# Visual Art Project Transforms Pinamar Landscape Six contemporary art installations integrate nature and urban development in Pinamar, Argentina. - **Source:** [Infobae](https://www.infobae.com) - **Published:** 2026-11-10 - **Topic:** [culture](https://brifing.si/c/culture) - **Original article:** - **On Brifing:** https://brifing.si/s/b78b8e12-92d4-489a-ac7e-bdce7800e5b7 ## Revitalizing Public Art Heritage Pinamar SA, the city's founding developer, has launched a new contemporary art initiative. This project builds upon a long-standing tradition of public art in the region, which already hosts over 80 works by renowned artists like Lucio Fontana. The current effort aims to modernize this cultural legacy through strategic, site-specific installations. ## Curatorial Vision and Collaboration Executive director Enrique Shaw and Bárbara Russi commissioned Andrés Duprat, director of the National Museum of Fine Arts, and curator José Roca to lead the project. They selected international artists who traveled to Pinamar to study the terrain. Each installation was carefully adapted to harmonize with the specific environmental conditions of the site. ## Recycled Materials in Nature Filipino artist Leeroy New created 'Balete ni Mebuyan' on a wooden walkway crossing the dunes. The tunnel-like gallery is constructed from recycled plastic tubes, water jugs, and zip ties mounted on a bamboo frame. This work emphasizes the intersection of industrial waste and natural landscapes through vibrant, colorful, and ingenious structural design. ## Sculpting Three-Dimensional Drawings Matías Duville, known for his charcoal drawings, presented 'El errante' atop a high dune. The sculpture transforms his two-dimensional artistic style into a three-dimensional form using discarded materials and melted black plastic. The piece offers a stark, recognizable, and somewhat unsettling contrast to the surrounding natural sand and coastal environment. ## Auditory and Visual Landscapes Tania Candiani’s 'Zona de timidez' features a concave stainless steel basin placed within a dense pine forest. Piano strings tensioned against tree trunks create sounds triggered by wind or violin bows. A floating light ring illuminates the installation at night, creating a surreal atmosphere that highlights the natural gaps between trees. ## Concrete Portals and Literary Forests Eduardo Basualdo installed 'Cruz del Sur,' a concrete portal featuring a dark, cloud-like structure, near a new real estate development. Meanwhile, María Elvira Escallón’s 'Una biblioteca en el bosque' uses sand and glue to etch literary quotes by Borges onto eucalyptus bark, acknowledging the transient nature of the trees' regenerative surfaces. ## Historical Continuity in Art The circuit concludes at the Playas Art Hotel with Marta Minujín’s reconstruction of her 50-year-old hornero nest sculpture. Originally part of the 'Communicating with the Earth' project, the work serves as a metaphor for identity and shelter. The hotel also houses a collection documented in the book 'Pinamar-Arte y naturaleza'. ## Nature and Poetic Understanding The project successfully bridges the gap between urban development and the natural environment. By integrating conceptual depth with precise craftsmanship, the installations invite visitors to engage with the landscape in silence. As Alexander von Humboldt once suggested, this initiative reinforces the idea that nature cannot be fully understood without poetic interpretation. ## Sources covering this story - https://www.infobae.com/cultura/2026/11/10/poesia-visual-para-entender-la-naturaleza-el-proyecto-de-arte-que-conmueve-en-pinamar/ — --- _Summary written by Brifing from the original reporting. Copyright in the original article belongs to its publisher; read the full piece at the link above._