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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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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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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, 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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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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CHAILE At the 14th Mercosul Biennial

27.03.2025 Rubbing the thumb and middle finger to produce a quick noise that expands in space brings together the human body, movement, transience, and sonic matters.  At the 14th Mercosul Biennial, this title – "Estalo" – is an invitation to inhabit the movement and the transformation from one state to another. Chaile presents his Centro Cultural Ambulante, a performance projects in constant development since 2021, in Porto Alegre.

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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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Canvas presents Premio Azcuy

14.03.2025 Canvas, winner of the 2023 Premio Azcuy, inaugurated her Suave Star project, created for the Donna Fiore building with technical and curatorial advice from the Azcuy studio and the Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art. "My proposal was to work with concrete as a cross-cutting axis in the project. To take this element and make it work in the architecture, art, and spatial design," in the artist's words.

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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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