ESPECTRO & ACCESO

The project "Espectro & Acceso" by Dino Valentini seeks to recover and aesthetically highlight a forgotten space through visual language, specifically painting. The work focuses on a section of the highway located at km 3.1, a place with historical roots dating back to 1941, functioning as both a point of connection and a boundary between Córdoba and the Federal Capital— a public space that belongs to everyone.

Valentini, a Cordoban artist, uses art to reveal what is imperceptible in a setting that is part of daily life for the people of Buenos Aires. Through traditional techniques, such as muralism, he proposes a dialogue between the imperfections of human labor and the mechanical perfection of the digital era, using analog tools to emulate contemporary aesthetics.

The project, the result of extensive research, adapts to the context of the site, restoring its functionality and reflecting on finitude and the passage of time. The work does not aim to perpetuate an image but instead embraces its transformation and eventual disappearance, in line with the history of disfiguration and dissolution that characterizes this section of the highway.

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In the process of recovering what has been forgotten and highlighting it aesthetically through visual language, we arrive at this point, which is both a point of connection and a limit at the same time. But what do they have in common? What does this stretch of highway represent?

This place has its roots in an expansion project dating back to 1941, located at km 3.1, where for the last 80 years it has been an empty point that we all pass through. It also serves as an access point between Córdoba and the Federal Capital, marking the end and beginning of another part (province-capital). It is a place that belongs to all of us.

Through the eyes of the Cordoban artist in a space habitual for the people of Buenos Aires, these places come to light. Dino Valentini arrived in the capital to bring to light the imperceptible and, through art, to highlight it. This work represents the recovery of public space, as a gift that restores its functionality.

In "Espectro & Acceso," the artist seeks to work from painting a space that is not prepared to be seen. Following his plastic language that aims to resemble today's digital using analog and traditional painting tools, such as muralism. It contemplates the flaws, imperfections, and errors of human work as part of the artwork, proposing tension with the perfection and speed of the machine.

This project involves months of thorough research and adapts to the condition of the context offered by the location. It takes the space and appropriates the work without wanting to perpetuate an image, playing with the finitude of durability. Perhaps the destiny of this work is preconfigured by the history that this stretch of highway once suffered: disfigurement and dissolution in the flow of time and its force.

"The image that survives the action of destruction, is the image of destruction."

Kazimir Malevich