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Originally from San Miguel de Tucum\u00e1n in northeastern Argentina, artist Gabriel Chaile (1985) explores his country\u2019s pre-Columbian traditions, interweaving them with the experiences and narratives of the various communities he encounters, resulting in works that celebrate collective memory and visual storytelling, letting them address issues such as sustainability, cooperativism, and decolonization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artist is particularly interested in the oral transmission of knowledge and storytelling through imagery\u2014characteristics typical of indigenous cultures. He calls himself a \u201ccommunicator of images,\u201d concretizing these narratives in forms and symbols that draw both on tradition and his own personal biography. Among these recurring elements we find in particular the oven and the pot, symbols of industriousness and care handed down by the artist\u2019s family and in particular by his grandmother.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chaile uses natural materials such as raw clay, mud, and metal to bring his sculptural works to life, drawing inspiration from Argentina\u2019s ollas populares<\/em>\u2014where sharing cooking and food are acts of cooperation\u2014and from the formal elements of Tucum\u00e1n\u2019s La Candelaria culture, whose fine ceramics are often populated with anthropomorphic or zoomorphic figures as well as complex geometric and symbolic decorative motifs. The results are kiln prototypes, the deployment of which testifies to the commitment and involvement of various people through dialogue and experimentation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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In Val Seriana, at the Circolo degli anziani in Vertova, the artist collected testimonies of the traditions linked locally to the production of bread and pasta, with the aim of creating a work-cum-oven capable of celebrating and updating these customs, thus nourishing the sense of community through the reappraisal and enhancement of ancient practices.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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On the occasion of a \u201cBread Baking Party\u201d\u2014as the artist tends to call these events\u2014the bread feast that enlivened the village\u2019s seniors and pensioners\u2019 club, the \u201cMichini di San Patrizio\u201d: bread blessed and handed out to the faithful of Vertova until World War I, was baked in the oven. This \u201cmiracle bread\u201d was kept in homes and consumed in case of illness, by people and animals alike. The tradition of the \u201cMichini\u201d has recently been revived, with production entrusted to a local bakery and distribution at the Sanctuary of Colzate, dedicated to St. Patrick.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making bread, as well as once more kneading Teed\u00e8i<\/em>\u2014typical noodles from Vertova\u2014takes on a special significance today. It is not just about evoking ancient customs but generating relationships that are rebuilt through shared practices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bread and pasta thus provide the starting point for a collective discourse and encounter: a matter of radical hospitality, at the same time aesthetic, cultural, and political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gabriel Chaile\u2019s work-oven will be exhibited at GAMeC for the entire fall cycle of the Thinking Like a Mountain<\/em> project.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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Biographical Notes<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Gabriel Chaile lives and works between Buenos Aires and Lisbon. He studied fine arts at the National University of Tucum\u00e1n. In 2009 he received a scholarship from Fundaci\u00f3n YPF, which led him to participate in the first edition of the Artists Program launched by Torcuato Di Tella University. In 2010 he was selected to participate in Lipac, an art program of the Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas. He has since participated in several artist residencies, including in Callao Monumental, Peru, as well as at SENS and URRA, Buenos Aires. In 2022, he received the Konex Prize for fire art. He also received a citation for the 2015 Klemm Prize and was nominated for the First Ita\u00fa Cultural Award in 2010. In 2022 he participated in The Milk of Dreams<\/em>, the 59th<\/sup> Venice Biennale curated by Cecilia Alemani. His works have also been exhibited at BIENNALE GHERD\u00cbINA \u221e PERSONES PERSONS<\/em>, Ortisei; Bienal de Arte Contempor\u00e2nea de Coimbra, Coimbra; 5th<\/sup> New Museum Triennial, New York; Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires (MAMBA); Art Basel Cities: Buenos Aires; Centro Cultural San Pablo T, Tucum\u00e1n; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires; National Endowment for the Arts, Buenos Aires; Espacio Tucum\u00e1n, Buenos Aires; Centro Cultural Borges, Buenos Aires; New Energy Museum of Contemporary Art (l\u2019Ene), Buenos Aires; New Museum Triennial, New York; and at the Thalie Foundation, Brussels.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n\n\n\n

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