Exhibitions
Alejandro Gigli | Arquitectónica
Date and place
Place: Praxis BA
Start Date: May 16 2024
End Date: July 19 2024
Description
In Alejandro Gigli’s latest works, geometric shapes take on the role of pieces of a puzzle: as if he were a tangram, the artist combines them to generate new spaces and new figures. In Arquitectonica, the contrast between previous works and more recent productions allows us to walk Gigli’s path, in which there was a first figuration that today is composed as a suggestive abstract geometry.
But this present abstraction does not prevent Gigli from generating enveloping spaces. Because that is exactly what the tangram is about: conjugating to put together new figures. Of starting from a known referent to create another. Thus, monuments, towers and temples are erected in front of us.
Workers and Kids from the Neighborhood, pieces made in 2010, show the spaces inhabited in our daily life. In the places we inhabit every day we establish small rituals, customs. From routines to cabals. This was Gigli’s starting point to arrive at Monumento flamígero or Monumento en cruz: new areas of contemplation, concentration and habits.
Architectural is presented to us as an exhibition full of corners to inhabit. Alejandro Gigli’s works, with their seemingly abstract constructions and everyday corners, allow time to be suspended. It is an invitation to occupy these new spaces for reflection. Welcome.
Lucía Matusevich
Buenos Aires, April 2024
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Alejandro Gigli was born in Buenos Aires (Argentina) in 1975, where he currently lives and works. He trained in painting with Luis Felipe Noé and Jorge González Perrin, and is a graduate of the Manuel Belgrano School of Fine Arts. Among his latest distinctions is the First Mention in the National Blue Hall of Visual Arts of Buenos Aires (2023), the Third Prize Acquisition of the Bancor Prize for Painting of Córdoba (2021) and the Second Prize Acquisition of the MACSUR Prize for the Arts Visuals (2017). His solo exhibitions include Introspective Construction (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano, La Plata, 2023), Beyond the Forms (Praxis, Buenos Aires, 2021) and Arcano (Galería Alejandro Bustillo del Banco Nación Argentina, Buenos Aires, 2019). . Among the group exhibitions in which he participated are New Acquisitions (Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, 2023) and The Doors of Perception (Praxis, Buenos Aires, 2022). His works are part of important public and private collections, such as the Museum of Contemporary Art of Buenos Aires (Argentina), the Museum of Contemporary Latin American Art of La Plata (Argentina), the Francisco Tamburini Museum (Argentina), among others.