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ART ONO 2026
Seoul, South Korea | April 3-5, 2026
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Makasiini Contemporary is thrilled to exhibit at ART OnO 2026 in Seoul,
marking our first ever year at one of Asia's most interesting art fairs showing emerging artists.
We invite collectors, curators and art enthusiasts to visit us at booth 209, SETEC, Seoul.
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Daniel Arsham
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Born 1980 I Lives and works in New York NY, USADaniel Arsham creates interdisciplinary art firmly situated in the world. As the artist himself states, “I make things I want to see exist in the world.” Arsham’s sculptures often resemble eroded artifacts or fragmented monuments, blurring the boundaries between art, architecture and design.Arsham refers to his practice as “fictional archaeology,” creating works that appear to belong to our material history but are in fact visually tied to the recent past or the present day. Drawing from the narrative traditions of classical sculpture, Arsham produces figures that unexpectedly merge ancient iconography with contemporary composition and appearance. These reinterpreted images – like a bust of a woman wearing a Roman palla or a hoodie – present a tension between history and the present, as the art historical canon is used to depict objects drawn from popular culture.As materials, Arsham uses geological substances such as volcanic ash and selenite, which create the impression the works being millennia-old archaeological discoveries. Ideologically, Arsham presents objects that endure time—transcending or bypassing it altogether. Objects covered in ash appear long-lost, and their “rediscovery” brings a sense of wonder to the viewer. These works seem preserved like time capsules, simultaneously fragile and monumental. The monochromatic nature of his works; a restrained colour palette, reinforces the illusion of archaeological remnants, further distancing the objects from the contemporary moment.Arsham graduated from The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art in New York, where he studied fine arts with a strong emphasis on architecture and engineering. Arsham has co-founded the exhibition space The House, and with Alex Mustonen, the design studio Snarkitecture, a practice that seeks to merge design, art and architecture by working within and transforming existing structures. Arsham has served as a stage designer for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, and collaborated with brands such as Dior, Adidas, and Byredo. His works are included in the collections of institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, Musée Guimet, the DIOR Collection, and the Walker Art Center. He was awarded the Gelman Trust Fellowship in 2003 as well as the GNMH Award.
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Jorge Galindo
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Born 1965 | Lives and works in Porto, PortugalThe lush, bravura paintings of Spanish artist Jorge Galindo move between gestural abstraction and figuration, incorporating elements of collage. The painter, who lives and works in Porto, Portugal, has described his expressionistic style as “dirty pop.” In Galindo’s hands, this idiom brings together various chapters of twentieth-century painting—the collage of synthetic cubism, the aggressive and immediate brushwork of Willem de Kooning, and the commodity critique and juxtaposition of Haim Steinbach—as well as the Renaissance genre of still life. In the early 1990s, Galindo studied with Julian Schnabel in the Círculo de Bellas Artes workshops in Madrid; there, he made paintings inspired by Dadaists, especially Hannah Höch, as well as paintings that integrated photomontages of images sourced from midcentury printed materials. In 1996, he introduced swaths of colored and patterned fabrics into his abstractions with his Patchwork paintings; and his first figurative series, Pintura animal (1999), features kitsch-like renderings of hybrid canine creatures bathed in dramatic splatters and drips of paint.In 2009, Galindo embarked on the floral paintings for which he is best known. Inspired by Henri Fantin-Latour’s painting A Basket of Roses as it appeared on the cover of New Order’s 1983 album Power, Corruption & Lies, he began painting flowers based on images sourced from antique postcards he’d found at flea markets. Ten years later, he returned to the subject matter for the Flores de periferia paintings, a collaboration with filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar. These works are based on a series of small format photographs Almodóvar took of “peripheral” flowers—those that grew in the margins of train tracks—arranged in vases. Galindo’s recent work conjoins and layers commercial, mechanically reproduced images of flowers—in the form of sampled wallpaper or silkscreened ephemera—with expressive impressions of blooms painted in confident gestural brushstrokes. Brimming with painterly incident, these canvases engage myriad styles and methods to emphasize the resounding potential of the blossom to signify as well as its unflagging affinity for metaphor.
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Rafa Macarrón
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Born 1981 I Lives and works in Madrid, Spain
The Spanish artist Rafa Macarrón displays anatomical figures with their stretched forms and extended proportions. The paintings are full of representations, which are peculiarly scaled. Macarrón’s visual language of human condition is based on reality, yet in a surreal way.By his other profession Macarrón is a physiotherapist. His understanding of the human form is therefore detailed and measured. However, from the knowledge of anatomy and bodily mechanics, Macarrón creates a versatile revelation of themes. The exaggerated silhouettes inhabit imaginative spaces and present a narrativeness, that still carries the truth. The paintings also depict elaborate fashion, such as seemingly designer handbags and clothes. Macarrón’s figures reflect the life we all live, although in a fantastical way.The artist’s recurring lines and shapes are carefully constructed. The works contain elements ofintensity and surprise, and Macarrón’s recognizable expressiveness is unfolding a world of unique vision. The entity becomes a scene of anatomical reflections. Symbolism and surrealism coexist, containing subtle social commentary and psychological insight. The compositions of the works are rich and carefully considered; the artist gives each figure their own meaning. Distorted shapes are symbolising the challenge of the so-called normal. None of the figures are conventional, but all are captivating. Together, these works create a world that is at once surreal and intimate, where transformations clarify vulnerability and emotion, and imagination serves a method for understanding what it means to be human.Rafa Macarrón’s works have been exhibited at e.g. CAC, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo de Málaga, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Alicante, Museo DA2, Salamanca and Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Elche, in Spain, and Universidad de Puebla, Mexico. Macarrón’s works are in the collections of Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York, Fundación BMW, Spain, and Fundación Vivanco, La Rioja, among others. He has been awarded ARCOmadrid Best Artist in 2013.
