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📖✨ Nuevo libro de nuestra académica Elixabete Ansa

Ya se encuentra disponible “Estéticas del carbón”, de nuestra académica y exdirectora del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Estética UC, Elixabete Ansa Goicoechea, publicado por @editorialpalinodia.

📌Escribir sobre el carbón en Chile supone enfrentarse a los escritos e imágenes múltiples que sobre este mineral se han realizado desde que su extracción se convirtiera, junto con las salitreras del norte, en la fuente del desarrollo industrial más importante del país. A modo de estampas, el libro se ofrece como un conjunto de reflexiones que, desde un presente, a veces acosado por la velocidad de actitudes neo-románticas, ayude a identificar gestos de desacato, desestabilización o deconstrucción en la relación entre las artes, la estética, la poesía y la sociedad.

Huyendo del nihilismo al que nos abocan las inercias apocalípticas del presente, el texto dibuja una constelación de luciérnagas artísticas y culturales que han realizado y realizan un ejercicio «negantrópico», como denomina Bernard Stiegler, a saber, un ejercicio de activar capacidades de des-automatización individuales y colectivas marcando (dis)continuidades entre pasado y presente.

🛒 Disponible en @aspasia_libros

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PARAÍSO ART FAIR opens today! piloto pardo is in BOOTH 3 with a group presentation with works by Martina Quesada, Juan Martínez, Alejandra Prieto and Cosima zu Knyphausen.

piloto pardo gallery
Booth 03
Ambika P3
35 Marylebone Road, London
NW1 5LS London

(5 minute walk from Frieze)

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"Dust"
Artist: Alejandra Prieto @a.prietos
Curated by: Philippa zu Knyphausen
📍piloto pardo, 68 Long Lane, First Floor, EC1A 9EJ, Barbican, London @__pilotopardo
05.09-07.10.2026

Read the complete text on lowgroundpressure.blog web platform (🔗 in stories).

📸 René Lazový @renelazovy, courtesy the artist and the gallery;

#contemporaryart #artisttoday #lowgroundpressure #arttoday #artist

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Del 15 al 18 de octubre se celebra la primera edición de Paraíso Latin American Art Fair, con 22 galerías y México como país invitado. Paraíso busca crear un espacio de visibilidad y reflexión para el arte latinoamericano desde sus propias especificidades culturales, políticas y estéticas, frente a los relatos históricos que han simplificado e incluso exotizado sus escenas artísticas y culturales. Su director, Javier Calderón, apuesta por el papel estratégico de Londres como nodo del mercado internacional.

The first edition of the Paraíso Latin American Art Fair will take place from October 15 to 18, featuring 22 galleries and Mexico as the guest country. Paraíso seeks to create a space for visibility and reflection on Latin American art from the perspective of its own cultural, political, and aesthetic specificities, in contrast to historical narratives that have simplified and even exoticized its artistic and cultural scenes. Its director, Javier Calderón, emphasizes London’s strategic role as a hub of the international art market.

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Lo di todo. VERANO TE AMO 💗

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piloto pardo is excited to announce its participation in the inaugural edition of Paraíso Art Fair, taking place at Ambika P3 in London, just minutes from Regent’s Park and Frieze.

Taking place 15–18 October, Paraíso brings together galleries from Latin America alongside international projects committed to showcasing artistic practices from the region.

We are proud to take part as a Latin American-run gallery based in London, presenting the work of four Latin American artists living and working across the globe: Juan Martínez Macari, Alejandra Prieto, Cosima zu Knyphausen, and Martina Quesada.

Juan Martínez Macari lives and works in Idahue, Chile. His painting practice is rooted in close observation and the tradition of still life, turning his attention to flowers, domestic objects, tools, and other elements drawn from his immediate surroundings. His works embrace the intimacy of the everyday and the slow act of looking.

Alejandra Prieto lives and works in Santiago, Chile. Working primarily through sculpture and installation, her practice examines the relationships between materiality, labour, extraction, and global capitalism. Often transforming materials such as coal into familiar objects, Prieto draws attention to the systems of production, value, and consumption embedded within everyday life.

Cosima zu Knyphausen is a Chilean artist based in Berlin. Moving between painting, drawing, and writing, her work revisits art-historical and literary references through a contemporary and deeply personal lens, exploring questions of desire, intimacy, identity, and queer experience. (Gallery Thomas Schulte)

Martina Quesada is an Argentine artist based between Buenos Aires and Paris. Working across sculpture, installation, and video, her practice uses geometric systems, sacred symbolism, and references to nature to investigate perception, memory, and the shifting boundaries between the visible and invisible. (Bernier Eliades)

We look forward to welcoming you at Paraíso, Ambika 3, London, 15–18 October, parallel to our regular programming in the gallery in Farringdon.

