Maria Gainza

Maria Gainza (born December 25, 1975, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine art critic and writer.[1]

She is a granddaughter of Alberto Gainza Paz, who was director of the newspaper La Prensa.

She began publishing her first articles about art for newspapers and cultural supplements in 2003.She has been a regular contributor to Artforum magazine for more than ten years. She also wrote in the Radar supplement of the newspaper Página/12. She has taught courses for artists at the Center for Artistic Research and art criticism workshops at Torcuato di Tella University.[2] In 2017, she won the Konex Award in the Visual Arts category.[3]

She was co-editor of the collection on Argentine art "Los Sentidos", by Adriana Hidalgo Editora.

Optic Nerve (Spanish: El nervio óptico, published in 2014 by Editorial Mansalva), her first foray into narrative, has been translated into ten languages.[4][5]

In 2018, she published The Black Light (Spanish: La luz negra, published by Editorial Anagrama), a detective novel that deals with the art market and forgery through the lives of four women.[6]

In 2019 she received Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Prize for "La luz negra".

Literary works

Novels

  • The Optic Nerve (Catapult Press, 2022, trans. by Thomas Bunstead)
  • Portrait of An Unknown Lady (Catapult Press, 2022, trans. by Thomas Bunstead)

Poetry

  • Un imperio por otro (Editorial Mansalva, 2021)

Essays

  • Textos elegidos 2003-2010 (Capital Intelectual, 2011)
  • Una vida crítica (Clave Intelectual, 2020)

References

  1. ^ Wajszczuk, Ana (October 5, 2014). "Chica bien". Página 12 (in Spanish). Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  2. ^ Katzenstein, Inés (2014). "Programas del departamento de arte" (PDF) (in Spanish). Universidad Torcuato di Tella: 4, 9. Retrieved August 21, 2019. {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  3. ^ "Se entregaron los Konex 2017: premiaron a un periodista de La Voz". La Voz (in Spanish). September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  4. ^ Williams, John (April 18, 2019). "In 'Optic Nerve,' a Woman Trains a Sharp Eye on Art and Her Life". The New York Times. p. 25. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  5. ^ Gainza, María (May 18, 2018). "María Gainza y la curva de Cézanne". Clarín (in Spanish). Propietario Arte Gráfico Editorial Argentino S.A. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  6. ^ Pomeraniec, Hinde (December 27, 2018). "María Gainza: "Siempre sentí que quería calle; si no, no hubiera podido escribir"". Infobae. Retrieved August 21, 2019.