Chacabuco 551
San Telmo APPETITE está abierto al público de lunes a sábados de 14 a 19hs
APPETITE is open from Monday to Saturday
2 to 7 pm
APPETITE NY:
538 Johnson Ave. #406 - Brooklyn, New York
chacabuco 551 (APPETITE)
San Telmo - C.P. 1095
Buenos Aires Argentina APPETITE NY
538 Johnson Ave. #406 - Brooklyn, New York
with appointment only
tel NY: 347-496-8475
or email: appetite.ny@gmail.com
get on the list for the and special events
Scruffy galleries have gone up along the city ’s edges, most notably Appetite, an irreverent, punk-inflected gallery in San Telmo started by Daniela Luna, a feisty 30-year-old known for her shrewd eye and cool parties. On a steamy Thursday afternoon, as office workers were climbing aboard buses back home, Ms. Luna was flitting through her grungy gallery in a brown miniskirt and sparkly pink T-shirt, like a teenager in a vintage clothing store.
“My first gallery was so messy that when people came to my parties, they didn’t know if the stuff was art or trash,” Ms. Luna said, as she showed off works by Santiago Iturralde, a local artist who paints portraits of narcissistic young men based on their Facebook-like Web profiles. “We’re growing fast and furious.” So fast, in fact, that she is exporting her cheeky blend of trash art to the real Brooklyn, where she just opened a small gallery.
Her gallery will get additional exposure in Milan when the contemporary art fair, MiArt 2008, spotlights emerging Buenos Aires artists in April. Adriana Forconi, a jet-settling consultant to the art fair, was in town recently to scout for worthy galleries, and was struck by what she calls the city’s “frenetic and blissfully chaotic” pace.
by Denny Lee
New York Times
15/03/08
Appetite is a gold mine of innovative,
grotesque and erotic artwork, hidden
away in the less glamorous side of
San Telmo. Forfeiting the safe in
favour of risky experimentation, its
frenetic creativity is rapidly gaining
momentum in Argentina and beyond.
[...] To find Appetite , an avant-garde gallery that everyone I met recommended, I had to return to one of San Telmo's less atmospheric blocks. Pop-punk exuberance is Appetite's stock in trade, its walls (and floors) are covered in a profusion of styles [...]
diciembre 2006 - Rolling Stone
por Marina Mariasch ver + prensa
“Cuando toda la movida arte-gastronómica parecía estar instalándose en el Palermo-anteojos-grandes-y-zapatillas-de-estrella, el torbellino Daniela Luna abrió apetito con una galería en San Telmo y de a poco fue copando el barrio y trasladando la escena. [...]"
"Daniela Luna contradice las leyes astronómicas, tiene la Tierra a sus pies y en tormo a su galería/planeta orbitan muchos de los nuevos buenos artistas. Y APPETITE tiene en su haber un premio indiscutible: las mejores inauguraciones de Buenos Aires. Haciendo del exceso y la experimentación su grita de guerra. [...]"
