Artworks

This is a solo show at the Praxis gallery in Buenos Aires, featuring two series (one of photographs and the other of drawings) copied onto brushed aluminum sheet (Alucobond), a series of cyanotypes, two algraphic sheets, a lithographic stone, and a facsim

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Huaca Huichaira (Sacred place rising) The word Huaca (Waca or Guaca) means sacred place in Quechua. It designates everything that is sacred in the Inca culture: sanctuaries, idols, temples, tombs, mummies, animals, venerated stars and sacred places. Hui

Gratia Mystica MMXXII is a volume that covers in its 440 pages the artworks produced by the Argentine artist Martín Bonadeo between 2010 and 2022. The texts by Marcelo Pacheco, Renata Zas, Fabiana Barreda, Patricia Saragüeta Martina Casá, María Fernanda C

Astro Log IO is a collective work in progress that architectures the concept of the music of the spheres by creating an immersive experience of an astrological natal-chart. Each participant provides their birth data to have an expanded perception of thems

An Introduction to the Tatot Azul (Blue Tarot) A few months ago, my friend Gustavo Buntinx suggested the idea of reading the Tarot online within the framework of his project micromuseo.org.pe . The idea appealed to me, but I wanted to use my own Tarot de

An ephemeral urban intervention that takes place in the site occupied by the parking lot of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra Ciutadella’s campus in Barcelona. A space that is about to be demolished to build three new research buildings linked to the notion of

A relational piece that takes the form of a publication, recovering, cataloging, and restoring the works made by the artist between 2000 and 2022. These pieces are part of a second act, the dissemination of all, a total of 365 pieces, which are offered as

A living art piece, developed in an area of the Universidad Austral campus in the town of Pilar, province of Buenos Aires, planting 144 trees -ombúes-, in groups of 36 that will form 4 groves. Each group is planted under a design that represents one of th

Urban intervention carried out in the skies of the city of Venezia, raising a kite with an LED light at each angle, to represent the constellation of the Southern Cross in its flights. The starting point of the intervention from the ground was Piazza San

An urban intervention, in which 19 videos are installed on large LED advertising screens, arranged on top of the buildings on Avenida 9 de Julio, the main artery of the city of Buenos Aires. The projection that is repeated is a lit candle that consumes in

The intervention was fragile and ephemeral (hence its designation as an essay). Depending on the point of view, this constellation took different configurations that are observed by passers-by in the Ciutadella park who raised their gaze to the sky. The g

An artistic intervention that takes place in the context of the MAPA 2019 fair, located in an area in front of Los Andes Park, adjacent to the Chacarita cemetery in Buenos Aires, the largest in Argentina, and one of the largest in the world. The project c

Pacha kutiq wanka Individual exhibition of installations and site specific interventions Museo Nacional de Chavin - Ancash, Peru 2018 ... Pacha kutiq wanka is a project by Martin Bonadeo with many layers: it is an experience, it is a dialogue, but ab

A sculptural piece built from different materials representing a cross- shaped cactus on a boat. The structure of the cane boat, contemplates two pieces of wood that represent the St. Peter’s keys, in the stern. In its interior, a natural stone of black m

A piece composed by 48 stained glass windows (67 x 12 cm. each) arranged in the four access doors to the museum, organized in groups of 12, of which 11 are colored in sky blue and one in earth green. Bonadeo brings again the proportions between earths and

A sculptural installation of 1.80 meters high, made up of a representation of the inverted cross, woven with the texture and color of a cactus, making reference on one side to the crucifixion of St. Peter and on the other to the San Pedro cactus (wachuma)

A piece that is constructed from a 7 x 3 meter canvas emulsified with cyanotype solution (photosensitive liquid), which is printed with images from cuts of natural San Pedro cactus (wachuma) with the disposition of the Southern Cross and stones simulating

A sound sculpture, composed of a 250 x 170 x 60 cm. altar with two bases in zebra onyx stone. On its surface, four limestone bowls are placed under the shape of the constellation of the Southern Cross, operating as amplified speakers. A sound composition

