Maskay Gallery
Maskay Gallery is a digital art gallery from the NOA (Northwest Argentina), from the Yungas and the Mountains. Here we say: Decentralization will come from the periphery. Maskay, in Quechua, means “Quest” That is who we are: a constant search. What began as a space for support and cooperation in 2021 remains our essence: fostering collaboration, bridging digital gaps, and bringing local art to the world through technology and Web3. A shared home to experiment, exhibit, and connect, where the local becomes global and every creator finds their place in an open and supportive creative ecosystem. From Tucumán, Argentina, Pablo Rivero, aka stipinpixel, is the creator and curator: The Searcher.
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Espesura
Espesura gathers twenty photographs made in the Yungas of northwestern Argentina. Centered on the material experience of territory, the series unfolds through fragments rather than as a unified image of landscape: mineral surfaces, humidity, vegetation, openings in the relief, paths, mist, and minimal forms of life. Each photograph isolates a specific intensity within the monte and presents it as an autonomous visual unit. Together, the works construct a partial cartography of the territory, defined by density, transition, and layered relations between surface, depth, atmosphere, geology, altitude, and vegetation. A photographic series by Pablo Rivero aka Stipinpixel, for Maskay Gallery. Espesura in Objkt
About Periphery
Caminando por las Yungas, desde el borde de la montaña desbordó arcilla, cayó al centro del camino. Walking through the Yungas, from the edge of the mountain clay overflowed, falling into the center of the path. Curated by Stipinxel - Pablo Rivero Exhibition Installer: Stipinxel - Pablo Rivero, Braian Lanfranco, Martin Burgos Dates: November 14-28, 2025 Location: Casa Museo de la Ciudad, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina. About IRL Event Note by Maximiliano Castro
Artists
Martin Burgos
Marto is an experimental new media artist, audiovisual producer, and musician, originally from Jujuy and based in Tucumán. His work involves 3D, film, and sound experimentation. He has exhibited in various shows in Tucumán, Buenos Aires, and on the “Neo Shibuya TV” screen circuit (Tokyo). Currently, his practice focuses on creating interactive experiences, exploring the link between technology, the body, and perception.
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Noel Ortego
Visual artist, digital creator, and tattoo artist; her practice focuses on the intersection between memory and obsolete technology, exploring failure, the spectral, and limbo as languages of uncertainty. She is also concerned about freezing time and creating time lags.
Since 2020, she has participated in group and solo exhibitions in Buenos Aires, Rada Tilly, Catamarca, San Miguel de Tucumán, Bangkok, Coswig Anhalt and Berlin.
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Noistruct
Noistruct is a multidisciplinary artist and an Electronic Art student at UNTREF University in Buenos Aires. With a creative journey that has explored diverse aesthetics, such as swampcore and metal industrial design, his current work is a powerful fusion of the digital and the tangible. Through intricate collages that bring together 3D and 2D elements, he dives into the nature of anime entities, creating pieces that are both beautifully surreal and subtly unsettling.
In his first venture into physical work, Noistruct translates these digital creations into 3D-printed sculptures. Using textures that simulate concrete and stone, he gives his digital forms a fossil presence, bridging the digital aesthetic with the raw, tangible reality of the physical world.
This same artistic vision extends into the auditory realm. Noistruct is also immersed in the world of post-club sound, where he builds dense and textural soundscapes. His music, with a unique "noiseabunduous" atmosphere, mirrors his visual creations, it is raw, layered, and challenges the listener to experience a new kind of digital reality.
Andrea Canto
An is a convergent artist who combines digital illustration and literary writing. She composes poems, illustrates them, and portrays scenes, characters, and places from her own literary universe. Her art is the measurable manifestation of an evolving narrative. Inspired by nature and the meeting between the human and the divine, she captures these elements in works filled with visual sensitivity and dreamlike symbolism.
