Bony Bullrich

Héctor Guillermo "Bony" Bullrich (born 1964) is a lawyer, aviator, entrepreneur and conceptual artist. In his first three years as an artist, Bullrich developed four projects: Free Zones, Neo-XVIII-ism, the art direction of "Alvear Fashion and Arts" and "Demonstrations over a red carpet".

His first known artistic intervention took place in the fourth edition of Alvear Fashion & Arts in 2006. He was the curator of the show where spontaneously the social and political leader Raul Castells, who heads the Independent Movement of Pensioners and Unemployed (MIJD), organized a demonstration against it. Castells organized a popular pot against child malnutrition and slave labor while Bony invited him to visit the exhibition.

Infancy

Bullrich was born on December 7, 1964 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Son of professor, writer and businesswoman Nieves Bosco de Bullrich and grandson of Beatriz Bibiloni Webster de Bullrich, the woman who inspired Jorge Luis Borges to write his two only poems in English.He is the only descendant of Juan Antonio Bibiloni, author of the bill to reform the civil code in 1926 and Justice Minister, in the presidency of José Figueroa Alcorta. In honor to his legacy the side street of the school of Law of the University of Buenos Aires, bears his name.

Early works

Bullrich is a lawyer, graduated at the school of law of the University of Buenos Aires in 1987. He graduated a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at Dowling College, United States. He arrived to New York when he was twenty two years old with an H1 Visa to work as a professor of Social Studies for the New York City Board of Education, which granted him his USA green card. After completion of the immigration procedure he became a market analyst for air transport in North America and the Caribbean, UNDP project consultant (United Nations Development Programme) in Argentina, Venezuela and Uzbekistan.

Artistic stage

Back in Buenos Aires where he settled in 2001 one year after his first exhibition he curated "Alvear Fashion and Arts", he exhibited at the Museum of Plastic Arts Eduardo Sívori for Amnesty International, at the National Museum of Decorative Art in a retrospective of the 20th century curated by Alberto Otero for the 25th anniversary of D&D magazine, at the Metropolitan Museum of Buenos Aires, at the Museum of Art of Tiger, (DARA), intervened UNHCR refugees in the Streets of the city of Buenos Aires, he exhibited his work "Diamond with a necklace" at the Republic Square (where is the obelisk in 9 de Julio Avenue) for the International Day of gender violence. He also exhibited at the Arts Pavilion. His performance "Assembly" where Recoleta's neighbors (the most expensive neighborhood of Buenos Aires) marched in the streets as picketers was considered "historic" by the newspaper "La Nación" (The local New York Times) and the international press including the BBC (Turkey). In the Pavilion of Fine Arts at the Catholic University of Argentina, President Mauricio Macri and First Lady Juliana Awada, chose the thrones of Bullrich for a photo for the press at the opening night of the exhibition. The installation is called "Two Rubber thrones and the packed supreme power". Since it was three years before he was elected, while he was governor of Buenos Aires, Bullrich renamed the installation with the name: "The Oracle of Bony" on November 22, 2015, when he won the historic two-round system.He discovered that his grandmother Beatriz Bibiloni Webster de Bullrich inspired the English poems written by Jorge Luis Borges and to whom he dedicated them. Even that the writer Adolfo Bioy Casares misrepresented reality because in his book "Borges" he publishes the most intimate secrets of the artist's family, even the suicide of his aunt Sara Bibiloni Webster de De Marchi Roca.

Inspired in this story, he created the scenario: "The bedroom of his grandmother Beatriz" (when Borges was in love with her) in a performance with the presence of Maria Kodama (Borges's wife) he sends a letter to his grandmother to the world of the dead where he tells her of the betrayal of the writer.

His most controversial performance was: "Who is the Minotaur?" The absurd is one of the vehicles to approach it that collides with other axes and that is his intention. In the performance (which is also a fact) he accepts to participate in the elections for mayor of Buenos Aires for the MIJD led by Raul Castells, who elected Bullrich in an assembly of thousands of members. Six months before he was elected in the assembly they made a picket against Alvear Fashion and Arts when Bullrich was curator and Raul Castells, the picketer leader called him an oligarch and a nazi. Castells and Bullrich engaged in a creative friendship. With Cristina Dompe and other social organizations created together "Demonstrations over a red carpet": Itinerating Museums with work lent by corporations of worldwide master Antonio Berni, Carlos Alonso and Benito Quinquela Martín among others in the streets, with the Kennedy chorus, and other popular artists. In less than six months went from being hated to elected by a large assembly to occupy the position of candidate to Vice Governor of the city of Buenos Aires. Alicia de Arteaga in an interview for the newspaper La Nación, cited above, on February 27, 2007, defined the encounter Bullrich-Castells as "an unexpected cultural bridge", which Marcos Aguinis in the best seller: "The atrocious charm of being Argentine II"(El atroz encanto de ser Argentinos II) believes that deserves support, the central news of canal 13 the most important channel of Argentina said that the project was a surprise, and the people in general where impressed by the union of two opposites of Argentinian society.