From the 21th May and throughout June, Aeropuertos Argentina 2000,
Julio Ernesto Gutierrez Conte
together with the artist Nora Iniesta and RASTI toy construction firm,
are calling the public to join and participate in the creation of a
piece of art at the Entrance hall of the Ezeiza International Airport.
With the aim that all the passengers circulating within the air
terminal share an artistic experience -and within the “200 Hundred Years
of May Revolution Celebration framework- AA2000 gives all of them the
possibility of helping in the creation of the Bicentennial Flag by the
artist Nora Iniesta.
The proposal consists in that all those visiting Ezeiza International
Airport may help in the creation of the Bicentennial Argentine Flag
using the traditional RASTI construction bricks and in doing so they
will be given a souvenir for their contribution to this piece of art.
Under the “union” concept, these RASTI flag-colored bricks will act
as a catalyst to turn the flag colors and the flag itself into art
thanks to everybody’s contribution.
Based on a 2.50 m long metal structure, the piece of art by Nora
Iniesta will be made up of 17,000 RASTI construction toy bricks
specially manufactured for this Event; the light blue color has been
obtained through a special pigmentation by the above toy firm.
“A small piece is joined to the other, is embedded to the other, put
together just as the union of a territory, and in this way a wish, a
dream, a desire is expressed: “every link put together to make up the
whole”, the union of all the inhabitants in this world. “This is our
purpose”, artist Nora Iniesta asserts.
The Contemporary Argentine artist is well-known for working on topics
related to an iconography always linked to a single belonging place:
her country. A world she lived in her childhood, at school, at National
Celebrations, through paper national heroes, history, the flag, the
white smocks, the written language; all this will be always kept in her
memory. Iniesta expresses herself through plain materials: daily use
items revitalized in her works of art.
