Museo Moderno
Basso Daniel
Farola. Tapiz. Túnica, 2019. Installation at Galería Calvaresi.

Daniel Basso, Mar del Plata, 1974. He studied pain8ng at the Higher School of Visual Art in Mar del Plata and has been working in the development of his produc8on since 2002. During those years he turned from the pictorial training to the field of sculpture and photography. Basso was awarded a scholarship by Fundación Antorchas, Fundación Telefónica, TRAMA (sponsored by the Rijk Academie) and the Na8onal Ministry of Culture. He made individual exhibi8ons such as D ́accord (Baltar Contemporary, Mar del Plata, 2006), Jewelry for trucks, full version (Appe8te Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2008), Sagrado Corazón de Bizcochuelet (Slyzmud Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2012), Garage (Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, 2015), Hogar emporio (Slyzmud Gallery, Buenos Aires, 2016), SoZ tour (Recoleta Cultural Center, Buenos Aires, 2016), Maple & Co. (Fundación OSDE, Buenos Aires, 2017), Richmond, Reggo, Real (The White Lodge Gallery, Córdoba, 2018), Farola. Tapiz. Túnica (Calvaresi, Buenos Aires, 2019), Bombonera (Calvaresi, Buenos Aires, 2022). Open studio (Atelier Mondial, Basel, Switzerland, 2019), Set design for Daels SS20 during Paris Fashion Week (Argen8ne Embassy, Paris, France, 2019). He has shown his work collec8vely in numerous exhibi8ons, biennials, fairs and salons both at home and abroad. His work is part of public and private collec8ons. In 2009, together with the ar8st Juan José Souto, founded Mundo Dios project in Mar del Plata, a reference of contemporary art at na8onal level, where he currently works as curator, editorial director and teacher. They produce exhibi8ons, different workshops and also func8on as an ar8st residence. He has coordinated, as a tutor, training workshops for the Na8onal Fund for Art in the Province of Buenos Aires and Salta. In 2017 he was selected for the Braque Award. In 2019 he obtained the Itaú Visual Art First Prize and carried out a three-month residency in Atelier Mondial, Basel, as part of the cultural exchange program between Switzerland and Argen8na promoted by the URRA Project. In 2020 he obtained the Klemm Award First Prize. Lives and works in Buenos Aires.