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Rosario Brito Soler
Rosario Brito Soler is a multidisciplinary artist and visual arts student. Her artistic practice is built at the intersection between image, body, and technology. She works primarily with photography, video, and performance. In 2024, she participated in the ‘kismet casa’ residency in April (Buenos Aires) and ‘PANORAMA’ in December (Tucumán).
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Andrómeda Strain
Visual artist, born in Peru and based in Catamarca, Argentina. Her practice unfolds across performance, sculpture, and multimedia archives. She explores the images and symbols that shape the identity of a territory, tracing the marks left by time and human presence on the landscape.
Her work moves between the poetic and the critical, where the human intrusion into nature becomes a reflection on power, loss, and persistence. Within this tension, she also questions gender roles and hegemonic discourses that influence the ways of seeing and inhabiting the world.
Her practice delves into the ruins, traces, and narratives that surface from the past into the present, weaving connections between memory and matter. She has taken part in numerous group exhibitions, received a National Art Award in Córdoba, completed artist residencies in Tucumán and Catamarca, and was selected for an International Film and Performance Festival.
Lucio Lazarte
Lucio Lazarte, Es un artista visual de Tucumán. En su obra utiliza la violencia y la desobediencia como lenguaje visual posible para habitar y críticar la tensión en la lógica de civilización y barbarie que ordena la historia latinoamericana. Su práctica —entre dibujo, pintura, escultura y producción 3d— se ha presentado en premios nacionales de dibujo en 2025 y 2024. y en festivales internacionales de arte en 2023, además de haber participado en exposiciones colectivas.
Angeles Franco
Angeles Franco (Ledesma, Jujuy, Argentina) is an architect, designer, and generative artist based in Tucumán. Her artistic practice unfolds at the intersection of image, body, and technology, exploring memory and obsolescence as sensitive territories. Through a playful and experimental approach, she investigates the relationship between the physical and the digital, creating interactive experiences that reflect on time, materiality, and the persistence of memory.
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Sudario del anochecer
Sudario del Anochecer nace en una habitación solamente iluminada por el brillo blanco de una laptop que ejecuta MS Paint. Habitante de esa catedral olvidada del arte digital, dibuja mundos con herramientas básicas y escribe con palabras pegajosas. Cada marca está acompañada de un clic, un susurro en la oscuridad digital.
Como la armadura que inspiró su nombre: ligera pero excepcional, minimalista y letal. Anónimo no por gesto político sino por vergüenza sensata.
Maskay Rooms
Maskay Rooms is a project inspired by Sou Fujimoto’s Primitive Future: A House, a City, and a Garden (conceptual sketch, 2008). Developed in collaboration with over 40 artists, the project explores the notion of an intermediate space to be inhabited, a condition between architecture, environment, and digital presence, tokenized on Objkt within the Tezos ecosystem. The result unfolds as a distributed and modular structure: 40+ Rooms 37 Artists Media: image, video, 3D model, audio, and interactive applications Home Diagram Curated by Stipinxel - Pablo Rivero Dates: January 8, 2025 Available in Objkt
Conversations at Home
Conversations at Home is a generative piece that unfolds as a shared space. Blue + Home = Artists Support Artists A simple equation, a collective intention. A house made of signals, gestures, and encounters— where collecting becomes a form of care. With this work, we say hi to the network, to fxhash, to whoever arrives. A living system for support, exhibition, and connection. Created by Stipinxel - Pablo Rivero Dates: March 19, 2025. Available in FXhash
Open Maskay
Open Maskay is an open edition initiative developed on Objkt.
It functions as a series of community-based artistic exercises, where collaborative works are created and published as part of a growing on-chain collection.
This is an open edition project focused on shared authorship, experimentation, and collective construction.
Featured Works
━━━━━★. *･｡ﾟ✧⁺ Our Home
A collaborative collage built around the idea of inhabiting and constructing a shared space together.
