Gabriel Chaile

Gabriel Chaile has recently emerged as one of the most vital artists of his generation, developing a visual language equally rooted in ancient and modern forms, indigenous craft and social advocacy. For this new series of unique drawings, Chaile’s process of working in white chalk over a charcoal ground allows him to pull mystical forms from the darkness.

Drawing is essential to Chaile’s artistic practice as a means to study ancient sculptural objects as part of his archaeological and anthropological research into South American indigenous cultures.  While capturing the metamorphosis found in many pre-Columbian motifs, from figuration to abstraction, Chaile forms a new paradigm that melds history, our present and the future.

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