May 2021

NVS Studio presents Teaser, the first collective exhibition and public presentation of the NVS Gallery's physical space in Europe Portugal.
NVS Gallery is a cooperative project, self-managed by a group of mainly Argentine artist friends and managers who plan to expand their productions in other territories.
On this occasion, Teaser brings together works by artists residing in this continent: Matias Ercole (Argentina, 1987), Juan Perdiguero Trillo (Spain, 1997) and Gabriel Chaile (Argentina, 1985).
Matias Ercole presents a series of sgraffito drawings that are part of his ̈Futurismos ̈ (Futurisms) series, recently exhibited in Rome. Ercole finishes his images through the subtraction of the dark, emulating the first photographic investigations. He proposes through these mysterious and dreamlike images a discovery towards another dimension, where light is the one who reveals shapes and distances. Futurisms is an appointment to the avant-garde movement of the beginning of the 20th Century, where on the surface of the painting the idea of time is involved.
Gabriel Chaile presents his series ̈Chimeneas ̈ (Chimneys), totemic vertical sculptures, clay columns that look like fragments of ancient ceramics loaded with information, geometric textures that are torn between hard abstraction and fantastic figuration. ̈Saqueo ̈ (Pillage) is the title of his large-format photographic appropriation, extracted from illustrations in old history books. Photographs of small ceramics belonging to solid cultures destroyed by the conquest in America.
Juan Perdiguero Trillo shows us ̈Retrato de Ballano ̈ (Portrait of Ballano), a spray painted mural that is part of the series of portraits that Perdiguero has been making since he left his country to reside in Lisbon. The distance that he takes and the loneliness that he faces in another place were the breeding grounds for making this series distributed in different walls that brings together his group of closest friends.
On the other hand, the series of ̈Cielos ̈ (Skies), Perdiguero develops his pictorial sensitivity, the skies are not metaphors for anything, but rather for pictorial perceptions, times and skills. In the eagerness of his small-format pictorial training, the artist manages to present us with a primary sensitivity, worthy of being contemplated by any spectator.