Generations

Silvana Nicola | Diario El País.

Elephants, fish, and guitars populate the artistic universe of Jorge Bafico. Conceived as an extension of his book So Close to Shining, the artist surprises us with a colorful universe in which these three elements take center stage.

Born out of meaninglessness and tragic chance, fish, guitars, and elephants attempt, in some way, to sublimate the traumatic. An unintentional extension of So Close to Shining, memories of childhood and the present are hidden within wood, metal, and color, seeking to strike a different chord from pain. Nothing more than an effort of poetry.

“Loose and seemingly disconnected pieces come together and give life to sculptures. Jorge Bafico, their author, is not, was not, a visual artist, but rather a Doctor of Psychology, educator, and writer. Bafico’s deconstructed figures are composed of screws, nuts, pins, logs, wood, and paint. The devastating pain of losing his son just hours after birth led him to write his most recent book, after which he discovered a new talent: the ability to gather discarded materials and transform them into ‘artistic objects’, something he had never done before the death of the child and of his own parents.

They are neither traditional paintings nor sculptures. Jorge Bafico’s artistic creations cannot be understood in isolation, but rather as a continuation of So Close to Shining. Through this creative vein, the psychoanalyst transforms discarded materials into art, loose parts that he brings together and resignifies.”

Fragment of a work by the artist Jorge Bafico.