María Gainza

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María Gainza


Born
in Buenos Aires, Argentina
December 25, 1975

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María Gainza nació en Buenos Aires. Trabajó en la corresponsalía de The New York Times en Buenos Aires y fue corresponsal de ArtNews. Durante más de diez años fue colaboradora regular de la revista Artforum y del suplemento Radar del diario Pági­na/12. Ha dictado cursos para artistas y talleres de crítica de arte, y fue coeditora de la colección sobre arte argentino «Los Sentidos», de Adriana Hidalgo Editora. En 2011 publicó Textos elegidos, una selec­ción de sus notas y ensayos sobre arte argentino. El nervio óptico, su primera incursión en la narrativa, ha sido traducida a diez idiomas y fue recibida con entusiasmo por la crítica: «Flamante primera no­vela» (Ana Wajszczuk, Página/12); «Se cuenta entre lo más trascendental (amén de íntimo ...more

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El nervio óptico

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Un imperio por otro

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Una vida crítica

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Textos elegidos, 2003-2010

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“Isn’t all artwork—or all decent art—a mirror? Might a great painting not even reformulate the question what is it about to what am I about? Isn’t theory also in some sense always autobiography?”
María Gainza, El nervio óptico

“I never used to resort to quotations very much but in these past months I have read like a convict—yes, a convict, that’s the word. I have also realized that being good with quotations means avoiding having to think for oneself.”
María Gainza, El nervio óptico

“Memory edits things, colours them, mixes cement with the rainbow, does whatever's needed to make the story work.”
María Gainza, Portrait of an Unknown Lady
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