An installation composed of a 4 x 4 meter loom-woven carpet, whose design represents a celestial vault, surrounded by elements of various cosmologies. On the edges are represented in stripes a Christian cross and an inverted cross, the latter evoking the

A site-specific intervention composed of 3 stained glass windows arranged in three small square windows of 30 centimeters on each side in the traveling exhibition hall of the Museo Nacional de Chavín. Each of them depicts iconographies referring to elemen

An installation that is inscribed in the 3 meters wooden ring above the piece Awayu caelum, representing the constellation of the Southern Cross. The piece hanging from the ceiling is made up of four lamps in the shape of the tip of a cactus embossed in a

A luminous and dynamic sculpture that reproduces the form of an 185 x 240 x 60 cm. altarpiece, its structure includes a series of Christian symbolisms and those of ancestral Andean cultures. Made in bas-relief carved wood, the external part incorporates i

The upper windows of the museum were covered with a blue film to create an atmosphere of a celestial temple. In the 6 windows of the traveling exhibition hall, the letters of the title of the exhibition (PACHA KUTIQ WANKA) are placed inverted, so that the

An artist’s book created by Martín Bonadeo, which traces in more than 500 pages the path of the exhibition project carried out in Peru, which bears the same name. The volume has the character of an object-book, in a format similar to a Bible with a hard c

An intervention of syncretic character, inspired by the traditions of the Andean native peoples and the study of the stars. It takes place at 4150 meters above sea level at the foot of the snowy Contrahierbas in the department of Ancash, Peru, on June 28,

An artistic intervention that takes place in the space of the campus of the Universidad Austral in the town of Pilar, province of Buenos Aires. Formal and material tests are carried out in an environment without the complexities implied by the height. 250

An exhibition project that takes place in the historic pharmacy La Estrella located on the corner of the streets Defensa and Alsina in the city of Buenos Aires. Five showcases to which the artist applies a frosted process are intervened. On the showcases

A sculptural installation of dynamic images and multiphonic sound designed to be exhibited in diverse spaces such as museum lobbies, airports and train stations or other collective “non-places”. It is a 170 x 120 x 25 cm. piece that emulates the electrome

An artistic intervention in Westhampton Lake, at the University of Richmond, in the United States. The piece, composed of a series of blue electroluminescent cables representing all the rivers and lakes in an inverted South America, makes a reference to t

A solo exhibition held at Praxis International Art Gallery in Buenos Aires. From art objects, photographs and paintings, the artist proposes to collect the individual and subjective memory that each one can have of the spaces he inhabits. He explores thro

A piece composed of an 20 x 5 cm. octagonal wooden box, made with eight types of wood, inside it contains 11 small glass bottles, each one with a wooden lid with an engraved letter on the top, and the name of the artist’s hometown: Buenos Aires. Inside,

Seven 25 x 25 x 10 cm objects that consist each of a polished wooden box with a framed glass cover and hinges that allow the viewer to open them. Inside, they contain drawings of different forms of vortexes made in black ink on cotton paper and colored wi

A series of five 45 x 45 cm. photographic images showing dogs’ snouts peeking out from under the bars or gates of their owners’ houses in the Northern area of the city of Buenos Aires (a rich neighborhood). These images were taken in the year 2001, in one

Four 80 x 80 cm. pieces arranged at 45 degrees on the wall, covered by grids of 10 x 10 cm. colored carpets, which made up pixelated portraits of people already deceased and significant to the artist: two of his grandparents grandparents and two mentors,

A light installation that projects an 80 cm. rotating vortex-shaped spiral onto the ceiling of the exhibition hall. Thanks to a motion-sensitive mechanism, the projector’s light is turned on and the motor starts moving every time someone enters the room.

