Buenos Aires, April 1 (NA) — Visual artist and goldsmith Marcelo Toledo inaugurated this Wednesday his exhibition "Urdimbres de tiempos y espacios" (Weavings of Times and Spaces) at the Casa Nacional del Bicentenario, where he presents a series of copper and bronze sculptures, installations, textiles, and watercolors that explore the relationship between matter, memory, and territory. Curated by Laura Casanovas and Gabriela Vicente Irrazábal, the exhibition picks up the conceptual line that the artist developed in his previous show "El fluir del tiempo" (The Flow of Time), proposing a journey where thread becomes the plastic, compositional, and symbolic axis, articulating techniques and knowledge from different cultures. The pieces establish connections between past, present, and future, and suggest possible universes from the crossing of hard materials—such as copper, bronze, and white metal—with soft ones like chaguar, silk, cotton, and bamboo fiber. In 2023, he was distinguished as a distinguished personality of culture by the Buenos Aires Legislature.
The exhibition can be visited for free until May 10, from Wednesday to Sunday, from 15 to 20, at Riobamba 985.
In several works, threads emerge from masks or expand into large weavings, a visual metaphor for the silenced that seeks expression. The collection is completed by watercolors intervened with threads that document the chaguar process, in compositions where the textile transcends the two-dimensional plane and projects into space.
"To look to the future you have to honor your roots," affirms Toledo about the spirit of the exhibition, in which he also highlights his link with goldsmithing: "My sculptures prolong their delicacies and knowledge, although on a scale that makes them autonomous." Born in Escobar, province of Buenos Aires, Toledo developed a career that took him from traditional goldsmithing to contemporary jewelry and sculpture, with participation in international events such as New York Fashion Week and Paris Fashion Week.
