Horacio Zabala

Horacio Zabala (Buenos Aires, 1943) was trained as an architect at the University of Buenos Aires. He had his first solo art show in 1967. In 1972 he began publishing essays and other theoretical texts on art, and in 1975 began curating and planning exhibitions. He was a member of the Grupo de los Trece (Group of Thirteen), which was centered around the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC), until 1976. In that year, which marks the start of Argentina’s final and most violent military dictatorship, he went into an exile that would take him to Rome, Vienna, and Geneva, where he would continue to produce and exhibit his art for 22 years. On his return to Argentina, he created the exhibition Ejercicios y tránsitos (Exercises and Transits) (1998) at Buenos Aires’s Museum of Modern Art, published El arte o el mundo por segunda vez (Art or the World, Once Again) (1998) and resumed his curatorial efforts. Since then, his works have appeared in numerous solo and group shows in Argentina and abroad, and have entered major collections, both private and public, around the world: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York), Tate Modern (London), Dallas Museum of Art, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Buenos Aires), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires.
In 2016 he had an important anthological exhibition La pureza está en la mezcla (Purity is in the mix), at the Colección de Arte Fortabat (Buenos Aires) and Mapping the Monochrome, at Phoenix Art Museum. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Catalogue: https://www.dropbox.com/s/him767vt8n7mt26/Catalogue%20Horacio%20Zabala.pdf?dl=0

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