Mondongo is an artist collective that has been working together since 1999, currently formed by Juliana Laffitte (Buenos Aires, 1974) and Manuel Mendanha (Buenos Aires, 1976). Their works call into question the conceptual relation between materiality and image. In their productions they hold discussions about themes like power, work, economy and sexuality, and generate different readings through freedom in the use of materials, taking the attention to detail on their works beyond conventions regarding size, complexity and potentiality.By using unconventional materials, such as colorful mirrors, cookies, bread, meat, threads and plasticine, manipulated with original techniques and selected according to their content, they create ironic, fantastic and critical settings, always favoring the narrative sense.
Their most recent projects include Conejos Blancos (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2021), Tres (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2017), Home - So different so appealing (LACMA, Los Angeles, 2017), How to read el Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin American y Latin American Disney’s (Mak Center, California, 2017), Mondongo (MAXXI, Museo Nazionalle Delle Arti del XXI Secolo, Roma, 2016; Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson, San Juan; Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Emilio Caraffa, Córdoba; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Neuquén; 2014).In the past few years they have developed many performances such as Autómata (Track 16, Los Angeles, 2018); No soy tan joven como para saberlo todo (ARCOmadrid, Madrid, 2107; Bienal de Performance BP 15, Buenos Aires, 2015), among others. Mondongo's works form part of important collections worldwide such as Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, Texas); Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, (Buenos Aires); Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat (Buenos Aires); and numerous private collections (Zurich, Londres, Bruselas, Dubai). They live and work in Buenos Aires
The Argentine art collective, Mondongo, comprised of Juliana Laffitte and Manuel Mendanha, is renowned for its innovative use of unconventional materials in its production, such as meat, threads, plasticine, and wax. This approach not only challenges traditional notions of “painting” but also broadens the expressive possibilities of the medium. Until January 6, 2024
Canal Vimeo Mondongo
Mar Centenera. "Mondongo, el arte argentino de la mentira". El País, febrero 2017
Nicolás Cassese. Mondongo: "Usamos el material de nuestras obras como forma de denuncia". La Nación, noviembre 2016
Marina Artusa. "Mondongo: los artistas de la plastilina conquistan Roma". Cultura, Clarín, febrero 2016
María Elena Polack."Con plastilina, Mondongo alude a los ciclos de la vida". La Nación, agosto 2013
30.09.2024 SHOW / FAIR / PARTY We celebrate the gallery’s first 10 years (2014—2024) THANK YOU everyone who is and was part of it!—BARRO es 10—Nicanor Aráoz, Joaquín Boz, Nacha Canvas, Gabriel Chaile, Matias Duville, Faivovich & Goldberg, Mónica Giron, Martín Legón, Lucrecia Lionti, Lolo y Lauti, Mondongo, La Chola Poblete, Marcelo Pombo, Pablo Reinoso, Alejandra Seeber, Agustina Woodgate—
21.09.2024 La vida que explota by Gabriel Chaile, Claudia Alarcón and Silät. Curator: Andrei Fernández. The sculptural ensemble of anthropomorphized beings constitutes a group portrait of Gabriel Chaile’s family tree. The work was presented for the first time at the Venice Biennial 2022 and is now exhibited permanently in the Chaile Pavilion at the recently inaugurated MALBA—PUERTOS, Escobar.
21.09.2024 “Argentina” is a set of fifteen paintings made as bas-reliefs with plasticine and other unconventional materials. These represent views of the Argentine Mesopotamian landscape in the province of Entre Ríos, which is characterized by a cycle of flooding that oscillates between the death and rebirth of the region’s flora. At Ensayos naturales I by Mondongo & Luis Ouvrard. Curated by Alejandra Aguado. MALBA—PUERTOS, Escobar.
14.09.2024 More Heat Than Light is Agustina Woodgate’s first individual exhibition in a Dutch institution. The show explores the relationship between temperature and information, and so stages an experimental communications infrastructure that reflects the unpredictable transactions between measuring and knowing.
02.09.2024 GROUP SHOW / We celebrate the gallery’s first 10 years (2014—2024) THANK YOU everyone who is and was part of it!
28.08.2024 Buenos Aires. 10th Anniversary Edition —BARRO es 10— with the participation of the gallery staff. Works by Nicanor Aráoz, Joaquín Boz, Nacha Canvas, Matías Duville, Faivovich & Goldberg, Guillermo Kuitca, Mónica Giron, Martín Legón, Lucrecia Lionti, Lolo y Lauti, Mondongo, La Chola Poblete, Pablo Reinoso Alejandra Seeber, Agustina Woodgate. In the main section of the fair.
21.08.2024 With Solo las piedras recuerdan [Only the stones remember], Martín Legón builds a paradoxical bridge between deeply analogue formal education and the sudden emergence of a knowledge technology that simultaneously opens up new horizons and, by its very existence, announces the end of the old paradigm. Artist´s Solo Show at the Museo Moderno, Buenos Aires.
14.06.2024 Manifestación [Demonstration] by the duo Mondongo proposes an homage to great artist from Rosario Antonio Berni in order to recover critical discussions around the vision of the city as emblem of modernity and progress.
13.06.2024 Basel, Switzerland. Solo show by La Chola Poblete in the Statements section of the fair. Statements is dedicated to emerging artists and brings together the most daring individual projects in the international sector.
10.06.2024 Through his works, Duville invites viewers on a journey through desolate landscapes, imbued with rarefied and eternal atmospheres that seem to herald natural cataclysms or scenes of vital abandonment that suggest the dreamlike exploration of an absent observer. In his most recent works, themes such as duality, transformation, and the passage of time take center stage.
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