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Insomne | Marino Balbuena
6 November - 4 December 2024 That Skin That Bristles Haptic and Shiny: Insomniac, the Tapestries of Marino Balbuena It gave me great pleasure to remember all those details. I started sweating while lying down, wondering what would happen next. I remembered a phrase, perhaps from Ecclesiastes or the Psalms: 'the hair of my skin stood... Read more -
Nada De Vida Interior | Rolankay
6 November - 4 December 2024 MMXXIV.X.XXI On the Experience of Drawing: For me, drawing and painting are inseparable phenomena, two sides of the same structure. The first time I felt 'I have something here' was with a drawing, which was a decisive experience. By then, I had been painting constantly for a few years, exploring... Read more -
Nia Va Al Museo | Nia de Indias
2 - 30 October 2024 What happens when dissident bodies enter the Museum? Nia de Indias invites us to move through heritage spaces through the insubordinate body of a drag guide who challenges the existence of counter-publics as non-normative social agencies. These bodies introduce practices and identities into the institution, representing and exchanging differentiated, dynamic,... Read more -
Pixel Terror | Carlos Gallardo
2 - 30 October 2024 Pixel Terror presents a series of self-portraits taken by the artist at the Louvre Museum in Paris in 1982 during the French Biennale. Read more -
POSTESCUELA, Modelos de lo propio y lo ajeno
UDP Art School Graduates 4 - 28 September 2024 POSTESCUELA, Models of the Own and the Other Let's return to Chile's first painting and craft academies towards the end of the 18th century. We can observe that something of that historical condition is still sustained as a method for instructing a Visual Arts student: representing reality through different techniques... Read more -
Los Que Aman Nunca Pierden | Mara Faúndez
31 July - 31 August 2024 Keeping a diary - which can foreshadow the emotional whirlwind through the creation of images - has been somehow liberating and revealing because it is only after overcoming the initial numbness and confusion that we become aware of our feelings. I have been exploring this way of narrating, understanding and... Read more -
Consideraciones sobre el Poder | Johans Peñaloza
Local 2 31 July - 31 August 2024 'Dogs, in their historical complexity, matter here. [...] Dogs are not surrogates for theory; they are not here just to think with. They are here to live with. Partners in the crime of human evolution, they are in the garden from the get-go, wily as Coyote.'[1] Donna Haraway Since 2019,... Read more -
This Is A Sensitive World | Carolina Muñoz
PROXYCO Gallery | New York 10 July - 14 August 2024 Report: On the exhibition This Is a Sensitive World by Carolina Muñoz Carolina Muñoz presents the exhibition This Is a Sensitive World, the result of her first place in the 7th edition of the CCU Art Fellowship, which invites contemporary Chilean artists to compete for a residency at the International... Read more -
Caprichos | Víctor Castillo
LeCluf - Colección SOLO | Castanedo, Spain 5 July - 9 September 2024 Caprichos [Whims] presents the latest work by renowned Chilean artist Víctor Castillo, created during his residency at LeCluf, Colección SOLO 's exhibition space and artist residency in Cantabria, Spain. The pieces created by the artist during his stay in northern Spain dialogue with previous works in the exhibition, providing an... Read more -
Sin Licencia | Daniel Guajardo
Text | César Gabler 12 June - 13 July 2024 Japan, Korea, Taiwan, an imaginary homeland: it is for the non-upper-class youth what Paris or New York was for the elite. A cultural dream in which they combine narrative fantasy (manga, anime), entertainment (video games), cuisine, and fashion. A space in which they recognise themselves and which expands the possibilities... Read more -
El Horizonte de los Pesimistas | Pedro Albertini
LOCAL 2 12 June - 13 July 2024 I have a habit of collecting things I find on the floor: papers, screws, coins, insects… In my collection of scraps, I keep a plastic box where, over the last few years, I have gathered dust and other small things that the fluffs haven't let go. Their origins are diverse:... Read more -
Los Guardianes de la Aldea | Marcela Serra
