Argentine-American artist Beatriz Gerenstein (Argentina, 1953) provides insight into the evolution and poetic discursive sinuosity of an art form she has pursued both nationally and internationally for the last few years.
A new poetry of  the sculpted figure manifests itself alongside the transitions that the artist undertakes from a figurative dialogue to a more object centered visual language. In the artist’s imaginary world, beings ascend way up high and, at times descend to the ground, canvassing spaces and then submerging into form. They are vested with a curiosity to decipher the enigmas as if mysteries awaited in a dangerous journey towards the unknown. This manner of staging is further accentuated by a systematic use of symbols such as stairs, trees, and spheres which in turn interact with anthropomorphic figures, to generate a fictional narrative in the artist’s autobiographical voice. The human form, albeit minimized in relation to the object is, at the same time, explicit. The message is thus privileged with a level of human sensitivity that fills us with hope.
Beatriz Gerenstein also reveals in her art, a tendency to displace her figurative elements, or at the very least make them yield, towards the more object-like characters. We witness how, in the progressive development of a tense [dis] balance between objects and subject, between matter and being, the very figurative presence –the figurative concept- surrenders to the object. These are works that have their expressive esthetic subject displaced from the figurative anthropomorphism towards symbols of form and a more formal construct of space, which are more geometric. The artworks here have been stripped of tridimensional narrative elements so as not to detract from the objective form itself. And although the symbolic meaning of these objects has its own narrative, that narrative emanates not from figurative elements but from minimalist sculptural forms.
At the very core of Beatriz Gerenstein’s work –most especially her figurative works - there lies a profound humanism that has been wrought from personal reflection about social problems and the human condition; the mysteries of being; the desire to exist and to love

Dennys Matos.