Postcard
Gabriel Chaile2007
Fundación Itaú Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
The work is based on a performance that took place in the month of July in the Historic House of Tucuman, next to the grenadiers that guard it, wearing a cardboard grenadier costume. Its presence modifies the interpretation of this typical postcard with a long tradition in our culture, introducing a critical and ironic dimension. In the historic collective imagery, certain idea-images coexist through which we conceive and construct a form of identity. The guard of the grenadiers magnifies the Historic House of Tucuman and contributes to the configuration of such imagery. In Postcard, Gabriel Chaile shows these mechanisms, allowing the discussion on them. First Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2009-2010. Source: Itaú Cultural Visual Arts Award 2009-2010 Catalogue
- Title: Postcard
- Creator: Gabriel Chaile
- Date Created: 2007
- Date Published: 2010
- Location: Tucumán.
- Location Created: San Miguel de Tucumán
- Physical Dimensions: 120 x 80 cm
- Original Language: Español
- Provenance: Itaú Visual Arts Award Collection
- Type: Photoperformance
- Publisher: Itaú Foundation Argentina
- Medium: Digital photograph
- Bio: Gabriel Chaile (Tucuman, 1985) studied Visual Arts at the National University of Tucumán. In 2009 he was awarded with a scholarship by Fundación YPF which allowed him to be a part of the first edition of the Artists Program launched by University Torcuato Di Tella. In 2010 he was selected to participate of Lipac, an art program by Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. In the works of Gabriel Chaile there is a junction between anthropology, theology-religion and ar which is crossed by sense of humor, poetics, symbolics and political. Chaile likes to think of himself as a communicator of images which he reaches through contextual observations; to this end, Chaile puts himself and his context as his object of study. The forms question themselves and their condition of being as well as the relationship between one and the other. His latest works include Sonia (El ondulatorio, La Rioja, 2018); Proto, a movie by Gabriel Chaile (Galería Ruby, Buenos Aires , 2017); Patricia, curated by Laura Hackel (Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, 2017); Mi nombre es legión porque somos muchos (Centro Cultural San Pablo T, Tucumán, 2016); No es culpa mía si viene del río (Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires 2015); Salir del surco al labrar la tierra, delirios de grandeza II (Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Buenos Aires, 2014). Chaile was part of many collective exhibitions in Tucumán, Lima, Montevideo, Paris, Cuenca and Buenos Aires. He currently lives and works in Buenos Aires. Source: BARRO Gallery, www.barro.cc
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