EXHIBITIONS

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Alejandra Seeber: Interior with landscapes at art americas society

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Argentinian painter Alejandra Seeber invited us to collaborate with her on the creation of this mid-career survey curated by Aimé Lukin in Americas Society (NY) (2024), which includes works from the 90s as well as newly created pieces. We created three big textile works: “Cascade” which hangs from the wall onto the floor, “Palette” and “Stroke”, recreating the typical paint palettes, but in this context installed and adapted to play a round of mini-golf on top. In addition, we conceived six hand-tufted rugs, inspired by punctuation marks typically used in the spanish alphabet.

lalana espacio tacuarí

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The exhibition at Espacio Tacuarí invited visitors to explore images created throughout the 1950s and 1960s, featuring works by Luis F. Benedit (1937–2011), Ari Brizzy (1930–2014), and Kenneth Kemble (1923–1998), alongside more recent proposals by artists Juan Tessi (1972), Lucrecia Lionti (1985), and Claudia Del Río (1957). This hanging is part of an ongoing collaboration with Espacio Tacuarí — headquarters of the Vergez Collection —, keeping its doors open to the public by appointment.

lalana miami pop-up n.1

Invited by Kaia Grimson (Curator of The Craig Robins Collection and Miami Design District, and Director of Cultural Programming at Dacra), lalana occupied a pop-up store in Miami Design District during three months. This exhibition featured two floating figures originally conceived on canvas by Luis F. Benedit (Buenos Aires, 1937-2011), framing a central totemic figurine by Roberto Aizenberg (Entre Rios, 1928 – Buenos Aires, 1996). These wall pieces gravitated over a circular floor piece by Adriana Bustos (Bahía Blanca, 1965) which maps the location of two voyagers in space. In a corner, the profile silhouette of the Roman Emperor Nero by Juan Stoppani (Buenos Aires, 1935-2022) completed the cast of characters. The hanging was blessed by an intimate tea ceremony guided by Tara Benmeleh.

lalana miami pop-up n.2

Lalana in Miami Design District is the third in a series of exhibitions exploring different ways of exhibiting and disseminating lalana. The exhibition features three textile pieces based on original artworks conceived by Roberto Aizenberg, paired alongside a central octagonal floor piece and a sculptural chair designed by Luis Fernando Benedit. By transposing artworks into different materialities, these designs take on original spatial connotations, enabling new ways of engagement with the pieces, which can now be used, touched and inhabited. 

lalana ensayo 2

The designs gathered in this second Lalana exhibition at Galería Xippas Punta del Este belong to Roberto Aizenberg (1928–1996), Luis Fernando Benedit (1937–2011), and Jazmín Berakha (1980). This group of artists from different generations explores the notion of undefined space. Whether through the use of planes and perspectives, all three place us before enigmatic situations. Aizenberg and Benedit, both connected to architecture, construct scenes through layers and cross-sections. Thus, a landscape emerges — inhabited by Benedit’s colorful traces, Aizenberg’s cornered figure, and Berakha’s soft silhouettes, which rise in defiance of gravity. In every case, bodies can be perceived, fleeting or ghostly presences.

lalana ensayo 1

lalana _essay 1 was conceived and carried out with artist Osías Yanov, who designed a special adaptive hanging system tailored to the given space. We endowed the pieces with a more experimental and malleable, even performative, dimension. The exhibition invited viewers to traverse images produced across different decades. Interwoven among them were models and studies that revealed the beauty of the attempt — sometimes failed, imperfect, or still in process. From resin prototypes for door handles by Marcial Berro and Valentín Demarco, to the development of an unpublished chair by Luis F. Benedit from 1996 — shown in dialogue with a prototype for another chair made a year earlier by Ricardo Blanco — and more recent designs such as the rug by designer María Sanchez, conceived specifically for lalana in a pop language reminiscent of her collaboration with the Italian design collective Memphis in the 1980s.

Click below to view filmed talks with:

  • Osias Yanov
    with Florencia Cherñajovsky

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  • Maria Sanchez
    with Wustavo Quiroga

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  • Delia Cancela
    with Vanina Scolavino

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  • Julian Prebisch Benedit
    with Florencia Cherñajovsky

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