MACA Inaugurates Exhibitions of Fontana and Uruguayan Modern Art

Art in Summer: MACA Inaugurates Exhibitions of Fontana and Uruguayan Modern Art
The Atchugarry Museum of Contemporary Art (MACA) opens its 2026 summer season with a program that combines fundamental names in international and local art. During January, the museum located in Manantiales will host two important inaugurations and will maintain an ongoing retrospective, consolidating its place as one of the most active cultural centers in the region during the southern summer.

For the first time in Uruguay, an exhibition dedicated to the Italian-Argentine artist Lucio Fontana, a key figure in 20th-century art and creator of spatialism, arrives at MACA under the curatorship of renowned historian Luca Massimo Barbero. The exhibition brings together 72 works—including ceramics, sculptures, drawings, and canvases—that illustrate his search for new relationships between space, light, and matter. Fontana broke with traditional painting by incorporating the cut, the void, and three-dimensionality as central elements of his language.

Reason and Existence: Concrete Art and Informalism in Uruguay (1947–1970)

Curated by Manuel Neves, this group exhibition revisits a crucial period in Uruguayan modern art, articulating a dialogue between two currents historically seen as opposites: concrete art and informalism. Through works by 26 artists, the exhibition reveals how both currents coexisted and intertwined in a context marked by the social and cultural changes of the post-war period. A critical reading that broadens the perspective on the formative years of abstraction in Uruguay.

The anthological exhibition of Juan de Andrés, a reference in geometric abstraction and the poetics of form, will continue for much of January. The exhibition spans more than five decades of work, where visual synthesis, precision of formal language, and a marked contemplative sense configure a coherent and serene proposal. A tribute to one of the most internationally recognized contemporary Uruguayan artists.

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