Ariel Mlynarzewicz

Inside the Gallery of the Casuarinas we find Ariel Mlynarzewicz’s mural “El bosque” (The Forest), painted in oil (2.80 × 18 meters) between 2010 and 2011. It is an explosion of color in which we can see the different emotions the artist went through while painting the canvases.

There is abstraction and there is figuration; feeling and movement prevail. We like to imagine ourselves immersed in the world Ariel created with the palette knife and oil paint straight from the tube.

Here there are no bodies, the central theme of Ariel’s work, but trees, earth and wind. The leaves fly from canvas to canvas. The mural’s dynamism is astonishing.

Ariel’s effusive, joyful personality permeates “El bosque”. It is as if Ariel had passed his own cells onto the canvas. We invite you to take a few minutes to contemplate the painting and observe its details, the density of the oil and the intensity of the color.

In the artist’s words

Bellatrix is a place to connect intimately with oneself. A place that shelters “El bosque”, the forest I walked through at the most introspective moment of my life. Where the space inspires us to linger and to heal our wounds.

Biography

In 1986 he received a scholarship from the National University of Kraków, Poland, for postgraduate studies in printmaking techniques. In 1987 he traveled to Unquillo, Córdoba, to work with Carlos Alonso. In 1996 he received a grant from the Fundación Antorchas. In 2006 he founded the Grupo Boedo for his students.

Mlynarzewicz donated his painting for the dome of the Teatro Regio, titled “La bienvenida” (The Welcome), which took him nine months of work. In 2010 the Secretariat of Culture commissioned him to paint the revolutionaries of May 1810 for the Bicentennial. In 2008 he received the Grand Acquisition Prize at the 97th National Printmaking Salon, and in 2012 he was named an Outstanding Cultural Figure of the City of Buenos Aires.