The National Museum of Engraving inaugurates this exhibition

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Opening: Friday, April 25, at 6:00 p.m. Closing: August 3, 2025. Curators: Santiago Pozzi and Valentino Tettamanti. Free admission.

The National Museum of Engraving inaugurates this exhibition that explores the intersections between sound and visual art through graphic pieces linked to the music scenes of Buenos Aires and La Plata, produced between 2000 and 2025. The cover art of an album, a printed T-shirt, a concert poster, or a photocopied flyer are all materials that music leaves in the visual world. Often, the memory of these images lingers even longer than the song titles. Through a selection of graphic works—original works, reproductions, documents, objects, and archives—Tono sobre tono explores the visual imaginaries activated by the musical experience. This gesture invites us to examine how graphics accompany music, empower it, redefine it, and often shape a scene or community. The exhibition features a multitude of artists and designers whose work explores diverse ways of thinking about graphics in relation to music: from design, illustration, typography, to various printing techniques.
It brings together the work of artists and designers such as Paula Duro, George Manta, Marte, Marcelo Canevari, Ornella Pocetti, Santiago Motorizado, and Gogogoch, among others. Through their pieces, connections are recovered with musical projects such as El mató a un policía motorizado, Juana Molina, Dillom, Chancha Vía Circuito, and Boom Boom Kid, among others.

Presenting a representative selection of Carlos Gallardo's early works, curated by Patricia Rizzo, the exhibition offers a visual journey through some of his most iconic pieces, highlighting large canvases and objects that explore the conflict between the visible and the hidden, memory and oblivion. The exhibition covers Gallardo's beginnings as a painter and sculptor, where his chromatic play, the blurred body, and scenographic tensions are presented as central themes in his work.

The exhibition also reveals Gallardo's deep connection with theater, with his scenes within scenes, his staircases that symbolize both ascent and fall, and his unwavering questioning of reality. As in his later works, The Invisible Thread invites the viewer to participate in a process of discovery and reflection, confronting universal questions about being, time, and memory. Until April 28, Monday through Thursday, 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m.

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