Matías Duville

From July 27 through October 29 of this year, the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano–Buenos Aires presents a new edition of its program entitled Contemporary. The program centers on current local and regional art and in this occasion showcases a selection of 50 recently created works by Argentinean artist Matías Duville.

Curated by Santiago García-Navarro, the exhibition includes a group of charcoal drawings, a set of drawings created with clay on paper, objects and a mural drawing, alongside a video and a series of approximately one hundred photos shown through a digital slide projector.

To underscore the interaction and contrast between the works, the museography suggests the shape of a house immersed in a group of domestic sensations—central to Duville's work of recent years—that are set against another current group that emerged from a survey of endless spaces in which the sky is the limit. Both groups of sensations converge in their propensity toward the archaic and the pre-human, and provoke in the last work an explosion of mediums; aside from drawings, videos, photography, objects, and other less tangible approaches.

Matías Duville was born in 1974 in Quilmes, Buenos Aires. He studied Visual Arts in Mar del Plata and received two scholarships from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2002-2003) and from the Fundación Antorchas (2003). In 2004 Duville participated in Trama, a program of cooperation and dialogue among artists, and from the Scholarship Program for Young Artists headed by Guillermo Kuitca. In 2005 the artist participated in RIAA, the International Artists Residency in Argentina (Ostende, Buenos Aires). In 2007 Duville was granted a fellowship by the Civitella Ranieri Foundation (Perugia, Italy), and in 2010 he was awarded a Ibere Camargo residency in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

In 2011 he was granted two more scholarships, one from the Skowhegan Residency (Maine, USA), and another from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.