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Ex Post | Paloma Castillo
Virtual Exhibition 25 November - 30 December 2020 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

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After Nature | Andrea Wolf
Online Exclusive 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
Online Exclusive 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

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