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
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.
15.11.2024 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 in a film of mural drawings made of 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.
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