Its founder, Aldo Rubino (Buenos Aires, 1960) began collecting art in the 1980s and over time he focused and specialized in international contemporary art, with an emphasis on geometric abstraction. In ten years, the Macba expanded its collection, which was initially from 50 works to more than five hundred today, which has positioned it as a unique museum, both nationally and internationally.
To celebrate the anniversary, MACBA invited the artists Diego De Aduriz and Pablo Rosales and the curator Florencia Qualina to put together two exhibitions that show, in a symbolic way, the beginning of a new beginning.
Diego De Aduriz (Buenos Aires, 1977) will present “The Key and the Witness”, an invitation to enter his mystical world. The exhibition brings together drawings, video games, paintings, videos and installations that take the form of open portals to parallel dimensions inhabited by cartoons, felines, sorcerers, fortune tellers, extra-sensory perceptions, stickers, demons, angelic beings and poster creatures. In the words of the curator: “The key and the witness” is a gradual passage towards initiation into the cult of Diego De Aduriz.
In “Variable Visibility”, Pablo Rosales (Buenos Aires, 1977) exhibits a selection of works made between 2001 and 2022; the exhibition consists of an anthological panorama focused on some of the aesthetic procedures and conceptual lines that guide his work. On the one hand, the urban experience is a core that is traced in the architectural references of streets and walls arranged to be intervened through the use of stencils; on public transport or bicycle routes; in the satirical sighting of monuments and museums destined for consecration. Another aspect addresses the narrative that Rosales builds on the figure of the Artist obsessed with the question: What is contemporary art? Through the History of Art, the legacies of the avant-garde, biography and writing, he flirts with disenchantment. “Variable visibility” is also the mid-career retrospective as a self-fulfilling prophecy.
In the next stage, Macba will seek to open up to new plastic languages. “Geometric abstraction will always be a fundamental part of the museum although, for the next ten years, the institution has decided to open the program to new curatorial lines of the contemporary scene” says Aldo Rubino, adding “there is a project that we hope to crystallize at brevity, and is to add a new exhibition floor. These five levels will allow showing exhibitions dedicated to photography and video art”.
Source: Ambito
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