Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid presents My butter is better, the most recent exhibition proposal by Austrian artist Stefan Sagmeister. The show, which constitutes the artist’s first solo collaboration with the gallery, brings together a selection of more than twenty paintings made in the period 2022-2025, under the curatorship of Hilario Galguera. The exhibition will open on September 11 at Galería Hilario Galguera Madrid as part of Apertura, Madrid’s gallery weekend.

Sagmeister merges design and statistics in a series of works that transform quantitative information into aesthetic experience. Drawing from sources such as the UN, World Bank, Statista, and V-Dem, among other global and national databases, the artist converts numerical data into striking statistical diagrams that are visually compelling and accessible to a non-specialist audience. Each piece acts as a lens through which to interpret the present from a long-term perspective: an exercise in memory and projection that embraces informed optimism.

The exhibition does not merely present evidence of improvement; it frames it within a symbolic gesture in which beauty is activated through the historical imagery of the selected works. Data visualizations are embedded into historical paintings, creating a dialogue between inherited images and empirical evidence of progress. This act of layering does not dismiss the reality of crisis, but offers context: in contrast to a present saturated with pessimism, Sagmeister proposes a lucid and hopeful perspective for a less uncertain world.