Alejandra Seeber (Buenos Aires, 1969), has been described as having a dialogic approach to painting, where intentionality and random procedures, failings and acceptance operate together without hierarchy. Seeber conceptualizes painting, not from historical references or social conventions but from a visual culture crossed by alternative rock, theatrical stage designs, musical shows, the city’s underground, the digital softwares that started being used in graphic design and the technological novelty in publicity characteristic of the end of the last century. Laying her eyes in domestic interiors, architecture and decorations, Seeber finds an image of the world that she rapidly blows up in stains and squirts that scatter through the canvas making it impossible to see the difference between in and out, between figures and abstraction. In this battle for domesticating symbols and updating meaning, Seeber ends up adding new forms and contexts to images resulting in multiple-layered works that invite us to renegotiate the boundaries between totality and fragment.
Some of her most recent projects are A oJO (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2021), Fuera de serie (Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, 2021), Getaways (Hausler Contemporary, Lustenau, Austria, 218); Autoamerican (Barro, Buenos Aires, 2015); Cuadro por cuadro (Miau Miau, Buenos Aires, 2014); Yes-yes (Hausler Contemporary, Munich, 2011) Tutti Frutti (Hausler Contemporari, Zurich, 2011); Dialogville (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2010); Muro O’reverie (Fundación Proa, Buenos Aires, 2009), Pinturalia, Galeria (Fernando Pradilla, Madrid, 2008); The Pregnant painter (Virgil de Voldere Gallery, Nueva York, 2007); Duos (Sperone Westwater, Nueva York (2003); Living Rum (Dabbah Torrejón Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, 2002); This Room: Painting as a Second Language (Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, 2001); and Serendipia (Galerie de L’Alliance Française, Buenos Aires, 1999), among others. She lives and works in New York.
BARRO presents Danza Perfumi, Alejandra Seeber’s third solo exhibition at the gallery. In line with these recent exhibitions and the work that the painter has been carrying out for years in the international scene, Seeber’s proposal deepens a way of understanding painting as an environmental device.
Patricia Kolesnicov, “Flora y fauna: Chorizo, morcilla, tira: comida china”, Revista Ñ, Clarín, Buenos Aires, 2011.Valentina Liernur, “Quiero estar azulado”, Radar Página 12, Buenos Aires, 2011.
Alicia de Arteaga, “Días estivales en PROA”, ADN Cultura, La Nación, Buenos Aires, 2010.
Patricia Kolesnicov, “Emociones ante una pared empapelada en PROA” Blog UN millón de amigos, Buenos Aires, 2010.
Holland Cotter, “The S Files”, The New York Times, New York, 2003
04.04.2025 Mónica GIRON and Nacha CANVAS participate in the group exhibition El aire vacilaba a su alrededor. Artistas latinoamericanas y sus poéticas del mundo, curated by Sofía Dourron. The exhibition proposes a reflection on how the notions of space, territory, and landscape are modulated by our bodies and, in turn, how our bodies are shaped by the environments that surround them.
15.03.2025 In Continents like seeds we can see how Poblete’s practice complicates how social and cultural identities are claimed, contested, or imposed without seeking resolution, but rather by opening conversations about life and transformation beyond inscribed territories. At CARA New York, until August 2025
14.03.2025 Fabril la mirada is Lucrecia Lionti's first solo show in a museum, curated by Carla Barbero and featuring an installation created especially for the exhibition. Fabril la mirada does not seek to reaffirm the telluric values of craft, but instead to confront its visual and ethical aspects.
06.01.2025 Gabriel Chaile’s first solo exhibition in Uruguay, curated by Pablo León de la Barra. A site-specific show featuring a series of new works created especially for the FCV in José Ignacio. On view until April 2025.
27.12.2024 Lo que la noche le cuenta al día, group exhibition including works by Matías Duville, presents a survey of Argentine art. Curated by Andrés Duprat and Diego Sileo. Part of the celebration of the Museum’s 10 years and the 150 years of Mar de Plata.
17.12.2024 Juxtaposing the past and the present, the exhibition presents works from different periods and artistic currents, highlighting visions of LGBTQIA+ historias that transcend time and space, as well as pointing to strategies of resistance. Curated by Adriano Pedrosa & Julia Bryan-Wilson at Museo de Arte de São Paulo, MASP. Until abril, 2025.
06.12.2024 Miami Beach, USA. BARRO presents a series of works by Mondongo, La Chola Poblete, Lucrecia Lionti and Joaquín Boz. The artworks selected for this edition call into question the conceptual relation between materiality and image. Main Sector, Convention Center, Florida.
17.11.2024 Cárcel & Vals, 2024, textile artwork by Lucrecia Lionti, won the Award Gobierno de la Provincia de Santa Fe (acquisition) by unanimous decision. The award jury was made up of Fernando Farina, Nancy Rojas and Lucía Stubrin
17.11.2024 “El Baptisterio de los colores”, installation by the group Mondongo, among other artworks of theirs, are on view as part of the show “Sin título” at its new home Arthaus. This “work-architecture” erected in the manner of a Pantone made of plasticine calls us to invent, in community, a new liturgy of color.
16.11.2024 BARRO Buenos Aires presents 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 in a film with mural drawings made from adobe and iron.
BARRO ARTE CONTEMPORANEO
BUENOS AIRES, ARG +54 11 4978 3759
NEW YORK, USA +1 212 652 4410