A SHORT STORY OF PAIN. ARNALDO CRISTALDO AT MUSEO DEL BARRO
The Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro opens the exhibition Pequeña historia del dolor (A Short Story of Pain), by artist Arnaldo Cristaldo.
The exhibition gathers works developed by the artist Arnaldo Cristaldo during a residency in El Salvador. On canvas and ao po'i –fine cloth or delicate garment in the Guarani language– the artist makes interventions, sometimes scriptural and using materials such as thorns or human hair.
According to Lia Colombino, curator of the exhibition: "The hair reminds us of that which is no longer there, a body whose lifeless tissues have already slipped out of it and someone has cut them, separating them from the one who carried them, now irretrievably".
The title of the exhibition comes from a verse by the Cuban poet Frank Castell, which mobilized the artist to look for other texts, poetic or not, such as the historical "letter of an Amoral", in the context of the persecution of homosexuals during the Stronist dictatorship, as well as verses by Adriana Almada, Hérib Campos Cervera and Lia Colombino herself.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
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Vistas de la exposición. Cortesía Museo del Barro.
Arnaldo Cristaldo was born in Asunción, Parguay in 1977. He holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Instituto Superior de Bellas Artes. He has participated in group exhibitions since 2003, including the SIART Biennial (La Paz, Bolivia, 2018), the XIV Havana Biennial (Cuba, 2022) and the exhibition Ao. Episodios textiles de las artes visuales en el Paraguay (MALBA, Buenos Aires, 2022).
He exhibited individually in Paraguay, El Salvador and France: En desarme (Centro Cultural Citibank, Asuncion, 2008), Sombrío (Centro Cultural Citibank, Asuncion, 2013); Pyapy (Centro de Artes Visuales/Museo del Barro, 2017); Reverse (Cité Internationale des Artes, Paris, Francias, 2018); Propuesta (La Casa de al Lado, San Salvador, El Salvador, 2018).
He has been awarded the Henri Matisse Prize (2016), second place in the Greenhouse Prize (2018) and the AICA Paraguay Prize, as an artist member of the exhibition Colmar de memoria el olvido (2022).
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