Matias Duville
Hogar, 2011. Instalation. Junin, Buenos Aires (Beca Guggenheim)
Trayecto, 2010. Charcoal and pastel on paper. 150 x 323 cm.
My pool, my mind, 2004. Ink on silk. 50 x 90 cms
Untitled, 2019. Sanguine on paper. 188 x 188 cm.
Arena Parking, 2016. Asphalt pavement. Miami Art Basel Public. Collins Park Miami USA
Parque osamenta, 2015. Helmet and salt (detail). Ph: @Edouard_Fraipont
Sin título, 2013. Charcoal on paper. 150 x 215 cms
Projection, 2012. Charcoal on paper. 188 x 364 cms
Untitled, 2007. Charcoal on paper. 150 x 230 cms
Untitled, 2010. Charcoal on paper. 150 x 250 cms
Untitled, 2008. Charcoal and pastel on paper. 150 x 343 cm.
Explorer (detail), 2021. Iron chain. Variable dimensiones.
[Front] Un fondo en cumbre, 2019-2020. Iron and salt. Variable dimensions. [Back] Picadero, 2021. Charcoal on Tyvek. 3,5 x 7,5 m.
Untitled, 2011. Oil bar and pastel on paper. 44 x 64 cms. Ph: @Edouard_Fraipont
Death Clock, 2011. Acrylic on hardboard. 244 x 488 cms
Espíritu guardián, 2008. Acrylic on hardboard. 244 x 366 cms
Untitled, 2011. Oil bar and pastel on paper. 56 x 76 cms. Ph: @Edouard_Fraipont
El anzuelo, 2022. Concrete and stainless steel. 24,7 x 24,7 m.
Piscina, 2006. Ink on silk. 43 x 47 cm.
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Matías Duville (Buenos Aires, 1974) works with objects, videos and installations, although his production has mainly grown out of drawing. His works evoke scenes of desolation with rarified, timeless atmospheres like those that precede a natural disaster: hurricanes, tsunamis or scenes of abandonment in a forest that represent a dreamlike vision of a wandering explorer, like a mental landscape. Duville’s work is characterized by experimentation with different mediums and materials. With his expressive strokes and procedures which reveal certain brutality, he modifies the surface by leaving traces in the representation, marks which blend the nature of matter with the landscape. The tension between opposites, mutation and time are some of the subjects that feature in his most recent works. He lives and works between Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata.
Duville was selected to represent the country at the Argentine Pavilion at the Venice Biennial 2026 with his project Monitor Yin Yang, curated by Josefina Barcia. Highlights of his solo shows include Vertices of time (BARRO, New York, 2024), El fondo inestable (BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2023), Arena Parking (Fundação Getulio Vargas, Río de Janeiro, 2021), Hotel Palmera (Colección Fortabat, Buenos Aires, 2020), Desert means ocean (MOLAA, Los Angeles, 2019), Projection Soul (Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, 2019), Romance atómico (BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2017), The Valise Project (MoMA, New York, 2017), Arena Parking (Art Basel, Miami Beach, 2016; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2015), Mutações (MAM, Rio de Janeiro, 2015), Precipitar una especie (BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2014), Discard Geography (Ecole de Beaux Arts, Paris, 2013), Safari (Malba, Buenos Aires, 2013) and Alaska (Drawing Center, New York, 2013). Highlights of group shows in which he participated are Moderno y metamoderno and La trama sensible (Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2024), The Atlantic Ocean (Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo, 2024), What the night tells the day (Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, 2023), Beneath the surface, Behind the scenes (Heide Museum of Modern Art, Melbourne, 2023), rīvus, (Biennale of Sydney, 2022), Art in the field (Estadio Municipal Paulo Machado de Carvalho – Pacaembu, Sao Paulo, 2020), Nuestra América (Galeria Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo, 2019) and Disruptions (Art Basel Cities, Miami Beach, 2019).
exhibitions
Vertices of Time at BARRO NEW YORK
10.06.2024
Through his works, Duville invites viewers on a journey through desolate landscapes, imbued with rarefied and eternal atmospheres that seem to herald natural cataclysms or scenes of vital abandonment that suggest the dreamlike exploration of an absent observer. In his most recent works, themes such as duality, transformation, and the passage of time take center stage.
news
09.05.2026 MATÍAS DUVILLE
61º Biennale di Venezia
publications
Hogar. Matías Duville
KBB, Buenos Aires, 2015
Mutações, Matías Duville
MAM, Rio de Janeiro 2015
Fortune Bookie #3 Matias Duville + Eduardo Navarro
Editions du Livre, France 2011
Esto fue otro lugar. Matías Duville
KBB, Buenos Aires, 2011
Matías Duville, Obras 2000 – 2007
Buenos Aires, 2007
Alaska, Matías Duville
The Drawing Center, New York, 2006
links
César Aira, “Una repentina sensación de poesía”, Página 12, Buenos Aires, 2020.
Santiago García Navarro, “Extracción del vacío”, Rio de Janeiro, 2012. Text accompanying the exhibition Safari, Malba.
Sonia Becce, “Whistle”, Buenos Aires, 2011. Interview on the occasion of the exhibition Whistle. Galería Nueveochenta, Bogota, Colombia.
María Gainza, “¿Dr. Duville, supongo?”, Buenos Aires, 2010. Published in the Matías Duville edition, Esto fue otro lugar.
Eva Grinstein, “Historias de intemperie. Drawings and paintings by Matías Duville”, Arte al Día, Buenos Aires, 2008.