LOCAL 2 11 May - 5 June 2024 The pictorial models I work with are largely screen captures of old short films or animated series reproduced on digital platforms . The operation of fixing certain frames, taking them out of their time continuum, aims to produce static and decontextualised scenes, whose forms become strange, or which result in... Read more -
El Lenguaje de lo Inefable | Matías Prado
Text | Jorge Carroza 8 May - 5 June 2024 The Language of the Ineffable For the first time, Matías Prado presents his work in a format and with techniques other than illustration, to which he has devoted himself in recent years, creating books, diaries, clothing and murals, constructing his own recognisable graphic and material universe. In this exhibition at... Read more -
Memoria Alterada: Exploraciones Autoetnográficas | Juvenal Barría
Matucana 100 8 May - 16 June 2024 Memoria Alterada: Exploraciones Autoetnográficas, an exhibition by Juvenal Barría, is presented at Matucana 100 in Santiago, in collaboration with Isabel Croxatto Galería, following a tour that took the project to Valparaíso's Parque Cultural in late 2022, Chiloé's Museum of Modern Art in early 2023, and Espacio 218 with Isabel Croxatto... Read more -
Josefinismo | Josefina Herrera
ZAZ Corner | Times Square, New York 10 April - 10 May 2024 ZAZ10TS, in partnership with Isabel Croxatto Galería, presents the digital exhibition Josefinismo by the artist Josefina Herrera. This collaboration brings a curation of adapted four videos of the original installation to the ZAZ Corner Billboard that’s inspired by the workings of the human brain, particularly the interplay between the left... Read more -
Lo que solía ver por mi ventana | Wladymir Bernechea
Centro Cultural Las Condes 4 - 28 April 2024 What I used to see from my window There are times when the question arises: will I ever forget everything? We remember some landscapes and people almost photographically: their features, tears and scars, and the world we share. But time passes and the images become blurred, more like a mirage... Read more -
Post Imaginem | Paloma Castillo
Text | Leonardo Casas 3 April - 3 May 2024 Post Imaginem: Different Light, Different Reflections In Post Imaginem, Paloma Castillo's new solo exhibition presented by Isabel Croxatto Galería in its main gallery, the notions of memory, reminiscence and reference are proposed as conceptual activation cores of inspiration, as well as dynamic principles in the construction of intensely mixed imaginaries.... Read more -
Festín de Arte
Group Exhibition | LOCAL 2 17 January - 10 March 2024 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents a new edition of its group show Festín de Arte, featuring selected pieces by 20 gallery and invited artists, gathering painting, drawing, textile, photography and new media. Andrea Wolf • Camila Quiroga • Carolina Muñoz • Cecilia Avendaño • Cocó Caballero • Coco González Lohse •... Read more -
Objetos Sensibles | Simón Sepúlveda
Text | Lucía Millet 10 January - 10 March 2024 Read more -
El Loco | Víctor Castillo
LOCAL 2 6 December 2023 - 6 January 2024 Víctor Castillo was the first artist to join the Isabel Croxatto Galería project, so it is fitting that the year-long celebrations of our tenth anniversary conclude with an exhibition of his work. Internationally acclaimed for his unique aesthetic, which combines elements of the golden age of North American animation with... Read more -
Verónica | Nia De Indias
Centro Cultural Montecarmelo 4 - 27 November 2023 Stamping, sealing and sublimating: What surfaces are imprinted on the cloths, towels and homemade shrouds that inhabit our most intimate spaces? What do these surfaces imprinted on our bodies tell us, and what do they want to convey? To think of the image of Veronica, one of the women who... Read more -
Invisible | Rolankay
2 - 29 November 2023 Invisible is the third solo exhibition by Chilean artist Rolankay. It features 19 large and medium-sized paintings that the artist created following his visit to Europe earlier this year, where he had the opportunity to confront his artistic referents live for the first time and to engage in a dialogue... Read more -
Ayer y Hoy | Mara Faúndez
29 September - 21 October 2023 In this exhibition, Mara Faúndez opens the doors to spaces of intimacy, vulnerability and reverie. Through memory, she unveils an imaginary of everyday objects, domestic interiors and landscapes of where she grew up, which intersect with the longing, often frustrated, for an idyllic space. The artist places figures, indifferent to... Read more -
