Art Synchronization between Sculpture and Poetry

By Susana Quiroga

On October 3 a presentation took place at the Isaac Fernández Blanco Museum of Spanish- American Art consisting of an excellent double art event involving Sculpture and Poetry: Sculpture by Marta Díez, Poetry by Rubén Vela. The exhibition showed a united esthetic view from these acknowledged artists, who resort to different ways of expression. When art is complemented and its meaning widened, as in this case, we are surrounded by an emblematic vision causing an impact on both our senses and our intellect. Referring to Marta Díez equals mentioning a paintress and sculptress from Tucumán who travelled the world in search of ancestral concepts of man summarized in the masks and sculptures she created. Many prizes attest to the quality of her work. Rubén Vela must be mentioned as a poet, essayist, and art critic. As a diplomat, he represented Argentina in Bolivia, Brasil, Spain, Costa Rica, Corea and Zaire. As a poet, he is a man celebrating the world and the man from America in a book with social and human value. Two intense ways of approach have met in order to display at a hall and in a book with splendid illustrations, through sculptures and poems in Spanish and English, a cultural esthetic event reaching every art lover. Marta Díez said, “The empty eyes of masks looking at a void have caused in me an obssession with finding out what was behind them.” Several different rituals and divinities from far-away civilizations, both geographically and culturally, may be found in these masks and sculptures, as is the case with Egyptian, Mayan, Andean, African and Venetian civilizations, which include night birds, shamans and serpents, every one of them sustained by a memory of fascinating anthropological content stirring our admiration as well as the will to unveil and learn. I believe It would be interesting to those admiring such intense works to have the authoress tell about the varied knowledge contained in each piece. The research carried out transcends the work itself and requires being revealed in order to nourish us. This was mentioned to Marta Díez and to poet Rubén Vela as well, at a meeting where once again we were moved by their generous presence, friendship and poetry. Art synchronization, two in-depth views. Masks and Poetry, weapons and traces of man desiring to express himself creatively from various stances of Art.
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Susana Quiroga. Co-director of the Literary Page, "Pregon" newspaper Jujuy, as of 2001. She is a Maember of Honour to the Argentine Foundation for Poetry, Buenos Aires.