Opening: Friday, March 2 from 8 p.m. on. visiting hours Saturday the 3rd and Sunday the 4th from 4 to 8 p.m.   El Basilisco - Charlone 933, Avellaneda, Buenos Aires
	Vinyl is an attractive and difficult material. It never seems to get far from the computer that generated it, scaleable and repeatable at will. It can share an uncomfortable space with signwriting and graphic design and often appears to be one of the forms of artmaking that most needs a sympathetic context and reception to elevate it At the same time it’s also democratic, pragmatic and effective, obviously the right tool. The use of vinyl to convey an artwork seems to be a very specific choice and this show explores how bringing multiple vinyl pieces together highlights that specificity. Part of its interest lies in seeing how the content of the pieces relays itself when they are one more vinyl in a roomful of vinyls with all the unforseen correlations and interesting results which that will generate. El Basilisco is a classic Argentinean “casa chorizo”. A large, empty and white walled space that still retains some sense of domesticity. There is an attractive incongruity of tattooing the walls of this room in a working class suburb of Buenos Aires with designs e-mailed in from various parts of the world, the e-mailing and remoteness of production itself being important in that ivt re-emphasizes that inherent possibility within vinyl and to some extent becomes a secondary theme of the show, the ability of the artists to "phone-in" the work and yet create fully fledged, physical artworks. Argentina seems a particularly good place for this show, the walls here are more readable than most. The political canvassing is done in meters high letters, the names of politicians daubed along every available white wall like a state sanctioned graffiti. There’s also the culture of politicised stencil graffiti, and the tendency for people to declare their love for each other in spray paint on the barrio walls. To an outsider It can seem, to a certain extent, that the walls here exist as some form of de-regulated territory, a means of conveying a message to the widest possible public. Curated by Henry Coleman, current resident at El Basilisco. (more information)