21.11.25 - 14.02.26

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In this first collaboration between Corvus Blanc Art Gallery and Galería Aina Nowack/AAC, we present a selection of works created by Argentine artist María Noël over the past decade. These pieces explore thought as a creative act, seeing word and form as territories of inquiry and contemplation. Noël’s work weaves together matter and metaphysics: papers hand-dyed with natural pigments and noble textures evoke an ancestral artisanal wisdom, while geometric forms and literary or philosophical quotations invite meditative reflection. In this convergence, Noël proposes a dialogue between thought, image, and silence.

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In her series The Beauty of Ideas, Noël turns to the Platonic solids, ancient symbols of balance and perfection, which function in her work as visual and conceptual points of departure. Through mixed techniques that include lithographic processes, the artist retrieves images from Renaissance treatises and integrates these figures into compositions that celebrate the purity of mathematical thought and its poetic force. The series What do we talk about when we talk about Art? unfolds as a visual “essay” that investigates the nature of art, appropriating quotations and images from creators such as Michelangelo, Picasso, Duchamp, and John Cage, among others. While, in Laberintos, Noël returns to a motif begun in her series dedicated to Jorge Luis Borges. Inspired by the 17th-century drawings of English polymath Robert Fludd, she revisits these labyrinths in large lithographs on Eastern papers, spaces not meant for losing oneself but for finding one’s own spiritual center.

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María Noël was born in Buenos Aires in 1965. She studied Fine Arts, Philosophy, and Art History at the University of Buenos Aires. The daughter and granddaughter of Argentine writers, literature and music occupy a central place in her work through quotations and appropriations. She has devoted series to Jorge Luis Borges, Octavio Paz, Paul Valéry, Astor Piazzolla, and Fernando Pessoa. Noël has participated in more than twenty international art fairs, and her works are part of numerous private collections in New York, Texas, London, Dublin, Paris, Vienna, Madrid, Rome, Milan, Zurich, Geneva, Riyadh, Bogotá, and Punta del Este.