Hito Cultural: The stimulating task of creating with others

An exhibition curated by Carlos Gutiérrez, titled "Hito Cultural," is currently on display until August 12, highlighting the latest generation of Argentine visual artists. The show features works created between 2025 and 2026, stemming from the foundation's program designed to stimulate artistic practice in challenging contexts.

The Hito Cultural Foundation's program, now in its third year, offers artists a year-long workspace in its over thousand-square-meter industrial warehouse in Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires. This space is specifically adapted for large-scale contemporary art production. The foundation also provides institutional support to help advance artists' careers.

Selection for the program is through an open call and a jury. Past juries included notable figures like Laura Buccellato and Rodrigo Alonso. For the 2025/26 edition, selected artists include Bernabé Arévalo, Camilo Guinot, and Julián Terán, among others. Summer participants also contributed works and exhibitions.

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Here the artist turns them into giant sculptures, hanging from the walls and gaining personality when their points begin to resemble sharp teeth that smile at us somberly, with something raver, suspicious, fierce and punk.

Notable works include Bencardino's paintings for her solo exhibition at Malba, Guinot's large structures exhibited in Dakar, and Terán's installations. The exhibition not only displays a final piece from each artist but also opens their studio spaces, offering a glimpse into their intimate creative processes.

One featured artist, industrial designer Felicitas Castaños, explores 'peinetones', traditional hair ornaments, as objects of power for women during the May Revolution, transforming them into large, sharp-toothed sculptures. Visual artist and musician Julián Terán's studio contains recordings and inscribed wooden pieces, integrating drawing, writing, and engraving into installations that connect with folk poetics. Camilo Guinot's space showcases large installations made from branches.

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In the workshop of the visual artist and musician Julián Terán there are recorded discs, woods inscribed with a rewriting of the national anthem wrapped in a giant floor, to observe with attention. In his work, drawing, writing and engraving become installation and enter into connection with folk poetics.