EXHIBITIONS:
2024 Las vueltas
2021 Am I not from here?
2019 Heritage and something more...
2016 An episode in the life of the popular artist
2016 Open relationship
2015 Regionales Minimal
2014 Lazy indian, swindling gaucho, contemporary artist
PROJECTS:
2023 Argenterías
2022 Florencio Molina Campos. Blue-blooded modernist grin
2021 My handful of melancholy, year 3001
2019 Discover Olavarría
2019 Those pink boots
2019 Matching knife and thong
2017 Our things
2017 Poem to a horse (1889)
2016 Embarrassing puerilities
2015 GHP (Gaucho High Performance)
2015 Men Art Work
2013 Contemporary art down south the Salado river
Valentín Demarco (Olavarría, 1986). Lives and works in Buenos Aires.
He has a degree in Visual Arts from the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (2017). Between 2012 and 2020, he attended Diana Aisenberg's group critique seminar. As a teenager he was trained in the silversmithing trade by master Armando Ferreira in Olavarría. Among his most important solo exhibitions are: “¿No soy de aquí?” (Museo Dámaso Arce, 2021), “Patrimonio y algo más…” (Galería Isla Flotante, 2019) and “Indio vago, gaucho matrero, artista contemporáneo” (Espacio Diagonal, 2014). His work has been included in group exhibitions at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, Centro Cultural Haroldo Conti, Ausstellungsraum Klingental (Basel) and Colección Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat. He has been awarded for his work by Fundación Telefónica (2012) and Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Beca Bicentenario, 2016). He won the Revelación award given by Fundación Andreani (2013), the Lucio Fontana Prize from the General Consulate of Italy in Buenos Aires (2014) and Second place in the 11th UADE National Visual Arts Prize (2016). He was selected in the 2017 edition of the Braque Award, from the French Embassy.
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PROJECTS:
2023 Argenterías
2022 Florencio Molina Campos. Blue-blooded modernist grin
2021 My handful of melancholy, year 3001
2019 Discover Olavarría
2019 Those pink boots
2019 Matching knife and thong
2017 Our things
2017 Poem to a horse (1889)
2016 Embarrassing puerilities
2015 GHP (Gaucho High Performance)
2015 Men Art Work
2013 Contemporary art down south the Salado river