No todo muro se construye en piedra | Marcela Serra
LOCAL 2 29 September - 21 October 2023 The references I use for this work are based on the graffiti and tagging I see on my daily commute around Santiago. The photographed walls that serve as models for the artworks are found mainly in Av. Departamental (San Joaquín), Gran Avenida (La Cisterna), and nearby streets. I reinterpret the... Read more -
POSTESCUELA, Transcripciones de Lugares por Venir
UDP Art School Graduates 2 - 23 September 2023 AFTERSCHOOL, Transcriptions of Places to Come Isabel Croxatto Galería presents a selection of works by seven artists who graduated from the School of Art of the Diego Portales University in 2022. This exhibition reflects a generation's desire to reflect on the complex material and symbolic relationship established by certain dominant... Read more -
El Límite de la Luz | Elías Santis
Curatorial Text | César Gabler 2 - 26 August 2023 Welcome to the Void Elías Santis's paintings are disconcerting to me. His stylistic mix reminds me of a particular sum of things: a verism that owes as much to the primitive painters of the Renaissance as to photography; a surreal context close to magical realism; the exquisite corpses or ambitious... Read more -
Memoria Alterada: Exploraciones Autoetnográficas | Juvenal Barría
Curator | Javiera Bagnara | Espacio 218 22 July - 19 August 2023 Memoria Alterada: Exploraciones Autoetnográficas, an exhibition by Juvenal Barría, is presented at Espacio 218 in Santiago, in collaboration with Isabel Croxatto Galería, following a tour that took the project to Valparaíso's Parque Cultural in late 2022 and Chiloé's Museum of Modern Art in early 2023. Memoria Alterada: Exploraciones Autoetnográficas is... Read more -
La Casa por la Ventana
Curator | Carolina Castro Jorquera 27 May - 22 July 2023 Ali Elmacı · Andrea Wolf · Armando de la Garza · Axel Ríos · Bruna Truffa · Carlos Gallardo · Carlos Damacio · Carolina Muñoz · Cecilia Avendaño · Chiachio & Giannone · Claudia Peña · Claudia Vásquez · Cocó Caballero · Coco González Lohse · Elías Santis · Fabio... Read more -
Festín de Arte | edición aniversario
LOCAL 2 15 March - 15 April 2023 Festín de Arte: edición aniversario presents an exciting collection of paintings by Víctor Castillo , Francisco Uzabeaga , Rolankay , Carolina Muñoz , and Johans Peñaloza , each with their own style and perspective, as well as a series of sculptures by Vicente Prieto Gaggero . This edition of our... Read more -
Res Non Verba | Paloma Castillo
La Embajada | Madrid 11 February - 3 March 2023 (REUTERS, GALERÍA NUEVA, MADRID, 11:28). CHILEAN ARTIST WHOSE EMBROIDERIES ARE INSPIRED BY THE NEWS EXHIBITS IN SPAIN Paloma Castillo presents her latest embroidery works at Galería Nueva under the title Res Non Verba. Eleven pieces in which the artist gives free rein to her particular way of translating news through... Read more -
Érase una vez el fin | Vicente Prieto Gaggero
La Embajada | Madrid 11 February - 3 March 2023 An experiment: watch David Cronenberg's entire filmography in a 24-hour marathon. You may survive, just as the characters in his films resist mutations, accidents, metamorphoses and viruses. It will be harder to get through the next day. Domestic life will become strange. You will feel watched in your house, and... Read more -
Chrysalis | Cecilia Avendaño
11 January - 11 February 2023 Chrysalis is the result of a collaboration between Cecilia Avendaño and the Slovak photographer Marek Wurfl. Chrysalis hides the body, but only because this is the way to mobilise and transform the inside, in the same way that this series is in process, where we can find reminiscences of Cecilia's... Read more -
Garden of Ghosts | Andrea Wolf
LOCAL 2 11 January - 11 February 2023 “We are surrounded by the traces of the past, a veritable garden of ghosts”,[1] the authors of Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet: Ghosts and Monsters of the Anthropocene warn. The title of Andrea Wolf's exhibition, Garden of Ghosts, places us in that paradox: a space that cultivates lives... Read more -
Barbas y Bigotes | Chiachio & Giannone
