PARQUE DE INNOVACIÓN inaugurated +54Lab, a coworking building and “Arbórea Magna”, a monumental sculpture that invites the public to be part of this new space in the City of Buenos Aires.
Yesterday, the Innovation Park presented two new proposals in the recently inaugurated premises: a coworking building and a new monumental sculpture that can be visited through free guided tours starting on November 25, Saturdays at 6 pm.
The Innovation Park is a 12-hectare site in the City of Buenos Aires that promotes the activities of entrepreneurs, students and researchers, facilitating meetings between them and generating synergies with innovative public and private institutions in Argentina and the world, with a special focus on education, health and frontier technologies.
In May 2023 it inaugurated its public space, in August the Immersivity Center, and this week it presents +54Lab, the coworking building with offices and labs for science and technology startups. This space has an open design and agile construction, designed for technology startups to occupy the first floor and those specialized in life sciences to inhabit the laboratories on the upper floor. A hydroponic vegetable garden combining different technologies will be installed on the terrace. Shared spaces will include a multifunctional dining room, meeting rooms and common areas to facilitate development and networking among these startups.
“Here is the future. This space will be a before and after for hundreds of young people who will have a place to develop their potential. We designed it to facilitate the meeting of entrepreneurs, students and researchers,” said Rodríguez Larreta.
Jorge Macri, meanwhile, said: “The Innovation Park is a clear demonstration of our commitment to adapt to the times. We want Buenos Aires to look to the future, giving our young people the possibility of projecting themselves to the world from here, and also to many digital nomads to choose us to live while working remotely. As I always say, here we do not have lithium, renewable energies or oil, but we have something much more valuable: human capital. Millions of people who want to improve themselves and go for more every day. That is why we work to give them all the tools they need. We are convinced that if they do well, the City will do even better. We will continue to move in this direction during the next four years, because we still have great challenges ahead of us, and we must face them all together”.
Luis Bullrich, president of the Innovation Park, presented this new space and shared its spirit: “+54 Lab is the coworking space with laboratories designed to promote and link the most innovative projects in the country, facilitating the development of solutions to the main dilemmas of today and the future”.
The purpose of a park with these characteristics is to attract the installation of companies, universities (UTN, UBA, ITBA and Di Tella will be present in the place), entrepreneurs, investors and, of course, the neighbors and visitors of our city. In this way, through a modern design, with first class infrastructure and many green areas and meeting spaces, it facilitates that enriching connection that promotes the economic development of the city and the country.
Art also has its place in the Innovation Park with the work Arborea Magna by Argentine artist Nicola Costantino (Rosario, 1968). It is a monumental sculpture that seeks to become a cultural icon of Buenos Aires: a distinctive and representative piece of the citizens, capable of providing identity and a sense of belonging. Arborea Magna The aim is to generate a reflection on the relationship between human beings and nature, both for today and for future generations.
The purpose of this sculpture is to guarantee a new accessible space for reflection and meeting between public and private institutions and neighbors, promoting dialogue based on art; and to continue encouraging the incorporation of visual arts in the urban environment with proposals that explore the link between art, design and architecture in the local context, in order to promote tourism in the city. An educational plan will be promoted around the work, including training activities and workshops, to develop other possible horizons of interpretation and learning.
“Today I want to stop time, to freeze the beauty that emerges from the colored muds, with a millenary technique that has not been overcome with any plastic material. Nature silently takes back what belongs to it, if we are not part of that, we will not be part of what will survive,” reflects Costantino.
Visitors will be able to enjoy free tours every Saturday from November 25 at 6 p.m., led by Evelyn Marquez, teacher and Lic. in Art and Culture Management, to learn in depth and in a playful way about the monumental sculpture and all that the Innovation Park has to offer.
In addition, there will be downloadable didactic booklets for children from 5-12 years old for use in classrooms and families. The pedagogical material was designed by Laura Ferreiros, Bachelor of Visual Arts with a major in Sculpture from UNA, National Master of Ceramics and Specialist in Education through Art.
About Nicola Costantino
Nicola Costantino was born in Rosario in 1964. She lives and works in Buenos Aires. A sculptor by training, her pieces combine an acute beauty with a discomfort that is difficult to resolve. Food is present from her earliest works and reappears from her work on The Garden of Earthly Delights by El Bosco. His banquets are enriched by a new ceramic art project inspired by the vegetable universe. Cochon sur canapé (1992), is considered a precursor of Latin American contemporary art. In 1998, she represented Argentina at the São Paulo Biennial, and since then she has participated in numerous exhibitions in museums around the world, including Liverpool (1999), Tel Aviv (2002) and Zurich (2011).
In 2000, he had a solo show at Deitch Projects (New York) and his Corset of human fur became part of the MOMA collection. In 2004, he presented Animal Motion Planet and Savon de Corps. In 2006, he entered the world of photography, with more than 30 works in which he is a constant protagonist. Within this framework, she created her first video: the self-referential work Tráiler (2010), and personified paradigmatic women such as Eva Perón in Rapsodia Inconclusa (55th Venice Biennale, 2013). During the pandemic the artist researches the Japanese technique called neriage nerikomi, desarrollada en diferentes proyectos expositivos, tales como PaRDeS, el jardín del tiempo suspendido en Fundación Santander (2023). En octubre de 2023 la artista estrena Artista Ex Machina, la primera obra escénica, realizada en Teatro Colón.
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