Being project-based, the discipline of drawing reminds us that the image is always a ‘call to imagine’. Making use of extremely simple materials like pencil and paper, drawing invites us to talk about the world and human existence: it enlarges what is small, intimate and everyday, or makes what is immeasurable or incomprehensible accessible. Driven by the artist’s gaze, the line and its different movements have the capacity to produce immersive scenarios, generate landscapes charged with drama and darkness, propose new ways of inhabiting the present and provoke emotional states.

This exhibition brings together works and projects by eight major expanding artists from today’s Argentinian scene. Each of them has developed a significant body of work in which drawing is central to articulating their highly diverse visions of the contemporary world. With exquisite sensitivity and empathy, the artists in this exhibition explore the challenges, details and surprises of today’s reality, building other possible realities, be it on paper, the gallery space or nature itself. These other realities – the very definition of art – take the form of landscapes, scenes, moments, gazes, emotions. Every stroke, every gesture in the act of creation, is alive with sincerity, love and pain, complicity and humour. They invite us to follow their movements and experience for ourselves the scenes that unfold in them. Welcome!

Artists: Josefina Alen, Nicanor Aráoz, Viviana Blanco, Valeria Conte Mac Donell, Alfredo Dufour, Cervio Martini, Julia Padilla and Alberto Passolini

(Curated by: Raúl Flores, with the collaboration of Victoria Noorthoorn. Museographic Design: Iván Rösler. Production: Martina Estelí)