Building our home together with:
anza__c, 0RD43L, AlehGonzalez11, romanmedrano_, Resakosas, _chinedessin, TIITAAAAN, agustincansino5, 3Blfrank, noelkingslei, 4ngelesfr4nco, stipinpixel
Dates: May 15, 2025
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━━━━━★. *･｡ﾟ✧⁺ Pachamama Interactive
Pachamama Interactive is a collaborative generative artwork developed through custom code by Pablo Rivero.
The piece invites participants into a symbolic digital ritual:
Drag the elements surrounding the earth opening toward the center using your mouse.
As you interact, you may focus on intentions, gratitude, or spoken thoughts.
Upon completing the ritual, you receive a symbolic offering from Pachamama (Mother Earth):
caña con ruda, a traditional drink prepared on August 1st, believed to protect the body and spirit for a new cycle.
This gesture operates as a digital offering—an interactive celebration of cultural roots and collective memory.
Building together with:
anza__c, x_Neol_x, 3Blfrank, AlehGonzalez11, romanmedrano_, _chinedessin, agustincansino5, 4ngelesfr4nco, stipinpixel
Dates: August 1, 2025
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Textos Curatoriales
Escritos por stipinpixel - Pablo RiveroSobre Periferia Caminando por las Yungas, desde el borde de la montaña desbordó arcilla, cayó al centro del camino. Fecha: Noviembre, 2025 Exhibición: Sobre Periferia Ubicación: Casa Museo de la Ciudad, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
IMPACT Cuando la digitalidad colisiona con la roca, la tierra y el territorio, emergen naturalezas y reglas distintas. Lo digital, dependiente de dispositivos para manifestarse, encuentra su opuesto y su sostén en lo terrestre: aquello que puede tocarse, sentirse y recorrerse en su irregularidad. De esta colisión surgen nuestras propias lógicas de impacto, un marco conceptual que articula la esencia de este drop colectivo. Maskay Community, desde el norte de Argentina, y Música W3, desde Buenos Aires, se reúnen en una coreografía descentralizada que conecta comunidades. Este impacto se materializa en la intersección entre creadores sonoros y visuales, cuyas colaboraciones surgen desde un anonimato mutuo, permitiendo que la colisión genere nuevas narrativas estéticas. El resultado: una colección de 11 videoclips que trascienden tanto lo digital como lo terrestre. Estas piezas, además de presentarse en el evento Listening Party, encuentran sentido en cada transacción, en cada mint. Cada interacción se convierte en una experiencia estética. Impacto. Lo sonoro. Lo visual. Lo terrestre. Lo digital. Música W3 y Maskay exploran los límites de lo posible en el arte Web3, cuestionando la propia naturaleza de los encuentros creativos y las formas en que el arte se comparte en la era de la descentralización. Fecha: Diciembre, 2024 Exhibición: IMPACT Listening Party DROP COLLECTIVE Vol.10 MUSICAW3 X MASKAY Ubicación: DUNE PARK, Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
“Búsqueda (hacer arte) / Perderse (en las reglas del mercado)” Durante la Semana de las Artes en Tucumán, la muestra *Búsqueda (hacer arte) / Perderse (en las reglas del mercado)*, organizada por la comunidad Maskay, curada por Pablo Rivero, tuvo lugar en la Casa Museo de la Ciudad en San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. Esta exhibición fusionó arte físico y digital, destacando el potencial transformador de la Web3 para artistas de diversas disciplinas. El espacio contó con una instalación central compuesta por un soporte estructural con dos pantallas, donde se presentaron obras y procesos creativos de 18 artistas. Además, incluyó piezas físicas como dibujos y pinturas que, si bien habían sido digitalizadas, exigían ser experimentadas en su formato original para mantener la conexión táctil con el espectador. En la escena central de la muestra, se destacó un concepto fundamental: **“Artistas apoyan artistas”**. Este espacio buscó derribar barreras geográficas y tecnológicas, fomentando la descentralización y la transparencia genuina. *“hacer arte es un acto de búsqueda”*, un detonante creativo que invita a cuestionar y reconstruir los conceptos de creación, reconocimiento y rol dentro de la escena local y global. A través de esta exhibición, se plantearon preguntas fundamentales sobre la identidad artística: ¿Por qué necesitamos mostrarnos?, ¿Qué significa hacer arte en