BARRO / Duville at Art Basel Miami Beach

Matías Duville (Buenos Aires, 1974) works with objects, videos and installations, although his production has mainly grown out of drawing. His works evoke scenes of desolation with rarified, timeless atmospheres like those that precede a natural disaster: hurricanes, tsunamis or scenes of abandonment in a forest that represent a dreamlike vision of a wandering explorer, like a mental landscape. Duville’s work is characterised by experimentation with different mediums and materials. With his expressive strokes and procedures which reveal certain brutality, he modifies the surface by leaving traces in the representation, marks which blend the nature of matter with the landscape. The tension between opposites, mutation and time are some of the subjects that feature in his most recent works. His most recent projects include Hotel Palmera (Curator: Gabriel Pérez Barreiro; Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, Buenos Aires, 2020) Desert means ocean (Curator: Stefanie Hessler MOLAA, Los Angeles, 2019), Projection Soul (Luisa Strina, São Paulo, 2019), Romance atómico (Curator: Anissa Touati; Barro, Buenos Aires, 2017), The Valise Project (MoMA, New York, 2017), Arena Parking (Art Basel Miami Beach, 2016; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2015), Mutações (MAM, Rio de Janeiro, 2015), Precipitar una especie (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2014), Discard Geography (Ecole de Beaux Arts, Chapelle des Petits-Augustins, Paris, 2013), Safari (Malba, 2013) and Alaska (Drawing Center, New York, 2013). In 2022 Duville will be a part of rīvus, 23rd Biennial of Sydney, curated by José Roca.