Zeta Yeyati

Zeta Yeyati

Poetry in fragments, the impulse of color, the memory of objects

Zeta Yeyati’s art cannot be understood in parts—even though it’s built from them. It might begin with a weathered street poster, continue with a salvaged bed leg or a shard of ceramic in his palm, and culminate in a vibrant painting that seems to float atop his assemblages. His work is an expanded terrain, where painting lives alongside collage, sculpture, reuse, and play.

Born in Burzaco in 1965, Zeta was a visual artist before becoming a musician—despite being known for his roles in bands like La Mississippi, Los Intocables, and Babel Orkesta. The visual arts were his first language. Even before the saxophone, there were pencils and wooden forms. Today, his studio is a space of constant discovery, where pigments, old tools, wood scraps, and soul-filled objects coexist.

Painting is not an isolated gesture in Yeyati’s practice. It’s part of a broader experience—an act of seeing, collecting, and re-signifying. His palette is bold, emotional, and direct. He embraces flat color, strong lines, and symbolic repetition: horses, queens, musicians, birds, and dogs often recur—not as decorative themes, but as archetypes from his emotional landscape.

Though self-taught, Yeyati spent time in workshops with renowned artists like Antonio Pujía, León Ferrari, and Diana Aisemberg. He draws tools from their teachings, but follows no school. His artistic voice is distinctly his own: he mixes ceramics, stencils, acrylics, ink, iron, wood, and bronze. Each piece is unique, blending urban culture, folk art, and a deep desire to breathe new life into discarded things.

His work follows a creative ethic where recycling becomes a worldview. As critic Rodrigo Alonso noted, Zeta’s art challenges the speed of consumerism and encourages us to look closer at what’s been thrown away. To recover an object is to give it a second chance—to restore it without erasing its past. That’s where Yeyati builds his visual poetics: as an act of resistance and repair.

In an age of mass production and constant disposal, Zeta Yeyati invites us back to the source—to touch the imperfect, the handmade, the alive. And in every work, to discover the quiet possibility of unexpected beauty.

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