Alexis Yebra
1967
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Buenos Aires, Argentina
15 Works exhibited on Kooness
Current location
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Represented by
Skiascope
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Works by Alexis Yebra
French and Argentinian artist, Alexis Yebra was born in the city of Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1967. He studied at the School of Fine Arts in Mendoza (Argentina) and received solid practical training in painting with the Argentinian master Orlando Pardo. He studied Sociology at the National University of Cuyo and obtained a master’s degree in Sociology at the FLACSO (Latin-American Faculty of Social Sciences) in Argentina.
As a painter, Alexis Yebra has taken part in several exhibitions and art shows, and in 1989 was awarded a distinction by the Vendimia visual arts jury –the most prestigious regional prize in Mendoza. His works appear in galleries and private collections across Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay (CAV collection in Museo del Barro) and France.
The validity of painting (by María Lightowler, curator)
Alexis Yebra finds in the recurrent use of crossing-out the possibility of forgetting what has been learned, but also an interstice to reopen the game of painting and memory.
It works as a resource of concealment, but also as a liberating forgetting that relieves the tradition of the history of art and painting.
With strokes that seem to simulate seams, he manages to unite that binding ambiguous feeling between memory and amnesia, to create without the burden of conventions.
He turns to the pictorial and also allows himself to play ironically with objects, with words and quotations that he inserts into the supports, all to question once again the validity of painting in the present.
Yebra is an astute artist who, with a subtle gaze, manages to highlight the framework of art itself and the mechanisms that transform it into an instance of communication, as complex as it is necessary.
Group Exhibitions
2023
“Arte para (imaginar) un país”, curaduría de Ticio Escobar y de Osvaldo Salerno, CAV/Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay
“La cadencia imperfecta”, curaduría Sofía Jacky, Alianza Francesa Buenos Aires
“Intervalos de confianza”, curaduría María Lightowler, espacio de arte Casamadre, Madrid
-Participación en Oxigeno Feria de arte, Asunción, Paraguay
“Inauguration”, galerie Bertolotti, Grasse, France
2021
-Participación en Oxigeno Feria de arte, Asunción, Paraguay
2019
-Participación en Oxigeno Feria de arte, Asunción, Paraguay
2018
-«Dessein, Dessin, Design: Fabrique médiatique de l’Histoire» [“Project, Drawing, Design: A Mass-media Factory of History”], (a project conceived and carried out by Agnès Callu – IIAC, EHESS / CNRS), during Drawing Week in Paris from Monday, March 19th to Sunday, March 25th. Publication of the collective experience: Dessein, dessin et Design (DDD): pour une fabrique médiatique de l’histoire, Paris, Editions Hubtopia, 2019.
2016
-«Le Contemporain dessiné, Parcours aux Arts décoratifs» [“Contemporariness in drawing, courses along Decorative Art”], presented during the 10th edition of the Drawing Now Art Fair in Paris, in the Museum of Decorative Art, Paris, (with works from Claude Viallat, Yang Jiechang, François Morellet, Pierre Alechinsky, Hans Schimansky, Geneviève Asse, among others.)
-Daniel Rueda Gallery, Mendoza, Argentina.
2014
-Daniel Rueda Gallery, Mendoza, Argentina.
-“Open des artistes” L’Entrepôt Gallery, Monaco
2013
-«Sortir de sa réserve» [“Out of the Backroom”], Paradis Gallery, Marseille, France.
2012
-«Espacio Compartido » [“Shared Space”], Navarro Correas winery, Mendoza, Argentina.
2011
-« Imaginarios Urbanos » [“Urban Imaginaries”], ECA (Contemporary Art Space) Mendoza, Argentina.
2010
-«Homenaje a Orlando Pardo» [“Tribute to Orlando Pardo”], Museo de Bellas Artes “Casa de Fader”, Mendoza, Argentina.
2009
-«Hay ropa tendida» [“Clothes on the washing line”], ECA (Espacio Contemporáneo de Arte), Mendoza, Argentina. (This work was selected by the Chilean curators Mauricio Bravo and Ricardo Villarroel.)
2008
-«Re-lecture» Alliance Française, Mendoza, Argentina.
1989
-Vendimia Saloon (selection by the jury and an honorable mention by them as well)
-Galerías Pacifico, National Rooms, Argentina’s Department of Visual Arts, Buenos Aires, April 1989
1988
-Vendimia Saloon(selection by the jury)
1987
-Vendimia Saloon (selection by the jury)
Solo Exhibitions
2023
“La escritura imposible”, texto de Maria Ligthowler, Asunto Impreso, Buenos Aires, Argentina
“La validez de la pintura” con curaduría de Maria Ligthowler, espacio de arte Casamadre, Madrid, España
2019
– «A la sombra lunar de las palabras» [“In the moonshadow of words”], CAV/Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay.
2016
– «Peintures 2012-2016» [“Paintings 2012-2016”], Marland Gallery, Angoulême, France.
2015
– «Intensité de la matière» [“The Intensity of Matter”], Les Modillons Cultural Space, Angoulême, France.
Conference in the École National des Chartes, Paris, dedicated to « L’Egohistoire des créateurs », with Agnès Callu (curator of Heritage at the Museum of Decorative Art in Paris, CNRS/IHTP) within the seminar she runs: “The Epistemology of Drawing: Concepts, Readings and Interpretations, 20th-21th centuries.”
2014
– “L’Appartement” Paradis Gallery, Marseille, France.
2012
– «L’ombre et son empreinte» [“The Shadow and its Trace”], Paradis Gallery, Marseille, France.
-«La sombra y su huella» [“The Shadow and its Trace”], CAV/Museo del Barro, Asunción, Paraguay.
2011
-«Serie, subte Asunción» [“Series, Asunción subway”], Fábrica Gallery, Asunción, Paraguay.
2010
-«Trazos», [“Traces”] Alianza Francesa, Córdoba, Argentina
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