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Matias Duville


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. As a reference figure in local drawing, Duville’s work is characterised 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.

His most recent projects include Hotel Palmera curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro (Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Buenos Aires, 2020) Desert means ocean (MOLAA, Los Angeles, 2019), Projection Soul (Luisa Strina, São Paulo, 2019), Romance atómico (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2017), The Valise Project (MoMA, New York, 2017), Arena Parking (Art Basel, Miami, 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, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Paris, 2013), Safari (Malba, 2013) and Alaska, (Drawing Center, New York, 2013).Matías Duville’s works are part of many important collections such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York, Tate Modern of London, Centro de Arte Reina Sofìa in Madrid, Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Los Angeles, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros in New York; Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) in Perú; Museo de Arte Latinoamericano (Malba) in Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (Castagnino+macro) in Santa Fé. In 2016, Duville was part of the scholarship InclusArtis curated by Pablo León de la Barra (Río de Janeiro, 2018), LARA (Latin America Roaming Art, Galápagos, 2016), Sam Art Project (Paris, 2013), among others. He lives and works in Buenos Aires and Mar del Plata.

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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.

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27.12.2024 DUVILLE at Museo Mar

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




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GIRON y CANVAS at Museo Sívori

04.04.2025 Mónica GIRON and Nacha CANVAS participate in the group exhibition El aire vacilaba a su alrededor. Artistas latinoamericanas y sus poéticas del mundo, curated by Sofía Dourron. The exhibition proposes a reflection on how the notions of space, territory, and landscape are modulated by our bodies and, in turn, how our bodies are shaped by the environments that surround them.

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La Chola at CARA

15.03.2025 In Continents like seeds we can see how Poblete’s practice complicates how social and cultural identities are claimed, contested, or imposed without seeking resolution, but rather by opening conversations about life and transformation beyond inscribed territories. At CARA New York, until August 2025

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LIONTI at MALBA

14.03.2025 Fabril la mirada is Lucrecia Lionti's first solo show in a museum, curated by Carla Barbero and featuring an installation created especially for the exhibition. Fabril la mirada does not seek to reaffirm the telluric values of craft, but instead to confront its visual and ethical aspects.

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CHAILE at Fundación Cervieri Monsuarez

06.01.2025 Gabriel Chaile’s first solo exhibition in Uruguay, curated by Pablo León de la Barra. A site-specific show featuring a series of new works created especially for the FCV in José Ignacio. On view until April 2025.

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DUVILLE at Museo Mar

27.12.2024 Lo que la noche le cuenta al día, group exhibition including works by Matías Duville, presents a survey of Argentine art. Curated by Andrés Duprat and Diego Sileo. Part of the celebration of the Museum’s 10 years and the 150 years of Mar de Plata.

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LA CHOLA at MASP, Historias LGBTQIA+

17.12.2024 Juxtaposing the past and the present, the exhibition presents works from different periods and artistic currents, highlighting visions of LGBTQIA+ historias that transcend time and space, as well as pointing to strategies of resistance. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa & Julia Bryan-Wilson at Museo de Arte de São Paulo, MASP. Until abril, 2025. 

Fairs

Art Basel
Miami Beach 2024

06.12.2024 Miami Beach, USA. BARRO presents a series of works by Mondongo, La Chola Poblete, Lucrecia Lionti and Joaquín Boz. The artworks selected for this edition call into question the conceptual relation between materiality and image. Main Sector, Convention Center, Florida.

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Lucrecia LIONTI awarded at the
101st National Salon of Santa Fe

17.11.2024 Cárcel & Vals, 2024, textile artwork by Lucrecia Lionti, won the Award Gobierno de la Provincia de Santa Fe (acquisition) by unanimous decision. The award jury was made up of Fernando Farina, Nancy Rojas and Lucía Stubrin

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MONDONGO en ArtHaus

17.11.2024 “El Baptisterio de los colores”, installation by the group Mondongo, among other artworks of theirs, are on view as part of the show “Sin título” at its new home Arthaus. This “work-architecture” erected in the manner of a Pantone made of plasticine calls us to invent, in community, a new liturgy of color.

Exhibitions

Los jóvenes olvidaron sus canciones o Tierra de fuego (Parte II)

16.11.2024 BARRO Buenos Aires presents Los jóvenes olvidaron sus canciones o Tierra de fuego (Parte II), the second exhibition by GABRIEL CHAILE in the gallery. With a text by Filipa Ramos, the show presents a new line of work the artist began this year and consists in a film with mural drawings made from adobe and iron.

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