Artist: 

Francisca López

Curator: 

Rafael Cippolini

We know of two kinds of visionaries: those who seek to predict the future, and those who observe life in a different way, finding reasons and worlds in places where the rest of us do not know how to see them. Bandi Binder (Hungary, 1917-Buenos Aires, 2006) was one of those who experimented with vision, attempting to expand it, to overflow its limitations. However, shortly after meeting him, Francisca López branched down another path: hers was not a vision of distance, but of depth. Her search was methodical, which is to say deliberate and intuitively meticulous, and it began with the registration of Binder's works (photographs of photographs) and their habitats, whether the stocks of his work elements or his archives.

But her search not only encompassed his work, for in addition, Francisca explored the paintings of Sally Dietrich, the photographer's partner, including them in her photographic journey. She chose merely what her eyes dictated to her, a selection that can be interpreted as a very particular form of curatorship. In a sense, it is a form of visual meditation, of communion and connection that transcend words. In the depths of its markedly diverse sensibilities, the effect of that silent community or mental bonding and collective energy transports me immediately to a personal synchronous experience, at a time when the twentieth century was giving way to the next. This was when Adolfo de Obieta, the son of Macedonio Fernández, first spoke to me about the hermetic spirit of the egregore, based on a revelation by Xul Solar. He quoted the words of the astrologer and painter: “The egregore invades us like a sea of intimacy, which is at the same time collective”.

It is this entity, shaped by the thoughts, emotions and energy of a group of people, that is the ineluctable key to this exhibition.

Book

Inner Vision. Meditations on Bandi Binder