Martín Legón
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
From Nuevo Realismo Series, 2023
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Martín Legón (Buenos Aires, 1978) varies freely between installations, drawings, paintings and procedures such as the recovery of photographic collections. His production reveals his interest in poetically linking texts and quotes from sociology, literature and art history. Just as it happens with the juxtaposition of an assembly of cinematographic attractions, the references he chooses display chains of critical and conceptual statements. In recent years, Legón has revisited topics such as the structures of work, the production of images and the place of the artist in modern-day society. While referring to failed modernist utopias, his works may hover between romantic-idealistic atmospheres and a certain spirit of contemporary decadentism.
Martín Legón has held many solo exhibitions, some of his most recent ones are Solo las piedras recuerdan (Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2024), Árboles profundamente artificiales (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2021), La seducción de los inocentes (Ángels, Barcelona, 2018), Quatrenial Shanzhai (Museo Genaro Pérez, Córdoba, 2018), Nuevos pensamientos imbéciles (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2017), Las fuerzas productivas (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2015), La vuelta al mundo… curated by Inés Katzenstein and Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy in collaboration with the Arts Department of University Torcuato Di Tella and Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (Buenos Aires, 2014), Principios para un manifiesto especular (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Santa Fe, 2013), Así pasa la gloria del mundo (Galería Alberto Sendrós, Buenos Aires, 2011). He was one of the youngest Argentinian artists to be a part of San Pablo Biennial in the XXX edition “La Inminencia de las Poéticas” curated by Luis Pérez Oramas (2012).In the past few years some of his essays were published: La naturaleza del artificio (Big Sur Zine, 2012), El Test del Hombre bajo la lluvia (Arta Ediciones, 2012), Apuntes a la Colección Globus (Big Sur Books, 2016) and Maleza (Editorial Ivan Rosado, 2016). Legón’s works are part of several importants collection such as Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) Móstoles, España; Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson de San Juan and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario (Macro), Argentina. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
exhibitions
Árboles profundamente artificiales
21.08.2021
Interpreting them consecutively, the individual exhibitions from Martín Legón have been unfolding visual analytical essays for more than fifteen years. In this respect, Árboles profundamente artificiales may be understood as a cubist installation, where its subject of study—Argentine society and its current possibilities—is broken down into different planes to deliver its many faces simultaneously.
news
30.01.2026 ARÁOZ, LEGÓN & POMBO at Proa
publications
Correspondencia con Bruce Nauman
Publicaciones UB, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Córdoba, 2022
Maleza, Martín Legón
Selecciones Ivan Rosado, Rosario, 2016
Apuntes a la Colección Globus
Big Sur Books, Buenos Aires, 2016
Principios para un manifiesto especular
Museo Castagnino+Macro, Rosario, 2013
El test del hombre bajo la lluvia
Ediciones Arta, Buenos Aires, 2012
links
María Carolina Baulo, "Antropología del Concepto: Una Conversación con Martín Legón". Sculpture Magazine, Febrero 2022
Las fuerzas productivas (Barro, 2015)
“Principios para un manifiesto especular”, 2014. Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, MACRO.
Blanca María Monzón, “Martín Legón en la Bienal de San Pablo Reflexiones sobre la Identidad”. Leedor, Septiembre, 2012
Melina Ruiz Natali, “Entrevista a Martín Legón”. Arte al Día Online, Diciembre 2012
Alejandra Villasmil, “La mise en escene de Martín Legón”. Artishock, Junio 2011.
