Rolf Art is pleased to announce its second participation in Artissima 2025 —the most prestigious contemporary art fair in Italy— presenting a solo show by renowned Argentine artist Graciela Sacco (1956–2017), featuring her iconic series Bocanada (1993–2013). The fair will take place from October 31 to November 2, 2025, at the Oval Lingotto in Turin, Italy.
Selected by curators Jacopo Crivelli Visconti and Heike Munder, the project will be presented in the Back to the Future section —the fair’s avant-garde sector dedicated to rediscovering pioneers of contemporary art— which, in this edition, pays tribute to Graciela Sacco, a key figure in Latin American contemporary art.
Bocanada is a series that Graciela Sacco began in 1993, inspired by Tucumán Arde, an avant- garde artistic action that took place in Argentina in 1968, aimed at using art as a tool for political protest and social transformation. Employing the ancient heliographic technique —which became a hallmark of her practice— Sacco transferred close-ups of open mouths onto a wide range of supports, from photographs, objects, installations, and murals to urban interventions. Graciela Sacco burst into public space without asking permission, disrupting the dominant discourses of political propaganda and official communication.
(…) What I do, is to create some kind of disturbance in the language of the street. I think all artworks are political, but there are works that are more political in the sense that they are socially committed. I am very committed with my time, with what happens around me, and all these things are things that happen around me. I question these things. For example, if someone opens their mouth, it is because they need something, and I like to stop the meaning of the action at that point: What could that person need? This is a question. What might we need? It could be a shout, it could be someone who needs food, who needs something else. That is the meaning for me. (…)
Graciela Sacco Making of America Latina 1960-2013.
Fondation Cartier pour l ‘art contemporain, Paris, France, 2013
Graciela Sacco’s urban intervention Bocanada (1993–2013) has been carried out in Rosario and Buenos Aires (1993–2015); New York (1998); Toulouse (2002) and Paris (2013–2022); Bogotá (2015) and São Paulo (2016), among others. The last presentation of Bocanada during Graciela Sacco’s lifetime took place within the exhibition América Latina 1960–2013, supported by the Cartier Foundation, which also, in 2022, promoted the participation of the work together with Rolf Art for the launch of Art Basel Paris 2022, taking over the public space of the Jardin des Tuileries. In each location, the images were placed in public spaces—often clandestinely—to challenge and create a dialogue with the urban environment.