Curatorial Text | Nicolás de Sarmiento 5 November - 7 December 2022 The Memory of Fabric “The masculine subject only appears to originate meanings and thereby to signify. His seemingly self-grounded autonomy attempts to conceal the repression which is both its ground and the perpetual possibility of its own ungrounding”.[1] Judith Butler The artistic practice of the Argentinean duo Chiachio & Giannone,... Read more -
Efecto Secundario | Paloma Castillo
Curator | Leonardo Casas 30 September - 29 October 2022 About Efecto Secundario Efecto Secundario [Secondary Effect] is the title of artist Paloma Castillo's new exhibition of embroideries. Portraiture is the starting point of a visual exploration that captures different paradigmatic figures from the human space and the spiritual realm. Efecto Secundario is constructed on the basis of an argumentative... Read more -
Azúcar Hierro Cafeína | Fabio Castro
LOCAL 2 30 September - 26 November 2022 CONSUMERISM AZÚCAR HIERRO CAFEÍNA by Fabio Castro Fabio Castro Pellizzari AKA F*Castro is a visual artist who dwells between pop culture, science and technology. He was born in March 1976 in Santiago, Chile, leaving the following year with his parents into exile in the United States. He first arrived in... Read more -
POSTESCUELA, el estado de las cosas
UDP Art School Graduates 7 - 24 September 2022 AfterSchool, the state of things Isabel Croxatto Galería gathers the works of twelve 2021 graduates of the School of Art of the Diego Portales University, proposing a journey through the imaginary of a generation of artists who studied in the context of the unrest taking place in Chile since October... Read more -
Sonata | Wladymir Bernechea
Curatorial Text | Jaime Cuevas 10 - 31 August 2022 'Space would be to place what the word becomes when spoken, that is to say, when trapped in the ambiguity of an execution, changed into a term involving multiple conventions, presented as the act of a present (or of a time) and modified by the transformations due to successive proximities...'.[1]... Read more -
La Fuga de Psique | Cocó Caballero
LOCAL 2 10 - 31 August 2022 Through oil on canvas, wood and paper, Cocó Caballero presents dreamlike stories of experiences linked to fears and phobias developed in childhood but which, from the confines of the subconscious, appear as flashes in adult life. With a naïve aesthetic, the artist paints girls and women from which sharp teeth... Read more -
Supersticiones | Rolankay
Curatorial Text | César Gabler 16 July - 6 August 2022 Supersticiones by Rolankay Rolankay chose for him the name of a cult poet in the Chilean tradition. He allowed himself to be born again and baptised himself with a radiant alias. All at the same time. With that freedom, he altered a few consonants and changed Ronald, longer and perhaps... Read more -
Entre Héroes y Tumbas | Coco González Lohse
Curator | Ramón Castillo 1 June - 1 July 2022 VISIONS OF THE PRESENT The painter is a sort of visionary who must allow himself to be carried away by bright and dark images, by the furore of chance or by a complex articulation of memories, desires and impulses that operate to make an image fall on the screen, and... Read more -
Once Upon A Happy Land | Víctor Castillo
LOCAL 2 28 May - 1 July 2022 Once Upon A Happy Land by Víctor Castillo is the exhibition with which Isabel Croxatto Galería officially launches the programme of LOCAL 2, its new exhibition space. Víctor Castillo is world-renowned for his unique aesthetic that appropriates the imaginary of the golden age of American illustration and cartoons with surrealist... Read more -
Ex-Voto | Fernanda Núñez
Curatorial Text | Carla Ayala 27 April - 18 May 2022 Violence, Body and Representation Tension in the everyday space through Ex-Voto by Fernanda Núñez The political crisis taking place in Chile since October 2019 and the global health emergency provoked by COVID-19, causing confinement, isolation and the immediate - or, in other cases, retroactive - economic crisis, have spawned several... Read more -
El Convulsionado Presente | Johans Peñaloza
Curatorial Text | Carolina Hermosilla 16 March - 13 April 2022 El Convulsionado Presente by Johans Peñaloza features a previously unseen part of Ensamblajes Territoriales, developed from 2020 to the present, along with new medium-format paintings in which the artist explores tensions between violence and power. "My paintings work with the idea of instability, both between the image that reproduces the impression of light, its context and diffusion, as well as in the perception of the real," the artist says. Read more -
