"Live your life like a large canvas, where free will takes you to different spaces, shapes, stains and sensations ...
where freedom flows like water and ink flow."

Marcela Batistic

Born in Argentina, my first path was aeronautics, a profession that allowed me to travel the world. These trips became a transformative experience, since in each destination I found an excuse to immerse myself in museums, galleries and cultural spaces. It was there, among the works and silences of Europe, where a second vocation awakened in me: art.

Painting came as a way to channel that deep connection with beauty, history and emotion. In 2005 I began training in Alicia de Sousa’s workshop, later continuing with Rebeca Mendoza and later with Vivi Julliand, who accompanied me in my first exhibitions.

In 2009 I started the Experimental Techniques course with Marco Otero, and continued exploring new visual languages with the artist Gloria Seeber at Atelier 40 Espacio de Arte. Between 2010 and 2015, I studied Art History with Lic. Daniela Pisarev, graduated from the Complutense University of Madrid. With it I managed to understand and integrate into my work what I had admired in the great European museums.

Later, I participated in contemporary art clinics, painting and technique workshops, in the Friends of the National Museum of Fine Arts Association, as well as in their summer courses in Buenos Aires.

Today painting is my way of living and expressing the world.

Series Seas

Textures / Experimental Mixed Techniques
On Canvas

Series textures

Experimental Mixed Techniques
On Canvas

Series Abstract gouache

On Canvas

exhibitions

2025

• Contempo Art- Coral Gables, Miami. USA.

• Permanent exhibition – Vivi Julliand Contemporary Art.

2024

• The Other Art Fair – Dallas, Texas, USA.
• Palm Beach Art Fair – Florida, USA.
• Friends of Art Village – Vero Beach, Florida, USA.
• Group exhibition – TheDojo__ Art Gallery, Vail, Colorado, USA.

2023

• Contempo Art – Coral Gables, Miami, USA.
• Central Gables Art – Art Exhibition Global, Miami, USA.
• Vero Beach Art Village – Downtown Street Exhibition.

2020-2017

• Hotel Mantra / Punta del Este / Uruguay Exhibition Framework for Six O’Clock Tea by Carminne Dodero & Nordelta Art Studio, Argentina.

• Exhibitor participation in Marco Six O’Clock tea by Carminne Dodero in La Rural Bs As. Argentina. Nordelta Art Studio & Gallery.

2016

• Permanent exhibition – Vivi Julliand Contemporary Art.
• Permanent exhibition – Nordelta Art Studio & Gallery, Nordelta, Argentina.
• Wyndham Hotel – Argentina.
• Individual exhibition – BMW -Argentina.
• Group exhibition – Athina Bay Resto & Art. -Bahía Grande -Nordelta, Argentina.

2014-2012

•⁠ Collective exhibitions – Modena Ferrari Art Space, Barrio Parque, Buenos Aires. Argentina.

•⁠ Collective exhibition – Fontenla by Modena Ferrari, Puerto Madero, Argentina.

•⁠ Sofitel, La Reserva Cardales.

2012-2007

•ATELIER 40 Expo- Art Space. Nordelta. Tiger. Argentina.
•⁠⁠Boulevard Sáenz Peña Tigre, Argentina.
•⁠ ⁠⁠Expo La Trastienda Club, Nordelta, Tigre. Argentina.
•⁠ ⁠⁠Expo/ Donation of Works to benefit the Nordelta Foundation, Tigre, Argentina.

2007

“A bit of history” Study – Workshop
With the artists Lorena Zaffarano and Vivi Julliand.

Critical Texts

"There are no figures. They are not necessary.
What matters is the matter, wounded and alive.
Each layer is time, each crack, memory.

They are not paintings to decorate.
They are places to stay.
Silence that breathes.

Batistic does not paint what he sees,
paint what's left.
And what remains is true."

