Gabriel Baggio was born in Buenos Aires in 1974, where he currently lives and works.
He attended the “Escuela Nacional de Bellas Artes Prilidiano Pueyrredón” (1998).
His work has been exhibited, among others, at the Museo del Chopo (UNAM, Mexico City, 2007), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Río de Janeiro, Brazil (2007), the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Rosario, Argentina (MACRO, 2007), the Centre d'exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe (Montreal, 2006), the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, 2004), and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires (MAMBA, 2003).
Some of his performances are: Learning Process series (Meat Majadito, Green Mole, Stewed Spinach Spaghettis, Crochet fabric, Making of a saucepan with a copper lid, among others, since the year 2006.) What is given (Buenos Aires and Montreal, 2005/6); Soup (Buenos Aires, 2002); Conversation (Buenos Aires, Dublin, Mexico City and Caracas, since the year 2000).
In 2002, he installed the individual exhibition “Grandson” at his grandparents house, and in 2007 did, together with other artists, “From the Soul”, an exhibition that took place in an apartment in Buenos Aires that had been recently unoccupied.
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 What is givenPerformance  Cleaning in progressPerformance  GrandsonIndividual exhibition at the artist’s grandmother’s house.  ConversationPicture 1: Museo del Chopo, Mexico City (2007) / Picture 2: The living room of my house in Buenos Aires (2001) / Picture 3: Culture week because of the Brukman Factory, which had been taken over by its workers (Buenos Aires, 2003) / Picture 4: Wool Night, Buenos Aires (2003).  Learning processesPicture 1: Making of a saucepan with a copper lid (learning process. With Manuel Reinerio Barranco), 2006. / Picture 2: Meat Majadito (Learning process, with Daisy Vargas), 2008 / Picture 3: Crochet-knitted handler (Learning process). With Cita, 2007 / Picture 4: Stewed Spinach Spaghetti (Learning process), with María Mercedes Román, 2006.  Chromatic variationsPicture 1: Decorative motifs for a sheet (Chromatic variations). 140 x 200 cm. 2008. / Picture 2: Decorative motifs for pillbox, plates and cups (Chromatic variations); variable measures, 2008. / Picture 3: Decorative motifs for tablecloth (Chromatic variations). 120 x 130 cm. 2007. / Picture 4: Decorative motifs for wallpaper (Chromatic variations). 100 x 70 cm, 2007.  SoupI invited my mother and grandmother to cook a soup live. The recipe was trasmitted generation after generation through my family’s femenine side and orally by my grandmother’s grandmother, and it’s weekly cooked nowadays by all members of my family. Each one brought the kitchen utensils with themselves and the ingredients that we normally use. After two hours (the cooking time), the [more] VISION OF ART
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