Festín de Arte N°22
Group Show 12 January - 5 March 2022 Isabel Croxatto Galería welcomes 2022 with a new version of its classic Festín de Arte. The exhibition gathers recent artworks by its represented artists Carolina Muñoz , Cecilia Avendaño , Francisco Uzabeaga , Juvenal Barría , Paloma Castillo , Vicente Prieto Gaggero and Wladymir Bernechea together with guest artist Andreas... Read more -
Underground Future | Vicente Prieto Gaggero
3 November - 1 December 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents Underground Future, an exhibition by the artist Vicente Prieto Gaggero. The show features 24 sculptural handmade pieces created in clay using pre-Columbian techniques combined with a neo-pop and cyberpunk aesthetic, in which the artist experiments with the material's conditions in its different states, such as elasticity and hardness, in a synecdoche of human skin. Read more -
Ad Hominem | Paloma Castillo
Curator | Leonardo Casas 29 September - 27 October 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents Ad Hominem¸ solo exhibition by the textile artist Paloma Castillo curated by the artist and academic Leonardo Casas. Through meticulous work and vibrant colours, Castillo presents personal experiences and everyday life while including mythological tales and the depiction of extravagant characters in 23 hand-embroideries that provide a commentary on current Chilean social events. Read more -
Un Color Tiene Muchos Rostros | Carolina Muñoz
Curatorial Text | Juan José Santos 1 - 25 September 2021 Un Color Tiene Muchos Rostros by Carolina Muñoz addresses the conditions of the “glitch phenomenon,” a representation of the current times of the art scene and life in a post-pandemic world. Colour and its physical properties are a central part of her new series. While white, the sum of all colours, contains the situations in the form of snow, the artist acts as a god-like creator displaying her paintings. Colours become living entities, habiting in the wild, from which her characters draw materials for their own artworks in the absurd universe. Read more -
The Yellow Brick Road | Víctor Castillo
4 - 28 August 2021 Comprising recent acrylic on canvas and vintage movie lobby cards from Castillo's personal collection, as well as a series of studio sketches for some of his best-known artworks, The Yellow Brick Road follows the path to capitalism and the 1940s-1950s American Way of Life that, as the Land of Oz in the classic Judy Garland film, never was the promised world of fantasies and happiness. Read more -
La Tierra Prometida | Coco González Lohse
Galería Nueva | Madrid 3 - 30 June 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería, in collaboration with Galería Nueva, presents La Tierra Prometida by the established Chilean artist Coco González Lohse in Madrid. Through a series of 22 oil on canvas and canvas board paintings, González Lohse explores a desolate search for the Promised Land through Chile's broken and vulnerable geography. Read more -
Ensamblajes Territoriales | Johans Peñaloza
Galería Nueva | Madrid 3 - 30 June 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería, in collaboration with Galería Nueva, presents Ensamblajes Territoriales by the emerging Chilean artist Johans Peñaloza in Madrid. Through a series of 12 acrylics on canvas, Peñaloza examines the vestiges of urban landscapes decimated after the demonstrations resulting from the 18O social outburst. Read more -
Somewhere Over the Rainbow | Víctor Castillo
Online Exclusive 1 - 27 June 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería, in collaboration with Val Kilmer and HelMel Studios, presents Somewhere Over the Rainbow by Victor Castillo. The online exhibition features a series of new works on canvas and paper in a personal tribute to the world of cinema. Read more -
Sweeter than Roses | Victor Castillo
Text | Dian Hanson 17 March - 19 May 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería is pleased to present the artist Victor Castillo and his latest project, Sweeter than Roses: a collection of 12 black and white photographs of pin-up models from the sixties that the artist has delicately intervened, incorporating iconic characters from his paintings and a particular look at the nude portrait.