"Marcela Batistic: "Painting as breathing" The works of Marcela Batistic tell nothing, and yet they say a lot. There are no figures, there is no story. There are surfaces that are silent and, at the same time, pulsate. One stares at them and seems to hear a murmur, as if the matter itself were speaking. Mixed technique is just the excuse. What matters is the hand that scrapes, covers, reopens. What matters is patience, time that accumulates in layers. In these layers memory appears, not the memory of a fact, but the memory of matter, of the passage of life. Batistic's painting is not abstract in the sense of distancing itself from reality. On the contrary: it is concrete. It is the trace of a gesture. It's not about representing, it's about being. What remains, after looking at them, is the feeling of having been in front of something true. Not a spectacle, not a decoration, but a piece of time shared. The work as slow breathing, as a memory that does not erase. That is what Marcela Batistic achieves: that the invisible becomes present, without shouting, without imposing itself. Simply letting the matter say its thing."

Pedro Roth - Visual Artist - Photographer - Filmmaker Being one of the artists still alive with the longest career in our country and abroad. Hungarian - Holocaust Survivor - National Arts Fund Award 2020 - National Hall Award 2023 - Declared an Illustrious Citizen Gov. City of Buenos Aires. The most important Museums in the World house his Works.

"Marcela Batistic's work begins in a Whole, where the parts merge, intermingle and link together over time. Since its beginnings, the work produces a great mutation of concepts, palettes, style, currents, but above all Technique. The different techniques and materials used emerge from the almost always Abstract figures and forms, which make a pure composition, at first almost geometric, passing through textured stains of matter, to thick textures with heavy materials and the current fine ones, with docile materials such as inks that run in full washes, full of ethereal figures that walk without limit, forming unconscious stains, which bring real objects to the eye of the observer. Marcela has been painting series since the beginning. Passing through Abstract skies, geometric compositions, heavy seas of matter and soft waters. Hard shapes, with mixed and flat materials. Marcela's sensitivity and protective eye for exact definition make her work highlight details that glimpse perfection within the chaos of a whole in disorder. His trained clinical eye ORDER THE PARTS OF THE WHOLE, as in Gestalt ... differentiating each color, each spot, each figure or shape. Free or driven. For her anything goes. The conduction of the free gouache stain or its own freedom. His path in Art is restless and long. Investigative and processed. That makes his work the EVERYTHING of his Person."

Vivi Julliand - Curator - Gallery owner - Art therapist. Associate teacher MNBA (Friends Association). Member of the SAAP (Argentine Society of Plastic Artists) and creator of the Art Qubit Project. /USA Art Society

"Marcela Batistic is a plastic artist with extensive experience in the world of painting. She has trained with renowned artists and teachers such as Rebeca Mendoza and Vivi Julliand. He has held numerous exhibitions at the National and International level. Some of the creative triggers for Marcela's works have been painters of the stature of Picasso, Sorolla, or Tapies. An image, a fragment of a well-known work, a photograph, or even a landscape can be the inspiration to create your magnificent series of Abstract Landscapes. The stain is almost always the protagonist. A stain with strength, with movement, that defines and takes over the canvas. A textured line, where different materials have been worked with such as gesso, salt, sand, making the color and the brushstroke speak and invite the viewer to be part of the composition. Her series tell us that we are facing a mature artist who works with colors and stains until they are exhausted and then begins a new series. Marcela has a mastery of the color palette that makes her works transmit an internal force both in her Flowers series with saturated and vivid colors, and in her Sea series, and stains, with a more pastel or neutral palette. He has a great command of two-dimensional space, working in large formats with magnificent comfort. His works invite you to enjoy the line, the texture, the color and the depth of that stain that is the protagonist of his work. She is an artist in constant pictorial growth. Marcela makes poetry with the line, with the color, with the texture and with La Mancha."

Lic. Daniela Pisarev - Lic. In Visual Arts from the National School of Fine Arts Prilidiano Pueyrredón Master as an Expert in Communication and Art from the Complutense University of Madrid, Spain. Member of the Spanish Association of Art Critics.

"Live your life like a large canvas, where free will takes you to different spaces, shapes, stains and sensations ... where freedom flows like water and ink flow."

Marcela Batistic​