Joaquín Boz (Rojas, 1987) creates abstract paintings and drawings in different scales, working with the characteristics that matter provides from the body and gestures. In his works, intensity is placed upon the development of the work, and the materials change according to the medium. Each work presents a different story to appreciate, both in its entirety and in the details, where the different stages of his work are perceived. His paintings and drawings are the result of processes of loading the material that covers and discovers, reveals and conceals, weakens and strengthens. Every one of Boz’s paintings brings to light the making of numerous discrete decisions and organic networks of hieroglyphic marks that register intimate and piercing conversations between the artist and the materials. His individual exhibitions include Diffusion (Perrotin, Seoul), Todo el tiempo (Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 2022), Caudal (BARRO, 2022), Mano sin hora (Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 2020), Los días (BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2018), New Work (Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 2017), Cadena de islas (with Steve Turner Gallery at Zona Maco, Mexico City, 2016), Sonido blanco (Big Sur Galería, Buenos Aires, 2015), Inscripción en la tierra (Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 2015) and Insolada (Móvil, Buenos Aires, 2014). Some of the most prominent recent group shows in which he was featured are Othering (BARRO, New York), Futurity (BARRO, New York), Inédita (BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2020), Dos museos y un río, curated by Ticio Escobar (Bienalsur, Castagnino+macro, Rosario, 2019), Through-line: Drawing & Weaving by 19 Artists (Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 2018), Carbon, curated by Lauren Kasmer (Fellows of Contemporary Art (FOCA), Los Angeles, 2018), Arte argentino.100 años en la Colección Castagnino+macro (Castagnino+macro, Rosario, 2018), Agramaticalismos, curated by Jimena Ferreiro (Aldo de Sousa, Buenos Aires, 2016) and Diagonal Sur. Arte argentino hoy, curated by Philippe Cyroulnik (Borges Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, 2016).
Abstract art can manifest in numerous ways, being deductive or expressive, lyrical or rational, geometric or organic, as well as smooth or rich in gestures. In the realm of painting, abstraction acquires a unique expression when it is grounded in a well-defined ontology. Although painting does not speak, it creates speech. Joaquín Boz’s work is an example of how abstraction not only encompasses but also delves into complex concepts such as contingency and sensibility, through its meticulous layers of color.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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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