Landmark pieces by Argentina’s top 20th-century painters, galleries from all over the country, and emerging artists will all converge this weekend at arteba, Argentina’s storied art fair. The 2023 edition, which runs through Sunday, September 3, at the Costa Salguero Center in Buenos Aires, will feature upwards of 400 artists from 58 art galleries across more than 15 cities. “It’s the first time ever that an art space from El Calafate, in Santa Cruz, has attended the fair,” gallery director Toia Ibáñez said. “I don’t usually work with such a contemporary thing, but people like them a lot, especially younger buyers.”Argentina’s current political-economic tensions have, of course, filtered into local artists’ work. “Argentine art pieces are very affordable in comparison with the rest of the region.

Source: Bueno Aires Herald September 01, 2023 15:56 UTC