VEGETAL MEMORY. EXHIBITION OF THE COLLECTION ROBERT BRENDEL MUSEUM OF PHARMACOBOTANY JUAN A. DOMÍNGUEZ DE LA FFYB/UBA

Botany, as a concept of the vegetable, can be apprehended from multiple forms, where each specific approach implies a conceptual cut and afterwards a material cut from the natural field. The botanical way of seeing in a scientific key anchors nature in a rationalist sense, with which the world is ordered from geometry in space and its quantifying relationships. Its openness to the sensual, perceptive and eloquent remains, fundamentally, in the hands of contemporary art and florists, who, illuminating areas of mystery, show perhaps plausible regions to be investigated by an adventurous scientific program. Art illuminates the mystery of the natural where science will then attempt a rational explanation.

The Brendel collection of paper mache designed for botanical studies (Germany XIX century), recontextualized in the Center of Art and Nature of Muntref, together with the works of Azuma Makoto (Japan) and Rita Fischer (Uruguay), articulates naturalism, science, didactics, contemporary art, floral arrangement, and the theater of memory. In this way, it subverts the constraint that disciplinary boundaries impose on nature, tracing unsuspected bridges of meaning between different languages, spaces and times. Futuristic botanical sculptures of Japanese sensibility fade tenuously over a historical vegetal naturalism of nineteenth-century German paper mache, which frolicks invigorated in the shadow of chance and the need for a rhizomatic installation of unmarked oriental Rioplatense perception.

The multiple vision on the possibilities of the botanical of our land fertilizes the construction of an inclusive world; through the migration in the ways of seeing and apprehending the natural, the dialogue between different logics of thought is stimulated, which propitiates a cultural field of cultivation apt for a beneficial biosocial co-evolution.

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