Sweeter than Roses proposes the spectator a visual journey that, like a sort of story or landscape on each body, needs the complicity of a new voyeur to be completed. Read more -
El Mundo Al Instante N°1
Group Show 8 - 25 January 2020 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents El Mundo Al Instante N°1 [The World In An Instant N°1], group show that proposes a visual dialogue through the artworks of 34 artists upon the contingency Chile has lived since the 18 October social outburst. Chile lives complex times. The social demands and mobilisations that... Read more -
Genio Doméstico | Chiachio & Giannone
Curatorial Text | Cynthia Francica 18 October - 18 December 2019 Based on the act of embroidery, Chiachio & Giannone’s Domestic Genius exhibition – the first solo exhibition by the Argentinian couple in Chile – re-imagines the intimacy of the home as a force in perpetual expansion. The duo formed by Leo Chiachio and Daniel Giannone has been working with textiles... Read more -
Enfermedades Preciosas | Cecilia Avendaño
Curator | Andrea Jösch | Sala de Arte CCU 10 October - 30 November 2019 Cecilia Avendaño's work has revolved around the portrait since 2008, addressing issues of identity, gender and age. In this research, begun in 2015, the artist investigates the biological, cultural and natural aspects that affect our body and spirit. The oxymoron -precious diseases- is then understood as the relationship between the... Read more -
Blanco Universal | Carolina Muñoz
Curatorial Text | César Gabler 21 August - 2 October 2019 The period of the Salons, masterfully covered by Diderot's pen, definitively defined the artistic audience. The search for surprises, the spirit of controversy, the aesthetic confrontation as a political issue is clearly outlined in the late eighteenth century. The art public, turned into a historical subject. A contemporary tradition -... Read more -
Festín de Arte #22
Group Show 31 July - 9 August 2019 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents Festín de Arte #22, a new edition of its series of group shows that convey a dialogue between artists, artworks, curators and audience.
Festín de Arte #22 features an exclusive advance of Cecilia Avendaño's next solo show, together with selected pieces by Andrea Lería, Andrea Wolf, Carlos Gallardo, Carolina Muñoz, Coco González Lohse, Juvenal Barría, Víctor Castillo, and Ulises Mazzucca. Read more -
En Su Rodilla Un Polvo Cobrizo | Ulises Mazzucca
Curator | Carlos Herrera 22 May - 3 July 2019 Artist Ulises Mazzucca expresses what could be seen as intimate constellations of a generation that is trying to recover the bond of what each one considers their own –differing of that belonging to others– and is willing to share, or at least leave in plain sight to create a collective... Read more -
Festín de Arte #21
Group Show 16 January - 6 March 2019 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents Festín de Arte #21, a new edition of its series of group shows , featuring selected artworks by Andrea Lería, Andrea Wolf, Carlos Gallardo, Carolina Muñoz, Cecilia Avendaño, Francisco Uzabeaga, Juvenal Barría, Miss Van, Ulises Mazzucca and Víctor Castillo, gathering painting, drawing, performance and new media.... Read more -
Festín de Arte #20
Group Show | Hotel Bidasoa 17 November - 16 December 2018 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents Festín de Arte #20, a special edition of its series of group shows , this time taking over Hotel Bidasoa in Santiago as part of Ch.ACO 2018 programme Ch.ACO en la Calle. The exhibition, curated by Isabel Croxatto and interior designer Hugo Grisanti, features selected artworks... Read more -
The Invisible Cage | Victor Castillo
Curatorial Text | Miguel López 14 November 2018 - 2 January 2019 The exhibition consists of a sculptural installation along with 15 large and medium-sized paintings in which Víctor depicts innocent characters that –with irony and sarcasm, in between games– show us the dark side of the contemporary society, where the violence natural to humankind, hypocrisy in politics, racism and the unabashed greed of capitalism take place. In his new proposal, Víctor approaches the indoctrination that education can provoke as an invisible cage. In The Invisible Cage, Castillo will present his central piece, The Magic Spell of the Bell, painting inspired by a song by rock band Pink Floyd. The painting is a chronicle of a classroom where a group of children repeats hypnotized, “I will not start a revolution. I will not start a revolution. I will not start a revolution”. Read more -
Future Species | Axel Ríos
Curator | Geir Haraldseth | Sala de Arte CCU 25 October - 30 November 2018 The exhibition consists of 13 large-format works and 16 small-format works, mainly painting (oil on canvas) and collage. Through the works representing animals, such as cows and birds and a distinctive realistic technique, the artist makes no direct reference to agriculture or livestock, which in the place where he lives, the west coast of Norway, have had to increase and maximize its production systems, nor to the environmental problems that contemporaneity entails, but rather uses representation to question the information that the spectator has of the animal and its state. Read more -
Infiltradax | Juvenal Barría
Curatorial Text | Andrea Aguad 10 - 30 May 2018 Barría, a visual artist and photographer, graduated in art from the University of Playa Ancha, Valparaíso, presents an installation made up of video, slides and photography. This new research and production arises from the process of collecting photographic files: 42 color slides in their original frame of the late Agfa company, which record the journey of a lonely woman through different cities of the world between the 1960s and 1970s. .
