Fairs
Frieze
New York 2023
17.05.2023 New York, USA. In the Focus Section of the Frieze fair, Barro presents Ajuar para un conquistador, a series of works by Mónica Giron carried out from 1993 to the present. The Shed, Manhattan.
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Gabriel Chaile at HIGHLINE New York
16.05.2023 “The wind blows where it wishes” is the title for Chaile’s large adobe sculpture conceived for the High Line. Chaile intends for his sculpture to come to life through its interactions with surrounding natural forces: wind, rain, snow, and vegetation. The artwork is a sculpture–manifesto, one that plays with the wind’s memory as a transmitter of poetry. Curated by Cecilia Alemani. From May 2023 to April 2024. On the HighLine at 24th Street, New York, USA.
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Tertulias with Rosé IV
13.05.2023 BARRO NEW YORK presents TERTULIAS WITH ROSÉ IV. A Conversation Series at the gallery. “Queerness” with Kerry Doran & Syd Krochmalny at Artisanal Conceptualism: Starting Point, BARRO’s first solo exhibition featuring works by Marcelo Pombo at its new gallery in New York City.
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Expochicago 2023
13.04.2023 Chicago, USA. At the tenth anniversary edition of EXPO CHICAGO, BARRO presents a Solo Show by Alejandra Seeber in the EXPOSURE Section, curated by Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Director and Chief Curator of the Americas Society, New York.
Exhibitions
Artisanal Conceptualism: Starting Point — BARRO NEW YORK
30.03.2023 The three bodies of works (Dibujos de San Pablo [The São Paulo Drawings] 1982, four works from the early 90s, and five recent drawings) presented at BARRO New York contemplate the long path of MARCELO POMBO’s aesthetics from his Starting Point until today. The conceptual and the artisanal in the limit of the baroque and the conservatively aberrant, deconstructs the antinomies of the high culture and the popular, fine arts and crafts, the luxurious and the cheap, nature and culture. Until May 21st
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Chorros — BARRO BUENOS AIRES
12.03.2023 Chorros, by Agustina Woodgate, penetrates the city infrastructure of Buenos Aires, constructing a water processing and distribution system. Chorros is composed of three bodies of work– The Plant, The Bags and The Laundry. BARRO Buenos Aires, is located four blocks away from the Riachuelo River, part of the Matanza-Riachuelo basin, which holds the Puelche Aquifer.
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Othering — BARRO NEW YORK
26.01.2023 Surrounding the Other is the universe without signifiers or signified. There are things that exist independently of human perception and cannot be ascertained through consciousness, language, media, or speculation. Othering, its second group exhibition featuring works by Mondongo & Bizzio, Nicanor Aráoz, Lucrecia Lionti, Joaquín Boz, Lolo y Lauti and Martín Legón at its gallery in New York City. Through March 15, 2023.
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Othering — BARRO NEW YORK
25.01.2023 Othering, its second group exhibition featuring works by Mondongo & Bizzio, Nicanor Aráoz, Lucrecia Lionti, Joaquín Boz, Lolo y Lauti y Martín Legón at its new gallery in New York. 25 Peck Slip New York, NY, 10038.
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National Award for Artistic Career
13.12.2022 Marcelo Pombo and Mónica Girón are two of the 16 artists awarded with the 2022 Premio Nacional a la Trayectoria Artística, awarded by Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación and are part of the National Salon of Visual Arts.The works of the awarded authors will be incorporated into the collection of the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires.
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¡Saxa loquuntur!
02.12.2022 Having moved on from the administrative aesthetic and their flirtation with the bureaucracy of classification and organization of meteorite materials, ¡Saxa loquuntur! finds Faivovich & Goldberg taking the concept of the archive to an esoterically suggestive extreme.
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