The exhibition brings together 20 contemporary Argentine artists.

In MUNTREF Museum of Visual Arts.

ARTISTS IN THE IMAGINED HOUSES

The exhibition brings together 20 Argentine artists ranging from Xul Solar to Román Vitali, passing through Nicola Costantino, Diego Perrotta, Jorge Macchi and Miguel Harte, among others.

A territory of fantasy, of transfigured everyday life, of disturbing and suggestive fictions is the home thought by the 20 contemporary Argentine artists who come together in Hogar, dulce hogar. Hábitos artísticos contemporáneos, an exhibition that opens next April 28 at 12 noon at the MUNTREF Visual Arts Museum, Caseros venue.

The exhibition, curated by Florencia Battiti and Fernando Farina, breaks with the typical selection schemes and unites Xul Solar, Román Vitali, Nicola Constantino, Diego Perrotta, Jorge Macchi, Miguel Harte, Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone, Andrea Cavagnaro, Eugenia Calvo, Viviana Blanco, Marcela Cabutti, Irina Kirchuk, Mauro Koliva, Luis Rodríguez, Miguel Rothschild, Diana Schufer, Marcela Sinclair, Tamara Stuby, Mariana Telleri and Catalina León.

Regarding the selection of the artists and the incorporation of Xul Solar, the curator Farina points out: “We thought of artists who worked on questions of habitat, of the living environment and of the house itself. We are interested in imaginaries, poetic questions that enable us to think about the habitat from another point of view, where the functional ceases to be the central. Xul is a reference in this sense, not only in his reflections on the imagined cities but also on the simplest elements of everyday use”.

For Battiti, the exhibition is based on a universally known notion, such as home, and allows contact with works by contemporary Argentine artists of the highest quality: “We work on the architectural floor of the museum as if it were a house. Thus, when the public visits the exhibition, they will recognize, through the works, different environments that are part of everyday life for them. Of course, since this is a house inhabited by artists, anything is possible, and everyday items can acquire extraordinary features.

 

The works are part of private collections, of the personal collection of the artists and some were made or republished precisely for this exhibition and go from watercolors to sculptures and installations that use watercolors, metal, ceramics and other materials which are present in a common house.

The MUNTREF Museum of Visual Arts is located in Valentín Gómez 4838, Caseros, province of Buenos Aires.

The exhibition will be open to the public with free entrance until August from Monday to Sunday from 11 am to 8 pm.

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