, writers and cultural promoters who left an indelible mark on Argentine art and culture.


From the hand of María Elena Babino, we will learn about his artistic ties and his passion for travel, shared by his wife, María Teresa Ayerza.


The author, attracted by a set of works that belonged to the collection of Alfredo González Garaño, and that Hilario includes in the next online auction, immerses herself in these testimonies about which, among other judgments, she points out: “certain gestures typical of the avant-garde that have to do with experimentation on the image, what the surrealists would call years later "exquisite corpses".


THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

Cecilia Vicuña: From the precarious to the transcendental.

By Cecilia García Huidobro *

The director of the Violeta Parra Museum in Santiago (Chile) introduces us to the life story of the trans-Andean artist who has just won the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Biennale. And she, with her expert voice, traces the binding lines between Cecilia Vicuña and the unforgettable Violeta Parra: "Today, the two meet at the Venice Art Biennale. In the general exhibition, three of Violeta Parra's arpilleras and a complete room for Cecilia Vicuña (...)"

 

“Cecilia Vicuña lived her childhood surrounded by books and art -says García Huidobro-, in a family of artists where creating was part of everyday life. Her house was on the outskirts, in a farm with ditches, animals and plants. Today the neighborhood of La Florida is densely built and with a large population. That freedom to wander around her, in her condition as a "girl", (...) ”

THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

William Henry Hudson, a lighthouse towards literature.

By Carlos Fernández Balboa *

At the time of publishing this article, we are about to go through the first centenary of the death of William Henry Hudson who went into silence on August 18, 1922. Perhaps it is time to remember him as Rabindranath Tagore did, the Hindu, who He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913. As soon as he set foot in the port of Buenos Aires in December 1924, he asked the journalist for the newspaper La Nación Carlos Alberto Leumann to tell him about one of "his favorite writers, the Argentine Guillermo Enrique Hudson." As happens today to a large part of Argentines, our compatriot had to admit his ignorance on the subject and hastily consulted Victoria Ocampo. The director of Sur, also declared herself incompetent in the matter, but she resorted to one of her main advisers, "Georgie".



THE VOICE OF EXPERTS

Catamarca, Baluarte of the weaving trade.

By Enrique Taranto and Teresita Donadío. *

In the midst of the National Poncho Festival (July 15 to 24, 2022), in the city of Catamarca, we venture with the expert gaze of the Taranto - Donadío couple into the roots of their telera tradition.

 

How is Catamarca not going to have the textile culture that it boasts -the authors wonder-, if it was traversed a thousand times by the Incas who inhabited its soil more than six centuries ago, as evidenced by the remains located in El Shinkal and the Pucara of Aconquija? Tupac Inca, tenth monarch of the dynasty, incorporated northwestern Argentina and Cuyo to the southernmost of the four regions of Tahuantinsuyo, the so-called Collasuyo, with the consequent phenomenon of transculturation in textile art, which the Incas had in turn received and reformulated from much older civilizations like that of Tihuanaco, for example. On top of this cultural amalgam, the great initiatory impulse of the new textile crafts of Catamarca arrived with the Spaniards; with its horizontal pedal looms, with its sheep and fundamentally, with its needs.


TIPS
TIPS

Caseros. La batalla de la organización nacional.

Editorial Sudamericana. Buenos Aires. 2022.

 

Quarto (22.8 x 15.6 cm), 281 pages. Publisher's illustrated binding.

 

What happened in the battle of Caseros between the forces loyal to the governor of Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas, and the so-called Great Army under the command of General Justo José de Urquiza from Entre Ríos? Just under forty-five thousand combatants and barely half a thousand dead speak of a "strange" battle, when the cavalry and infantry charges were frontal and caused havoc.





TIPS

Monumentos Históricos Nacionales de la República Argentina. Provincias de Jujuy, Salta, Catamarca, La Rioja, Santiago del Estero y Tucumán. AAVV.

Quarto (26 x 18.1 cm), 600 pages. Publisher's binding on 300 gr matte illustration paper.

 

An important contribution to the study and preservation of Argentine cultural heritage, this is part of a series that began with the two volumes dedicated to the city of Buenos Aires and continued with two others that include the heritage of the provinces of Buenos Aires, Córdoba and Santa Fe. The first four volumes, already online, on the website of the National Commission for Historic Monuments, Places and Assets.



NEWS AND MORE
NEWS AND MORE

El cuadro del jujeño Pedro Ortiz de Zárate, el nuevo Beato de la iglesia católica

By Ramón Gutiérrez *

“We researchers have had the experience that works that are very interesting for our work -explains the architect Ramón Gutiérrez- are located far from the places where they should naturally be in accordance with their administrative circulation or the space of geographical belonging that would correspond to them. Twenty-five years ago we made the discovery in the church of Santa Clara in Bogotá (Colombia) of a 17th-century canvas dedicated to Pedro Ortiz de Zárate, assassinated in our northwest, which constitutes an exceptional document that surely belonged to a series of evangelizing missionaries.”

 

That fortuitous encounter with a painting of the Jujuy martyr now acquires a special relevance, he has just been beatified by the Church together with the Jesuit Antonio Solinas and 18 indigenous and Creole people who were massacred on that occasion.


COLLECTORS, STORIES AND ANECDOTES
COLLECTORS, STORIES AND ANECDOTES

La estirpe de un coleccionista, Alfredo González Garaño.

By Roberto Vega Andersen

He was born in 1886 and together with his brothers Celina (1884 – 1963) and Alejo (1877 – 1946), he cultivated the pleasure of collecting works of art and antiques in general, being a scholar who transcended the mere pleasure of gathering beautiful and rare pieces. As a young man he professed his inclination for the arts, training as a painter with the master Reynaldo Giudici in Buenos Aires, and with Hermenegildo Anglada Camarasa in Paris and later in Mallorca.

 

Passionate, throughout his life - he died in 1969 - he committed himself to the development of important Argentine cultural institutions; he was part of his board of directors, donated works from his personal heritage, curated exhibitions (...)


COLLECTING IS AN ART AND A PASSION

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