A space occupied by different expressions, part of the work and its artistic universe, as well as the art expressions of Félix Toranzos, who lives in the Other House of Asterión.
Located about 15 de Agosto on Oliva 638, the building dates from 1898 and is part of a larger house with three exits to the aforementioned streets and Estrella. Its original owner was Spanish Andrés Luces, a ship mechanic who settled in Asunción after setting up port projects in Buenos Aires and Montevideo, using it as a vantage point to observe the capital’s bay.
It was designed by the Italian architect Giovanni Colombo, who was responsible for designing our iconic buildings such as the Iglesia de la Encarnación and the recently restored Hotel Palmaroga. It was part of the architectural cultural heritage of the historic center of Asunción.
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Photo: Rodrigo Villamayoro
Labyrinth. The number given to the space extended to an exhibition in the Museo del Barro, alluding to the content of the status of visual artist Félix Toranzos. While the realization is discussed, the managers of the cultural establishment decide that the exhibition has maze-like spaces. He recorded a story by Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges called La casa de Asterion.
“Asterion is the fictional image of a character who lives in his destiny, with everything, with his whole world,” explains Toranzos, explaining that the exhibition “is not about an artist’s exhibition, but about how the artist interprets his world.” recreated, full of works of art, objects that have truly inspired his entire career.” †
Therefore, he devoted himself to making his name to deviate from this experience. This one other star house After admiring this place, he decided to place part of his collection in this space, where there is a strangeness that shows that he must live.
“When I come up, I find a detail, a graffiti made by a boy who says ‘Portrait of Félix’. “It was destiny to be in this house or to ever pass through it, and so I rebuilt the world of Asterion from another angle, from another place, and to another horizon.”
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Photo: Rodrigo Villamayoro
objects. Thus, the artist explains that as soon as he enters the house for the first time, he visualizes his collection scattered throughout the space and then lives for three months with the emptiness of the space. “Before I started placing objects, I came to visit him, to live in silence; They filled it up little by little,” he says.
Balloons, animals, busts, bodies, movements, expressions, skeletons, boxes, containers, jars and furniture are combined between paintings, engravings, portraits and sculptures made of wood, cement, paper and glass on the walls, tables. , in closets, in hallways, everywhere.
“There are constantly new characters in the collection, relics. Objects come alone and sometimes I come across them along the way. Some are donations, every object found here belongs to someone or something, it must have its own past, coexistence, nights and late hours; Félix Toranzos talked about the pieces of his collection that he shared with the public as he opened the doors of Asterion’s Other House, which made history known.
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Photo: Rodrigo Villamayoro
Paintings, sculptures, engravings and many other objects that are part of the life and career of visual artist Félix Toranzos occupy the spaces of a space in the heart of downtown Asunción.
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Location: Oliva 638, almost August 15.
Visits: Monday to Friday, 3:30 PM to 7:00 PM, pre-scheduled (0981) to 907-657.
Source: Ulti Mahora
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