This Friday, May 22, at 7 p.m., the artistic intervention by Marcos Benítez will open at Casa Martínez, headquarters of the Museo Arqueológico y Antropológico de la Provincia de Corrientes (Fray José de la Quintana 971, Argentina). The exhibition is part of the expanded program of the eighth edition of ArteCo 2026, the Contemporary Art Fair of Corrientes, where the artist was a special guest.
Benítez's works engage directly with the collections of the Corrientes museum, especially the pre-Hispanic and historical ceramics known as yapepó (pots or vessels of Guaraní origin). In the same space, the artist installs the series "Ñoty" (a Guaraní term meaning to plant or cultivate), composed of small vessels and utilitarian and ornamental ceramic objects produced in the workshops of Areguá. Through free arrangements and associations, Benítez creates new readings, paying homage to artist Feliciano Centurión (1962-1996).
Curator Fernando Davis highlights that "Benítez 'transplants' into the sequence of vessels a repertoire of ceramic objects that are part of the cultural and sensory landscape of Areguá, stereotypical representations of its fauna and various fruits, such as strawberries, whose harvest constitutes one of the main agricultural and tourist activities of that city."
Born in Asunción, Marcos Benítez has received awards such as the Livio Abramo Printmaking Prize (1994), the La Nación Art Salon Prize (1996), the Henri Matisse Prize (2000), and the Invernadero Prize (2018). He currently directs the "Cabichuí" Printmaking Workshop and is part of collectives such as Ediciones de la Ura and the Gente de Arte Association.
The eighth edition of ArteCo will officially open on Thursday, May 21, at the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Corrientes (MACC). Organized by the provincial government through the Institute of Culture, the fair runs until Sunday, May 24, establishing itself as an ecosystem for technical experimentation and circulation of cultural goods in the regional market of the Argentine coast, Paraguay, and southern Brazil. This edition takes on the methodological challenge of mapping a rapidly expanding regional production, demonstrating how the heritage of local knowledge and critical narratives of the territory converge to define a common aesthetic identity.