Workshop on Cultural Management Research for Artists II

Cristian Segura

 

Type of management definition. Mission statement and objectives.
His activity as an operator in the arts field has manifested in various ways both in the public and private sector.
Some of the activities that account for his work are: the position of Director of the Municipal Fine Arts Museum of Tandil, the compilation and edition of Victor Grippo’s book, “Reunion homenaje”(Homage Meeting) and the organization of the Biennial Venus Art, in Tandil 2003.
At present, he is an independent curator and so he is very much aware of the artistic situation so as to generate activities and projects that foster research, interpretation, diffusion, debate and reflection on Argentine Art as from the turning of the 20th Century to the current artistic expressions. As well as, any other artistic manifestation.

Internal organization. Human Resources.
At present, he works as an independent manager.
Between January 2001 and November 2002, he held the position of Director of the Fine Arts Museum of Tandil, he was responsible for a team of 18 people. He designed a working and updating plan on museum sciences that enabled the appraisal of the museum heritage and that tried to build up, in the community, a sense of museum appropriation.
His main management achievements are:
-Redefinition of his mission statement.
-Personnel learning was fostered to meet the museum needs and services.
-The people, the City Council, public and private institutions of Tandil got involved in the museum development plan through an appropriation process.
-Cooperation and helping relationships were developed with other museums and cultural institutions of the rest of the country to ease the exchange of experiences and knowledge.
-Dissemination of information and communication of the works and identity of the museum artistic asset was boosted and some didactical content activities were developed.
-Seasonal exhibitions, debates, workshops, seminars, lectures, book presentations, and movie screening programs were designed.
-The documentation of collections, suitable storage and the proper exhibition of objects was enhanced.
#Award “Hugo Pargpagnoli” to the Museum of the Year 2001. Argentine Association of Art Critics.


2003-2004 PROJECTS

PRESENTATION OF THE CURATORIAL PROJECT “ANALOGIES AND CONFRONTATIONS:
other dialogues in the Argentine Art”
This exhibition offers a journey along Argentine art to confront the past and today thus, encouraging a dialogue among art-works. The works date back as in the early 20th Century to the current art expressions. We expect to convene art experts as well as public in general. We put special emphasis on gearing this call to students of all ages.
The need to ponder and state different lines of investigation over the art of our country and giving visibility to the art works that are namely confined to the limits of private collections or museum depots give rise to this exhibition.
The artists taking part in this project are: Aizenberg, Roberto (b. 1928,d. 1996), Benedit, Luis Fernando (b.1937), Compagnucci, Andrés (b.1966), García Uriburu, Nicolás (b. 1937), Gramajo Gutiérrez, Alfredo (b.1893, d.1961), Kosice, Gyula (b. 1924), Lindner, Luis (b. 1966), Maccio, Rómulo (b.1931), Medici, Eduardo (b. 1949), Pacenza, Onofrio (b. 1904, d. 1971), Quinquela Martín, Benito (b. 1890, d.1977), Weiss de Rossi, Ana (b.1892, d.1953) among others.

ORGANIZER OF THE BIENNIAL OF ART “ VENUS”, TANDIL 2003*
From 27th February to 2nd March, 2003
Conceived with a very broad perspective, the biennial was aimed to grant an environment where artists could strengthen their ties horizontally, awake their critical spirit and sensitivity to various ways of expression and share different approaches.
During the Biennial more than 60 artists cooked, shared their daily meals and slept in common bedrooms. They helped each other in the making of their productions and discussed about aesthetic appreciation in long lasting talks that occurred everywhere in the house thus, strengthening the egalitarian and appropriation sense for the artistic community to which they belong.

VIRTUAL ART GALLERY. VICTOR GRIPPO: HIS WORKSHOP-HOME.
Opening: 2004
Cyber space in its new conception as a showroom.
The virtual exhibition of the Argentine artist Victor Grippo is under the axis of his workshop-home to have access to his works from a transversal point view. He expects to convene both art experts and public in general, and he highlights the fact of calling the attention and meeting the interests of the average internet user.
Locally, an international-like acknowledgement is owed to Victor Grippo. Through this site, we commit ourselves to repay such debt, giving his work, thoughts, ethical attitude and the due visibility.


CV CRISTIAN SEGURA
He was born in Tandil in 1976. He got a degree of National Master in Drawing, he is a student of museum sciences.
He is a fine artist, an independent curator and he has been a jury-member in many occasions. His training is vast and has attended several courses, congresses and seminars on various subjects. Between January 2001 and November 2002 he held the position of Director with the Fine Arts Museum in Tandil. For his management, he was awarded with the Prize Hugo Parpgnoli for the museum of the Year in the award session to Critic and Visual Arts 2001, granted by the International and Argentine Association of Art Critics. In 2001, he got a scholarship by the Foundation Antorchas and attended a seminar on Itinerant Exhibitions, in charge of Joe Madeira, of the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, in the United States. On the basis of the acquired knowledge he organized the exhibition “Heritage Exchange, Argentine Art of the 20Th Century in the Collection of the Fine Arts Museum of Tandil” that was showed at the Argentine Theatre of La Plata and Sivori Museum of Buenos Aires.
Some of his latest projects are: the publication of the book “Victor Grippo and the homage meeting” that gathers basic texts on the outstanding Argentine artist. Cristian compiled and was the author of one of the texts and the producer of the Venus Art Biennial , in Tandil 2003, jointly organized with the writer Jorge Di Paola.
In 1992, he got an honorable mention at the Biennial of the Museum of Contemporary Art of Bahia Blanca. Two years later, he got the First Prize acquisition. He got a scholarship in 2000 and in 2001 he attended programs on art-work analysis and production, organized by the Foundation Antorchas and some provincial institutions, with Jorge Macchi, Mauro Machado, Eduardo Medici, Sergio Bazán, Fabián Lebenglik, Julio Sánchez, Laura Batkis. His solo shows: Centro Cultural Recoleta (B.A. , 2001), Museum of Contemporary Art (Bahia Blanca, 2001), Fine Arts Museum (Tandil, 1995 and 1997), University of Belgrano (B.A., 1996) and among his group exhibitions in Argentina and abroad: Luias Pedrouzo Gallery (B.A., 2003), “El Club del Dibujo” (The Drawing Club) at the Teatro Auditorium of Mar del Plata, 2002; MOTP contemporary art (Mar del Plata, 2002) and Sigarenfabriek Gallery in Delft, Holland, 1999.


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Participants
Diego Trejo / Apeiron Zool Jorge Gutierrez / La Baulera
Casa 13 / Beatriz Scolamieri Sebastián Codeseira / Proyecto Venus
Julia Masvernat / Colectivo Terraza Amadeo Azar / MOPT
Cristian Segura Mauro Machado / Taller El Levante
Martín Molinaro / GURE AMETS Mariela Scafati / TPS