21.08.2021 The exhibition expands as a long poem, internal intersections and ritornellos coming and going, rhymes and alterations repeating and revealing the complexity of their meaning as the visitor advances in the room. Appealing to modernism as a utopian possibility, it is nourished by a playful and critical spirit, accompanying each series.
By using video and photographs as methodological tools, Legón is able to utilize brief approaches, reflections around the schizophrenia inherent to the capital and its discursive position set up by mass media, an arboreous statement, almost lacking a center, used to reintroduce the forever promising footnotes of the collage (that which by law should not be mixed) and its political disruption.
Because if it is true that, as Ballard once said, advertising hijacks the world (and let us remember that for him politics was nothing but one of its branches), it is left for art to hijack advertising and make it reflect its unseen face, the power of showing the hidden side of its moon.
Árboles profundamente artificiales
FIØRD estudio
Bárbara Golubicki, "El dedo en la herida. Coversación con Martín Legón".
Artishock, Noviembre 2021
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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