Esto Es América, o Qual é o Limite?

Marianne Boesky Gallery is pleased to present Esto Es América, o Qual é o Limite?, an exhibition of new work by Gabriel Chaile (b. 1985; San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina). For his debut New York solo exhibition, Chaile activates a new suite of adobe sculptures with a profound sense of political purpose. For Esto Es América, o Qual é o Limite? Chaile presents a group of large-scale adobe sculptures—produced on site in New York—accompanied by a series of charcoal drawings on canvas and photographs documenting recent No Kings Day protests the artist observed while attending a residency at Tinworks Art in Bozeman, MT. At the center of the gallery, a large-scale adobe sculpture—its form suggesting that of a giant lizard or bird, captured amidst some sort of transformation—marshals four, anthropomorphic adobe bread oven forms. Together, the five sculptures form an enigmatic procession, march, or perhaps, protest. The surfaces of the sculptures are finished with intricate constellations of black line drawings, all carrying layers of meaning so dense they become nearly impossible to decipher. Chaile created the work for Esto Es América, o Qual é o Limite? on site at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York in the weeks leading up to the exhibition’s opening. For reference, see our pre-preview below with a selection of the artist’s earlier works—offering a sense of what you will find in the exhibition itself. Gabriel Chaile has exhibited extensively around the world. His work has been the subject of solo and two-artist presentations at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA; Kunsthalle Lissabon, Lisbon, Portugal; the Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Fondo Nacional de las Artes; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Nuevo Museo Energía de Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires, Argentina. His large-scale, public work The Wind Blows Where it Wishes was presented on the High Line in New York in 2023. Chaile’s work was included in the Venice Biennale and the Coimbra Biennial of Contemporary Art in 2022 and the New Museum Triennial in 2021. He has been featured in group exhibitions at the Fondation Thalie, Brussels, Belgium; Centro de Creación Contemporánea de Andalucía, Spain; Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Montevideo, Uruguay; Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo de Arte Moderno de Cuenca, Ecuador; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Latinoamericano, La Plata, Argentina; Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina. Chaile’s work is included in collections of the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires, Argentina; the Fundación Costantini, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid, Spain; and Kadist Foundation, Paris, France. He studied Fine Art at the National University of Tucumán. The artist lives and works between Buenos Aires, Argentina and Lisbon, Portugal.

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