Image:
Juan Martinez Macari
Croc, 2026
oil on canvas
35 × 20cm

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Asignaciones del paisaje | V1

Parte de la exposición La medida de todas las cosas, resultado del laboratorio UTOPÍAS/DISTOPÍAS de Balmaceda Arte Joven RM.

Hecha de impresión 3d, esmalte al agua, alquitrán, acrílico y hojalata sobre OSB, Cholguan y fibrocemento.

Con un tamaño total de 240cm de largo y 60xm de ancho.

#l11v10

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180• installation views of “Dust” by Alejandra Prieto, currently on view at the gallery.

“Prieto considers minerals as living matter, connecting bodies, economies and systems of production through their
extraction, circulation and use. In Dust, these concerns converge around the human head: a sculptural head made from lithium brings together the mineral’s geological and psychological associations, while the mineral masks made from carbon and pyrite, cast around the face, evoke protective surfaces whose endurance echoes that of rock itself.” - extract from press release.

For more information check our website!

Open until October 7th.

#mineral #gallery #alejandraprieto
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photos: @renelazovy

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Lithium Head, 2026
Potassium alum, lithium
30 × 20 × 20 cm

Alejandra Prieto’s solo exhibition “Dust” opened yesterday at piloto pardo. Thank you to everyone who joined us for the vernissage.

“Dust” is now open Thursday–Saturday, 3–6 pm, and by appointment.

Lithium Head is a material synthesis of Prieto’s ongoing investigation into lithium: a mineral extracted from specific regions of the earth that has become one of the most sought-after commodities of our time, essential to the batteries that power contemporary technologies and electric vehicles. Its extraction and distribution are deeply political and, at the same time, lithium has long been used in the treatment of bipolar disorder, where it acts upon and regulates processes in the brain.

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📅 Lunes 7 de septiembre, 18 h
C/ Nicolás Usera, 92, local

Retomamos nuestra actividad reunidas nuevamente en torno a la investigación artística, esta vez, junto a una de las grandes escultoras chilenas contemporáneas: Alejandra Prieto.

Su trabajo se ha centrado en la investigación de minerales como el carbón, la pirita, el litio, el hierro o el azufre y en cómo sus compuestos químicos determinan modos de producción, economías, políticas y cuerpos.

En sus exploraciones con el litio, por ejemplo, su trabajo conecta la forma en que este material actúa a nivel individual como estabilizador del ánimo en la salud mental y, a la vez, sostiene la macro industria de la tecnología moderna.

La escultura realizada por mujeres tiene una larga tradición en Chile, con figuras como Rebeca Matte, Laura Rodig, Lily Garafulic, Marta Colvin, Valentina Cruz, entre muchas otras. Un linaje que se vincula a una rigurosa formación académica pero que encuentra también un importante antecedente en la escultura de los pueblos originarios de ese territorio que utilizaron , además del barro y la arcilla, minerales como la pirita en la creación de objetos y piezas artísticas.

Licenciada en Artes de la Universidad Católica de Chile y Magíster en Artes Visuales por la Universidad de Chile, Alejandra ha expuesto en emblemáticos espacios como la Bienal de la Habana, la Bienal de Mercosur, el Palais de Tokio, el MAC USP de Sao Paulo, el National Museum of Women in the Arts, en Washington; la Galería Gabriela Mistral, en Santiago de Chile; la Sala de Arte Público Siqueiros, en Ciudad de México, además, de galerías en Londres, Estocolmo o Nueva York. Sus obras son parte además de colecciones públicas y privadas.

Te esperamos este lunes 7, a las 6 pm.
#investigaciónartística #escultoraschilenas #escultura #artechilenocontemporáneo

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We look forward to welcoming you next Friday, 4th September, from 6-8pm for the opening of
‘Dust’, a solo show by Alejandra Prieto at the gallery.

piloto pardo
68 Long Lane
First floor
Farringdon

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Thank you so much to everyone who has come to all the exhibitions. In September, we will be one year old in our Farringdon location! Before the nostalgic post, here’s what’s coming up for the remainder of the year.

We look forward to seeing you, and many thanks for your support.

Philippa

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