MARTÍN LEGÓN - IMAGES IN TENSION
The Museo Moderno de Buenos Aires inaugurates the exhibition Martín Legón: Solo las piedras recuerdan (Only Stones Remember), in which the artist interrogates the present of human experience and wonders how human beings relate to images, how we construct knowledge, and in what remote place the mark of the human as it is known to the present will remain.
Martín Legón: Solo las piedras recuerdan, puts in tension the imaginary of traditional education, with a strong imprint of human gesture, and the still unknown language of artificial intelligence. From these opposites, the montage generates questions about the future of humanity.
Artist and writer Martín Legón (Buenos Aires, 1978) develops a project that takes as a starting point the influence of education, school textbooks and popularization books in the art of the 1960s. Through a succession of conceptual exercises guided by the operations of montage and collage, the artist returns to the notion of “escuelismo”, developed by the critic Ricardo Martín-Crosa.
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Construcción de un personaje por parte de la Inteligencia Artificial a partir de un prompt humano específico (3)
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Construcción de un personaje por parte de la Inteligencia Artificial a partir de un prompt humano específico (5)
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Ejemplar de la colección de libros Carrusel, Editorial Altea, Madrid, 1978
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Ejemplos originales de los libros de manualidades
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Ejemplos originales de los libros de manualidades
Martín Legón, one of the youngest Argentine artists to have participated in the São Paulo Biennial (2012), frames the exhibition within what he calls “soft conceptualism”, that is, not exempt of humor, and poses two possible axes of reading: “How and which are the forms of memory, and how can we teach each other to distrust images”.
Room G on the second floor of the Museum displays objects such as the Carousel manuals by Ediciones Altea, with cube games -linked to the development of abstract art-, or a giant poster on how to make rag dolls. These objects, linked to handicrafts and schooling, come into friction with other images created through AI, such as that of a character designed by the artist. A series of display refrigerators containing fake feel-good phrases such as “Think happy thoughts,” an instructional used by young people to mock facial recognition, cartoons superimposed on the text of a lecture and instructions on how to make rag dolls, now with AI, are part of the exhibition.
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Ejemplos originales de los libros de manualidades
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Gerard Blum. The Adventures of Blacky, 1947. Test psicológico. The Psychological Corporation, Nueva York
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Imágenes generadas por Inteligencia Artificial
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Moderno. Máquina de peluches, Martín Legón (fotos Guido Limardo) BAJA-6843
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Moderno. Martín Legón (fotos Guido Limardo) BAJA-07520
“In the center of the room is a box used to keep papers, documents and files that are often secret. The box has children's stickers glued on it, a characteristic artistic wink in Martín Legón's work, and is surrounded by documents, science books, emblematic cartoon books, and poetry books, among others. It is a central work that condenses several of the clues that guide us through the exhibition and lead us to distrust images, as Harun Farocki often pointed out. In that cardboard box, which turns slowly as if it were in an exhibitor, seem to hide the vestiges of the schoolboy past and the data about the future around artificial intelligence and its most dangerous side, often linked to manipulation,” describes Francisco Lemus, curator of the exhibition and head of the curatorial department of the Museo Moderno.
The exhibition is part of the Museo Moderno's 2024 program, Art is Education.
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