Artists

In May 2008, Josée Bienvenu Gallery presented artist Darío Escobar ́s exhibition, ́Play Offs ́. In his first solo show in this New York gallery, the artist featured a series of works reviewing the sculptural operations which have been emblematic in his trajectory over the past ten years.

Historical truth, for him, is not what has happened; it is what we judge to have happened. Jorge Luis Borges, “Pierre Menard: Author of the Quijote”

In the exhibition of works by Félix González Torres currently on display at the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires, art merges with life.

Javier Téllez inscribed his name in the history of contemporary art in Venezuela when he transplanted the sinister atmosphere of a psychiatric institution to the spaces of the Museum of Fine Arts in Caracas.

In the 1960s sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick coined the term “kipple” to explain the astonishing ability of household objects to accumulate in piles of unwanted clutter.

The name Matías Duville (Buenos Aires, 1974) started to appear shyly in the Argentine circuit at the beginning of the present decade.