This project proposes to connect people through their hearing sense with their real soundscape. By taking hourly measurements of the wind, a code was developed to make a sonification – a sound representation of this data – and played it through the campus

A space and time specific intervention which consists of a movie projection in an public urban screen locater in Plaza del Vaticano outside Teatro Colon (Buenos Aires´ Opera House). The movie is a sequence of 30, 12 hours video loops of a burning candle.

The first solo show by Martín Bonadeo curated by María Iovino in the city of Lima, Peru was held at Wu Galería located in the district of Barranco. The exhibition shows a set of works, among which 4 of them are unpublished: Shadow Pyramid, the scale model

A site-specific intervention on the façade of the Wu Galería. The artist makes an intervention reproducing a large sundial, installing a needle perpendicular to the wall and a series of black lines to mark the hours of the day. The permanent cloudy condit

An interactive installation work, exhibited in different contexts between 2007 and 2012. The piece shows 36 alcohol thermometers with red dye, arranged radially around a lamp, generating forms similar to the synthesis of a sun, being supported by a 90 x 4

A piece that reproduces in a 1:100 scale model the project Sky Under the Earth (2005), which explores from a scientific and a poetic point of view, the life of a plant inside a tunnel. Helping it through a device of mirrors arranged at the entrances in a

An optical intervention at the Wu Galería, a project that reproduces life outside the gallery, inverting reality on the inside through the installation of two lenses and two screens (25 cm. diameter circles of frosted glass) that operated as a camera obsc

An interactive work developed by the artist from a 20 x 20 cm. checkerboard of 9 spaces (3x3) and 5 cylindrical pieces with a spherical compass incorporated in the upper part, which are differentiated from each other by their colors, two white, two black

An exhibition held at Galería GC in the city of Buenos Aires. It shows a series of 112 x 112 cm. digital photographs printed on watercolor paper. They are pieces created from negatives of images taken of fireworks at a New Year’s Eve party. The inversion

An art exhibition held at the Espacio Fundación Telefónica in Buenos Aires. The exhibition. curated by Alma Ruiz, brings together eleven works created for the place and what it represents symbolically. The artist makes a poetic and critical journey throug

A receiving device made from a 3.20 meter long metallic bugle that emulates an early 20th century acoustic radar, like the ones used to listen to airplanes from a distance, anticipating an attack during the war. The piece was made with the collaboration o

An installation that consists of a 7 x 3,7 meter rhomboidal structure that supports 150 phone headsets hanging upside down from its cables. In its speakers (at the visitors’ ear level) various sounds and messages are heard at intervals, such as when the c

An interactive installation composed of a 3,30 meter diameter wooden structure in the shape of a dome. Inside it, a series of old telephones, from the analogical ones with discs to the most contemporary ones with buttons, are arranged on their shelves. Th

An interactive sound object composed of three phonators (analog acoustic devices that reproduce the human larynx to produce phonemes). One of them represents the O, the second the L and the third the A. Each one is located inside an 80 cm. metallic horn.

A large-scale site-specific intervention, which uses four of the columns that cross the Espacio Fundación Telefónica, transforming them into telephone wiring poles. Each has three horizontal wooden rods with colored glass insulators. Between the insulator

Installation composed of two parts, one with two 3 x 5 meters reproductions of engravings of universalist books of the 17th century, an engraving that illustrates the new Almagestum Novum, astronomical treatise of 1651 by Giovanni Riccioli, the other made

An installation with dozens of cell phones “buried” in a 1:25 scale model that simulates a part of Arlington Cemetery (Washington D.C., USA), in which the tombstones are the tops of these devices. Some of the screens are lit and left traces of the owners

A site-specific intervention, using the structures that support the cable columns, through which the telecommunications data from the Juncal telephone central flow, at the same building as Espacio Fundación Telefónica. The artist covers and wraps these pi

A sculptural construction that reproduces a 1:5 scale model of the Bell X-1 aircraft, the first aircraft to break the sound barrier in horizontal flight. Developed by the U.S. Air Force, it was designed to test new technologies and provide data for the fu

