Visible/ Invisible. Art and Cosmopolitics

The threats that cloud the future of man and the planet respond to disturbingly opaque phenomena. One of the most pressing one -an irreversible enviromental crisis-operates on a global scale that masks the causes and the true dimension of the effects. The perspective of a not too remote end is covered with the denial of a voracious capitalism that leaps forward and does not repair in damages. The complexity and acceleration of the processes challenge critical thinking in search of answers, but the artistic imagination can glimpse configurations still inaccessible to other languages. Art almost by definition makes visible what is not seen but is now moved by a cosmopolitan urgency. What gives to see the art of our time? What does it restore from what is deliberately hidden? How is it renewed in the attempt? A series of recent works by Argentine artists offers some answers.