GABRIEL CHAILE’S SCULPTURE AT TABAKALERA
Contemplando es como fuimos cambiando (Contemplating is how we changed) is the exhibition, the first one in Spain promoted by an institution, that the CICC Tabakalera in San Sebastian is dedicating to Gabriel Chaile (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1985), one of the most prominent names in contemporary Latin American sculpture. This proposal is intended to take an extensive look at his work, from his beginnings to his latest works produced in Lisbon, and which is recognizable by his monumental adobe, clay and metal pieces that reflect the morphology of the pre-Columbian ceramics of his native region.
Chaile continues to investigate ancestral techniques in order to construct alternative narratives and thus enter into the options of a rereading of the relationships between past and present and the individual and the collective. Although the Argentine artist expresses himself mainly through the language of sculpture, he frequently explores the possibilities offered by drawing or installation to accurately reflect the meanings of identity, tradition and memory.
This exhibition also approaches the forms of collective work in the studio where Gabriel Chaile works in Lisbon, the place where he arrived after the pandemic, and where he shares his individual practice with the collective practice of his colleagues. In this sense, in Contemplando es como fuimos cambiando also participates Tomás Bargão, a member of the team invited by the artist and who contributes to the exhibition with a newly produced piece.
Gabriel Chaile. Contemplando es como fuimos cambiando can be seen until February 2, 2025 at CICC Tabakalera, Plaza de las Cigarreras, 1, San Sebastián (Spain).
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