Horacio Zabala (artist / architect, Buenos Aires / Argentina)

Horacio Zabala (born in 1943 in Buenos Aires / Argentina) studied architecture at the University of Buenos Aires and emigrated to Europe after the military coup in 1976, where he lived for 22 years in Rome, Vienna, and Geneva. Today he lives and works in Buenos Aires. Through minimal visual languages and heterogeneous media his work critically explores the social and aesthetic contexts of information and fiction. From 1972 to 1976 he was a member of the progressive artists group Grupo de los Trece. Exhibitions (selection): Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (2014); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2012); Henrique Faría, New York  | Buenos Aires, New York (2009); MALBA Buenos Aires (2005); Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (1996, 1998).