Feria | SWAB 2024 | Yuyo Gardiol, Nicole Mazza y Hernán Camoletto
SWAB Barcelona 2024
We are pleased to announce our first participation in SWAB, an independent art fair, experimental platform, and meeting place for emerging artists and galleries, established in 2006 in Barcelona. We are participating in the FOCUS LATAM section curated by Santiago Gasquet.
Artists: Hernán Camoletto, Nicole Mazza, and Yuyo Gardiol.
We are presenting works from the series "COPIADOR" by Hernán Camoletto. This work explores the incorporation of visual and discursive information through the logic of copying. Camoletto creates originals by establishing dialogues between works by other authors (citation and reinterpretation), using techniques such as displacement, the superimposition of image and text, and the intervened or reinterpreted copy. The works are made on sheets from a book of transparent papers that was used to copy documents. On these papers, he draws with black acrylic and, in some cases, graphite.
Sistema Copiador. Acrylic on tracing paper from a Copiador book. 35 x 25 cm each. 2022. Hernán Camoletto
We are presenting “Paisaje Cercano” by Yuyo Gardiol. This series explores the relationship between the skin and the environment. Gardiol uses ambient light to tint her skin with the various colors surrounding her. The proximity with which these images are captured causes the reference to be lost, creating abstract color planes that function as atmospheric paintings, revealing an absent environment. The works are always presented in groups, constructing a narrative based on the diverse tones that a single space can generate. The photographs are printed on satin, a fabric characterized by its sheen and softness, which helps create an atmosphere of intimacy and mystery, leading the viewer to a tactile experience. The idea stems from the notion that we are so permeable to our surroundings that even our skin can change color.
Paisaje cercano (Victoria). Photographs of the artist's skin printed on satin, framed with gold leaf. Complete installation composed of 5 photographs. 122 x 55 cm. 2024. Yuyo Gardiol
Paisaje cercano. Photographs of the artist's skin printed on satin, framed with gold leaf. Complete installation composed of 4 photographs.
55 x 96 cm. 2024. Yuyo Gardiol
Nicole Mazza explores female identity and stereotypes through religious iconography, references to Western modes of representation, and contemporary popular culture. Her often distorted figures, placed in uncomfortable positions, speak to the construction and fragmentation of women's identity in society. In the series presented at SWAB, she creates grotesque images that expose the tensions between the external perception and the internal reality of women. She works by dyeing and sewing fabrics together, creating compositions that take advantage of the possibilities, properties, and textures of the materials.
Bichita. Collage of dyed and sewn fabrics. 60 x 125 cm. 2022. Nicole Mazza
About Hernán Camoletto
1976. San Jorge, Santa Fe, Argentina.
In his recent works, he addresses the intersection between image and word/discourse. Drawing, painting, or installation are territories for exploring recurring themes: communicability, memory, affections, and loss. His works are based on observation and the connection with diverse materials and supports, whose singularities determine both the process and the artwork.
A self-taught artist, he trained in workshops and clinics. In 2007 and 2008, he participated in El Levante, a reading and work confrontation clinic coordinated by Graciel Carnevale, Mauro Machado, Luján Castellani, and Lorena Cardona.
Since 2005, he has exhibited both individually and collectively. Notable solo shows include “Imagen regresiva” (curated by Florencia Battiti. Crudo Arte Contemporáneo. Rosario, Argentina, 2022), “Silencio” (text by Juan Laxagueborde. El Gran Vidrio. Córdoba, Argentina, 2019), “Traducción” (curated by Mauro Guzmán. Mal de Archivo. Rosario, Argentina, 2015), “Restos nocturnos” (curated by Lucas Di Pascuale. Museo “Genaro Pérez”. Córdoba, Argentina, 2012).
Among his collective exhibitions, the most notable are: "Qué cosa, la poesía visual?" curated by Guillermo Daghero at the CCK, Buenos Aires, 2023; “Un decir” curated by Joaquín Rodríguez at BARRO, Buenos Aires, 2021; “Caudal” with Gabriel Chaile, Berny Garay Pringles, Alfredo Frías, Jessica Gómez (curated by Andrea Fernández), RUSIA Galería, Tucumán, Argentina, 2014; “Terreno baldío” with Luciano Burba and Paola Sferco (curated by Guillermo Daghero), El Gran Vidrio, Córdoba, Argentina, 2014; “Allí, allá, desde Argentina” with Noelle Lieber, Alejandra Tavolini, La Herrmana Favorita, Carlos Herrera, Sebastián Pinciroli, Lila Siegrist, Mariana Tellería, Andrea Ostera, Laura Glussman and Fabricio Caiazza (curated by Santiago Rueda Fajardo), Plataforma Bogotá, Bogotá, Colombia, 2012; “Maratónicos” with Joaquín Boz, Evangelina Cipriani, Carla Colombo, Silvia Lenardón, Maximiliano Masuelli, José Pfaffen, Maxi Rossini and Ana Wandzik (curated by Mariano Luna and Moira Aguirrezabal), Jardín Oculto, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2009.
