New Exhibition: Fausto — BRUTTO, the soul of things

January 15, 2026

BACAB welcomes back Argentine artist Fausto, presenting his exhibition BRUTTO.

This work begins with the body in direct contact with material. Stone, iron, glass, construction metal — substances that demand weight, strength, attention, and presence. The force of the action remains on the surface: effort, resistance, impact. A constant tension between the raw and the worked, the crude and the refined.

“The workshop stays visible. The work stays visible. So does the physical risk,” says the artist.
BRUTTO reveals the violent moments inside the process of breaking down and rebuilding the self.

In a life that moves fast, where it is easy to slip into roles and disguises, this loss of form often happens unconsciously.
“We get lost, we deform ourselves, and we disguise ourselves under the pressure to function and to belong,” says Fausto.
Here, this process is reclaimed. It is not a metaphor, but a chosen way of working. An inner necessity. A physical act of breaking and rebuilding that resists slipping into other people’s rhythms and allows the artist to return to his own.

This work is informed by Brutalism not as a style, but as an ethic: honesty of material, sincerity of process, acceptance of weight and resistance. In earlier works, Fausto explored raw fabrics, chukum, and volcanic stone. In BRUTTO, the material turns heavier and more direct, shaped through construction practice.

The project takes shape in Tulum — a place where concrete grows daily through the jungle, where construction sites, machinery, and piles of material define the everyday landscape. This environment becomes the natural context of the work: the roughness of building meets the roughness of human impulse and emotion, held together by deliberate design decisions.

At the center stands a single question: How can impulse and order coexist?
The violence of the process meets the calm of the result – with confidence, with order, with brutality.

“The internal creative fire, held in a state of design.”

BRUTTO invites the viewer to experience creation as a physical and emotional act, a release of impulsive creative energy. The work also opens space for moments of focus and meditation, directed toward the most sensitive points of experience, a space where perfection can loosen, and where refuge and calm can be found inside a demanding process of self-recognition.

This work is IA-free.

A manifesto on the human power to create with the body — with confidence, with order, and with brutality.