Faivovich & Goldberg

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Faivovich & Goldberg is an Argentine artist duo that has been working on the A Guide to Campo del Cielo project since 2006 .

Guillermo Faivovich (* 1977 in Buenos Aires ) and Nicolás Goldberg (* 1978 in Paris ) live in Buenos Aires. Try the eventful history of each about 4000 years ago when a meteor stream on the Campo del Cielo chosen meteorite to trace.

In search of the iron meteorite Mesón de Fierro , which was first mentioned by Spanish conquistadors in 1576 , but which could not be found on Campo del Cielo, they expanded their research in libraries, archives and collections around the world. In 2017 Faivovich & Goldberg discovered a 19-gram fragment in the meteorite collection of the Natural History Museum Vienna , which, due to its nature, they could quite convincingly associate with Mesón de Fierro .

The El Chaco meteorite, discovered by a farmer in 1962 , was cut up between 1965 and 1966 at the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry in Mainz. A process that involved three countries (Argentina, USA, and Germany). In their exhibition Meteorit “El Taco” in 2010 Faivovich & Goldberg combined the two halves in the portico .

El Chaco was exhibited during dOCUMENTA (13) on Friedrichsplatz in Kassel.

Individual evidence

  1. Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary ephemeropteræ 2017 / # 9 - Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg accessed on February 3, 2019 (English)
  2. Natural History Museum Vienna Faivovich & Goldberg: In Search of Mesón de Fierro , accessed on February 3, 2019.
  3. e-flux September 22, 2010 - Portikus - Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolas Goldberg , accessed on February 3, 2019.
  4. dOCUMENTA (13). The accompanying book / The Guidebook. Catalog 3/3., Page 60, 2012, ISBN 978-3-7757-2954-3