Beto De Volder Argentine, b. 1962
Beto De Volder (b. 1962, Buenos Aires) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. De Volder's practice took shape in the 1990s, amid the Argentine reengagement with Latin American geometric abstraction, and has centered since on the exploration of circles, curves, and geometric structures through drawing, built from repetition and variation. Since relocating to New York in 2018, the work has expanded into new materials—pencil on clayboard, painting on canvas—and new scales and formats. It holds two references in tension: the entanglements of weaving and basketry, and the visual language of circuits and machines—the ancestral and the techno-optimist—settling in the space between them. From a distance the works read as structured and systematic; up close they reveal irregularity, error, improvisation, and play. This tension between control and freedom defines the practice.
Recent solo exhibitions include Cadence (2024) and Landscapes & Drawings (2021), both at Hutchinson Modern & Contemporary, New York. His work has been shown at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) and the Blanton Museum of Art, and is held in the collections of MALBA and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros.
