Booth walkthrough with the artist
Vicente Grondona
In Spanish, without translation.
Open to the public.
CURATORIAL VISION
Henri Lebasque in Lobos
Acuarela de los canteros (Watercolor of the Stonemasons)
Curated by Manuel Neves
Les abeilles rêvent de fleurs, les fleurs de soleil
(The bees dream of flowers, the flowers of the sun)
— Unknown poet
Xippas Punta del Este presents, for the first time at ESTE ARTE 2026, a solo exhibition by Argentine artist Vicente Grondona. This curatorial project was conceived especially for the fair and is the result of long conversations between the artist and the curator. Grondona will exhibit a previously unseen selection of his most recent works, titled Acuarela de los canteros (Watercolor of the Stonemasons). Emerging from the Buenos Aires contemporary scene in the late 1990s, his painting explores the genres of landscape and floral ornamentation, a kind of subgenre of the traditional still life. In these works (created during 2025), the artist focuses on the representation of plants and flowers, particularly roses, from a historicist perspective while also appropriating the traditions, techniques, and colors of Post-Impressionism. However, these paintings are not the result of direct observation or photographic reference; rather, they arise from imagination and reminiscence. These evocations are imbued with the atmosphere of his long stays in Lobos, in the Province of Buenos Aires.
BIO
Vicente Grondona (Argentine, b. 1977) studied at the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón in Buenos Aires and spent extended periods in Paris. His work foregrounds material as subject and medium, often using charcoal, wood, and pigments in combination with synthetic products like epoxy and varnish. He has exhibited widely in Argentina and abroad, with solo and group exhibitions at MNBA (2014), arteBA (2014), Galería Alberto Sendrós (2012), and SlyZmud (2013). He lives and works in Buenos Aires.