Installations

1999

Around the Circle

Around the Circle, steel tubes, variable dimensions, 1999

Around the Circle, carbon paper drawing, 250 × 600 cm, 1999

Around the Circle is an installation including wooden table, steel, TV screens, carbon paper drawing on the wall.

In my quest to create a work from sounds and its graphic translation, I played two instruments while digitally recording their sounds. TV screens and the engraved tubes were the traces of that performance and of the digital translation of sound into lines.

In his book Impecable-implacable: Marcas de la contemporaneidad en el arte (Impeccable-implacable, Marks of Contemporaneity in Art), Gabriel F. Gutnisky, Editorial Brujas, Córdoba, Argentina, 1st edition 2006, described the work I created during my master's degree in these terms: it sought “to account for two seemingly contradictory aspects, such as the exploration of intimacy and the search for ‘the poetics’ of technological resources.” “[...] this development reveals the sophisticated extent of digital processes, but also the artist's concern with seeking an adaptation that would contemplate her as a subject (her voice, her beliefs, her presence).”

→  PDF El arte vive en la tecnología, Natalia Blanch transforma el texto en solido y éste en grabado, Gabriel Gutnisky, La voz del Interior, 21 de agosto de 1999

→  PDF Impecable-implacable: Marcas de la contemporaneidad en el arte, Gabriel F. Gutnisky, Editorial Brujas, Córdoba, 1st edition 2006

1/5Natalia Blanch, Around the Circle

Installation view, Around the Circle, wooden table, H 78.5 × W 150 × L 76.5 cm, steel, TV screens

2/5Natalia Blanch, Around the Circle

Installation view, Around the Circle, wooden table, H 78.5 × W 150 × L 76.5 cm, steel, TV screens

3/5Natalia Blanch, Around the Circle

Around the Circle, steel

4/5Natalia Blanch, Around the Circle

Installation view, Around the Circle, wooden table, steel, TV screens

5/5Natalia Blanch, Around the Circle

Installation view, Around the Circle, steel, carbon paper drawing on the wall, 250 × 600 cm