Illustrations for books Juan Batlle Planas illustrated a number of volumes of literature by poets and writers like Enrique Molina, Julio Cortázar, Alberto Girri, Olga Orozco, Lyzandro Galtier, Julio Llinás, Rafael Alberti, Osvaldo Svanascini, Horacio J. Becco, Leopoldo Marechal, Vicente Barbieri, Aldo Pellegrini, Héctor Germán Oesterheld, Alejandra Pizarnik, Luisa Mercedes Levinson, Jorge Luis Borges, Rodolfo […]
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Notebook #1 Throughout his life, Juan Batlle Planas put together “albums of images,” that is, spiral or bound notebooks and folders of images.
Latinoamericano SURrealism 2023 | Galería Sur | Uruguay This exhibition brings together key works by central artists of the Latin American surrealist movement. “In Latin America, we coexist daily with surrealist elements, with absurdities that coexist and touch each other in an unusual way. The magical realism of Gabriel García Márquez’s literature portrays this real and
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Alejandra Pizarnik 2022-2023 | Between the Image and the Word | Mariano Moreno National Library. Fifty years after her death, the exhibition explores the documents that reveal her creative mechanisms. It includes books marked by the author, drawings and collages of her own making and works by other artists. The material on display encompasses, in
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A wave of dream 2023-2024 | Biblioteca Mariano Moreno National Library | Buenos Aires, Argentina. In this exhibition, the National Library proposes a journey through the drifts of surrealism in Argentina based on books and magazines that are part of the institution’s collection and the contribution of private collections. On display are works by Juan
From heaven to home 2023 | Connections and intermittencies in Argentine material culture | Malba, Latinoamerican Museum of Art | Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of the great pieces that opens the exhibition Del Cielo a casa (From Heaven to Home) is a reconstruction of the window display made in 1956 by artist Juan Batlle Planas
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Sumer and the Modern Paradigm 2017-2018 | Works by Juan Batlle Planas in the series Cuneiform Writing | Fundación Miró | Barcelona, Spain. catálogo de la muestra
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Surrealism beyond borders 2021-2022 | Tate Modern | Bankside, London SE1 9TG | Galerías Eyal Ofer This landmark exhibition will rewrite the history of the revolutionary art movement. Surrealism is not a style – but a state of mind. It aims to subvert reality. To find the uncanny in the everyday. To tap into our unconscious
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Exploring the Fortabat Collection 2018 | Juan Batlle Planas works | Fortabat Museum | Buenos Aires, Argentina. Composición, Óleo sobre tela, sin firma,180 x 150 cm Cubierta del catálogo de la muestra Invitación de la muestra
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ArteBA 2023 2023 | Centro Costa Salguero | Buenos Aires, Argentina. Abstracción, témpera y lápiz,22×13,5,sin firma,1958 Sanguina pastel, sin firma, 1958 Abstracción, óleo,80×60, sin firma, 1958 Abstracción, tempera, 1954,38×18, f.dorso Abstracción,témpera y lápiz,15×22,5, sin firma, 1958 Flyer de la muestra
Therapy 2021-2022 | Malba Museo de Arte Latinoamericano | Buenos Aires, Argentina. This exhibition takes as its starting point the influence of psychoanalysis on Argentine art and its establishment as a vector of modernity in our country. It sets off from the weight that this field of knowledge and therapeutic practice exerted and still exerts,
Juan Batlle Planas: the surrealist gabinet 2019-2017 | Branches in Cuenca (Museo de Arte Abstracto Español, 2017) and Palma de Mallorca (Museo Fundación Juan March, 2019), Fundación Juan March, Museo de Arte de Girona (2018), Spain.
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Assembled Visions 2015 | Re-framings in the Work of Batlle Planas | Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes “Emilio Petorutti” | La Plata, Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. VISIONES ENSAMBLADAS-Réplica vidriera Harrods de la exposición ARTE EN LA CALLE Catálogo de la muestra
The Energy of Form 2013-2014 | Graphic Work by Juan Batlle Planas | Museo del libro y de la lengua | Buenos Aires, Argentina. https://vimeo.com/472304740 Invitación de la muestra Tapa del catálogo
