Plinio Villagrán Galindo, E-III-3 Curators: Agustin Jais and Tam Painé Ciai. Matienschön, 2018. E-III-3 is the classified name of one of the mounds of the Archaeological site of Kaminaljuyú (Hill of the Dead) located under present-day Guatemala City. Although the mound no longer exists in its visible part, there are the lower layers where the tombs of the first rulers …
K.A.K.: The penultimate human Curated by Agustín Jais. Club Cultural Matienzo, 2018 The performance collective based in Brussels presents a site-specific show in collaboration with local artists. Eight members of K.A.K., winners of Matienschön’s International Residency Program, worked for a month with local artists and enthusiasts to create a one-night-only new play. It is the first presentation of the collective …
Restitución By Sebastián Hacher and Mariana Corral Matienschön, 2017 In his first exhibition, the journalist and non-fiction writer Sebastián Hacher advanced a new gender: embroidered journalism. He colored and embroidered recently discovered photographs that document the aberrations suffered by native people during the expansion of the Argentine borders. Alongside the images, the exhibition presented a long, exquisite chronicle of the …
ööööööö Yevgeniya Baras (NYC), Avital Burg (NYC), Guo Cheng (Rosario), Natalia Cristofano, Nina Plez, AMHO, Federico Cantini, Lucas Joaquín Arias, Daniel Basso, Mariano Ullua, Juan Jose Souto, Laura Preger Club Cultural Matienzo, 2016. Curated by Matienschön. Project coordination: Agustin Jais With the support of Asylum Arts & Grolsch. PH: Control. Matienschön presents a night of 7 simultaneous events with artists …
LET IT VJ: Festival of new media, creative technologies & real-time art 16 editions, Club Cultural Matienzo, 2012-2016. LET IT VJ Festival aimed for the development, dialogue and visibility for artists working with new media. Each edition, more than 30 forward-looking artists and musicians showed their work in not less than 8 simultaneous spaces for 9 continuous hours. Live bands …
Periphery Nacho Sánchez & Gonzálo Terranova. Feat. Lionel A. Mato, Lucía Deca, César Corujo, Ignacio Mahuma, Ailín Norryh. Curators: Agustín Jais & Sonia Basch. Matienschön 2015 Sound performance using DIY instruments out of found objects: construction materials, and discarded elements from theatre plays. Bound to the four walls of the gallery, the instrument stands a visual representation of the four …
Ángeles Ascúa: Elegía (Elegy) Matienschön, 2015 I am interested in the format of elegiac poetry. For that I built a piece that I covered with flowers made by hand, embroidered, with stones and Swarovski crystals. Within the framework of the exhibition, an elegiac poetry workshop was organized by specialists Florencia Savarino and Florencia Cattan. At the end of the experience …
Sonia Basch: Friends and people I do not know Matienschön, 2015. Curators: Luz Peuscovich and Agustín Jais. «Friends and people I do not know» is an exhibition of portraits. Digital drawings, a mural and a «delegated performance» explore with compulsion faces, looks and gestures that, like all forms built from love, move and look to, ultimately, promise to touch. The …
Lucas Dm: Xn Matienschön 2015. Curators: Luz Peuscovich & Agustin Jais. In Xn, Lucas DM takes into the exhibition space his learnings as a real-time visualist and his inherited passion for geometrical abstract imaging. In this audiovisual installation, the artist intervenes the space with transparent, growing layers of plexiglas, that become screens for black&white generative visuals. The installation makes use …
Fictions, by Christiane Peschek (Vienna) and Martín Bollati (Buenos Aires / Madrid) Matienschön, 2015. Curator: Agustin Jais «Fictions (the universal emotionality of romance and an abstract surface of visual language)» is the first exhibition by Peschek in Latin America and the first one by Bollati after moving to Madrid; mostly, is their first collaboration together. They explore romance and distance …