“I invite you to visit one of the biggest art galleries in the world”, says a lady to the pedestrians at the door of 950 Florida St, gently. In the mythical sidewalk -and in the same spot where the Müller gallery used to work- nowadays we find Galería-Museo Aguilar.

More than two thousand Argentine works are exposed there -from the floor to the ceiling and from wall to wall. “It is not a traditional gallery”, admits its founder Alberto Aguilar. “It is not boring, children don´t cry here, they are astonished”.

Among its peculiarities, the gallery works everyday of the year since very early, and it receives more than 300 visitors each day. Aguilar has known how to transmit his passion towards art to his children, and his family works together with him. He opened in 1983, with a thousand works that he had been collecting, while he worked as an acrylic manufacturer.

“The best art of the world, in the last 50 years, is the Argentinean”, he says enthusiastically. “Nowadays this art is undervalued with regard to the rest of the world, here it is still attainable”. Prices are between 400 dollars and half a million.
 
There are more than four hundred masters in the collection. The precursors: Rugendas, Della Valle, De la Cárcova, León Palliere. The Masters: Spilimbergo, Castagnino, Politi, Alonso, Pérez Célis, Presas. Among the classics: Emilio Pettoruti, Antonio Berni, Quinquela Martín, Raúl Soldi, Fernando Fader, Stephen Koek Koek, Oscar Vaz...

“Art is the most beautiful of the human being”, explains Aguilar, and art is music and poetry shaped on linen cloths; its result is magic.