Founded in 2016 by Eugenio Ottolenghi, OTTO Galería represents Latin American artists who work with contemporary features, but related to traditional disciplines such as painting, sculpture, collage and photography. We aim for a balance between new, mid-career and established artists, appreciating the individual language of each one in the local and international market of the dynamic art scene. We seek to position ourselves, with prominence and responsibility, as a central axis between artists, collectors, museums, institutions and the public.

For this edition of ZsonaMaco we are presenting a duo of paintings of Alec Franco (Argentine, 1972) and Eduardo Stupía (Argentine, 1951)

ALEC FRANCO carefully pauses in the mercurial elaboration of his morphological “puzzles,” where the internal rhythm of the pieces and their rarefied corporeal affiliation generate the strategic effect of an unbalanced harmony, as firm in its balance as it is brittle in its elegant provisionality. A segmented system of relationships makes the simultaneous presence of the organic and the geometric, of the perimeter evolutions and chromatic density, of the tempered pattern and the improvised cut, ambiguous and eccentric at the same time. 

EDUARDO STUPÍA appeals to the exasperated coexistence of graphic, drawing and pictorial signs to erect, both in terms of surface tension and depth and spatiality of the plane, an ungraspable prismatic constellation of rhythms, textures, icons, vignettes and calligraphy. In electrified counterpoint, the heterogeneous confluence of a massive linear destructuring and the terminal proliferation of dissolving grammatical nuclei are the constructive key to a poetics of indeterminacy and paradox.