On Thursday, February 5 at 6:00 pm, a roundtable discussion titled Margarita x Margarita: Spoken Texts, Written Texts will take place at the MALBA Library, as part of the exhibition Margarita Paksa. Corresponding Ideas. 1964–1984.

The event offers an approach to Margarita Paksa as a writer and thinker, drawing on her oral and written texts from the 1960s to the 1990s, in dialogue with her artistic practice, language, technology, and the political context.

Participants include Teresa Riccardi and Daniel Quiles. Admission is free with prior registration.

Between 11 February and 8 June, the Museo Reina Sofía presents Viva el arte vivo, an exhibition that revisits the radical and experimental figure of Alberto Greco (Buenos Aires, 1931 – Barcelona, 1965), a key figure in the artistic avant-garde of Argentina and Spain.

An Informalist painter, poet, performer, and queer flâneur, Greco turned his own life into a work of art through public actions, traveling exhibitions, and media gestures. The exhibition traces his production between 1949 and 1965—paintings, writings, collages, drawings, actions, and his novel Besos brujos—and revisits his proclamation of “living art,” a practice that sought to integrate everyday life into art through ephemeral performances, the signing of people and places, and urban declarations that left a particularly strong imprint on Madrid.

The exhibition “Puls Andán: When Latin America Beat at the Heart of Paris” brings together, for the first time, the work of two key Argentine artists who lived and worked in Paris: painter and musician Héctor García Miranda and sculptor Alicia Penalba. The exhibition is on view at Galería del Infinito in Buenos Aires.

The show juxtaposes García Miranda’s kinetic paintings with collages, sculptural prototypes, and previously unseen archival materials by Penalba. It also includes rare filmed footage of the Andean music group Los Calchakis performing in Penalba’s Paris studio during the 1960s.

Curated by Javier Villa, the exhibition revisits a fertile moment of artistic exchange in which abstraction, music, and Latin American identity converged within the vibrant cultural scene of Paris. The project highlights how both artists transformed experiences of displacement and cultural memory into rhythm, form, and movement.

“Puls Andán” offers a renewed perspective on this shared transatlantic dialogue, revealing how Latin American artistic sensibilities resonated at the core of European modernity.

Alberto Greco: Viva el arte vivo — Exhibition at the Museo Reina Sofía (Madrid)

The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía presents Alberto Greco. Viva el arte vivo, a retrospective exhibition devoted to Alberto Greco (Buenos Aires, 1931 – Barcelona, 1965), a pivotal figure of the experimental avant-garde and founder of arte vivo. The exhibition traces his brief yet intense career, understood as a wandering itinerary across cities and cultural scenes in which art and life deliberately merge.

The exhibition brings together works produced between 1949 and 1965, ranging from his early writings and Informalist painting—focused on materiality, spills, and surface tension—to his actions and objets vivants, the drawings made in Madrid, and the collages the artist himself described as “self-promotional.” The exhibition also includes the novel Besos brujos, written shortly before his death.

At the core of the project is arte vivo (later also called vivo-dito), formulated by Greco in Paris in March 1962: a way of working that shifts the artwork toward the situational and the immediate. Under these premises, the artist “signed” people and everyday spaces, declared places to be works of art, and extended his practice to the street as a site of aesthetic invention.

The exhibition also highlights how this impulse continues in drawings and collages traversed by writing, references to popular culture and mass media, affective modulations, and records of the everyday, where urban wandering, pop gesture, and the intimate archive coexist.

Institutional Collaboration

For more than fifteen years, Galería Del Infinito has carried out sustained research into the work and thought of Alberto Greco. This work led in 2020 to the publication La aventura de lo real. Escritos de Alberto Greco, a volume that brings together previously unpublished texts by the artist and foregrounds his writing as a constitutive part of his practice.

Within this framework, Galería Del Infinito actively participates in the Museo Reina Sofía retrospective through a significant loan of artworks and archival materials, reaffirming its commitment to the research, conservation, and international dissemination of Greco’s legacy.

