The Bite Magazine - Spring/Summer 2026 - Issue 39

biteart struction of scenes to Argentine landscape traditions, to liter- ature that transforms the familiar into something strange. His work has been selected for the 11th National Painting Prize of the Central Bank of Argentina, the 13th and 14th UADE Na- tional Visual Arts Awards, and the UNNE Prize. He received an Honorary Mention at the Félix Amador Salon and, in 2019, was awarded Second Prize in Painting at the National Salon, one of the country’s most significant distinctions. The artist’s exhibitions have featured at MARCO La Boca Muse- um, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Galería Praxis, MC Galería, and Galería Barrakesh in Argentina. International exhibits include Weserhalle in Berlin, Allouche Gallery in New York, Seefood Room in Hong Kong, Im Gallery in Guangzhou, Mindy Sol- omon Gallery and the Fountainhead Artist Residency in Mi- ami. Each context has offered a different lens through which his work is seen, though Canevari himself doesn’t think in terms of countries. What matters to him is how the work is received, how it resonates. His current works include The Lighthouse, featuring an initially familiar landscape that slowly tilts into something more ambig- uous. The lighthouse stands at the centre like an apparition ren- dered with the clarity of someone trained in naturalist illustra- tion, yet carrying the strange, symbolic weight of a figure rather than a structure. The surrounding environment feels calm yet alert, as though dusk has settled over a place that is holding its breath. Nothing is overtly surreal, yet the proportions, textures, and atmosphere create a subtle sense of displacement, the kind of ‘slightly off ’ feeling Canevari often seeks. Another painting, The Feast of Fire , compresses a sense of ritual, mystery, and unease into a single nocturnal scene. At its cen- tre, a soft, glowing fire gathers figures and landscape elements around it with a magnetic, almost dreamlike pull. The flames illuminate the terrain with an otherworldly light that subtly distorts proportions and textures, making the environment feel familiar and slightly estranged. Whether human, animal, or somewhere in between, the figures seem to belong to the land- scape and yet remain curiously detached from it, as though they have stepped out of folklore or memory rather than the physical world. The Last Road unfolds like a landscape caught between depar- ture and memory, a place that feels grounded in the real world yet softened by the haze of something imagined. The road itself stretches forward with inevitability as a line that seems to dis- solve into uncertainty. Canevari paints it with the precision of someone trained in naturalist observation, yet the surrounding environment carries his signature sense of subtle distortion. The proportions and relationships of the trees, fields, or distant structures drift enough to create a faint, lingering unease. The scene feels suspended in time, as though the moment has been lifted from a dream or a half‑remembered story. Earlier this year, X Marks the Spot brought Canevari and Or- nella Pocetti together in a shared fictional landscape. Presented at Mindy Solomon Gallery, the joint exhibition unfolded as a sequence of staged encounters, in which painting and sculpture intermingle to create scenes that hover between recognition and unease. The title became a metaphor for the intersection at the heart of the show: two artists who have lived and worked together for over a decade, two distinct yet intertwined ways of building images, and the tension between what is revealed and what remains concealed. At the exhibition, images slipped beyond the surface of the paintings and took physical form in the gallery, guiding visitors through a series of atmospheric thresholds. Canevari’s works carried layers of symbolic imagery, such as a butterfly signal- ling transformation and a tunnel suggesting a journey into the unknown. At the same time, Pocetti’s paintings introduced a femme‑fatale figure that navigates murky, theatrical worlds charged with psycho‑sexual tension.