TADEO MULEIRO

Between October 7 and 15, at the Design Center, we will host the exhibition Tadeo Muleiro: Softness and Color of Myth.

A proposal that intertwines the imaginary of diverse ancient cultures of Argentina and Latin America with contemporary art, through large textile sculptures.

These pieces, which embody imaginary beings, cross the telluric and mythological worlds and weave a bridge between the past and the present. We propose a journey, through the narrative power of ancient oral stories, which will invite us to reflect, in a playful way, on the vital encounter marked by the difficult balance between resistance and vulnerability.

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The work of Tadeo Muleiro (Argentina) unfolds as a plot in which the intimate and the ancient are intertwined to give rise to a universe of its own. Through soft sculptures, costumes, performances, videos and textile reliefs, Muleiro constructs what he calls an “intimate mythology”, a corpus in which archetypal images from different cultures dialogue with family memories, popular stories and pop culture references such as comics, movies and cosplay.

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Textiles occupy a central place in his practice: a medium inherited from maternal tradition, linked to childhood and affective memory, which allowed him to transfer his drawings to three-dimensional space. His textile pieces, both sculptures and possible bodies, give rise to a physical and sensory closeness. The saturated color and playful character of his works create an environment where the monumental coexists with fragility and the domestic.

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The works collected in this exhibition, which cover more than a decade of production, from 2011 to 2025, trace a retrospective journey of the evolution of his practice. From the first soft sculptures to the recent textile reliefs, each stage has been an opportunity to incorporate new narrative layers, techniques and materials, in dialogue with travel experiences and diverse cultural references.

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The autobiographical story is present in pieces such as The Brothers, The Father or The Grandfather, where personal stories are intertwined with universal myths and with episodes from Latin American social and political history. In other works, animal, plant and fantastic figures expand this cosmogony to a symbolic plane that refers to nature, memory and play.

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Curator: Silvina Amighini and Helena Ferronato

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Activity promoted by 21 DISTRICTS, in collaboration with Buenos Aires in Madrid, a cultural program of the Ministry of the City of Buenos Aires, and DIMAD.

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