An installation of variable measurements made from telephone directories of the city of Buenos Aires. On meters of kraft paper, the pages of names and telephone numbers that appear under each of the letters that make up the telephone directory of the city

A solo show at Universidad Católica Argentina’s Pabellón de las Bellas Artes, in Buenos Aires. It consists of a couple of existing pieces -Variable horizons, Horizon on dome, Locked up landscapes and Corners- and some new works. The group offers a series

A 60 x 120 cm. road-type sign, with three horizontal strips of sheet metal covered with blue reflective vinyl with the inscription “USTED ESTÁ EN EL CIELO” in white. These sheets are erected on two 190 cm. wooden posts, each anchored to an octagonal cemen

A blue and green reflective vinyl-covered sheet metal 30 cm. road sign with the inscription “CIELO” and “TIERRA” in the form of a 180 cm. moebius band hangs from the ceiling. The earth and sky respond to the elements earth and air, but also contain water

A 60 x 240 cm. road sign, covered with reflective vinyl with the words “CIELO” at the top on blue and “TIERRA” at the bottom on green. An arrow next to both words points up and down respectively. The piece is an indicator that puts the sky and the earth i

A 60 cm. octagonal road-type sign covered with blue reflective vinyl with the inscription “STOP” in white, a 180 cm. wooden leg and an octagonal cement base. The sky was always linked to the figure of the octagon, which is also that of the STOP traffic si

A piece composed of a 50 x 70 cm. photograph copied in duratrans in a backlit light box, hung directly above the ceiling of the room. The image shows a shot of a building with “for sale” signs protruding from the balconies. The higher the floors, the more

A series of 2 photographic compositions. Each one is a sequence of 8 centital digital photographs in timelapse, which exposes the sequence of sunlight and shadow cones that are produced on the territory, as a result of the new buildings. The photos arrang

An installation of variable measures composed of a group of hourglasses of different sizes, shapes and colors, placed horizontally on the wall. Arranged in this way, the sand does not flow and forms a landscape that offers a horizon line inside the glass

A series of black and white 80 x 60 cm. photographs that shows the new complex of buildings covered by fog in Puerto Madero, Buenos Aires. A space of the city that until the ‘90s was an abandoned sector and was completely rebuilt with large skyscrapers, b

Two octagonal-shaped works of 60 cm. on each side, built in marquetry of 8 types of wood, each containing 40 floating spherical compasses, inserted on the perimeter of the pieces. The difference between the two is that in the case of “South chases North”

An interactive piece built around a photographic image of a landscape of the Argentine Pampas taken with a fisheye lens. This image is 12 cm. in diameter and is contained in a circular light box, with an octagonal dark wood perimeter of 30 cm. on each sid

An installation of variable measures created on a wall from a series of color swatches from Alba, one of the main brands of wall and artistic paint in Argentina. Each color strip has been mounted under an acrylic piece with one or two lenses giving shape

A retrospective exhibition of the first 10 years of work by Argentine artist Martín Bonadeo at Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, USA. It is a set of 9 installations already made, which in many cases were site specific, and Bonadeo adapted for the archite

The OSDE Foundation building used to be a furniture and textiles traditional shop called MAPLE situated in downtown Buenos Aires. One of MAPLE textiles was an old courtain in the artist´s house. That coutain is tensed in a painting frame and used as a scr

Ficus benjamina is a multisensory intervention at Dacil Gallery. A lens placed in the main window of the gallery, which was darkened for the occasion, turns it into a large pinhole camera. The floor is lined with white fabric for a better viewing of the i

A 7 characters split-flap-type device (such as those used in airports and train terminals in the 70) is located at Telefonica Foundation's main entrance. Each of these modules contains 30 characters including the letters of the alphabet and some punctuati

Skies under heaven is a series of installations made for lucarnes situated in the ceilings. Some device consisting of an optical lens and a frosted glass that works as a projection screen for optical image of the sky in real time are located under these o

Hundreds of industrial thermometers are aligned to draw an irregular coloured alcohol horizon. The variations in this line are generated by instrument´s failures and also by the ambient and visitor's temperature. Variable horizons Reactive objetcs Objet

