Rosario Arostegui and Carolina Boettner

Rosario Arostegui (Buenos Aires) is a visual artist. After graduating from the University of Buenos Aires she continued her studies in the USA. In 1995 she moved to Germany. Currently, she works at her atelier in Basis e.V., Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Her work is a process of personal exploration and questioning. She is inspired by human nature: man’s constant confrontation with himself, and his desire in finding a balance when facing a world in constant transformation and in which the ephemeral predominates. Arostegui deconstructs and reconstructs to obtain poetic images and objects in order to reach a spiritualy introspection and silence.

Her works were exhibited in galleries and museums around the world, among them the IntaKt-Galerie, Vienna, Austria (2021), Basis, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (2019) and the Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016).

Carolina Boettner (Buenos Aires, 1980) is a transdisciplinary artist who placed her interest on a deconstructive attitude towards reality. In her audiovisual works she reveals the reasons for our reality interpretations while dismantling them and exposing their deception of enslavement and salvation.

Boettner has graduated the Film School of the University of Buenos Aires (UBA, FADU), obtained a DAAD scholarship to study at the Städelschule (Staatliche Hochschule für Bildende Künste) in Frankfurt am Main, where she obtained the certificate of Arts Meisterschüler, in 2010. Shortly before, she was invited to participate in the Master Program of the International Film School of San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba.

Her works have been exhibited in international festivals around te world, among them the Paraflows XI – Identidad, the Vienna Digital Arts Festival, NodeCCS in Caracas, Miami New Media festival (2017) and the III International Biennial of Video Art and Animation, Puebla, Mexico (2018). She received several awards such as the First Prize for Visual Arts at the FunkaFest Festival, Guayaquil, Ecuador (2016).

Carolina Boettner is co-founder and general coordinator of FlussLab, an interdisciplinary residency as a platform for traditional practices and innovation processes, based in Berlin and Buenos Aires.

Her activity is developed both individually and in collaboration with other artists, always looking for interdisciplinary crossings.

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Rosario Arostegui and Carolina Boettner

Works

Rosario Arostegui

Rizoma corte Lateral I, 2022, analog negatives, yarn, 50 x60x4 cm

In 2021 Rosario participated in the Postgraduate Program in Contemporary Art at UNSAM, Argentina. Her first biography was the Rhizome: diversity, openness, new paths, non-linear thinking, relevant themes that are being explored in all different areas not only in the visual arts. Deleuze and Guattari write, Rhizomes are multiplicities, strata and segmentations and vanishing lines, organs that grow indefinitely.
Continuing with the use of film, analog negatives and recycled material, this series explores the rupture of space through the crossing of materials, ideas and techniques.

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Rosario Arostegui

“Free Life”, 2020, analog negatives, yarn, 40x40x4 cm

In 2020 we were forced to face a different reality and reconsider our identity. That is the meaning of working with recycled material: re-using a material with its own history and marks, towards a new meaning, to look around and see what it tells us in order to re-configure it.

Analog films and negatives were drastically replaced by digital technology, changing our way of communication and daily life. In every analog piece there is a hidden story, a part of non-visible life. It’s a material which reveals its inside only by the use of light, by creating a reflection, a shadow of a different world. It is questioning the return to the personal and inner life, of rethinking, of seeing the world from a different perspective.
Is digital better than analog? Which one offers more privacy? Which one is more durable? How did humans adapt to this process? Did we advance?

Exhibition video

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Carolina Boettner

Video installation with live improvising musicians

REH Echtzeitmusik – Improvisierte Musil I Berlin

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Rosario Arostegui

Installation work in progress, 2019, film, 300x150x150 cm 35 mm

In the experimental exhibition “Deconstruction” different kind of recycled materials and techniques were combined such as 35 mm film, experimental photography, paper and prints.

Exhibition video

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Carolina Boettner

SYMPHONY 24

2016, Interactive Sound Installation Crystal Palace. Guayaquil

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Rosario Arostegui

Project “Vital Bods”, 2019, photography, mixed media, 180x170 cm

The work is a process of exploration and questioning the extent to which human and nature are conditioned by their place of origin or geographical location as well as by their political or economic situation.

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Carolina Boettner

BAILARINA 01

Sculpture Film. Image and Sound Installation Basis Frankfurt am Main

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Carolina Boettner

CABALGATA 01

2018, Stills and Sound Installation, 140×31.7x 24 cm. Gachi Prieto Gallery, Buenos Aires

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Rosario Arostegui

“Onda Aire I“, 2019, photogram, mixed technique, 60x80x4 cm

Based on photograms and prints, the series presents the intimate and direct relation between Matter and Energy, the influence, change and effect they have on other. This effect is analysed based on the four elements Water, Earth, Air and Fire.

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Carolina Boettner

THE RHYTHM OF CITIES: DELTA

2017, Musical Score in Moving, video Collage, live musicians, 00:08:23, FlussLab, Delta del Tigre

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