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Juan Ignacio Cabruja and Juan José Cambre in Crítica de la abstracción pura | Bienalsur

From July 8 to October 11, 2025, the exhibition Crítica de la abstracción pura will be on view at the Embassy of Brazil – Cultural Space Palacio Pereda (Arroyo 1142, Buenos Aires). Organized by Bienalsur, the exhibition can be visited Tuesday to Friday from 12 to 6 p.m., and Saturdays from 2 to 6 p.m., except on holidays.

The exhibition proposes a reflection on the legacy of modern abstraction — that movement which originally sought to break away from the idea of the “window painting” through which the world was represented. By reducing its language to essential elements —line, point, color, plane, texture— abstraction aimed to eliminate any reference to reality, renouncing figuration and the subordination of the artwork to a specific subject. In its pursuit of absolute autonomy, modern abstraction encouraged the union between art and life, leaving a fertile field of experiences and research from which contemporary practices continue to draw.

Today, the canon of abstraction is revisited and reinterpreted by artists who, far from the purism and oppositions of modernity, move within an aesthetic pluralism that incorporates into the abstract language the vital issues of our present.