Is an installation that proposes a multi-sensory tree-dimensional pictorial representation of a dynamic process: growing grass. 600 thermometers, filled with alcohol and green clorophylic pigment extracted from plants, are placed on a pedestal. Programmed

Three handcrafted wax devices are projecting the image of three real clocks: a digital, an analog and a sand clock. The projected optical images are showing altered seconds: the sand flows upside, the needle moves counterclockwise and the digits are unrec

A 360 degrees horizon composed by 24 1 x 1.30 meter photographs copied in Duraclear (a material similar to a slide) covers the windows of a dome. This skyline synthesizes the landscape of Buenos Aires and is located four meters above the eye of the viewer

The idea of this site specific intervention project is to cross the signals of the surveillance closed circuit TV of three different galleries. These galleries – Ruth Benzacar, Klemm, CCEBA – are located in a 100 meters radio. Although they are very prest

Moebius display is the development of an experimental expressive interface. This interface is a simple LED (light emitting diodes) screen that has undergone a spatial and conceptual modification. Instead of being flat as the majority of screens, it is sha

This project includes drawings, sketches, photos and floor plans of all the previous installations. The idea is to reedit these original materials and work over reinterpretations, searching for new links and connections between them. The original project

This site specific installation was inside the palace of Argentina's central post office. This huge building has nowadays many abandon rooms. The curators of Estudio Abierto 2006 art festival invited me and many other artists to show in this place. My wor

Japanese eyes is a series of digital photographies copied in watercolor paper. Taking ultra over exposed direct shots of nature in summer middays, I obtained these burned but colorful images. This technique allowed me to show all the colors hided in the b

Thermosynthesis is a series of sculptures made with lamps and alcohol thermometers ordered in radial ways imitating flowers. These thermometers vary their coloration according to room's temperature -that increases with people presence in the exhibition sp

The inmigrant's historic street in Buenos Aires's port has a cement pedestal in one of its ends. Above it, a transparent moebius stripe rests inside a glass cube. This band has written in black letters the words IMMIGRANT and ARGENTINE, each one with an a

This is a site specific piece created for the Timoteo Navarro Museum in Tucuman, and it consists of two car tires and two showers. One of the tires contains kerosene and is on fire, while the other contains earth, healing plants and flowers. In one of the

This is a site specific project created for the Centro Cultural Rojas’s “galeria del poste”, an art gallery that works in a lighting pole of the street in front of the center’s main entrance. I covered 3 meters of the pole’s surface with hybrid corns. Thi

From its flowerpot in the middle of a tunnel, a plant will test the efficiency of a precarious analogical device designed to connect it with the outside. This site specific installation was developed for a pedestrian tunnel with four access stairs, two in

This is a space and time specific intervention which consists of a movie projection in an urban external wall. The movie is a sequence of 30, 12 hours DVDs of a burning candle. This giant projected candle burns slowly, consuming itself during the passing

This project proposes to connect people through their hearing sense with their real soundscape. By taking hourly measurements of the wind, a code was developed to make a soundification – a sound representation of this data – and played it through the camp

Is a light installation that translates the movement across a topology as two beams of light. Instead of direct human interaction, the work takes the sensed data (tilt, sound, and GPS) of traversing an environment and recreates the experience through angl

This installation starts with a backlight and a shelf that holds four glass jars half filled with water. Each jar has a 35 mm slide picture of a different moment of a sunrise. The water acts as a magnifying lens for the images. There's a compass over a pe

In this installation, two projectors facing each other from opposites sides of the room point to a piece of cloth hanged as a screen between them. The images –sunsets and sunrises in flat horizons– are aligned by the horizon's line and mixed together in t

This work is based on a white flag artificially flaming in a mast, that functions as a screen for an interactive system. The PC is programmed to emit a beep, choose a random Latin American flag design and project it on the flag each time it receives a sig

