“Mexico “It helped me feel more comfortable and it’s like when you feel like screaming.” This is how the conversation begins with Gabriel Chailean artist of Argentine origin, who after some years of living in Portugal returned to Latin America to present a Art sample which, in his own words, allowed him to gain the courage he needed to rethink his plastic proposal.
In the distance, from the other side of the Atlantic Oceanwe met with him to talk about the exhibition “I can’t get rid of what I’m born with”which will be in the Meridiano gallery in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, until February 2024.
Born in Tucuman, a population of ArgentinaGabriel has always had an interest in art and culture; however, he was upon moving to Buenos Aires when his approach with the ceramics of the cultures that inhabited the north of that South American country became stronger. That even allowed him to connect with his own past.
Three great representatives of Mexican plastic arts arrive in Guadajalara
Gabriel Chaile, artist of Argentine origin. Photo: Alex Krotov. Courtesy of the artist.
Since then his artistic proposal has focused on this type of pieces, but in larger dimensions, because – he says – the ceramics They are for ritual and domestic use; and I think making them the same size doesn’t make sense.
For this reason he likes increase scale and with it the strength and power they project. “And, obviously, add part of my imagination.” Another characteristic is that, by working mainly with barro, practically all of its pieces are monochromatic, as they maintain the original tone of the material. “I make them in that color because I feel that it has to do with my skin color,” says the plastic artist, who has set up exhibitions in different countries around the world.
“From I can’t take away what I’m born “I made a decision as an artist and it is, basically, to turn up the volume on the things that I am interested in communicating.”
Gabriel Chaile, sculptor
However, it was his return to Latin Americaafter a few years of absence, which made him reconnect with those relationship codes with which we understand each other. latin americans. That led him to rethink many things, he admits during the interview with Forbes Life.
Installation “I don’t get rid of what I am doing” by Gabriel Chaile. Photo: Alex Krotov. Courtesy of the artist.
According to his career as sculptor has allowed him to obtain greater international recognition a Gabriel Chaile, That has had a positive impact on your economy. “In that process of almost gentrification it made me wonder if I had lost my naturalness or not.”
ART SAMPLE IN MERIDIANO
The first time he heard that term was in his childhood years, when at home they consumed a lot of television content that came from Mexico. So she didn’t quite understand what it meant. “what for”, word I heard frequently on these shows, always said from a wealthy person to someone with a lowest socioeconomic level.
That’s why when he thought of the title for the Art sample In Meridiano he thought it was a funny name; At the same time he was aware of how pejorative the term can be.
For the project conception visited hidden port and contacted the artisans region of. “We shared a day casually, drinking beer, talking about life and showing me the types of clay,” she says in a melancholic tone when remembering that day.
Installation creation process at the Meridiano gallery. Photo: Alex Krotov. Courtesy of the artist.
“Then I returned to Portugal and I thought what it would be like sculpture and I wanted it to be black, we even exaggerated the color of the earth a little. But, basically, Meridiano was interested in me connecting with the people of Oaxaca.”
The result is an installation composed of a single monumental piece, which activates both the internal and external structures of the gallery. In this way, Gabriel Chaile presents his first bi-chromatic sculpture, in which he used mud with black pigment extracted from the soil of Zarca Water, town on the Oaxacan coast. It interacts with the surrounding landscape as it is made up of a columnar chimney that protrudes from the rectangular oculus of the Gallerywhich is open to Sun and stars.
WANTING TO SCREAM
Beyond the creative process that this art exhibition involved, for the Argentine artist, what caused him was a confrontation with himself. “Normally, my work always has a poetic language, kind, with round shapes, linked to memory,” he says.
However, the fact of having put I can’t take away what I’m bornallowed him to have the courage what you needed and make the decision to “turn up the volume” on the things that really interest you. communicate and not walk with half measures.
The exhibition will be open until February 2024 in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca. Photo: Alex Krotov. Courtesy of the artist.
For this reason, your next Art sample –which will be carried out before the end of 2023 in California, United States– will be named after There is nothing that destroys the heart like poverty.
“I feel that my work, although it is sculptural and refers to ceramics, supposedly abandoned, lost in time, actually speaks of the contemporary culture, of what we are today. Of what it is Latin America. Of the situation of inequality. And to me it seems very important to be able to show this in the field of art,” she comments with strong conviction shortly before we say goodbye to him.
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