Joaquín Molina
born in Buenos Aires, 1956. Lives and works in Buenos Aires.
He has exhibited since 1980 in several galleries and museums around
the world.
His pieces reflect the search of an own symbology through previously
apprehended symbols. Prized with a Fortabat Award Mention (1988,
1995 and 1997), and with a City Painting Award Special Mention,
among others.
He selected, documented and assembled the National Painting and
Sculpture Collection, donated by Nicolás García
Uriburu in Maldonado, Uruguay.
He is the curator at the Pre-Columbian Art Museum (Nicolás
García Uriburu Foundation) in Buenos Aires, and selected,
documented and Assembled the Museum's pieces.
He is also the editorial producer at the Foundation and has edited
the following works:
• Precolombian Art, Nicolas
G. Uriburu Collection, by Alberto Rex González, 1999
• Uriburu. Southern
utopia, by French critic Pierre Restany, edited by Electa
in Milan, 2001
• Northwestern
Argentina’s Aguada plates, by Luis González,
Edgardo Cabanillas and Ricardo Montero, 2002
• Faces
of the past. The secret world of masks, by Carlos Mordo,
2003
• The green cultures, Ceremonial
Featherwork of the rainforest peoples, by Carlos Mordo, 2005
• Mapuche, Southern peoples
Art, by Joaquín Molina, 2007
• Antonio
Berni. The painter of modernity, by Pierre Restany, to be
published briefly.
Among other exhibitions, he was ”Antonio Berni’s
40 years since the XXXI Venice Biennial Award 1962-2002”
curator and assembler, at Recoleta Cultural Centre, which received
the Argentinean Association of Art Critics’ Award as the
best solo exhibition of a national artist in 2002.