28.03.2018 This time we unquestionably find ourselves before a desire alien to the expressive mission of the thousand tongues in the shadow. We are before a desire that investigates a new possible future, one forged from visceral and turbulent emotions, from muddled feelings and negative utopias. [...] Placenta Escarlata can be envisioned as a strange environment where the inevitable promise of a new twisted future is finally brought to the surface, and it looks like a dark room that holds the most intense moment of a ritual made up of a mass of bestial bodies in motion desperately looking for the new destructive incarnation of freedom, that signal that leads the dizzy arrow of an intoxicated daydream amidst the remains of a reality enraptured by knots of the repressive and that finally warns us that we have reached the gates of the pleasure dome. [...] Like the devout one who lets himself be intoxicated by the promise of muddled feelings and seriously undertakes the infectious multiplication of the occult, Nicanor Aráoz shows us, in this obscene chamber, further research that, before the freezing heat of neon light, shares the passion that takes hold of him in secret, that torments him until he is driven to utter the most beautiful spell in the history of the night—the one that stubbornly inquires into the possibility of a new life. Fragment of text “666999” by Nicolás Cuello
Nicolás Cuello. "Bestiario". Suplemento Soy, Página/12, abril de 2018
Laura Isola. "Un ruinoso esplandor". Perfil, abril de 2018
Emanuel Franco. "Placenta Escarlata". Revista Otra Parte, abril de 2018
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.
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.
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