Three names for one same artwork...

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27/09/21- At the 2016 ArteBA fair, the gallery Slyzmud, now unfortunately closed, exhibited a sculpture by Gabriel Baggio which, according to its certificate of authenticity, was entitled Eulogy to Profanation. The work consists of a series of ceramic replicas of the tools used by a bricklayer as well as those necessary to work the land but… covered with gold. The original tools were used by Baggio to build an adobe house in the plains of La Pampa. Later dipped in gold, they became precious ornaments. These objects represented then in a provocative way, propose us to think about the opposites between country/city, leisure/work, opulence/simplicity.

Nowadays the sculpture, which belongs to a private collection, is exhibited in what used to be the residence of the Errázuriz Alvear family, today the National Museum of Decorative Art, an imposing French neoclassical palace of more than half a block, preserved in excellent condition. Baggio's work, now titled The Pampa and the Luster of its Tools, is located in the antechamber, around a female sculpture in marble by Joseph Pollet from the 19th century. The ensemble is part of Bienalsur and exhibition Fantasías Plebeyas. The curatorship explains that it intends to highlight the contrasts almost to the point of kitsch.

 

La Pampa se ve desde adentro, by Gabriel Baggio (2016)
Material: ceramic with gold finish / Measures: 350 x 170 x 45 cm 
 
But it turns out that sometimes art journalists take licenses and rename works with titles that we remember more easily. Thus, one of them called it Sweat and Gold and that's how the current owners call it.

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