9 - 24 October, 2008
Mill 100 - art gallery / Lavalleja 1100 / Buenos Aires, Argentina
Roberto Scafidi exhibits his colorful and vivid art at the Mill 100 art gallery in Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Scafidi is a contemporary Argentinean artist who deserves a place in the spotlight. With his graphic inspired artworks and choice of vivid colors Roberto Scafidi expresses his endless creative energy. Art curator Nina Colosi at Chelsea Art Museum, NYC describes his work as “striking paintings of fast paced vibrant color fields sculpted into intriguing patterns and juxtapositions, invented landscapes and living figures. He is known to expresses metaphors of spiritual underpinning and humanity that rise above the complexities of the codes of contemporary society and its technologies.”
When Scafidi isn’t painting he is teaching Art Curatorship at Philadelphia College in Buenos Aires among other Universities. He tells Yatzer that he has worked in this line since 1993 and that he is not an artist who wants achieve fame at anybodies expenses. But he wants to point out that he has noticed an artist who has more or less plagiarized his works. He recalls Jim Lambie’s vinyl tape on floor Zobop from 1999, which was featured in the Yatzer article published on February 8, 2008, about the Moma exhibition: Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today. *

It is obvious that an artist like Roberto Scafidi inspires others. The shapes, the color palette, the relationships between thick and thin, but most importantly as Nina Colosi puts it: “Scafidi expresses metaphors of spiritual underpinning and humanity that rise above the complexities of the codes of contemporary society and its technologies.” When reading that last line over again it is easy to view inspiration as something beautiful and even a necessary process within a creative world. When looking back at history and more importantly the history of modern art one can see that it is build on the inspiration of others. It is the thin line between absorbing and living the experience of an art work and processing it into something new that makes art so fragile, untouchable and remarkable.