The Organization of American States (OAS) AMA | Art Museum of the Americas presents Atmospheres and Entropy: Works on paper by Catalina Chervin, an exhibition curated by Susanna V. Temkin as part of AMA's F Street Gallery program showcasing young and emerging artists of OAS member countries. AMA is part of the OAS's Secretariat for Hemispheric Affair, and its work is based on the principle that the arts are transformative for individuals and communities, as visual components reflecting the four pillars of the OAS: democracy, human rights, security and development.
Atmospheres and Entropy presents a selection of works on paper by Argentine artist Catalina Chervin (b. Corrientes, Argentina, 1953). Focusing on the otherworldly effects achieved through an intense, dedicated practice, the exhibition explores Chervin's unique and masterful technique, characterized by meticulous mark-making, worked and re-worked over years. Over time, these carefully rendered graphic traces form dense layers that hover on The Edge of entropy, yet remain balanced by Chervin's restrained erasures and manipulations of voids and blank spaces. Working from her studio in Buenos Aires, Chervin describes her practice as an effort "to understand the graphic chaos which is my interlocutor when I begin a dialogue with a blank sheet." This balance between chaos and the blank sheet, entropy and order, is revealed through precise lines, careful shading, and "accidental" imprints - drips and smudges calibrated into the composition - that extend across the paper, drawing viewers into seemingly timeless spaces, inviting careful examination. Chervin's artworks evoke a sensation of deep perspectival space that alternately conjures forth landscapes, emotional states, or haunting presences.AMA promotes the core values of the OAS by providing a space for cultural expression, creativity, and learning, highlighting themes such as democracy, development, human rights, justice, freedom of expression, and innovation. AMA's work advances the inter-American agenda, drawing on the arts to showcase a constructive vision of the future of the Americas via local and hemispheric cultural exchange. This is achieved by showcasing cutting-edge exhibits of artists whose output creatively combine aesthetics with topical social and political issues.
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