Artists Exhibitions

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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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

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  Sweeter than Roses | Victor Castillo

  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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