From this found material, the construction of a new story is proposed, which addresses gender issues, and social aspects such as loneliness, inclusion and discrimination. In "INFILTRADAX" the artist offers us a fiction that is articulated from the simulacrum, simulation and hyper-reality. “La Nana”, a transvestite character, was born in 2007 as part of the artist's performative work, which in this exhibition infiltrates the image, installing a disturbing visual hybridization and constructing alternative and anomalous stories, open to different readings. Read more
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Lovesong | Wladymir Bernechea
Virtual Exhibition 28 April - 23 June 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería presents Lovesong, solo exhibition by the artist Wladymir Bernechea. The show, curated by Chilean researcher Sebastián Valenzuela-Valdivia, gathers 24 recent paintings that transit between loneliness and longing in a silent battle between black and white, to be presented online starting 28 April in the virtual space ICG+.
The exhibition title, Lovesong, is a direct reference to the song of the same name by the British band The Cure from 1989, coincidentally also the year of the artist's birth. 'Whenever I'm alone with you, you make me feel whole again... However far away, I will always love you' sings Robert Smith, the band's frontman, over a dark pop-tinged melody. In the same way, Wladymir Bernechea explores recurring themes in his production, such as loneliness, melancholy and introspection, through faces, figures and blurred landscapes that silently appear between the sublimation of the whites and the gloom of the blacks. Read more -
Ex Post | Paloma Castillo
Virtual Exhibition 25 November 2020 - 13 January 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería is pleased to present Ex Post, solo exhibition by textile artist Paloma Castillo, opening 25 November in our virtual gallery space, ICG+
Ex Post gathers a series of 20 medium sized pieces created by the artist. Through the analogous and mechanical exercise of hand embroidery, and in the isolation resulting from the quarantine, the artist expresses her vision of the main events that have affected Chile in recent months: the social outlook following the 18 October social outburst of 2019, and the current COVID-19 pandemic.
The curatorial text of the exhibition has been written by José Salomón Gebhard, Doctor in Literature from the University of Chile. Meanwhile, Chilean composer and artist Sebastián Jatz has created the soundscape that accompanies the virtual tour of the exhibition. Read more -
CUIR | Curated by Chiachio & Giannone
Virtual Exhibition 13 January - 14 April 2021 Isabel Croxatto Galería is proud to present CUIR, virtual group exhibition curated by Chiachio & Giannone, available everywhere with free access starting 13 January in its virtual space ICG+ at isabelcroxattogaleria.com
CUIR gathers a transgenerational constellation of 20 artists revolving around the queer universe, a concept taken not only from non-heteronormative affections, but also from the unconventional use of materiality and representation. Read more -
After Nature | Andrea Wolf
Virtual Exhibition 30 September - 20 November 2020 Isabel Croxatto Galería is pleased to present After Nature by Andrea Wolf, inaugural exhibition of our new virtual gallery space, ICG+.
After Nature presents a collection of 23 digitally manipulated botanical illustrations that explore our hypermediated relationship with nature, and how it has been heightened during the pandemic. Each species is affected by a custom-made pixel-sorting algorithm, resulting in mutations that create tensions in the aesthetic idea of nature as something that can be dominated, classified, and possessed.
After Nature features the soundscape 'Estela', created specially for the exhibition by experimental Puerto Rican composer Angélica Negrón, as well as curatorial text by Chilean academic and poet Macarena Urzúa. Read more -
El Turista | Coco González Lohse
Virtual Exhibition 29 April - 10 June 2020 With an always playful and passionate aesthetic, even in moments of hopelessness, the work of Coco González Lohse witnesses a deeply personal relationship with painting as a possibility of existence, as a way of dealing with day-to-day tensions and the moving strength of reality. His latest paintings have a travel... Read more
