Notes related to Argentina

Argentine multidisciplinary artist Adriana Bustos presents her site-specific project entitled Genealogy of a Collection conceived for Viceversa, an exhibition project celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogotá (MAMBO).

Otumpa is the first exhibition of the artists Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg at the Museo Moderno in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Curated by Javier Villa.

Graphic Scores at PROA 21 presents, for the first time in Argentina, a selection of works by the Swiss-American artist Christian Marclay (1955), an unavoidable reference in the field of visual-sound experimentation.

Life(s) of Webs, arachnophobias, arachnophilias, and other stories is a permanent installation at Chiesa della Madonna del Carmine, Palazzo Lanfranchi by Tomás Saraceno, arrived in Matera, Italy with a project of the Matera Basilicata 2019 Foundation in collaboration with the National Museum of Matera.

Paisajes políticos (Political Landscapes) is an exhibition on the work of Carlos Trilnick. Curated by Marcela Römer, PROA presents a small group of photographs and video installations made between 1989 and 2019 that introduce the universe of this artist, curator, disseminator and teacher considered a pioneer of video art in Argentina and Latin America.

The exhibition From the Margins. Gumier Maier in the 80s, at the Museo de Bellas Artes, brings together nearly 90 paintings, drawings, illustrations, photographs, publications and documents from the early years of Jorge Gumier Maier's career (1953-2021). It is curated by Natalia Pineau.

MACBA presents the exhibition Obsceno (Obscene) by artist Pablo Siquier, curated by Rodrigo Alonso. It is a collection of works never seen before in Argentina, which are part of the museum's collection.

The exhibition Argentina. The night tells the day at Padiglione d’Arte Contemporantea (PAC) presents a selection of works created by more than twenty Argentinean artists of different generations over the last fifty years.

Argentine artist Trinidad Metz Brea is part of the 2023 edition of Pinta Miami, within the NEXT section that presents emerging artists from Latin America. In an interview with Arte al Día, she explores the contradictions and challenges of our present and how this is the seedbed for her sculptures, murals and post-human figures.   

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The Buenos Aires-based gallery Futbolitis is teaming up with (RE)BOOT, a new brand championing sustainability through sport, to present Tiempo Extra (Extra Time), an exhibition at Miami Design District.

The Jewish Museum will present the first exhibition in the United States of Marta Minujín, a defining force of Latin American art whose trajectory intersected with the major artistic developments of the postwar period while reflecting a singular spirit and vision infused by her sharp intellect, irreverent humor, and performative presence.

The Knop Foundation recently inaugurated an anthological exhibition, Legados (Legacy), consisting of thirty-five works by seventeen renowned representatives of twentieth-century Argentine art: Carmelo Arden Quin, Libero Badii, Martín Blaszko, Ary Brizzi, Pascual Buigues, Pablo Curatella Manes, Germaine Derbecq, Jorge Demirjian, Juan Del Prete, José Fioravanti, Magda Frank, Walter Gavito, Naum Knop, Rubén Locaso, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Miguel Ángel Vidal and Yente (Eugenia Crenovich).

Based on futuristic tales, Guadaloup Vilar created an entire universe where life and art are supported by death. Completely functional to organic and cohesive development, Guadaloup’s artworks and installations reshape the notion of expiration.

Installations, death and futurism coexist in this solo exhibition by the spatial artist Guadaloup Vilar. The Argentine artist presents her works and installations at the Greatorex Street space in London during September and October, within the framework of the Frieze fair.

Argentina Performance Art (APA), with the support of LATEA Theater and Grace Exhibition Space, will curate a three-night series to address critical and essential South American issues through the power of performance art.

The experience proposed by Martina Servio Olavide is composed of two parts, one that invokes dying and the other, as an organic counterpoint, living. The first, "dying", is represented by a non-naturalistic play, while the second, "living", manifests itself as an exhibition in an art gallery. Through these two dimensions, the artist challenges the viewer to question their understanding of self and others, and to explore a wide range of interpretations.

Brazilian gallery Casa Triângulo announced the representation or Argentine artist Matías Duville.

Rolf Art announced the opening of artist Verónica Meloni's solo exhibition Choiols, la huella del ñandú en el cielo (Choiols, the footprint of the rhea in the sky), curated by noted art critic and historian Cuauhtémoc Medina at Fundación Marso (Mexico City, Mexico).

Visual artist Luciana Lamothe, who works in different disciplines, was appointed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to represent the country at the 2024 artistic event.

Pinta BAphoto closed its 19th edition at La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. The fair specialized in photography –a unique format in Latin America– brought together artists, gallery owners, collectors and art lovers to explore the best of contemporary photography.

Video Project is the section of Pinta BAphoto dedicated exclusively to the moving image.  In its seventh edition, the common thread is the relationship of bodies with the environment and the notion that in every act of looking there is an expectation of meaning, where the important thing is not seeing, but the way we process and relate things. Tickets are available for Friday, September 29 and Saturday, September 30, and Sunday, October 1 at Ticketek.

Pinta BAphoto, the largest art fair specializing in photography in Latin America, is holding its 19th edition at La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Tickets for Friday, September 29, Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1 are available at Ticketek.

The 19th edition of Pinta BAphoto opened at La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina with emerging and established artists, unique curatorial proposals and more than 40 exhibiting galleries from Argentina and the world. Tickets for Friday, September 29, Saturday, September 30 and Sunday, October 1 are available at Ticketek.

María A. Iovino Moscarella has developed a recognized work in Colombian and Latin American art as a teacher, researcher, curator and advisor on cultural projects. In the 2023 edition of Pinta BAphoto, she is participating as curator of Special Project: Sources by Andrés Ramírez Gaviria. 

Foto Estudio Luisita is a photographic archive of Argentine show business that records, among many treasures, the golden age of revue theater.

From September 28 to October 1, Pinta BAphoto returns to La Rural, pabellón 8 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. An opportunity to discover the best of contemporary Latin American photography.

Joaquín Sánchez is a multidisciplinary artist whose work has been nurtured by the knowledge and skills of indigenous and popular communities in Bolivia and Paraguay, with whom he has been developing collaborative processes for more than two decades. His proposals, although they cover a wide spectrum of languages and discourses, recognize precise axes linked to the history and ancestral culture of the peoples that have long inhabited the territory that both countries disputed almost a century ago, as well as to his own history, in a sort of personal ethnography made of fragments of memory.

A new edition of Pinta BAphoto will be held in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from September 28 to October 1. With a return to La Rural as its main location, the 19th edition will feature the participation of projects that focus on historical photography.

The exhibition Conjeturas. Exploring art today, curated by Rodrigo Alonso, gathers pieces by Andrés Aizicovich, Sergio Avello, Elena Dahn, Iara Freiberg, Mauro Giaconi, Silvia Gurfein, Alicia Herrero, La Chola Poblete, Analía Sabán, Mariela Scafati, Alan Segal, Juan Sorrentino, Amparo Viau and Dolores Zinny & Juan Maidagan.

Materia is the new exhibition at Fundación Larivière by Argentine photographer Juan Travnik, recently awarded the National Lifetime Achievement Award 2022.