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Modern, Contemporary, Latin American & Functional Art

Aldo Castillo Gallery

Augusto Esquivel: thousands of buttons

The Argentine sculptor who takes the button out of the mundane and hangs it as an old master.

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Augusto Esquivel

Augusto Esquivel appropriates thousands of tiny buttons to create idiosyncratic, sculptural art forms that range from old master paintings to objects of popular culture.

Esquivel decided to make buttons the objects of his affection and artwork, and take them beyond the mundane into new aesthetic realms and give them a new role and context.

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