Buenos Aires, with its brilliant circuit of galleries and related spaces, is an ideal city to immerse oneself in the world of contemporary art. The exhibitions allow us to get to know the artists, their images and a model of artistic production that dialogues with art history, new media and the ability to surprise and stimulate the viewer. From Artnobel, we invite you to explore the 10 best exhibitions of the Buenos Aires art scene:
1. Fuzz Strategies, the first solo exhibition of the fantastic Mildred Burton at Calvaresi Contemporary, immerses us in an intriguing world of artistic exploration. The show is composed of more than twenty-five works by the artist, made in different techniques and from different periods.
Alberto Passolini’s curatorship not only allows us to appreciate the work, but also to delve into Mildred’s mysterious life. The twenty-year friendship between the curator and the artist adds an enigmatic touch to the experience. As you enter the room, you will feel as if you are stepping into a Burton painting, where each work reveals his inner world and boundless creativity.
If you are in Buenos Aires, I invite you to visit this exhibition at Defensa 1136, San Telmo, from Tuesday to Sunday, from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
2. Private Function, Bruno Gruppali’s exhibition at Centro Cultural Recoleta, immerses us in an intriguing world of artistic exploration. Gruppalli, born in Buenos Aires in 1984, transcends the traditional boundaries of painting by adopting an open-source approach in his new project, which also marks his first foray into this discipline.
The artist does not limit himself to being just a painter; rather, he presents himself as a visual poet who uses a wide range of media to weave an intricate web of connections. In his work, codes of communication, theatrical theory, literature, fashion, art history and the subcultures of the 20th century are interwoven. In addition, Gruppalli incorporates autobiographical references related to altered states of perception.
The body also plays a central role in his approach. Gruppalli considers it an object of study, and its appearances in the work are always expansive and complex. Through these visual representations, the artist triggers mysterious and encrypted associations that invite the viewer to explore beyond the obvious.
If you are in Buenos Aires, I encourage you to visit Función privada at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, located at Junín 1930. The exhibition is open Tuesday through Friday, from 1:30 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and on Saturdays, Sundays and holidays, from 11:15 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
3. Un gusto el averno conocido, Guido Orlando Contrafatti’s exhibition at Moria Galería, invites us to explore a group of works created during the summer. In this space, paintings, drawings and sculptures intertwine, creating a kind of storybook.
Contrafatti, in his artistic approach, considers the works as individual units, beyond integral samples. Each piece has its own line of exploration, and pessimism in themes or form is not an obstacle. In fact, the simple act of creating and reflecting becomes optimistic.
If you are in Buenos Aires, I invite you to visit this exhibition at Thames 608, Villa Crespo, from Thursday to Saturday, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
4. Cuentos inconclusos, an exhibition by Liliana Porter, is presented at the Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery. This exhibition, which opens the 2024 season, displays a variety of artistic languages, including painting, sculpture, installation and drawing. Porter’s proposal goes beyond the limits imposed by the search for purity in the media.
In the gallery’s main room, visitors will find a selection of works that explore the relationship between fiction and reality. The rawness of the materials and procedures used by the artists becomes an expressive language that transcends traditional conventions.
The exhibition is accompanied by a text by Graciela Speranza, which enriches the experience by offering a critical and reflective look at the works on display. If you are in Buenos Aires, I invite you to visit this exhibition at Juan Ramírez de Velasco 1287, Villa Crespo, from Tuesday to Saturday, from 2:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
5. A gesture could change everything is a group show presented at the CCEBA (Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires). The exhibition, curated by Lila Llunez, brings together eight artists convened with the premise of exploring rawness in their procedures and raw materials. These artists generate sustainable works that unfold, inhabit and invite their own ecosystem inside the CCEBA’s exhibition hall.
The curatorship has focused on the life of things, the intentions of the materials and their gestures, traces and waste. The exhibited pieces reflect recovery as a key process: using waste generated in other contexts to create new works. In addition, ancestral techniques are explored and the impact of material life on objects is evidenced.
The exhibition A gesture could change everything invites us to consider ourselves as actors in our context, capable of affecting it with every gesture. It is an opportunity to trace mythical and fabulous futures through recovery and creativity.
If you are in Buenos Aires, I encourage you to visit this exhibition at Paraná 1159, Recoleta, Monday to Friday from 10:00 am to 7:00 pm and Saturdays from 12:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
6. Alien. Emilio Renart is an exhibition presented at the Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat in Buenos Aires, Argentina. This exhibition, curated by Sebastián Vidal Mackinson, will run from March 14 through July 28, 2024.
