GILDA PICABEA

Gilda Picabea (Buenos Aires, 1974) delves into the Argentine concrete movement and its connections with Brazil, as well as its optical derivatives in Venezuela and its influences on contemporary art. Her work’s relationship with the tenets of this avant-garde movement goes beyond the use of geometric shapes; Picabea is interested in questioning the visual structures we consider accepted or expected in the configuration of our way of seeing, both in the history of art and in the world at large. In this sense, her goal is to disenchant the gaze through abstraction, paying attention to what has been erased, to discomfort, to absence.

Picabea studied at the the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires (1997-2000). She attended workshops by artists Susana Schnell, Tulio de Sagastizábal, Karina Peisajovich and Cynthia Kampelmacher.

Among her recognitions, she has received the Acquisition Prize at the 16th Bancor Painting Prize, Córdoba, Argentina (2023); Premio Nacional, Fundación Osde, Buenos Aires (2023) and the Second Prize at the V Salón Nacional de Pintura Vicentín, Reconquista, Santa Fe, Argentina (2016).

She has presented the following solo exhibitions: Deriva Utópica, MACBA, Buenos Aires (2024); Sucesiva simultánea, Teatro El Círculo, Rosario (2022); 0.21 en la fase de un nuevo comienzo. intervención Banco Ciudad/ arteba 2021, Arenas Studios, Buenos Aires (2021); Un perfil dibujado en el espacio & Distante, HACHE, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2019-2020); Seré feliz, HACHE, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2016); INCONCLUSA, HACHE, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2014); Ocultamiento / Distancia / Continuidad, Central de Proyectos, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011), among others.

Her work has been included in many group shows (selection): Copiado y prestado, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2024), 18° Concurso Nacional UADE de Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2023); XXVI Premio Klemm a las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2023); Premio 8M. Centro Cultural Kirchner, Buenos Aires (2023); Réplicas. Ciclo Mi vereda. Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos (2022); XXVI Premio Klemm a las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2022); Universo Próximo Proceso, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2021); La casa invita, Smart Gallery, Buenos Aires (2021); XXV Premio Klemm a las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2021); 109 Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario; Buenos Aires (2021); Neo Post, MACBA-Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (2021); Lo que queda, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2020-2021); Vértigo, MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires (2019); XXIII Premio F. J. Klemm a las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2019); Zig Zag, Colección Oxenford, Buenos Aires (2018); Latinoamérica: Volver al Futuro, MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (2018); La vida de los humanos, Patio Bullrich, Buenos Aires (2018); 7ma Bienal Nacional de Pintura, Premio Ciudad de Rafaela , Museo de Bellas Artes, Santa Fé (2017-2018); Pensar en abstracto, MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (2017); Lo firme en el centro encuentra correspondencia, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2017); Has llorado, en silencio, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2016); V Salón Nacional de Pintura Vicentín, Museo de Bellas Artes, Reconquista, Santa Fé (2016).

In 2021, Picabea presented La línea roja de Lidy Prati at the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (Argentina), a research, artistic intervention and curatorial project she carried out on the museum’s collection of arte concreto which seeks to revalue Prati’s fundamental contribution to the Movimiento Concreto through her intervention in the mythical magazine Arturo. This project was carried out through the Activar Patrimonio 2020 Grant awarded by the Secretaría de Patrimonio del Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación.

Picabea´s work is part of the permanent collection of MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires.

WORKS

Espacio definido, 2023

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
74 x 77.6 in

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Untitled, 2023

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
70.9 x 70.9 in

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Melancolía, 2023

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
59.1 x 47.2 in

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Cosa, 2022

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
63.8 x 70.9 in

Destellos, 2022

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
61.4 x 47.2 in

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Rectángulo negro sobre blanco (exhumación), 2021

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
35.5 x 35.5 in

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Untitled, 2021

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
59.1 x 59.1 in

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Untitled, 2021

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
30.7 x 18.9 in

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Torsion en rojo, 2020

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
25.6 x 39.4 in

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Untitled, 2020

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
36.2 x 57.9 in

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Estática, 2020

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
78.7 x 59.1 in

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Migratoria, 2019

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
51.2 x 60.6 in

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Distant (4), 2019

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
25.6 x 19.7 in

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Distant (5), 2019

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
28 x 19.3 in

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Duo, 2018

Gilda Picabea

Oil on canvas
25.6 x 59.1 in

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EXHIBITIONS

DERIVA UTÓPICA
GILDA PICABEA

CURATED BY BELÉN COLUCCIO

MACBA
JUL 5. — OCT 27. 2024

COPIADO Y PRESTADO
GROUP SHOW


MAY 10. — JUL. 202
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SUCESIVA SIMULTÁNEA
GILDA PICABEA

CURATED BY CARLOS HERRERA
TEATRO EL CÍRCULO
JUN 30. — SEP. 2022

UNIVERSO PRÓXIMO PROCESO
GROUP SHOW

FEB 7. — MAR 31. 2022

LO QUE QUEDA
GROUP SHOW

NOV 23. 2020 — ABR 30. 2021

SERÉ FELIZ
GILDA PICABEA

CURATED BY JUAN JOSÉ CAMBRE
JUL 26. — SEP 3. 2016

HAS LLORADO, EN SILENCIO
GROUP SHOW

CURATED BY CARLOS HERRERA
APR 19. — MAY 28. 2016

fairs

ARTEBA 2024

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
AUG 30. — SEP 1. 2024

ARTEBA 2022

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
OCT 7 — 9. 2022

ARTEBA 2021

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
NOV 3 — 7. 2021

ARTEBA 2018

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
MAY 24 — 27. 2018

ARTEBA 2017

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
MAY 24 — 27. 2017

ARTEBA 2016

BUENOS AIRES, ARGENTINA
MAY 19 — 22. 2016