Maria Gainza

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Maria Gainza (born December 25, 1975, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine art critic and writer. [1]

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She is a granddaughter of Alberto Gainza Paz, who was director of the newspaper La Prensa.

She began publishing her first articles about art for newspapers and cultural supplements in 2003.She has been a regular contributor to Artforum magazine for more than ten years. She also wrote in the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12. She has taught courses for artists at the Center for Artistic Research and art criticism workshops at Torcuato di Tella University. [2] In 2017, she won the Konex Award in the Visual Arts category. [3]

She was co-editor of the collection on Argentine art "Los Sentidos", by Adriana Hidalgo Editora.

Optic Nerve (Spanish: El nervio óptico, published in 2014 by Editorial Mansalva), her first foray into narrative, has been translated into ten languages. [4] [5]

In 2018, she published The Black Light (Spanish: La luz negra, published by Editorial Anagrama), a detective novel that deals with the art market and forgery through the lives of four women. [6]

In 2019 she received Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for "La luz negra".

Literary works

Novels

Poetry

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References

  1. ↑ Wajszczuk, Ana (October 5, 2014). "Chica bien". Página 12 (in Spanish). Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  2. ↑ Katzenstein, Inés (2014). "Programas del departamento de arte" (PDF) (in Spanish). Universidad Torcuato di Tella: 4, 9. Retrieved August 21, 2019.{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ↑ "Se entregaron los Konex 2017: premiaron a un periodista de La Voz". La Voz (in Spanish). September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  4. ↑ Williams, John (April 18, 2019). "In 'Optic Nerve,' a Woman Trains a Sharp Eye on Art and Her Life". The New York Times . p. 25. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  5. ↑ Gainza, María (May 18, 2018). "María Gainza y la curva de Cézanne". Clarín (in Spanish). Propietario Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino S.A. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  6. ↑ Pomeraniec, Hinde (December 27, 2018). "María Gainza: "Siempre sentí que quería calle; si no, no hubiera podido escribir"". Infobae . Retrieved August 21, 2019.
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