21.08.2021 Interpreting them consecutively, the individual exhibitions from Martín Legón have been unfolding visual analytical essays for more than fifteen years. In this respect, Árboles profundamente artificiales may be understood as a cubist installation, where its subject of study—Argentine society and its current possibilities—is broken down into different planes to deliver its many faces simultaneously.
27.07.2021 In the third edition of the International Biennial of Contemporary Art of the South organized by the National University of Tres de Febrero, La Térmica will be the headquarters of Km 9692 of the expanded territory of art, culture, dialogue and global thought.
25.06.2021 Pés de Barro. It presupposes a two-way exchange with life, with the hands, with the makers. These go beyond the cultural superiority of art and the scholarly and economic fascination with the good form and the norm. With curators Filipa Ramos and Chus Martínez, at Galería Municipal de Porto, Portugal.
10.06.2021 Time and pain, confinement and yearnings, loneliness and solidarity, did a silent job in the sensitive fabric of our perception, and perhaps our gaze is no longer the same as before. Group Show, El orden y el accidente at MAR Museo, Mar del Plata.
04.06.2021 Lolo y Lauti pay homage to the theater of Buenos Aires. In Localidades agotadas, their debut as artists from BARRO, they greet us donning their sparkliest finery. Florencia Vecino dances at the entrance, while inside there are stands in the style of indie theaters, including a red carpet, to pay close attention to the experiences shared by historical vedette Pochy Grey, barefoot and covered in feathers, and Kado Kostzer, who recounts the times of the legendary Di Tella Institute and revues.
04.06.2021 Artists: Facundo Díaz, Hernán Camoletto, Huenú Peña, Nicolás Machado, Pauline Fondevila, Rocío Moreno, Soledad Sánchez Goldar. Editor: Joaquín Rodríguez Curator: Guillermo Daghero.
26.05.2021 Barro TV Archivo #03_Author: Martín Legón La Forestal, 2020. A historical materialistic tale focusing on the massacre of La Forestal (1921), which took place in the quebracho exploitation factory by the English company established in Argentina (1880-1960). The screen is projected with a broken image, a metaphor for a forest of a thousand quebrachos which constantly break, for a state that is permanently broke, for their workers being permanently broke. In the end, the seal cushions do not seem to be very comfortable...
05.05.2021 Nueva York, USA. Barro presents Don’t Trust. Verify a series of works by Agustina Woodgate that deconstruct money as a representational medium. The Shed, Manhattan.
15.04.2021 New York, Usa. Gabriel Chaile's project They talk to me about darkness but I am dazzled by the light includes sculptures, drawings on paper and installations. It was developed in three locations; Heni Artists Agency London; Melides Art Portugal and BARRO New York.
23.03.2021 A channel of interviews to artists whose thematic core is defined by ideas that are transversal to their work. #02 Alejandra Seeber_Habitat.An interview which is not an interview / A topic discussing another topic / A video to watch like a magazine: turning its pages / A character who is built upon a chaos of loose ideas.
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