la escena local y luego trascender al ámbito global?, ¿Serán celebrados nuestros logros o reconocidos nuestros esfuerzos? En un contexto donde “los espacios ya están ocupados”, esta muestra propuso reimaginar las maneras de pensar el arte emergente, cuestionando las lógicas del mercado. Frente a un sistema autoritario que dicta reglas estéticas y de consumo, *Búsqueda (hacer arte) / Perderse (en las reglas del mercado)* invitó a los artistas a reflexionar sobre su lugar: ¿adaptarse o destacar? ¿camuflarse o resistir? Maskay enfatizó la importancia de la comunidad como refugio, alentando a no perderse en las dinámicas del mercado, o al menos, a no hacerlo en soledad. Esta muestra dialogó además con arte de otros artistas locales, que exploran la digitalidad y con las obras permanentes de la Casa Museo de la Ciudad, que incluyen textos, fotografías, mapas y otros contenidos que reflejan la historia y el contexto social de San Miguel de Tucumán desde su fundación hasta los años 80. Fecha: Noviembre, 2024 Exhibición: Arts Week Tucumán - Search (making art) / Losing oneself (in the rules of the market) Ubicación: Casa Museo de la Ciudad, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
Hogar, Mint y Temporal. Esta colección de arte digital explora la conexión entre lo cotidiano y lo fantástico, tomando como punto de partida la experiencia creativa desde el hogar en Tucumán. Artistas enfrentan limitaciones tecnológicas de su región mientras proyectan sus sueños, metas e ilusiones a través de un lenguaje visual que fusiona lo tangible con lo onírico. El hogar es un escenario donde el tiempo fluye entre la calma de la siesta y la intensidad del temporal, momentos que invitan a la introspección. La lluvia, más allá de ser un fenómeno climático, actúa como un detonante de reflexiones sobre logros y desafíos. Artistas que apoyan artistas. Mi casa es la casa de mis amigos, encuentro a las obras atravesadas por el misticismo de la región … “¡Uy! ¡Se cortó la luz! ¡No tengo internet! ¿Puedo ir a mintear a tu casa? Amigo, me robaron el celular, creo que voy a tener que trabajar desde tu tablet. ¡Otra vez! Se rompió la compu porque la usamos todos en casa... ¿podrás ayudarme? Tengo solo un celu, ¡vení a escanear tus dibujos en casa! De aquí hacemos el mint. Me desaparecí Tres meses porque mi compu no soporta programas para dibujar. ¿Alguien me ayuda a crackearlos?” Fecha: Octubre, 2024 Exhibición: Cryptoart Exhibition at the "Festival of Electronic and Digital Art in Tucumán" in Festival Tormenta Ubicación: Horco Molle, San Javier, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.
Curatorials texts
Written by stipinpixel - Pablo RiveroAbout Periphery Walking through the Yungas, from the edge of the mountain clay overflowed, falling into the center of the path. Dates: November, 2025 Exhibition: About Periphery Location: Casa Museo de la Ciudad, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
IMPACT When digitality collides with rock, earth, and territory, distinct natures and rules emerge. The digital, dependent on devices to manifest itself, finds its opposite and support in the terrestrial: something that can be touched, felt, and traversed in its irregularity. From this collision arise our own logics of impact, a conceptual framework that articulates the essence of this collective drop. Maskay Community, from northern Argentina, and Música W3, from Buenos Aires, come together in a decentralized choreography that connects communities. This impact materializes at the intersection of sonic and visual creators, whose collaborations arise from mutual anonymity, allowing collision to generate new aesthetic narratives. The result: a collection of 11 music videos that transcend both the digital and the terrestrial. These pieces, in addition to being showcased at the Listening Party event, find meaning in every transaction, in every mint. Each interaction becomes an aesthetic experience. Impact. The sonic. The visual. The terrestrial. The digital. Música W3 and Maskay explore the edges of what is possible in Web3 art, questioning the very nature of creative encounters and the ways art is shared in the era of decentralization. Dates: December, 2024 Exhibition: IMPACT Listening Party DROP COLLECTIVE Vol.10 MUSICAW3 X MASKAY Location: DUNE PARK, Buenos Aires, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires.
