07.27 — 10.29.2012
Guest curator: Santiago García Navarro
New edition of the Contemporáneo program, dedicated to current, local, and regional art. This time, we present a selection of 50 works from the recent production of Argentine artist Matías Duville (Buenos Aires, 1974).
The exhibition brings together a collection of charcoal drawings, a set of clay drawings on paper, objects, and a mural drawing, as well as a video and a series of approximately one hundred photos that will be projected as digital slides.
The exhibition's museography suggests the shape of a house, emphasizing the dialogue, and at the same time the opposition, between a set of domestic sensations, central to Duville's recent work, and another current set, arising from his journey through unlimited, open-air spaces. Both groups of sensations converge in their proclivity for the archaic and pre-human, and provoke an explosion of media in the latest work: in addition to the familiar drawing, video, photography, object, and other less tangible incursions.
“The montage decisions highlight, in a somewhat fictional way, the narrowing of the gap between object-model and work, between perceptual experience and act of creation, which characterizes the selected works,” writes Santiago García Navarro, curator of the exhibition. “This is made explicit by the back-and-forth between two situations: the sum of the features of reality that the image retains, but also the modification that this image produces on our perception of that reality. The artist redefines his environment, and that is how we see it,” he adds.
Matías Duville
He was born in 1974 in Quilmes, Buenos Aires. He studied Visual Arts in Mar del Plata. He received two scholarships from the National Arts Fund (2002-2003) and the Antorchas Foundation (2003). In 2004, he was part of Trama, a program for cooperation and confrontation between artists, and the Scholarship Program for Young Artists coordinated by Guillermo Kuitca. In 2005, he participated in RIAA, International Artists Residency in Argentina (Ostende, Buenos Aires, Argentina). In 2007, he was awarded a scholarship from the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Perugia, Italy) and in 2010, he was awarded a residency at Ibere Camargo, Porto Alegre, Brazil.
In 2011, he participated as a fellow in the Skowhegan Residency (Maine, USA) and was named a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. He has exhibited individually and collectively in Buenos Aires, São Paulo, Bogotá, Lima, Madrid, Miami, New York, Berlin, and Santiago de Chile. His work has been included in books such as Creamier (Phaidon, 2011), Bridges and Borders (2010), and Vitamin D2: New Perspectives in Drawing (Phaidon, 2005). He lives and works in Buenos Aires. In 2013, he will participate in Platform 5280, Biennial of the Americas (Denver) and will carry out a project in Paris, invited by Sam Art Projects.
Some of the public collections in which he is represented include the Pathy Cisneros Collection (New York, USA); ARCO Foundation (Spain); MUSAC, Museum of Contemporary Art of Castilla y León (Spain); Blanton Museum, Austin (Texas, USA); Lima Art Museum MALI (Peru); Malba Fundación Costantini, Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (Argentina); and MACRO, Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario (Santa Fe, Argentina).
