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. For more than ten years she had been a regular contributor to Artforum magazine. 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]

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

Optic Nerve (Spanish: El nervio óptico), her first foray into narrative, has been translated into ten languages.[3][4] In 2018 she published The Black Light (Spanish: La luz negra), which deals with the art market.[5]

In 2017 she won the Konex Award in the Visual Arts category.[6]

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

Literary works
  • Textos elegidos, 2011 Editorial Capital Intelectual
  • El nervio óptico, Editorial Mansalva, 2014. English translation: Optic Nerve, Harvill Secker/Catapult, 2019.
  • La luz negra, Editorial Anagrama, 2018[7]

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 requires |journal= (help)
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. Pomeraniec, Hinde (December 27, 2018). "María Gainza: "Siempre sentí que quería calle; si no, no hubiera podido escribir"". Infobae. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  6. "Se entregaron los Konex 2017: premiaron a un periodista de La Voz". La Voz (in Spanish). September 12, 2017. Retrieved August 21, 2019.
  7. Gainza, Maria: La luz negra. Editorial: Anagrama, 10 de octubre de 2018 – 144 pag. ISBN 978-84-339-9863-7
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