Journey, 1983

That is the case in Who Am I?, which the following year becomes part of the collection of the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes de La Plata (“Provincial Museum of Fine Arts of the city of La Plata”).

In Wrong way – also known as Crucifixion – a criollo grill, a two-bar cross used to cook whole lambs, makes explicit reference to the meat-eating and, implicitly, to the violent traditions of an Argentina seen as a slaughter house. Slaughter and its implements are a metaphor for historical repetitions, all the more relevant at the time of the painful consequences of the Falklands War (1982).

With the same group of artists as the previous year, he takes part in Escultura III (“Sculpture III”), at the Galería del Buen Ayre, during the Jornadas de la Crítica ’83. The impressive The Ship becomes the centre of the exhibition space.

As a exercise in self-discipline, and as a reaction to the strongly expressive and heart-rending elements in the sculptures representing guts and bones, Gómez makes scaled-down