This site specific intervention is situated inside a closet. A two sided duratrans lightbox is hanging from the bar. The installation is aromatized with moth poison. The front side image is a countryside photography projected over closed closet doors. The

Collections of Argentine coins and bills which reflect the ups and downs of the country's economy are being exposed in the Numismatic Museum of the Argentine Central Bank; next to these collections there is the hall for itinerant exhibitions. From the dev

It is a site-specific installation conceived for the Cambio, Cambio (Change, Change) exhibition within the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. A projector reproduces images of banknotes of different nationalities, times and or

It is a site-specific installation conceived for the exhibition Cambio, Cambio (Change, Change) within the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. The piece consists on a CD sound player that plays various versions of the National

It is an installation conceived for the Cambio Cambio (Change, Change) exhibition within the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. It is composed of two pedestals with a square base with a transparent dome over each one. Inside

It is a piece originally conceived as part of the Cambio, Cambio (Change, Change) exhibition for the showcases of the itinerant exhibition hall of the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. These are two rastras (wide leather bel

It is a piece originally conceived for the Cambio Cambio (Change, Change) exhibition within the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. A group of 25 small ziploc bags each contain two coins and a tag. The coins are one cent of th

It is a piece originally conceived as part of the Cambio, Cambio (Change, Change) exhibition for the showcases of the itinerant exhibition hall of the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. These are the seven legal tender bills

It is a piece originally conceived as part of the Cambio, Cambio (Change, Change) exhibition for the showcases of the itinerant exhibition hall of the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. It is a series of objects located betwe

It is a piece originally conceived as part of the Cambio, Cambio (Change Change) exhibition for the showcases of the itinerant exhibition hall of the Numismatic Museum of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic. These are the seven legal tender bills i

The installation Off/On light forms part of the exhibition Art in progress I in the Cultural Center San Martin and has been created site-specifically for one of the exhibition halls named Just like a bright center. One of the Center's ceiling-inlaid light

Spectators pass beneath a light bulb and a camera takes a middle ground shot of them. This image is projected in real time on a sand glass timer perfumed with naphthalene. As time passes by, the projected image vanishes and gets lost upon the sand glass a

Three frozen figures: a circle, a ring shape and a sphere, each made out of the same quantity of mashed pumpkin, cocoa and milk. They are suspended above three similar soup dishes in three niches respectively. A light spot is directed on each of the figur

The intervention is in the Fotogalería del Retiro a gallery located on the fifth floor of the Torre Monumental de los Ingleses. Two banners with the inscription El reloj está atrasado (Delayed clock) are placed below two of the quadrants of the tower's cl

Wallpapered vanitas Site specific installation Villa Victoria Ocampo, Mar del Plata, Argentina, 2002 The Villa Victoria Ocampo situated in the beach resort Mar del Plata is owned by the famous writer. The house counts on many special wall papers. In wee

This projection of photographic images is part of the exhibition Jurassic escape. The images are photos of installations carried out in the artist´s house. The images merge the two-dimensional form of projection with three dimensional space of projection

Signs proposing opposite directions and meanings are situated in a storeroom full of hundreds of other artworks. The signs hanged on the walls higher than the other pieces. This action is complemented by an installation in a room which used to be an offic

There are two slide projectors in the exhibition room located in the second lower ground floor of the Fundación Klemm gallery. One of them projects an image on a wall angle with a door, the image shows a colorful wall with two windows. The window glass of

This intervention is developed in a space where a staircase connecting four small rooms plays the leading role. On the ground floor the spectators come across a poster, a floor plan, a short text, a sound track with a combination of mantras of different r

The Centro cultural del Pueblo privado Estancias del Pilar is a place whose access is restricted through several security guard cabins with barriers. This gated community project – including housing, schools, clubs, churches and shops – is shaped in form

Holiday moments like sunsets, skies, clouds, wide landscapes, their vanishing points and limits have been captured by a photo camera. Then these images are projected within the enclosed space of an apartment. That way, both the two-dimensional projected v