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side Pérez Barreiro, proposes an interrogation of the geographical and cultural borders between the three countries. The artists in residence in this section started with the premise of cultural diversity in the creation of their works. Aníbal López, who uses the number in his national ID card,
A1-53167 as his signature, follows the route of contraband from the triple border to Porto Alegre. He recreates the map and parodies the attitudes of the smugglers, documented in videos and photographs. He throws empty boxes into the river and reconstructs in a performance the trajectory of con-
Oswaldo Salerno. The Twin Towers, 2004-2005. Object produced by Pablo Luces Contreras with metallic fragments, components of “Mercury” 1951 model refrigeration unit; wood, aluminum and motherboard of an IBM computer model 1978/88. 13 x 13 1/4 x 9 4/5 in. (33 x 34 x 25 cm.). Photo: Marcial Barni.
A-1 53167(Aníbal López). Sculpture Smuggled from Paraguay to Brazil, 2007. Empty boxes, plastic bags, video and six photographs.
traband along the river and on land, through mountain’s path. Daniel Bozhkov studied the production and consumption of handicrafts. He decided to learn to carve small animal sculptures like those created by the Guaraní Indians. The Indians carve their sculptures as a means of atoning for the death of the animals they hunt. The artist situates himself in the position of someone who gains forgiveness for the use given to the objects bought from the Indians —not with the original cultural intent, but as consumer of manufactured objects. Jaime Gil organizes and codifies letters taken from graffiti and developed into a collective logo for mototaxis, the triple border’s most popular mode of transportation. He calls the resulting typography Triple fuente (because it uses signs from three sides of the border.) Also, the artist makes a photographic record of the adaptation and use made by the moto-taxi drivers of the material distributed, building a large panel with the typography he created and photographs of the moto-taxis. Minerva Cuevas participates in the Tres Fronteras segment with a video about ecological issues in the triple border, paying tribute to the figure of scientist and writer Moisés Bertoni (the Wise Man) an emblematic figure who lived in the region and left an important legacy of research in the area’s meteorology, agronomy, biology, and cartography. Among the monographic shows at the 6th Mercosur Biennial it is important to highlight the one devoted to the work of Argentinean artist Jorge Macchi. This exhibition was held in the Santander Cultural building and presented a profile of his career and interests over close to twenty years. Seventy works were exhibited, among DVDs, installations, photographs, drawings, prints, gouaches, cut-ups, and mixed-techniques. Macchi’s work is conceptual, projecting reflections about the poetic potential of everyday life. For example, one highlight is 32 Water Pieces (1994) in which the artist cuts out of several maps the sections representing rivers and attaches them