La línea emancipada: sobre la expansión del dibujo en la obra de Valeria Conte Mac Donell

Abstract

Valeria Conte Mac Donell is an artist from Buenos Aires who has lived in San Martín de los Andes since 2005, a place that has become not only her residence but also a platform for her artistic production, intimately linked to the territory and her own life. His work is developed in a constant expansion of means and transgression of disciplinary limits, but always emphasizing drawing and its heuristic power. I recognize in Valeria's work a unique value, which is that of allowing me to rethink such a noble discipline from off-center perspectives, enabling other ways of being in drawing that emancipate it from the minority roles to which it has been relegated for centuries in Western art history.