A FAMILY EXHIBITION AT GACHI PRIETO

Curated by Irene Gelfman, the show presents the artists' latest works in a series of confluences, family, thematic and pictorial dialogues. After years of collaboration, and in a trans-Andean crossing that takes them to Argentina, the Benmayors embody, each in their own way and together, the true enjoyment of the act of painting.

The curatorial text explains: "Entering the room and following a winding path that prohibits the direct observation of the works, the viewer walks through the exhibition to find the entire family portrait. The Benmayor, two generations of artists united by the continuity of a passion. Each of the paths that are present in the tour are displayed without hierarchies, the iconographic lineage of a family, where the strokes, gestures, fractures and uses of color are subtle points of union that perhaps would go unnoticed if they were not all together in one space".

Samy Benmayor (Chile, 1956) is an artist who over the last four decades has managed to build an intense, systematic and experiential visual chronicle, which is at the same time intimate and collective, experimenting the possibilities of creative work from different visual options such as painting, sculpture, engraving and other media.

Matilde Benmayor (Chile, 1987) is a visual artist, Master in Studio Art at City College of New York, Hunter College and graduated in Fine Arts with a major in Painting at the University of Chile. Through her work, Matilde Benmayor seeks to understand the human being. She is interested in the solid structures we inhabit and seeks to make them fluid. She creates images that allow her to understand her identity and the way she relates to her environment. Through an abstract, tender language and elemental forms, she tries to explain the systems we inhabit. Focused on the idea that childhood and games are key to discover one's own identity, she connects stories or myths to her work.

José Benmayor (Chile, 1985) has a degree in Visual Arts with a major in Painting from Universidad Finis Terrae, 2010. His painting is an observation of certain objects that call his attention for different reasons. It may be for its symbolic charge, for what they represent, or for what they mean, but mainly, for the different graphic attractions they offer when painting them, typographies, textures, characters, icons, etc. Some are everyday elements such as paint pots, milk cartons or product containers that he used and that are part of a collective imaginary that is historically linked to each other, others are more typical of his generation such as the Nintendo, or a television that records an emblematic sporting event.

El goce de la pintura (The joy of painting). Group exhibition by Samy, Matilde and José Benmayor.

Until September 15, 2023.

Curated by Irene Gelfman.

Gachi Prieto Gallery. Uriarte 1373, City of Buenos Aires, Argentina.