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Matadero Madrid presents the latest artwork from one Spain´s most internationally recognized artist: Fernando Sánchez Castillo Síndrome de Guernica (Guernica Syndrome) is the title of an sculpture created from the Azor, the leisure boat used by the former Spanish Head of State, Francisco Franco, and the setting for various historic events such as the “Azor conversations” held between Don Juan de Borbón and Franco himself.
Over 120 pairs of tables placed one on top of the other and separated by a block of earth, from which sprout slim blades of grass: this is Plegaria Muda, the latest project by Doris Salcedo.
Centro Abierto. Site-specific Interventions in Downtown Lima is a public art exhibition that will take place June 8–17, 2012. In recent years a number of initiatives have been undertaken to renovate downtown Lima to a growing metropolis of over 8 million inhabitants.
To die in the places one loves is, in a certain way, to attend that inescapable appointment for which one is perhaps never ready. It was this which rendered so surprising the demise of José Costa Peuser, publisher of Arte al Día México magazine, as a result of an acute heart attack, in the historic downtown area of his beloved Oaxaca, a city that is inseparable from the night of the indigenous soul.
On the 20 April 2012 Glasgow Sculpture Studios (GSS) will inaugurate the Public Programme at its new permanent home, The Whisky Bond by premiering a major new body of work by Teresa Margolles (b. 1963 Culiacán, Mexico) that has been created during a 5-month Production Residency, when she lived and worked in Glasgow.
The selection of 23 artist carried out by the curators Cauê Alves, Sonia Becce, Patrick Charpenel, Alexia Dumani, Manuela Moscoso and José Ignacio Roca for the second edition of “Solo Projects: Focus Latin America” may function as an orientation map of artistic practices in the south of the American continent.
