TWO NEW EXHIBITIONS AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART OF BUENOS AIRES
Valentina Quintero: A Day in the Life, the first institutional exhibition in Buenos Aires of the young artist from Mendoza, and Jorge Miño: The Fourth Wall, a proposal that redefines the relationship between photography and space, are exhibited at the Museo Moderno under the curatorship of Raúl Flores.
Valentina Quintero: A Day in the Life
Valentina Quintero (Mendoza, 1997), also known as Valentine, is a visual artist, performer, and singer. In this exhibition, the artist translates her experiences in performance, nightlife, and the affective and activist environments she inhabits into pictorial form. Her work takes shape in a series of large-scale drawings on black paper, where bodies and emotions pulse through every stroke. “A Day in the Life is the transfer of my memory as a performer—and of the collective—in life environments like parties, activism, and love, onto giant sheets of paper,” says Quintero.
The pace of her production is fast and intuitive, as if each piece emerged from the rhythm of an intense day. The technique, which recalls muralism in its monumental scale, is reinvented through an urban, electric aesthetic that combines sharp contrasts, shared desires, and a choreographic narrative in constant vibration. The exhibition also includes earlier works in various formats, where the continuity of a language that blends the intimate, the political, and the visual can be traced.
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Valentina Quintero en el Moderno. Foto: Josefina Tommasi. Cortesía del Museo de Arte Moderno
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Valentina Quintero, Portada LOCA, Óleo pastel y tiza sobre papel, 2024, Fotografía de Nicolás Dodi. Cortesía del Museo de Arte Moderno
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Valentina Quintero en el Moderno. Foto: Lola Vazquez Aparici. Cortesía del Museo de Arte Moderno
Jorge Miño: The Fourth Wall
In this exhibition, Jorge Miño (Corrientes, 1973) presents a body of work that pushes the boundaries of contemporary photography. His images, created between 2018 and 2024, explore architecture as a stage and position the viewer as an active participant in the work.
Recognized as one of the leading figures in contemporary Argentine photography, Miño constructs illusory realities through impossible angles, volumes that challenge perspective, and dynamic geometries that invite movement. His work inhabits a space of tension between the concrete and the mental, the real and the fictional, inviting a rethinking of space and its representation.
“The works in this exhibition suggest a situation that is about to happen, something on the verge of being revealed. The human figure is not visible, yet the protagonist—or accomplice—needed to complete the relationship with the piece is the viewer,” explains Miño.
The exhibition establishes a dialogue with the geometric abstraction found in the Museum’s collection, reinterpreting the modern legacy from a contemporary perspective.
Both exhibitions are on view through June 30, 2025, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Av. San Juan 350, San Telmo, Buenos Aires, (Argentina).
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