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HACETE AMIGO!
Renata Schussheim’s (Buenos Aires, 1949) universe brings together the visual arts, performance and costume and set design and spans exhibition halls, theatre productions, rock concerts, album covers and video clips. Her creative associations have left their mark on Argentinian culture, from helping to shape the aesthetic identity of ‘rock nacional’ working alongside Charly García, Luis Alberto Spinetta and Federico Moura to her long-standing partnership with choreographer and director Oscar Araiz. Inspired by her friend, the artist Jean-François Casanovas, Schussheim created the series of drawings on display here. They lead us into a lysergic, nocturnal universe of queer and androgynous fantasy. Surrounded by pale, diaphanous ladies, Casanovas becomes a character in a Gothic novel. These drawings were first shown in 1978, at the Ática Gallery in the throes of the civil-military dictatorship (1976–1983). Echoing the ominous atmosphere of Argentina at the time, the Brazilian poet-musician Vinicius de Moraes wrote: ‘Renata is a woman who lives and makes high-frequency art, keenly aware of the tragedy engulfing her without her consent but still scattering stars along her chosen path to total beauty.’