Horacio Zabala (Buenos Aires, 1943) is an artist and architect who lived in Europe between 1976 and 1998 before returning to Buenos Aires, where he currently resides and works. From 1972 to 1976, he was part of the “Grupo de los Trece,” formed as part of the Centro de Arte y Comunicación (CAYC). In 1975, together with Edgardo Antonio Vigo, he organized the “Last International Exhibition of Mail Art” at the Galería Arte Nuevo in Buenos Aires and a year later, while residing in Rome, proposed an international poll as well as a socio - aesthetic intervention aimed at artists, art historians and art critics under the banner “Hoy el Arte es una Cárcel” (Today Art is a Jail). In 1984, “Duplications & Dédoublements” was exhibited at Galerie Donguy in Paris. In 1997, Zabala concluded El arte o el mundo por segunda vez (Art or the World for the Second Time), an electronic interactive piece designed for the internet and produced for the Centre pour l’Image Contemporaine Saint-Gervais in Geneva. In 2007, he exhibited a retrospective of his work from the 1970s at Fundación Alon in Buenos Aires titled “Horacio Zabala. Anteproyectos (1972-1978)”. In the last few years, he has participated in “Subversive Practices. Art under Conditions of Political Repression: 60s – 80s / South America / Europe” – Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 2009 and “Sistemas, Acciones y Procesos. 1965 - 1975” - Fundación PROA, Buenos Aires, 2011. He has authored "El arte o el mundo por segunda vez" (Rosario, UNR, 2000) and Vademecum para artistas (Buenos Aires, Asunto Impreso, 2009). His work is represented in the collections of Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires; Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de Sâo Paulo, Sao Paulo; Tate Modern, London; The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; University of Essex Collection of Latin American Art, Essex; Daros Latinamerica, Zürich; Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO), Miami and Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (MIMA), Middlesbrough.