His works are part of private collections in Argentina, Chile, the United States, Canada, and France. He currently lives and works in Rosario, Argentina.
About Yuyo Gardiol
San Carlos Centro, Santa Fe, Argentina.
Her work is deeply rooted in thinking about how humanity inhabits the world and its relationship with nature. The passage of time, balance, fragility, and the strength of simple, everyday things are recurring concepts that materialize in various forms: sculptures, installations, performances, and photographs. In her works, there is often an attempt to freeze a moment, a state of things, which inevitably slips away like water slowly escaping the hand that holds it.
Artist, cultural manager, and independent curator. She holds a degree in Fine Arts from the Faculty of Humanities and Arts of the National University of Rosario (UNR). She completed the Escuela Prestada program at the Manuel Musto Municipal School in 2019.
Her recent exhibitions include “Pueblo fantasma” at Crudo Arte Contemporáneo, “Cuánto pesa el amor” (How Heavy is Love), a collective show curated by Daniel Fischer at the Centro Cultural Recoleta, and “En la oscuridad absoluta, hasta una montaña es invisible” (In Absolute Darkness, Even a Mountain is Invisible), a solo show at the Museo Municipal de Bellas Artes Juan B. Castagnino, among other participations in Pinta Art in Miami, and Zona Maco in Mexico City during 2023 and 2024.
She has participated in residencies in Madrid (Spain), San Martín de los Andes (Argentina), Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), and Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil), among others. She received grants from the Fondo Nacional de las Artes in 2012, 2014, 2016, and 2018, as well as from the Municipality of Rosario in 2016 and 2018, the province of Santa Fe in 2018, and the Nuevo Banco de Santa Fe in 2013.
Since early 2014, she has founded and directed CRUDO Arte Contemporáneo, where she manages projects such as Crudo Residencias (national and international), Crudo Galería, and Taller compartido, an annual training program for artists. She lives and works in Rosario, Argentina.
About Nicole Mazza
Gainesville, Florida, United States.
Nicole Mazza works with textiles, embroidery, sewing, and hand-dyeing. She uses religious references, soap opera stereotypes, and pop culture as reflections of human conditioning, contrasting the delicacy of embroidery, often associated with female tradition, with sexualized images. She is interested in the iconography of women seen through the lens of societal fantasies over time. "She, the woman constructed, deconstructed, and reconstructed, devoured and fragmented."
A first-generation Portuguese immigrant, Nicole learned the traditions of knitting, sewing, and embroidery from her maternal grandmother. She views sewing as an act of repairing something broken. Her figures are often twisted: bodies in positions of discomfort and impossibility. The limbs intertwine, wrap, reach, and desire. They occasionally depict acts of cannibalism, illustrating how society consumes women. Her current aesthetic phase intertwines the delicate and grotesque with an erotic veil, representing the ruptures and fissures in the social fabric.
She has exhibited her works in Buenos Aires, Rosario, Córdoba, Santiago de Chile, Punta del Este, New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Miami, and Gainesville, in exhibitions and art fairs. Her work has also been showcased in fairs such as ArteBA (Buenos Aires), Frieze (London), and Pinta (Miami). Her work has been selected for numerous art contests, such as “La Fugaz” (Castagnino + Macro, 2019 and 2022, Argentina), “Fondo Nacional de las Artes” (2021, Argentina), and the “Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales” in the Textiles category (2022, 2023, Argentina), receiving a Special Mention from the jury in 2023 for the piece "Sobremesa". Her work has been reviewed by Vice Magazine and recognized by The New York Times and The New Yorker.
Her recent solo exhibitions include “Swan Song” at Distortion Society (April 2024, New York); “Canto del cisne” at the Centro Cultural Borges (September 2023, Buenos Aires); “El deseo de no querer” (The Desire of Not Wanting), curated by Irene Gelfman at Quimera Galería, co-produced with CRUDO (April 2023, Buenos Aires); “Blandir el quiebre” (Brandishing the Break), curated by Tamara Alarcón Castrillejo at CRUDO (May 2022, Rosario); the group exhibition “Glimpses – We are what we see”, curated by Auronda Scalera and Lidia Ravviso as part of Frieze London (October 2022, London); and “Temporal atemporal” (Atemporal Temporal), curated by Yuyo Gardiol, at CCD Arte (Punta del Este, Uruguay). She lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
CRUDO - BOOTH 2 - SWAB BARCELONA 2024
The fair will be open from Thursday, October 3rd, to Sunday, October 6th.
Pabellón Textil. Fira de Barcelona, Avenida de Rius i Taulet, 10, 08004 Barcelona