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La Chola Poblete


The work of the artist La Chola Poblete (Guaymallén, Mendoza, Argentina, 1989)includes watercolor paintings, oil landscapes, bread sculptures and iron structures, which build, not without tension and violence, a multi-part bidimensional installation that reproduces, in a key of denunciation and vindication, the dynamics of the cult. Taking up again the tools and formats around which she built her own language and iconography, La Chola intervenes in historical and contemporary imaginaries to explore the ambiguities and undefinable zones of the narrative of the past and the current political discourse. As if she knew that even in the stereotyping and exoticization of the original peoples, their mythical force survives, the artist uses her own body and invents her own mythograms, in graphic interventions that, between the delicacy of drawing and the power of branding, save not only their history, but also their desire for the present.

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01.04.2024 Biennale Arte 2024 Official Awards

links

Mercedes Ezquiaga, “La Chola Poblete conquista Berlín y se encamina hacia la Bienal de Venecia 2024” Infobae. Sep, 2023

Enzo Maqueira, “La Chola, la artista queer argentina que brilla en Europa”, Revista Viva. Mayo, 2022

Jessica Fabaro, “La Chola Poblete, la artista queer argentina que cautivó a la reina Letizia provoca con sus vírgenes en arteba”, TN. Octubre 2022



Exhibitions

LOS JÓVENES OLVIDARON SUS CANCIONES O TIERRA DE FUEGO (PARTE II)

16.11.2024 On Saturday November 16th, BARRO Buenos Aires opens Los jóvenes olvidaron sus canciones o Tierra de fuego (Parte II), the second exhibition by Gabriel Chaile in the gallery. With a text by Filipa Ramos, the show presents a new line of work the artist began this year and consists of mural drawings made from adobe and iron.

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BARRO es 10

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— 

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CHAILE Pavilion at MALBA—PUERTOS

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.

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MONDONGO at MALBA—PUERTOS

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.

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AGUSTINA WOODGATE at Stroom

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.

Exhibitions

BARRO es 10

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!

Fairs

ARTEBA 2024

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.

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MARTÍN LEGÓN at Moderno

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.

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MONDONGO at Malba

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.

Fairs

ART BASEL
BASEL 2024

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.

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