The Reina Sofía retrospective not only reappraises a fundamental artist of the twentieth century, but also re-signifies artistic practices that continue to fuel contemporary debates around action, the archive, and aesthetic experience. As a space committed to critical thinking and art history, we celebrate this international dialogue with a figure who has profoundly shaped the development of conceptual practices in art.

Practical Information

Dates: February 11, 2026 – June 8, 2026
Venue: Museo Reina Sofía — Sabatini Building, Floor 0 (Madrid)
Curated by: Fernando Davis
Organized by: Museo Reina Sofía

Spectrum — Leo Battistelli

Galería Del Infinito presented Spectrum, a project by the artist Leo Battistelli (Rosario, 1972), within the framework of ESTE ARTE 2026, held at Pavilion VIK. The twelfth edition of the fair took place from January 4 to 7, 2026.

In Spectrum, Battistelli conceives his practice as an attempt to manifest a primordial force that connects us to nature and to the worlds we inhabit. From the banks of the Paraná River to the Atlantic Forest of Rio de Janeiro, he understands nature as home, source of breath, and creative territory. His works seek to crystallize this bond: they function as bridges that expand perception, as symbolic shields against ignorance, and as activators of a sensibility capable of recognizing our interdependence with all beings and elements.

Battistelli produces his works using natural materials, unfolding an “alchemical” process in which water and earth are combined to shape objects that emerge from uniformity. Within this practice, he aims to capture an ephemeral instant that refers to the spiritual realm of symbolic exchange. His works evoke identity-based memories, rituals, and celebrations, and articulate a relationship with making in which the artist positions himself as a “deconstructor” of form—valuing errors and production slips as constitutive elements of the work itself.

Immersed in the Brazilian rainforest and permeated by the joy expressed in that culture, Battistelli allows himself to perceive the universe in new ways and to translate that experience into a material language that condenses, in each piece, a sensitive pursuit of beauty and balance.

Short Bio — Leo Battistelli

Leo Battistelli (1972, Rosario, Argentina) holds a BA in Fine Arts with a specialization in Sculpture from the National University of Rosario and later specialized in ceramics at the atelier of sculptor Leo Tavella. He has exhibited since 1993 in Argentina, Brazil, the United States, and France. His work has been shown at institutions including Museo Juan B. Castagnino/MACRO (Rosario), Fundación Federico J. Klemm (Buenos Aires), Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Fundación PROA (Buenos Aires), and Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas (Buenos Aires), among others. In 2013 he was selected by Chandon to create Temperantia, a site-specific installation for the 22nd edition of arteBA.

He has received the Konex Award (2022), the Petrobras arteBA Award (2004), the Federico Klemm Award (2001 and 2002), and the Argentine Association of Art Critics Award (2000), among others. His works are included in public and private collections such as Fundación Federico Jorge Klemm, MACRO, and MALBA. He currently lives and works in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Galería Del Infinito at ESTE ARTE 2026

Galería Del Infinito announces its participation in ESTE ARTE 2026, the international contemporary art fair to be held from January 4 to 7, 2026, at Pavilion Vik, José Ignacio, Uruguay.

As part of the fair’s public program, the gallery will present a guided tour with artist Leo Battistelli at its stand, within ESTE FOCUS | DEL INFINITO, scheduled for Tuesday, January 6, 2026, from 6:10 to 6:50 pm. The activity will be conducted in Spanish and is open to the public.

The presentation focuses on Battistelli’s recent body of work, Spectrum, a project that develops a sustained investigation into material processes and the relationship between artistic practice and natural environments. Drawing from different territories, his work emphasizes the use of organic materials and manual techniques as central components of its formal and conceptual structure.

With this participation, Galería Del Infinito continues its program of exhibiting and promoting contemporary artists within the regional art fair circuit.

Event details:

• Event: ESTE FOCUS | DEL INFINITO — Guided tour with Leo Battistelli

• Date and time: January 6, 2026 | 6:10–6:50 pm

• Location: Del Infinito stand, Pavilion Vik, José Ignacio, Uruguay

• Language: Spanish, open to the public