Notes related to Argentina

On February 16^th, the exhibition "Una colección, dos cartas y un meteoro" (A Collection, Two Letters and a Meteor) was inaugurated at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires) with the work of artist Cristian Segura and curatorship by art historian María Guadalupe Suasnábar. The exhibition revalues ​​the sculpture Météore (1981) by Alicia Penalba (San Pedro, 1913-París, 1982) through an installation by Segura (Tandil, 1976) about the letters exchanged between Penalba and those responsible for the Torcuato Di Tella Institute between 1961 and 1962.

Heller's proposal has been selected from more than 30 preliminary projects presented in an open call through the Argentine Foreign Ministry and consists of a multi-channel 3D animation video installation. The curator of the exhibition is Alejo Ponce de León.

The MACA (Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art) hosts until mid-April the great exhibition entitled Gráfica Encapsulada (Encapsulated Graphics) by the Argentine artist León Ferrari. The show features a series of works dating back to the 1980s.

"The ruins in their singularity are the most living thing in history, since only what has survived its destruction, what has remained in ruins, lives historically," says María Zambrano. Jorge Scrimaglio, Argentine architect, is a builder who appeals to that spirit that Kahn defined in the same sense: “you have to surround buildings with ruins”. And a building that appeals to be a ruin, with walls that are not such, that house emptiness and serve as support to a sense that extends triumphant; as a way of survival, not from what it was, but from what it did not become. Empty as absence. Making concrete a possibility not yet realized, like the life of the ruins that are indefinite and more than any other spectacle awakens in the mind of those who contemplate them the impression of an infinity.

The exhibition includes this piece by Argentine artist Minujín which exposes a meta-narrative of the art world and other spheres, their different agents and interrelations.

Almost 51 years after the inauguration of an artwork that extolled communication and symbiosis between non-human living beings, science has now come to reinforce and update artistic concepts, with the reversion of an exhibition by the renowned Argentine artist Carlos Ginzburg. The conceptual and theoretical artist returned to Buenos Aires with the exhibition "MYCORHIZES: Trees communicate with each other through an ecological internet formed by the root-fungus symbiosis". The exhibition takes place within the framework of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South (BIENALSUR 2021), and can be visited at the MUNTREF Sede Hotel de Inmigrantes, kilometer 0 of the international biennial that emerged at the University of Tres de Febrero in Argentina and is held in 50 cities around the world.

-With an experience of more than fifteen years bringing Latin American art to the world, we unify our art and photography fairs, and our cooperation and integration programs, under the Pinta brand; renewing our purpose of highlighting and enhancing the talent of emerging and established artists linked to the region.

The renowned Argentine artist Luis Felipe “Yuyo” Noé is also a part of BIENALSUR 2021, the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South, which emerged at Argentina’s Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero and is held in 124 venues in 24 countries around the world. The installation "Entreveros BIENALSUR / MUNTREF" can be visited in Buenos Aires, at the MUNTREF Centro de Arte Contemporáneo (at its Hotel de Inmigrantes venue), until the end of December.

At a Sotheby’s auction, the Argentine businessman and collector acquired Diego y yo (1949) for $ 34.8 million. Thus, the oil painting became the most expensive work in the history of Frida Kahlo, in the history of Latin American art, Mexican art and by a woman artist from the region.

The International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South, BIENALSUR 2021, arrives on November 10th and 17th at the Kirchner Cultural Center (CCK) with three exhibitions featuring works by almost 20 artists from America, Asia and Europe. The exhibitions analyze how information impacts on our subjectivities, and at the same time question the social, gender and ethnic inequalities that traditional historiography entails, drawing attention to the need to strengthen an ecological conscience in the face of our planet’s growing degradation.

El sábado 13 de noviembre a las 18hs en el Patio Bullrich, se inaugura este Pop up curado por Irene Gelfman y que se titula Aprendí que en un milímetro del cielo está todo el cielo. El evento es con entrada libre y gratuita, y musicalizado por la artista multidisciplinar Ely DD.

Gonzalo Maggi, in his photography, provides entity to a space that, although occupied, emanates a certain feeling of emptiness. By introducing a subject, an individual but metonymic form of existence, he gives architecture a meaning that exceeds its own ontology.

In order to promote the commercial and artistic opening of the country at an international level, the Ministry of Foreign Relations, International Trade and Culture of the Argentine Republic, the Consulate General and Promotion Center of Argentina in Miami, together with Arte al Día International and Pinta held an open call for Argentine emerging artists for an international online exhibition. Get to know the ten selected artists:

Two new exhibitions were presented last week in the framework of BIENALSUR, the international biennial of contemporary art that is held simultaneously in 124 venues in 50 cities around the world. In this case, the expo’s are held at the Enrique Udaondo Provincial Museum Complex in Luján (Province of Buenos Aires), and are dedicated to the native peoples of the American continent.

The arteba Foundation turned 30 years old and celebrated it with a face-to-face fair at Arenas Studios, La Boca neighborhood. arteba 2021 created a space where artists, gallery owners, collectors, curators, cultural references and a massive public converged on the southern part of the City of Buenos Aires.

