A virtuoso finale to the Nodo gallery circuit, with a party at Ama Amoedo's home.

The mansion hasn't forgotten its prehistoric history; part of the historic structure still exists to frame a vast garden of specimen trees. In the background is the modern house, where the host resides and where, in a few months, the new collection of works will be located. Last Friday's Nodo gallery circuit party took place at Ama Amoedo among artist friends, collectors, and curators, and was a perfect opportunity to repeat the guided tour of its collection.

But first, the party, which will surely be one of the highlights of 2025. Although it was known that Alec Oxenford would not be attending, the collector and current Ambassador to the United States did not abandon his support for contemporary art and this time sent his curator. Mariano Mayer, who is also a connoisseur of the universe of essences, "even with all the perfumes of Arabia," could not extract a single piece from the list of works that excited him. As of Friday night, they hadn't bought anything, but they had looked at everything carefully.

In conversation with Amoedo and the curator of her collection, Laura Hakel, we learned that for this edition of Nodo, they purchased two sculptures by Rodrigo Túnica from the Aldo de Souza gallery . Amoedo is beginning to think of her garden as a virgin space to be populated.

Rodrigo Túnica was born and lives in Buenos Aires. His work has an imprint of environmental activism, and he has been working on wheat for several years. He is co-founder of the NGO Un Árbol, a collective that focuses on environmental regeneration. We also learned that Amoedo has commissioned a work from Max Gómez Canle : it will be a marble hummingbird feeder at the end of the beautiful garden. “Perhaps it will be pink marble. The birds are already there, waiting for it,” Ama said.

During the Nodo exhibition, which concluded this Saturday, the Benzacar gallery sold two pieces by Marie Orensanz, part of an exhibition centered on words and the idea of ​​fragility. She is currently exhibiting there. Gallery owner Mauro Helitzka also sounded excited. The program included a visit from Armando Andrade, a prominent Peruvian collector , who was fascinated by the textiles on display at the Retiro neighborhood gallery and, in particular, by the works of Paraguayan Marcos Benitez and Rosario-born Carla Bereta , from whom he purchased two textiles.

The Boca Juniors-based Ungallery sold an acrylic on paper by David Petroni ; they also sold a sculpture and a backstage photograph. There were other private sales at Central Affair, at the La Plata-based NN gallery, which after ten years will make the leap this year to the main section of the arteBA fair, and others at Aldo de Souza, in addition to the aforementioned Túnica sculptures. In addition to its La Plata location, NN has a space on Bolívar Street in Buenos Aires, where the artist Amanda Tejo Viviani also has her studio. They sold her work as well as pieces by San Pedro-based artist Porkeria Mala (whose work was featured in El Moderno) and Marta de la Gente.

In Amoedo's living room, works purchased by his grandmother, Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat, such as the painted panels on canvas by Odilón Redon , coexist with the entire wealth of his own collection, which has been around for two decades. This collection is spread across three locations: Miami, Uruguay, and this house. Thus, in a corner of the living room, the beautiful electric "Roulette" by Omar Schiliro rings a bell and promises us the luck of a "Nice Job." Immediately afterward, the nearby staircase led us to the underground reserve, curated with museum-like zeal and under the terrifying gaze of a gargoyle from The Bulgarian.

With an original core of Argentine art, the Amoedo collection features significant abstract and concrete artists from the 1940s (Juan del Prete, Alfredo Hlito, and several painters, such as Germaine Derbecq and Yente), as well as emblematic works of 1960s Pop Art , centered around the Di Tella Institute. However, the collector has been instrumental in promoting the artists who emerged with the return to democracy in the 1980s and 1990s, centered around the Ricardo Rojas Cultural Center. Works by Liliana Maresca, Marcelo Pombo, Alfredo Londaibere, Jorge Gumier Mayer, Schiliro, Fernanda Laguna—and the aforementioned hairy devil from El Búlgaro, who sits on the floor, resembling a Cancerbero cat—live very close to the two silkscreen prints Andy Warhol made of his grandmother.

In addition to her artist residency project in Uruguay, Amoedo is a member of the Acquisitions Committee of the International Latin American Circle at the Centre Pompidou (Paris), the Latin American and Caribbean Art Fund Committee at MoMA (New York), and is a member of the Advisory Board of the Americas Society in New York.