Mauro Giaconi: Open House

Arte Abierto invites the public interested in contemporary art to the open house of the exhibition Temporal Ventaja by artist Mauro Giaconi, to be held on Thursday, February 6, as part of the activities of Art Week in Mexico City.

Temporal Ventaja is an installation that invites viewers to question notions of truth, reality, and time. Giaconi constructs a symbolic narrative in which the material, the conceptual, and the sensory converge to blur the boundaries between reality and fiction. Through drawing, installation, and the use of ephemeral materials, Giaconi explores the tension between what endures and what erodes, as well as the physical and symbolic traces left by the passage of time on bodies, spaces, and systems of power.

The open house offers a direct encounter with the exhibition and the artist at Arte Abierto Pedregal, inviting visitors to experience the show up close and without curatorial mediation. In keeping with the institution’s approach, the event seeks to foster open dialogue between the work, the artist, and audiences, within a context of free exchange during one of the most active weeks of the city’s artistic calendar.

Mauro Giaconi (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1977) graduated from the National School of Fine Arts “Prilidiano Pueyrredón” (E.N.B.A.P.P., Buenos Aires). He has lived and worked in Mexico City since 2011, where he practices as a visual artist and independent cultural manager.

His artistic production explores, through various media such as drawing, graphic intervention, sculpture, and installation, the tension between the real and the apparent. His recent interests focus on appearance and simulation as strategies of resistance, survival, and power, from which he proposes fractures to visual, historical, and political conventions.

His work has been featured in renowned national and international publications; he has participated in various international artist residencies and has exhibited in museums and institutions across the Americas and Europe. In parallel, he works as an independent cultural manager. He is the founder and director of projects such as Obrera Centro, a space for gathering and creative exploration within the artistic community, and HerratecA, a community-based tool-lending initiative that operates like a library—of tools—both based in Mexico City.

In the field of education, he coordinates independent artistic training projects such as Proyecto Imán, seminars for artwork analysis and artistic production, and DibujE, a study group focused on drawing in contemporary art, among others.

Since 2025, he has been a member of Mexico’s National System of Art Creators (SNCA).