“Pistas” (Clues would be the literal translation), inaugurated on October 27^th at the MUNTREF Artes Visuales Sede Caseros I, in Buenos Aires, is an exhibition that brings together works from the collections of the Emilio Pettorutti Provincial Museum of Fine Arts and the MUNTREF. The exhibition, curated by Diana Wechsler, seeks to trace some historical-artistic journeys of 20^th century Argentina, and includes works by such prominent artists as the Argentineans Emilio Pettorutti, Antonio Asís, César Paternosto, Alfredo Gramajo Gutiérrez, Ennio Iommi, Juan Melé, Pablo Páez, Javier Plano, Alejandro Puente, Víctor Rebuffo, Carlos Sessano, Clorindo Testa and Daniel Santoro, the Italians Juan Del Prete and Líbero Badíi, the Spanish Pompeyo Audivert and the German Anne-Marie Heinrich, among others.

The echoes of the bells from the Church of San Ignacio of Loyola, in Buenos Aires, resound on the stones of the old Manzana de las Luces historical complex, one of the last buildings from the colonial era that survive in the city’s historic center. The place, which through the centuries has been a convent, a Museum of Natural Sciences and even a Faculty, transpires hispanic barroqueness. It is now a museum without a permanent exhibition; it is, in its way, a monument of its own. In the courtyard, the spectator looks upwards and there stand the balconies of the old cloisters, higher up the glass and steel walls of the skyscrapers of the financial district and, poised on the museum’s ceiling, observing this ancient patio, an unwinged angel that looks out of place. And it is. Or maybe not.

Argentina Performance Art, with the support of the Centro Cultural Recoleta, organizes two days of debate, exchange and collective reflection on Argentine Performance Art. This discipline has seen exponential growth, nationally and internationally, both in its visibility and in its circulation and in its impact on the media in recent years. This is why Argentina Performance Art considers it essential to build room for reflection around this practice, focusing on the historicity of the discipline and its incidence today.

The City’s Ministry of Culture, together with the Visual Arts area, announced the programming of the Art Week, the event that turns the City into a large open-air contemporary art museum. From October 31 to November 7, more than 35 institutions and spaces in the City of Buenos Aires will be the center of the scene and will invite the public to meet the most innovative works of art, performances, exhibitions, concerts and to enjoy a wide program of activities for all audiences.

In the interest of paying tribute to one of the photographers who contributed in building Argentina's visual identity, Francisco Medail dedicated the Artista Homenaje section in BAphoto to Lucrecia Plat. Working with an extensive archive of portraits, conceptual photographs and the collaboration of Clara Nerone, Medail highlights the important role of archives in the conception and appreciation of contemporary art.

Fabiana Barreda's work, exhibited at BAphoto 2021 at the OdA Arte stand, amalgamates different cases and concepts within the idea of ​​space and the politics of feminism. With references to the great architectures, and to the female body as habitable and inhabiting, subjectivities are called into question and once again photography plays a catalytic role of simultaneous approach and estrangement.

The exhibition is the reflection of a series of paintings by Paz Bardi under a theme that is, at the same time, method. Taking time as a place, as a tool, and as a subject, the exhibition and its curatorship (by felisa) display a type of creation that can be summarized as: 1. Complicity 2. Fantastic architecture 3. Filtering and editing 4. Mediation

Gallery is the artistic circuit in Buenos Aires with the longest trajectory and with the greatest coverage, including the neighborhoods of La Boca (District of the Arts), Recoleta, Retiro, Palermo and Villa Crespo. Developed by Arte al Día, the Gallery circuit has been promoting its commitment to the local art scene for more than forty years.

Zurich, the No. 1 insurance company in Argentina, accompanied BAphoto with 2 special proposals for its 2021 edition, held between October 13 and 17 at Casa Basavilbaso in-person and with a virtual program.

BAphoto premiered the in-person season in Buenos Aires with its seventeenth edition and celebrated with a fantastic meeting. Artists, gallery owners, curators, collectors and photography lovers came together to exhibit and enjoy the best of photography. The fair featured the outstanding work of curators Francisco Medail, Bárbara Golubicki, Irene Gelfman, Florencia Battiti, Rodrigo Alonso, Verónica Santalla and Celina Marco.

Since 2015, Fuera de Foco (Out of Focus) is a solo projects section destined to the exploration of the different procedures, languages ​​and materialities that the photographic medium makes possible. With the aim of providing visibility to new generations of artists, Fuera de Foco invites three Argentine galleries to present an individual proposal, of an installation and experimental nature, promoting a territory open to dialogue with other disciplines that can enrich and generate new experiences aesthetic.

In this long-awaited edition, the outstanding photographer in Artista Homenaje is Lucrecia Plat from Argentina. Curated by Francisco Medail, the exhibition covers a large part of Plat's production in her forty years of work, among which the series of intimate portraits of Alejandra Pizarnik and the nocturnal records of the Buenos Aires elite stand out.

El Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores, Comercio Internacional y Culto de la República Argentina convoca a artistas visuales argentinos a participar de la Misión Comercial  “Espacio Artistas Emergentes Argentinos”. Aquellos seleccionados serán invitados a exhibir internacionalmente y recibirán asistencia técnica por parte de la Cancillería.

For the first time in its history, the longest running Latin American photography fair that can be visited from October 13 to 17, combines its classic in-person edition with a special online program where national and international art coexist. Located at Casa Basavilbaso, the long-awaited reunion will be complemented by an online program that includes Live Talks, Open Files and guided tours.

The work of Carola Zech, Argentinian artist of German descent, arrived, starting September 25th, at the German Embassy in Buenos Aires. A site-specific intervention, “Al azar del viento” (At the wind’s random will) is curated by Diana Weschler, also of German descent, and can be visited until November 28th as part of BIENALSUR 2021’s expositions.