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20.05.2016 In Shutdown, wastefulness is the standard of progress whatever the angle of vision. Hundreds of household appliances, cell phones, and television sets purchased on extended layaway—with or without currency restrictions—are an attempt to re-establish social calm and to legitimize order that, like a back and forth of domestication and violence, ends up imploding. Mediatization, social reality, spectacularity, the party line, and polarization: these are the abstract materials of the present that, in pursuit of a better angle, the artist places before our vision. 


Catalogue

SHUTDOWN

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Exhibitions

Pinturas

07.06.2025 Joaquín Boz presents Pinturas (Paintings), an exhibition composed of a new series of oil paintings on canvas and wood in different scales, ranging from works barely thirty centimeters long to extensive panels of more than two meters. In this proposal, Boz starts from a spatial approach that prioritizes a free path through the room, which is only interrupted by a free-standing column, with no function. This manifest intention of starting from a stripping, of ¨sweeping away¨ the nonessential, does not resign the idea of preserving a certain discomfort. Curated by Bárbara Golubicki. At BARRO until July 26.

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El gusanito by LOLO Y LAUTI

16.05.2025 Lolo y Lauti transform El gusanito, Jorge de la Vega’s cult LP, into a contemporary opera starring singer and performer Daiana Rose, who performs the songs in their original order, immersed in the duo’s visuals.

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Colección Malba en Qatar

21.04.2025 Artworks by Alejandra Seeber (photo), Matías Duville, and Mónica Giron are part of the Malba Collection and were included in Latinoamericano, the first major exhibition of Latin American art in the Western Asia and North Africa region at the National Museum of Qatar in Doha.

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MONDONGO en ArtHaus

15.04.2025 “Argentina”, monumental 15-panel installation, and a first transformation of the chromatic arrangement of “El Baptisterio de los colores” by Mondongo are on view at ArtHaus.

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LA CHOLA receives a Merit Distinction

11.04.2025 La Chola Poblete received recognition for her career and contributions to the region’s culture from the authorities of the Municipality of Guaymallén, Mendoza, her hometown.
Photo: La Chola Poblete. Record of the performance "American Beauty" presented at Arteba 2017.

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LUCRECIA LIONTI at Gasworks

07.04.2025 Lionti was selected to participate in the renowned artist residencies program at Gasworks in London. During her residency, the artist will form an intuitive visual dictionary of their shared languages and experiences. Lucrecia Lionti's residency is supported by Erica Roberts, held at the Roberts Residency Studio, and developed in collaboration with URRA.

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LIONTI at 2025 Braque Prize

05.04.2025 Lionti was selected to participate in the 2025 Braque Prize with her textile work, Resistancia. The exhibition, presented at the MUNTREF Contemporary Art Center Buenos Aires, includes works created especially for the Braque Prize, and curated by Alejandra Aguada and Francisco Lemus.

Exhibitions

Mueble escultura + BARRO

05.04.2025 [...] We might regard this exhibition as a choreography of situations that explore ways of being, sitting, posing and moving. A kind of theater of thwarted utility. Furniture as an animal: not a tool, but a mutant organism.In these shifts, the body becomes a central hypothesis: not a passive recipient of design but an unstable variable that energizes and transforms the material.Excerpt from Ana Vogelfang's text for Mueble escultura + BARRO. Until May 16, 2025.

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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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MUEBLE ESCULTURA + BARRO

04.04.2025 Group Show. Francisco Alvarez, Nicanor Aráoz, Lucas Barbuzzi, Nacha Canvas, Martín Churba, Juan Cruz, Max Degli, Leopoldo Estol, Nacho Fabio, Camila Fanego Harte, Samantha Ferro, Tomás Fracchia, Nicolás García Uriburu, Gyula Kosice, Cervio Martini, Jorge Michel, Marta Minujín, Kayen Montes & Alison Bartlett, Rocio Nerón Coiro, Nacho Novillo, Mónica Sartori, Juan Jose Souto, Maria Clara Tipitto & Santiago Bouzat, Gregorio Vardanega, Victoria Young. Curated by: Lucila Garcia de Onrubia y Cinthia Kazez. Opening April, 5. Caboto 531 La Boca, Buenos Aires

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