Desde el origen [Place of Origin] is the largest watercolour ever created by Ariel Cusnir (Buenos Aires, 1981). In taking watercolour – a technique historically associated with small format works – to a monumental scale, the artist invites you to lose yourself in a contemplation of water in its multitude of states, as tranquil as it is fascinating. This enormous mural was also produced using seawater that the artist brought from the beaches of Necochea; water is thus both the image and the medium, representation and presence. Clouds and oceans are made of water, but so too is this very painting that celebrates them. Cusnir has thus transformed the entry hall of the Museo Moderno into a massive travel journal that envelops you in a serene atmosphere, before anything is separated; it is a space where the horizon becomes a threshold, and water – the origin of life – appears like a promise of the future.