“Search (Making Art) / Getting Lost (In the Rules of the Market)” During the Arts Week in Tucumán, the exhibition Search (Making Art) / Getting Lost (In the Rules of the Market), organized by the Maskay community and curated by Pablo Rivero, took place at the Casa Museo de la Ciudad in San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina. This showcase blended physical and digital art, highlighting the transformative potential of Web3 for artists across diverse disciplines. The exhibition featured a central installation consisting of a structural support with two screens displaying artworks and creative processes by 18 artists. It also included physical pieces such as drawings and paintings that, while digitized, demanded to be experienced in their original format to preserve the tactile connection with the viewer. At the heart of the exhibit was a fundamental concept: “Artists support artists.” This space sought to break down geographic and technological barriers, fostering genuine decentralization and transparency. As expressed by Maskay, “making art is an act of search”—a creative catalyst inviting reflection and the reconstruction of concepts surrounding creation, recognition, and roles within both local and global art scenes. Through this exhibition, fundamental questions about artistic identity were posed: Why do we need to showcase ourselves? What does it mean to create art in the local scene and then transcend to the global stage? Will our achievements be celebrated or our efforts recognized? In a context where “spaces are already occupied,” this exhibition proposed reimagining how we think about emerging art, challenging the logics of the market. Confronted by an authoritarian system that dictates aesthetic and consumption rules, Search (Making Art) / Getting Lost (In the Rules of the Market) encouraged artists to reflect on their place: Should they adapt or stand out? Camouflage or resist? Maskay emphasized the importance of community as a refuge, encouraging artists not to lose themselves in market dynamics—or at least not to do so alone. The exhibition also engaged with the work of other local artists exploring digitality, alongside the permanent collection of the Casa Museo de la Ciudad, which includes texts, photographs, maps, and other materials reflecting the history and social context of San Miguel de Tucumán from its founding to the 1980s. Dates: November, 2024 Exhibition: Arts Week Tucumán - Search (making art) / Losing oneself (in the rules of the market) Location: Casa Museo de la Ciudad, San Miguel de Tucumán, Tucumán, Argentina.
Home, Mint, and Storms This digital art collection explores the connection between the everyday and the fantastical, taking the creative experience from home in Tucumán as a starting point. Artists face technological limitations in their region while projecting their dreams, goals, and illusions through a visual language that fuses the tangible with the surreal. Home becomes a stage where time flows between the calm of the siesta and the intensity of the storm, moments that invite deep introspection. Rain, beyond being a climatic phenomenon, acts as a trigger for reflections on achievements and challenges. Artists supporting artists. My house is my friends' house. I find the artworks infused with the mysticism of the region… “Oh no! The power’s out! I don’t have internet! Can I mint at your place? Friend, my phone got stolen, I guess I’ll have to work from your tablet. Again! The computer broke because we all use it at home... Can you help me? I only have a phone, come over to scan your drawings! We’ll mint from here. I disappeared for three months because my computer can't handle drawing programs. Can someone help me crack them?” Dates: October, 2024 Exhibition: Cryptoart Exhibition at the "Festival of Electronic and Digital Art in Tucumán" in Festival Tormenta Location: Horco Molle, San Javier, San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina.