Galería Elba Benítez

The Galería Elba Benítez is pleased to present /08/, an annual cycle of exhibitions organized by Alejandro Cesarco that take place when the gallery is closed for its summer break. Each one of them, independent of its format, is designed as the summer exhibition of the Elba Benítez Gallery.

/08/ opens its program in 2023 with the publication of Ir al motivo by Mariano Mayer, Argentine writer and curator based in Madrid.

This new book of poems by Mayer is composed of a series of observation exercises, where what is exposed are forms of attention and the distortions and differences that these produce, taking into account the double meaning of motive alluded to in the title. Each poem records what was perceived and tries to discover something that had not been noticed before.

Mariano Mayer (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1971) is a poet and curator of the Oxenford Collection; his latest projects include Un lento venir viniendo. Cap I and II (MAC Niterói, Río de Janeiro, 2022 and Instituto Tomie Ohtake, São Paulo, 2023) and Amplitud de contexto (Sala Martindale, Buenos Aires, 2022). And as independent curator Táctica Sintáctica. Diego Bianchi. Doblar la voz (Marres, House for Contemrporary Culture, Maastricht, 2023 and CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles, 2022); Nunca lo mismo together with Manuela Moscoso (ARCOmadrid, 2023 and 2022); Tiempo produce pintura – pintura produce tiempo. Álex Marco (Espai d’Art Contemporani El Castell ECA, Riba-roja de Turia, Valencia, 2022); PRELIBROS (ARCOmadrid – Casa de América, Madrid, 2021); Azucena Vieites. Playing Across Papers (Sala Alcalá 31, Madrid, 2020); Distancias elásticas. Antonio Menchen y Cecilia Szalkowicz (Centro Párraga, Murcia, 2019) or Gastón Pérsico. La música es mi casa (MALBA Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2017). He has published the books Fluxus Escrito (Caja Negra, Buenos Aires, 2019); Justus (Ayuntamiento de Léon, 2007) and Fanta (Corregidor, Buenos Aires, 2002).