Top 10 Buenos Aires

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$ Antonio Seguí – La Distancia
de la Mirada (1976)
Antonio Seguí, a native of Córdoba,
injects a bit of humor into his otherwise
dystopian graphite and oil pieces. On a
background of gray planes, la Mirada’s
English bulldog gazes out at the
viewer indifferently.
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( Ernesto Deira –
Nine Variations
Over a Well-Tensed
Canvas (1965)
Occupying nine canvases
on an entire wall, this
work’s subtext exalts in,
and questions, chaos.
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) Frida Kahlo –
Autoretrato con
Chango y Loro (1942)
Mexican Surrealism is
represented in this selfportrait
containing two of
Kahlo’s favorite motifs –
birds and monkeys.
MALBA can be enjoyed in an afternoon.
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Guillermo Kuitca –
^ Various Pieces
Having occupied the Argentinian
Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2007
and worked in a wide range of media,
Kuitca is the most famous in the
contemporary art scene (below).
MALBA Cine
From Thursday to Sunday, the
city’s cineastes descend on MALBA
to take in international art-house, cultclassic,
and domestic films (left).
MALBA’s programmers include some
Abbot and Costello comedies amid
the Jean-Luc Godard thought pieces.
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& Fernando
Botero – Los
Viudos (1968)
Fernando Botero might
today be known for his
controversial Abu Ghraib
painting series but his
legacy are the rotund
figures in Los Viudos
and other similar works.
* Antonio Berni – Manifestación (1934)
Berni was a great proponent of social
realism. Evident in Manifestación (below) is his
previous dabbling in surrealism.
The New
Argentinian
Avant-Garde
Paradoxically, the period
following the 2001–2002
economic crisis saw
Buenos Aires’ commercial
art scene explode.
Artists retreated to La
Boca, Almagro, and
Barrancas’ decrepit
homes and warehouses
to produce aesthetic
responses – often
mixed-media and digital
art – to the chaos befalling
their country.
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