Matias Duville
My pool, my mind, 2004. Ink on silk. 50 x 90 cms
Hogar, 2011. Instalation. Junin, Buenos Aires. (Beca Guggenheim)
Hogar, 2011. Instalation. Junin, Buenos Aires (Beca Guggenheim)
Hogar, 2011. Instalation. Junin, Buenos Aires (Beca Guggenheim)
Sin título, 2013. Charcoal on paper. 150 x 215 cms
Precipitar una especie, 2014. Exhibition at BARRO
Espíritu guardián, 2008. Acrylic on hardboard. 244 x 366 cms
Projection, 2012. Charcoal on paper. 188 x 364 cms
Discard Geography, 2013. 99 drawings made of charcoal on paper. 21 x 29 cms each (SAM Art Projects. École Nationale supérieure des Beux Arts de Paris – La Chappelle. 2013)
Karma karma chain, 2016. Chain. Variable measures. SAM Art Projects. École Nationale supérieure des Beux Arts de Paris – La Chappelle, 2013)
Karma karma chain, 2016. Chain. Variable measures. SAM Art Projects. École Nationale supérieure des Beux Arts de Paris – La Chappelle, 2013)
Block, 2013. Burned wood and cover of notebook. 300 x 90 x 90 cms (SAM Art Projects. École Nationale supérieure des Beux Arts de Paris – La Chappelle, 2013)
Untitled, 2011. Oil bar and pastel on paper. 44 x 64 cms. Ph: @Edouard_Fraipont
Untitled, 2011. Oil bar and pastel on paper. 56 x 76 cms. Ph: @Edouard_Fraipont
Death Clock, 2011. Acrylic on hardboard. 244 x 488 cms
Parque osamenta, 2015. Helmet and salt (detail). Ph: @Edouard_Fraipont
Hook and tent, 2014. Iron and Fabric. 200 x 300 x 450 cms (MOT International, London, UK. 2015)
Hook and tent, 2014. Iron and Fabric. 200 x 300 x 450 cms (MOT International, London, UK. 2015)
Hook and Blanket, 2012. Iron and blanket. 90 x 160 cms
Surface and bottom, 2014. Charcoal on paper. 150 x 285 cms
Untitled, 2010. Charcoal on paper. 150 x 250 cms
Untitled, 2007. Charcoal on paper. 150 x 230 cms
Arena Parking, 2016. Asphalt pavement. Miami Art Basel Public. Collins Park Miami USA
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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.
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.
news
27.01.2026 MATÍAS DUVILLE Biennale Arte 2026
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
links
Precipitar una especie (Barro, 2014)
Santiago García Navarro, “Extracción del vacío”, Rio de Janeiro, 2012. Text accompanying the exhibition Safari, Malba.
Sonia Becce, “Whistle”, Buenos Aires, 2011. Interview on the occasion of the exhibition Whistle. Galería Nueveochenta, Bogota, Colombia.
María Gainza, “¿Dr. Duville, supongo?”, Buenos Aires, 2010. Published in the Matías Duville edition, Esto fue otro lugar.
Eva Grinstein, “Historias de intemperie. Drawings and paintings by Matías Duville”, Arte al Día, Buenos Aires, 2008.
