PINTA MIAMI

30. November – 04. December 2022

KBB presents Martín Touzón (www.martintouzon.com.ar) at the NEXT section for PINTA Miami curated by Florencia Portocarrero with works from the Medias Hojas series (https://martintouzon.com.ar/index.php/medias-hojas/2/). NEXT is a section that focuses on emergent latin american artists. In his Medias Hojas series, the artist transforms single socks left at laundromats in Buenos Aires into random compositions by partnering them by size, processing the raw materials as if handmade paper, and molding them into grids. Each work is a media hoja or “half sheet” that brings together mismatched, forgotten belongings of strangers to create a new, unified material. Putting in dialogue the language of revolutionary Argentine art movements Arte Madí and Asociación Arte Concreto-Invención as well as the conceptual minimalism of Sol LeWitt, Touzon’s Medias Hojas escape hierarchical compositions to offer a more ludic and democratic format based on a system. The grids are partitioned according to universal ISO 216 paper scale sizes that are industrial, rigid, and stable. This working process follows a personal research to rethink industrial productions in a sensible way.