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Born in Santa Fe, on July 10th , 1971 Ides Kihlen completed her studies in Buenos Aires at the “Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Puerredón” and at the “Escuela Nacional Ernesto de la Carcova”. Her masters in art were Antonio Alice, Pio Collivadino, Lopez Naguil, Adolfo De Ferrari and Kenneth Kemble. Among others she was a diciple of Battle Planas, Benito Quinquela Martín, Pettoruti, Vicente Puig and Andre Lothe in París. After working 70 years, her many Works of art have been exhibited in:

2018
Sydney Contemporary Art Fair del 13 al 16 de septiembre de 2018 – Via Margutta gallery

La Legislatura porteña la nombra «Personalidad destacada de la cultura». El acto se llevó a cabo, el 29 de mayo, en el Salón Montevideo de la Casa Lagislativa. 2018

Mamba del 19 de noviembre 2017 al 20 de febrero 2018

2017

Gallery Nueva York. 3 de mayo. E.E.U.U

Fundación Borges Museum. Bs As. 5 de mayo.

Centro Cultural CCK. Presentación de sello postal con una imagen de la obra de Ides Kihlen. 10 de julio. Bs As Argentina.

Museum of Modern Art. Bs As. Argentina.MAMBA

Sydney Contemporary Art Fair. 6 to 7  september. Via Margutta gallery. Sydney Australia

Palacio Duhau. 5 de octubre al 9 de diciembre. Bs As Argentina.

Sydney Contemporary 2015, septiembre, Australasia´s Intenational Art Fair. Galería Via Margutta.

Via Margutta, abril, Córdoba, Argentina.2015

Art Palm Beach, enero, USA. 2015

Eggo/ Mercado de arte 2014. Art Fair. Galería Via Margutta. Córdoba. Argentina

Via Margutta Gallery. Individual exhibition. Córdoba. Argentina. July 2014.

Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes E. Caraffa. Individual exhibition. Córdoba. Argentina. July 2014.

Art Palm Beach 2014. Palm Beach. USA.

Paseo de las Artes Palacio Duhau, noviembre 2013. Buenos Aires. Argentina.

Aina Nowack Gallery, Madrid, Spain, 2012.

Sarrabayrouse Gallery. “Los juguetes de Marcela”. Individual exhibition. 2012.

Mia 2011, Miami
Agalma.arte 2009, individual exhibition.
Pinta 2009 NY, Aina Nowack, stand Madrid
Lordi Contemporary art 2009.
Arteamericas 2008, Miami, GM espacio de arte, individual exhibition.
Coppa Oliver Art 2007, individual exhibition.
Arteamericas 2007, Miami, GM Espacio de arte,individual exhibition.
MACLA 2007 (Museum of Latinamerican Art), de La Plata, individual exhibition
Madrid 2006, «Made In Argentina», A. Sainz de Vicuña.
Bahia Museum of modern Art 2006 (Mamba), Brasil, individual exhibition.
Museum of Contemporary art San Pablo 2005 (por Argentina), Octubre.
Museum of Quinquela Martin 2005, exposición colectiva, Septiembre.
Bahia Museum of modern Art 2005 (Mamba), Brasil, exposición colectiva, Septiembre.
Antiqvaria 2005, GM Espacio de arte, individual exhibition.
ArteBA 2005, Galería Rubbers Internacional.
Rubbers International gallery 2005, individual exhibition.
Embassy of Sweden2004, 13 de Diciembre, individual exhibition.
Antiqvaria 2004, GM Espacio de arte,individual exhibition.
XI Salón de Arte y Antigüedades de San Pablo 2004, Brasil,individual exhibition.
Maria Casado Home Gallery, 2004, individual exhibition.
ArteBA 2004, GM Espacio de arte, individual exhibition.
X Salón de Arte y Antigüedades de San Pablo 2003, Brasil, individual exhibition.
Protagonista en El Arte, Diario Clarín 2002.
IX Salón de Arte y Antigüedades de San Pablo 2002, Brasil, individual exhibition.
Andrada Gallery 2002, Buenos Aires, individual exhibition.
National Museum of Decorative Art, 11/10 to 3/11/2002, retrospective exhibition and presentation of the book. It was presented by Mr. Carlos Padula, CEO of the Deutsche Bank, New York, Ms Mercedes Casanegra, President of the Art Critics Association, Ms Nelly Perazzo, member of the National Academy of Fine Arts, historian and art critic, Mr. Alberto Bellucci, director of the museum and artist Adolfo Nigro.
IX Salón de Arte y Antigüedades de San Pablo 2002, Brasil, individual exhibition.
ExpoCórdoba, 2000.

ArteBa 2000, Arroyo Gallery.

Antiquaria 2000, individual exhibition.

 

Ides Kihlen (Buenos Aires, 1917) would be considered unusually special in any known History of Art. Her artistic and personal development falls outside the usual parameters. Today, in 2014, after having witnessed almost the entire twentieth century, this artist is fully active and productive. Pío Collivadino, Director of the School of Decorative Arts when the new student joined that institution, thought she was too young to do so, and yet, after some time, he would see his efforts had not been in vain. Years later she visited the workshops of Emilio Pettoruti, Battle Planas, André Lhote in Paris, she was Vicente Puig’s favorite student, and then Adolfo Nigro would be one of the first to see her final work. But there is another discipline she has spent almost as much time on: music. Not only performing on the piano, but also composition was her other great dedication. And her two passions have undeniably influenced one another.
The impending third millennium seems to have accelerated a process that had been latent in the artist all her life. After a solid and sustained academic career, her artistic process took a decisive turn. She followed in the footsteps of someone like Kandinsky, who had initiated abstraction in the twentieth century, or along the path of Klee, and in Argentina, her work is related to a line followed by Xul Solar, among others.
Her playful strategies, the lightness with which she imbues her shapes and the relationship between the protagonist elements and the artistic tactics with music are some of the more characteristic features of Ides Kihlen’s work. Arabesque 2, 2004, makes these properties manifest. There is an eclectic combination of her most frequent modalities. Another central feature which this time sustains her work is the use of minimal elements for maximal results. The background for this piece is a musical score, which, symbolically, provides an ethereal support reinforced by a whitish tonality superimposed on the musical signs. On a plane even closer to the spectator, the artist unevenly spread out small and varied collage shapes that appear to drift in a space without atmosphere. Finally, some signs emerge drawn by her own hand: the beginning of a stave in the key of G, the number 5, her initials which at the same time build part of the composition, a shower of dots and tiny suns which would constitute a sort of paraphrase of the key in G (sol). Thus, a musical, though inaudible, reason upholds the entire Arabesque 2, which is mainly synesthetic: properties of the musical domain are perceived through sight.
A body of work such as that of Ides Kihlen leads to reflect on the function of materiality in our culture and in the world, and the possible balance with its spiritual counterpart.

 

Mercedes Casanegra

President Argentine Art Critics Association

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