Diego Perrota en ProyectArte

On Saturday, August 22nd through our Visiting Artists Program, and with much anticipation given the artist’s recent seminar at ProyectArte, the scholarship recipients visited the Diego Perrota exhibit, “If it wasn´t God, it was the Devil,” at Centro Cultural Recoleta. The artist himself welcomed and led the students through the exhibition. The following is an account of the visit to the exhibition and their exchanges with the artist, as told to ProyectArte staff member Micaela Hebron by ProyectArte students, Camila Trebliner, Matías Presta y Victoria Falcón: “At first we looked at the exhibition and carefully observed the details of his work. Afterwards we began to talk with him about the actual exhibit, how it was planned out, and even how he initially proposed the exhibit. On Saturday, August 29, when the artist visited our own studio with the idea that he was going to show us projections of his work, he told us some of the most significant experiences of his development as an artist. Diego Perrotta spent his entire childhood in Liners. A neighborhood populated with santerias, with a large immigrant population and symbolic chapel of San Cayetano, the saint of work. This symbol, the artist said, impregnated his mind´s eye and emerged in every one his works. At 22, he received a scholarship for artistic accomplishment from the National Fund of the Arts, and accompanied by his girlfriend, went to Mexico where he stayed for one year. Since then his work has included paintings, watercolors, sculptures, and drawings. He has had different thematic exhibitions where a few consistent elements appear: the devil, numbers, constructions, the tree man, and creatures. Within his admired artists you´ll find Xul Solar and the writer Alberto Rui Sánchez, whom Diego affirmed that he did not know, but, “I would love to, he is a visual artist and he doesn´t know it.”.