Emilio Renart, artist, teacher, researcher and intellectual, is a cult figure in the history of national art. Born in Mendoza in 1925 and died in Buenos Aires in 1991, his legacy has crystallized in the imaginary through the series “Integralismo. Bio-Cosmos” (1962-1967). However, this retrospective goes beyond that and allows us to explore a broader and more sophisticated artistic work, driven by a creative fervor that he himself called “creativity”.
If you wish to visit the exhibition, you can do so from Thursday to Sunday from 12:00 to 8:00 p.m. at Olga Cossettini 141, Puerto Madero. Don’t miss the opportunity to get to know the creative world of Emilio Renart! 🎨🌟
7. Fantasía Abstracta is Nacha Canvas’ first solo exhibition at Barro Gallery, located at Caboto 531, La Boca, Buenos Aires. The show, which runs Monday through Friday from 12:00 to 6:00 pm, presents a soft and sensorial perspective on abstraction.
Artist Nacha Canvas has created a set of sculptures and reliefs using specially developed techniques. These works combine materials such as foam rubber, clay, steel, plaster and pigments. The curatorship by Carla Barbero and Javier Villa seeks to integrate and soften the tradition of modern sculpture, incorporating influences from technological visual culture.
In this exhibition, Nacha Canvas models a harmonious vision that plays with concepts such as gravity, weight, autonomy and volume. The exhibition invites the viewer to explore a unique artistic experience and to immerse themselves in the creative world of this talented artist.
8. The exhibition “Detrás de los ojos” (Behind the eyes), by visual artist and photographer Renata Juncadella, is presented at the COTT Gallery at Juncal 3575, Palermo. This exhibition seeks to explore the visual universes of a new feminine, esoteric and monstrous surrealism through experimentation with medieval symbolic language.
In Juncadella’s works, she tears, squeezes and screams from her viscera, traversed by mental labyrinths that give life to dreamlike landscapes, passionate dialogues and fictional contemplations. The exhibition reveals different planes and scenarios, where recurring elements emerge such as the snake, the knife, mirrors, the Cadiz and blood. Each of these instruments was carefully selected, representing fragments of their own mythical symbolism.
In this surreal realm, Renata Juncadella becomes the main character, consciously and unconsciously paying homage to women. Her work invites us to explore the hidden, the profound and the enigmatic, through a unique and provocative gaze.
The exhibition will be open from Monday to Friday, from 2:00 pm to 7:00 pm. If you wish to immerse yourself in this esoteric world and discover the mysteries behind Renata’s eyes, I invite you to visit the COTT Gallery.
9. The exhibition “Híbridos sincréticos”, by Brazilian artist Claudio Cretti (1964), is presented for the first time in Argentina at the Pasto Gallery located at Chacabuco 866, San Telmo. This exhibition brings together a selection of sculptures and drawings curated by Victor López Zumelzu and Natalia Sosa Molina.
Cretti, with his unique approach, assembles concepts and vocabularies that transcend modernist abstraction and the rituality of objects. Her enigmatic sculptural works and drawings express the manual creation of objects, suggesting transcendent and transformative qualities in both our bodies and the environment we inhabit.
Cretti’s meticulous elaborations embody different forms of visual production, reminding us that objects are sites of projection and invocation. They act as totems that reflect our desires and our capacity to imagine, while revealing the fragility of our subjectivity.
Each assemblage dialogues in a fluid and secret way with popular art and with the corners of a body that articulates itself differently according to the time of contemplation. If you wish to explore this world of hybridization and symbolism, I invite you to visit Galería Pasto. 🎨✨
10. Los Patitos Feos, a group show at Valerie’s Factory, is an event that celebrates the opening of this new gallery at a challenging moment for the country. The exhibition presents the staff of artists represented by Valerie’s Factory, a space that emerges from the merger of two galleries: Valerie, which has promoted the work of contemporary artists from Mendoza and has participated in recent editions of the ArteBA and Pinta Miami fairs in the U.S., and Aura, the first NFT art gallery that also had an outstanding presence in both fairs.
The curatorship of the show has been conceived with a celebratory tone, and is an opportunity to appreciate the diversity and creativity of the artists who are part of this new stage of the gallery. If you are in Buenos Aires, I invite you to visit the exhibition at Vera 1350, Villa Crespo, from Wednesday to Saturday, from 4:00 pm to 8:00 pm.
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