14/03 — 16/06/25
Opening: Thursday, March 13, 7:00 p.m.
Gallery 1. Level -1
In dialogue with Guillermo Kuitca’s exhibition, Malba presents in the museum’s Gallery 1 Lucrecia Lionti. Fabril la mirada, the young Argentine artist’s first solo museum exhibition. The work of Lucrecia Lionti (Tucumán, 1985) makes use of the grand narratives of modern art to question them, transferring the languages of conceptual art to popular imaginary, and of abstract art to craftsmanship. The show features textile installations especially made for the exhibition and a series of works on paper from the years between 2012 and 2017 that serve as testimonies of her experimentations.
For over 15 years, the artist has situated her work at the point where art history and artisanal practices come together, critically addressing the relationship between abstraction and the autonomy of materials. Using different techniques, such as knitting, patchwork, and drawing, Lionti combines materials of industrial and artisanal origins, such as sheep’s wool, synthetic thread, plastic, and paper. As a result, her work elicits not only the connection to tasks that have been historically associated with women but also to subordinate political movements, through her use of precarious materials and social slogans. In her pieces, the influence of the visual media culture and regional political history becomes clear.
Lionti’s proposal does not seek to reassert the earthly values of artisanal work, but rather contrast its visual aspects with its ethical ones. Her imaginary also includes a reflection regarding plastic arts education at schools as a space that democratizes civic sensitivity.
Inside the gallery, a series of textiles in geometrical shapes synthesize clothing pattern templates. The sleeves, arranged in sequence, suggest a double-edged reflection, hinting towards the present-day artistic canon and its commercial component while simultaneously including signs of current social issues. Her collages, in turn, contain the sentimental and heroic flare of art manifestos, while their proclaims are updated according to the challenges of a new context.
Curator: Carla Barbero.
Lucrecia Lionti
Tucumán, 1985.
Lucrecia Lionti (Tucumán, 1985) is a visual artist. With a degree in Fine Arts from the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, she continued her studies at the Artists’ Program (2010) and at the Film Laboratory (2012) of the Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, where she taught the Work Analysis Seminar in 2024. Her work is featured in public and private collections, including the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (Spain), Fondation Thalie (Belgium), Le 19 CRAC Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain de Montbéliard (France), Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo Rosa Galisteo in Santa Fe, Museo Castagnino+macro in Rosario (Argentina). She has been awarded the 8M Prize by the Ministry of Culture (2022), the Premio Semana del Arte Ciudad de Buenos Aires (2021), the MUNT First Prize (2018), and the Oxenford Collection Travel Scholarship to Paris (2014). She has completed art residency programs at EAC (Montevideo), El Ranchito Matadero (Madrid), and Centro Cultural de la Memoria Haroldo Conti (Buenos Aires). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently at Instituto Tomie Ohtake and the Memorial da America Latina in São Paulo (2023), and the Asia Art Center Gwangju, Korea (2020). Since 2018, she has been a member of the collective La Lola Mora-Trabajadoras de las Artes Tucumán. She currently lives in Buenos Aires.