I intend to explore ideas and develop preliminary educational projects to be carried out both in the different training institutions in which I participate and in their specific communities, in the city of Esquel, Chubut. At the same time, my aim is to enrich my own creative processes by getting involved in the artistic and cultural context of the Museo Moderno and the city of Buenos Aires.
In direct contact with the working processes of the Museo Moderno, and through the encounter and dialogue with its team of specialised professionals, I will try to acquire new tools and strategies for the implementation of curatorial practices and cultural mediation in teaching and learning situations.
My plan is to delve into research on modern and contemporary Argentinian art for the development of educational projects, with the aim of enabling students and future teachers to consider artistic representations as narratives that reflect social and cultural practices, and to be in a position to understand the arts in all of their complexity and diversity.
Considering the geographical distance that separates the students of the Profesorado de Artes Visuales IES 818 from the main art museums in our country, I will seek to generate strategies of access to artistic productions that allow for experimentation, interactivity and participation, something that the model of the contemporary museum promotes. To this end, it will be crucial to develop pedagogical strategies for access via digital portals sharing the Museo Moderno’s research. Namely, the Museum’s books, website, patrimony, exhibitions and library.
For the Art Education course at the ‘Cacique Inacayal’ School, I intend to design pedagogical projects that take as a starting point different works of modern and contemporary Argentinian art as a way of awakening emotions and developing critical thinking. In a city with a large population of Mapuche-Tehuelche descent and a historic popular struggle against mega-mining and extractivism, I am interested in developing strategies that contribute to transmitting a decolonial perspective of the visual arts and favouring the development of a socio-environmental conscience.
In my personal artistic production, I investigate the passage through signs and formats as a way of relating and exposing the relationship I have with others and with the environment. I’m interested in painting as a record of an experience, as a remnant of an action and as a part of a larger work perhaps. The dialogue and exchange with artists, curators, managers and teachers will encourage the development of new ideas and thoughts in relation to my work, which I will put down in writing during the residency. At the same time, I will make a photographic and pictorial record of the urban environment. Eventually, I will be able to lay the foundations for a work project with a pedagogical approach based on participation and co-creation with the public.
José Esteban Bava born in Santiago del Estero in 1987, José Esteban Bava holds a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes. He trained with Marta Sottile, Hermenegildo Sábat and Horacio Spinetto. Currently, he is part of Púrpura Proyecto’s training programme for artists ‘El Oráculo’. Between 2015 and 2020 he actively participated in the group Impulso, in the neighbourhood of La Boca (CABA).
He teaches at the Profesorado de Artes Visuales IES 818 and at the Escuela de Gestión Social ‘Cacique Inacayal’, and coordinates painting and drawing workshops. He won the Grand Prize of Honour at the XIV Salón Municipal de Artes Plásticas Esquel (2023). He was selected for the Itaú Prize (2022) and received the Creation Grant from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2021). He participated in the IV International Art Biennial of Miramar (2019). He has had solo exhibitions at fud.casagalaería/Esquel (2023), at the Museo Regional de Trevelin (2022), at the Centro Cultural Esquel Melipal (2022), at the National Chamber of Deputies (2019) and at the Universidad Nacional de Lomas de Zamora (2018). Among the group exhibitions in which he has participated, those that stand out are the ones held at the Museo de Bellas Artes ‘Benito Quinquela Martín’ (2015, 2017) and Thames Casa Taller (2022, 2023).
He lives and works in Esquel.