Pablo Accinelli

Born in 1983 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil.

The functional and poetic relationship between an object and a tool is one of the key themes that Pablo Accinelli has been addressing in his later years. His artistic practice can be seen as a precise yet subtle echo of our mundane surroundings. In his drawings and objects, the reduction of the elements to their quantifiable level is in sync with the protagonism of measuring tools: rulers, squares and color systems susceptible of application by a user on a data structure, as though they were the graphic interface of an image-editing program.

Accinelli studied with artists Alejandro Puente and Diana Aisenberg. Since 2006 he has been part of Actividad de uso with Leandro Tartaglia, a group dedicated to writing books about young Argentine artists. In 2015 he participated in the Vienna Biennale curated by Maria Lind and in the Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou. In 2014 he won the Scholarship and Commissions Program of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO). In 2012 he won the Lucio Fontana Prize and was invited to participate in the Bienal de São Paulo, curated by Luis Pérez Oramas. In 2008 and 2011 held solo exhibitions in Luisa Strina gallery, São Paulo. He taught as associate professor in Jorge Macchi’s annual workshop of the graduate program for artists in Di Tella University (2011 and 2009 editions).

Selected solo exhibitions

2016
Cae la tarde, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
Técnicas Pasivas, Galerija Gregor Podnar, Berlin, Germany.
Talk Xou 1, projecto ‘glory hole’, Galeria Jaqueline Martins, São Paulo, Brazil.

2015
Solo Projects, ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain.

2014
Positive, Galería Ignacio Liprandi, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2013
Todo el tiempo, Nuevos vínculos, Hacienda La Trinidad, Caracas, Venezuela.

2012
30th Bienal de São Paulo, La inminencia de las poéticas, São Paulo, Brazil.

2011
At the same time, Frame Frieze, London, England.
Alrededor, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.

2009
Transportador, Proyect Room, ArBo, Bogotá, Colombia.

2008
Donde quiera que estés, Galería Alberto Sendrós, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Escenario exterior, Relación interna, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.

Selected group exhibitions

2017
Truth Bistro, Kai Matsumiya, New York, USA.
Everything is About to Happen (Porto): Artists’ Books and Editions’, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Serralves Library, Porto, Portugal.

2016
Por aqui é tudo novo, Inhotim, Minas Gerais, Brazil.
YOU MUST TRUST US!, Galeria Cavalo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
BUSSO, Rua Major Sertórico 452, São Paulo, Brazil.

2015
1 (UM), BFA Boatos, São Paulo, Brazil.
United States of Latin America, MOCAD- Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA.
Future Light – Escaping Transparency (part of the Vienna Biennale), MAK- Museum für Angewandte, Vienna, Austria.
Extension du domaine du jeu, Nouveau festival – 6e édition, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Tijuana Editions – Publishing in the Frontier, MdM Gallery, Paris, France.
Arte y Palabra, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2014
Taipa-Tapume, Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil.
Actividad de uso sobre la obra de Tomás Maglione, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Fleeting Imaginaries, CIFO The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, USA.
Cromofobia, MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Video universe – The magic of images, curaLABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain.

2013
Secret Codes, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil.
Level One, Gb Agency, Paris, France.
Tipografía externa- Tipografía interna, Tijuana Editions, São Paulo, Brazil.
No importa mi nombre (Grippo, Holmqvist, Sarmiento, Accinelli), Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes, CCA Wattis, San Francisco; MOCAD- Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, USA.
Algunos artistas, Proa Foundation, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Paralaje. A tres bandas, The Goma Gallery, Madrid, Spain.

2012
Entre el retorno y la partida, MACLA- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Últimas tendencias II, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Sobre el trazado. Versiones del dibujo, Wu gallery, Lima, Peru.
Actividad de uso on the work of Verónica Gómez along with Leandro Tartaglia, Purr Bookstore, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2011
An other place, Lelong Gallery, New York City, USA.
Rayo verde, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2009
Investigación, infraestructura, Centro Cultural España, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Trienal poligráfica, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Actividad de uso on the work of Luciana Lamothe along with Leandro Tartaglia, Purr Bookstore, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2008
Una cierta melancolía, Galería Alberto Sendrós, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2007
Actividad de uso on the work of Vicente Grondona along with Leandro Tartaglia, Galería Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

2006
Curriculum Cero, Galería Ruth Benzacar, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Actividad de uso 2 along with Leandro Tartaglia, Galería Belleza y Felicidad, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Public Collections
Coleção Madeira Corporate Services, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal.
CACI Centro de Arte Contemporânea Inhotim, São Paulo, Brasil.
Kadist Collection
MAMBA- Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CIFO Foundation, Miami, USA.