(Buenos Aires, 1931-2016)

A self-taught painter, at the age of 14 he began working in an advertising agency. He was art director at De Luca and then at Walter Thompson. He specialized in Graphic Arts and made decorations and theatrical scenographies. His first exhibition took place at the Galatea Gallery in Buenos Aires in 1956.
In 1961 he was one of the four creators of the New Figuration movement, one of the most vital avant-garde movements in Argentine painting. Macciò’s work broke the false dichotomy between abstraction and figuration, bringing a new look to abstract painting by incorporating man into it. In his monumental work, the human being is a constant motif.
Bohemian, temperamental, bon vivant and irreverent, Macciò is one of the most important artists of the second half of the 20th century in Argentina. A citizen of the world, throughout his life he lived in Paris, Madrid, London and New York. He had solo exhibitions in galleries and museums in Paris, Venice, Milan, Rome, Barcelona, Bilbao, Madrid, Munich, Cologne, New York, Austin, Mexico City and Havana.
Throughout his career Macciò received countless awards, among the most outstanding are the De Ridder Prize in 1959, the First International Prize of the Torcuato Di Tella Institute in 1963, the Guggenheim Award in 1964 and the Grand Prize of Honor of the National Salon in 1967. He represented Argentina at the Venice Biennial in 1968 and 1988, at the Paris Biennial in 1969 and at the São Paulo Biennial in 1963 and 1985.
His works are part of the following collections: The Solomon Guggenheim Foundation New York, Musée Royal d’Art Moderne de Bruxelles, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía de Madrid, Blanton Museum of Art: The University of Texas at Austin, The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Museo de Bellas Artes de Caracas, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires, Museum of the 20th Century in Vienna and The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum in Connecticut, among others.