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‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’ Catalog

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Narcisa Hirsch

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		Marabunta,&nbsp;1967
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		Black-and-white and color 16 mm film and sound transferred to video
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		Duration: 7’55’’
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		Manzanas (Apples),&nbsp;1973
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		Black-and-white and color 16 mm film and sound transferred to video
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		Duration: 4’29’’
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		Pink Freud,&nbsp;1973
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		Color 16 mm film and sound transferred to video
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		Duration: 8’52’’
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		Patagonia,&nbsp;1976
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		Color 16 mm film and sound transferred to video
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		Duration: 18’08’’
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		Mujeres (Women),&nbsp;1970-85
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		Super 8 film and sound transferred to video
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		Duration: 24’38’’
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		Testamento y vida interior (Testament and Inner Life),&nbsp;1967
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		Super 8 film and sound transferred to video
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		Duration: 10’38’’
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Narcisa Hirsch’s experimental films form an important chapter in the history of the Argentine avant-garde. Exploring female identity, mortality, eroticism, and violence, her work took on the political issues of her day, connecting personal narratives to larger social histories. Hirsch was born in Germany and emigrated to Argentina in the late 1930s. By the 1960s, Hirsch had abandoned her training as a painter to participate in the performances and happenings throughout the 1960s and 1970 in Buenos Aires, originating such legendary actions as Marabunta (1967) and Manzanas (1973), which formed the basis for her first films. ‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’ presents a selection of her seminal early films from the 1960s through the 1980s, revealing a key chapter in the history of Argentine experimental film and feminist art.Narcisa Hirsch archive: Daniella Muttis Cataloguing: Mariana Garriga Special thanks to Plavicon. Special thanks to Museo de la Cárcova for hosting this ‘Hopscotch (Rayuela)’ work.

<ul><li><a href="https://www.google.com/maps/place/Calcos+Museum+and+Comparative+Structure+-+A/@-34.6181721,-58.3586395,17z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m5!3m4!1s0x95a334c4a9de626d:0xd594d91b00e16f85!8m2!3d-34.6181765!4d-58.3564508 " target="_blank">Museo de la Cárcova</a>, Av. España 1701, Costanera Sur&nbsp;</li><li>Thursday, September 6, through Wednesday, September 12, 10am-6pm</li><li>Continuous screenings during opening hours</li><li>Free entry, no ticket required</li><li>Also on view at this venue:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/cities/catalog/Santiago-de-Paoli " target="_blank">Santiago de Paoli</a> and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.artbasel.com/cities/catalog/Mariela-Scafati " target="_blank">Mariela Scafati</a> </li></ul>

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		Born 1928 in Berlin, Germany&nbsp;
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		Lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina
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Well-known in Argentina, but less so internationally, Narcisa Hisrch has worked for decades creating experimental films that depict the body and domestic life as means of feminist critique. Early in her career, her paintings were exhibited at the Lirolay Gallery, one of the most important avant-garde spaces of Buenos Aires during the 1960s. She was affiliated with happenings throughout the ’60s and ’70s in Buenos Aires and collaborated on projects at the Anthology Film Archives and the Millennium Film Workshop in New York. Hirsch became a leading figure of the Latin American structural cinema scene, alongside&nbsp;Marie Luise Alemann, Claudio Caldini, and Horacio Vallereggio, among others. She was recently honored with a retrospective at the Vienna International Film Festival (2012) and the Goethe Institute in Toronto (2013), and her works were presented at Documenta in Athens (2017).&nbsp;

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