GILDA PICABEA

In Gilda Picabea’s paintings, the investigations on the limits of the plane constitute the initial conflict in the development of the image itself. Large planes of simple geometric shapes or the repetition of a figure, sometimes in a regular and constant way, are drawn on all the surface of the canvas, thus challenging the limit of the painting space. Sometimes those forms are conceptual representations of, for instance, the number ONE or the words YES and NO, while transforming them into pictorial language, brings them closer to their concerns about the plane and the always present figure-background duality.

These inquiries about how far the painting continues, towards where it unfolds, also lead the artist to inquire into that dimension where form is born from absence.

Gilda Picabea was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1974, where she lives and works. She studied at the the Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón, Buenos Aires (1997-2000). She attended workshop by artist Susana Schnell (1993- 2005), Karina Peisajovich (2010) and Cynthia Kampelmacher (2006- 2012).

She was a recipient of Ley de Mecenazgo Grant to study with Tulio de Sagastizabal in Fundación Cromos, Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In 2016, she was awarded the Second Prize at Salón Nacional de Pintura Vicentín, Reconquista, Santa Fe (2016).

She has presented the following solo exhibitions: 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, curated by J.J. Cambre, 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): XXV Premio Klemm a las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2021); 109 Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales, Casa Nacional del Bicentenario; Buenos Aires (2021); Lo que queda, Hache galería, Buenos Aires (2020-2021); Vértigo, MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, curated by Lucía Savloff, Buenos Aires (2019); XXIII Premio F. J. Klemm a las Artes Visuales, Buenos Aires (2019); Zig Zag, curated by J.J. Cambre, Colección Oxenford, Buenos Aires (2018); Latinoamérica: Volver al Futuro, curated by Feda Baeza, MACBA – Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (2018); La vida de los humanos, curated by Carlos Herrera, 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).

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