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Las Fuerzas Productivas


18.04.2015 Procedures such as literary rewriting and the rescue of objects are the conceptual pillars sustaining Las Fuerzas Productivas, the fifth individual exhibition by artist Martín Legón. The exhibition organises photographs, drawings and installations in a continuum of closed processes in such a ways that they act as a support for an essay on the subject of assembly and articulation as a technique that can upset the established order and state of things. The leitmotiv around which the exhibition is organised is the nineteenth century idea developed by Karl Marx that is central to historical materialism, now revisited as a question mark in the field of aesthetics. So the exhibition is a possible space of questioning and reflection on the intellectual and poetical value of art and its relationship with today’s world.


Catalogue

Las fuerzas productivas

Esp (pdf)

links

Juan Laxegueborde. "Las Fuerzas Productivas", Revista Otra Parte, Mayo 2015 

"Entrevista: Martín Legón en galería Barro". Los Inrockuptibles. Junio 2015



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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