Mónica Giron
Neocriollo de barro, 2002. Clay. 10 x 5 x 5 cms.
Pizarrón, 2014-2015. Silkscreen print on mdf, fibre glass and epoxy, polychrome paint. 221 x 274 x 20 cms.
Pizarrón, 2014-2015. Detail.
LLegada, 1991. Acrylic on canvas. 120 x 120 cms.
Título de Propiedad, 1991. Paper, tape and black and white photos. Installation approx. 260 h. x 310 cms.
KOL (Homo sapiens), 2009-2010. 5 pieces in flame-torched and chiselled gris mara granite, hard stones, onyx, black marble and black granite.
SX (14), 2014-2015. Watercolour on cotton paper. 140 x 140 cms.
Osmosis intelectual (5), 2005. Graphite, coloured pencil and watercolour on paper. Diptych of 113 x 153 cms.
Nacer igual (amarillo), 2001. Acrylic on canvas and graphite and watercolour on paper. Diptych of 75 x 225 cms.
Cairo 90º Biarritz, 2008 and El centro del jardín, 2003-2009.
El centro del jardín, 2003-2009.
Paisalvaje, 1995-2013. Illuminated sign and text on wall. Installation. Varying measurements.
Partida, 1982. Photos, paper and light. Installation. Measurements approx. 400 x 400 cms.
Ajuar para un conquistador, 1993. Pullovers, socks and scarves for Patagonian birds. Installation on wall. Varying measurements.
Ajuar para un conquistador, 1993. Detail. Pullover for Cauquen Cabecigris. Merino wool and buttons.
Osmosis, 2004-2006. 3 heads of wax, pigments, wood, brass leaf. 3 prints on paper. Display of lacquered wood and acrylic crystal. 180 x 130 x 180 cms.
Pilón de nieve, 1997-2015. Watercolour on paper. 70 x 100 cms.
The Wonderful World, 2013-2015. Graphics and texts painted on wood. Installation. Varying measurements approx. 4 x 6 m.
The Wonderful World, 2013-2015. Video loop, 7 minutes, sound. Installation. Varying measurements. Still.
Detalles continentes – Primera aproximación, 2013. Watercolour and graphite on paper. 24.5 x 34 cms.
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Mónica Giron (San Carlos de Bariloche, 1959). The experience of witnessing the stunning Patagonian horizon –whose human and geopolitical contexts are being rapidly transformed– is at the very heart of the work of Giron. Through her representation of the landscape and the world as a field of metaphors from which to pose unexpected questions of a sensitive, open, ethical and moral nature, Giron creates a body of work that unfolds in her exhibitions and seminars. She anxiously observes the landscape, architecture or art, attentive to the ability of forms –and consequently of humans– to concentrate or misuse information, energy, knowledge and the power of expression. Repeatedly her work is expressed in installations, objects and analyses of forms, drawings, paintings, watercolours and site-specific projects.
Mónica Giron spent her childhood and youth in last century’s Patagonia (Argentina). That vital experience of territory in constant transformation turned out to be essential in her development as an artist and still resonates in her works. Her curiosity takes her to develop her capability of amazement and to keep alive the tension between knowledge and intuition.She likes to think that it is possible to balance the emotional world and at the same time to go deep in the spiritual world and the learning of the other. Giron experiences art more as a performance in constant movement and as endless evolution than as a rational closed certification. Giron researches and broadens horizons in artistic education. She has been working in this field since 1988 form a horizontal, collaborative and relational point of view regarding contemporary art. She has dictated courses in different public institutions such as Begen’s and Oslo’s National Academy in Norway and takes part since 2009 of the Program for Artists of University Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires. Giron has given seminars in Guayaquil, Ecuador; Porto Alegre, Brasil; Bariloche, Posadas, Resistencia, Río Gallegos, y Buenos Aires in Argentina. Her most recent individual exhibitions are Ajuar para un Conquistador, Solo Show (Frieze New York, The Shed, 2023); Enlaces Querandí (Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, 2022); Zonas Reflejas (BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2018); Ejercicios con el modelo terrestre (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, 2015); Fronterizo y Traslación, (Galería Zabaleta Lab, Buenos Aires, 2013) y Neocriollo (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2007). She lives and works in Buenos Aires.
exhibitions
Elemental Vortex — BARRO NEW YORK
13.09.2023
Elemental Vortex is not merely an exhibition but a journey to the verycomposition of existence. Mónica Giron’s work guides us in a poetic dance between the visible and the invisible, the tangible and the intangible. This display transcends the boundaries of art, awakening a profound connection between human beings and nature.
news
24.10.2025 MÓNICA GIRON at the Bienal de Cuenca
publications
Modelos de ejercicios terrestres
Arta Ediciones, Buenos Aires, 2016
Mónica Giron
Zabaleta Lab, Buenos Aires, 2011
links
Diego Massariol, “Diálogos entre percepción y conocimiento científico en las prácticas estético-artísticas contemporáneas”. Revista Ad Versus, Sep 2025
Alfredo Aracil, "La parálisis y la lógica del juego. Sobre Zonas reflejas, de Mónica Giron" Revista Otra Parte, Marzo 2019.
Santiago García Navarro, "Zonas reflejas" Revista Otra Parte, Dic 2018.
Andrés Aizicovich, "A propósito de Zonas Reflejas de Mónica Girón en la galería Barro". Estudios Curatoriales, Oct, 2018.
Jan Pettersson, "Los movimientos tectónicos
durante la era digital", Modelo de Ejercicios terrestres, Oslo 2016
Valeria Balut, "Aemulatio sobre Fronterizo y Traslación" Zabaleta Lab 2013.
Santiago García Navarro, "Hacerse un cuerpo", Mónica Giron edit Zabaleta Lab, 2010.
Marcelo Pacheco, "Sensaciones de un encuentro", Mónica Giron edit Zabaleta Lab, 2010.
Gustavo Buntinx, "Museo de cera", Bienal del Fin del Mundo, 2007.
