Hugo Aveta
In collaboration with ABRE
About the Artist
Internationally recognized Argentine artist, HUGO AVETA originally studied film and architecture, to dedicate himself later to photography. Many of the works of this multimedia artist track the memories and the traces of the difficult situations experienced by his country. Using photography and film, he also addresses the more universal themes of memory and its transmission.
Aveta is also fascinated by material and by fault lines. His work evokes struggling forces, uncertainties, risks, failures, but also dreams and hopes that are fragile and shaken yet still standing.
His most recently exhibitions were "Invisible Gods" at Museo Inmigrantes in Buenos Aires, Argentina; “The fascination of the fault” at Kuzzam Palace in Saudi Arabia, and “The fascination of the fault” at MACVAL Museum of Contemporary Art in Paris, France.
His work has been exhibited in the most recognized institutions and museums such as: J.P. Museum. Getty in Los Angeles, Quai Branly Museum Paris, Jeu de Paume Paris, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya, Barcelona; MUNTREF, Buenos Aires; SESC; University Museum of Contemporary Art in Mexico, National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Museum of Contemporary Art. Cleveland, Bourdeaux, Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain (MNCARS), Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (MAMBO), Folkwang Museum Essen, Sao Paulo Museum of Art (MASP), Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCCA) in Toronto, Museum of Contemporary Art (KIASMA) in Helsinki, Heilderberg Kunstverein, MAAT Museum of Art Architecture and Technology in Lisbon, (MARTA) Hedford Museum in Germany, Center George Pompidou in Metz. Etc. He has participated at the Biennial of the End of the World, Argentina, Mercosur Biennial, Brazil, PhotoQuai Biennial, France, Curitiba Biennial in Brazil, BIENALSUR; and several Art Fairs like Paris Photo, Loop Barcelona, Unseen Amsterdam, etc.
This multidisciplinary artist addresses thematic productions linked to architecture, the ways in which people inhabit spaces, how the spaces carry with their time, memory and meaning, the relationships people establish with the social and natural environment, among others. There is a fascination with creating the fiction of a space, the game between reality and imagination, the idea of simulation. He builds models that then he photographs. Aveta ́s models are in some cases reconstructions of spaces that no longer exist but that had a political and deep history. By reconstructing them, Aveta evokes the memory of their ghosts, their ruins and vestiges.
PUBLIC and PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina
Museo de Arte Moderno, Rosario, Argentina.
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, Córdoba, Argentina.
Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa;
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Salta;
Musée du Quai Branly de Paris
Museum of Latin American Art de California, USA;
Fondo Nacional de Arte Contemporáneo (FNAC), France
in addition to private collections in Argentina, Brazil, the United States, Spain, France and Germany.