Foundations

For the eighth consecutive year, CIFO is celebrating its exhibition devoted to the acclaimed Cifo Grants and Commissions Program at the Cifo Art Space.

The Juan March Foundation inaugurated in its Madrid headquarters the exhibition “Cold America. Latin American geometric abstraction (1934-1973)”, in order to map, in a fast and systematic way, the complex history of geometric abstraction in Latin America.

In the Brazilian scene, where there is still an evident absence of cultural centers with a minimally coherent program the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Institute) (IAC), inaugurated in Sao Paulo in 2006, constitutes a healthy exception.

After an absence from the Buenos Aires art scene of at least ten years, during which time she lived and worked mainly abroad, in March of the present year Graciela Sacco (Argentina, 1956) presented M2 (Square Meter)

In 1992, under the slogan Conserving documentation is taking care of our history, collector and businessman Mauro Herlitzka and art researcher, curator and critic Marcelo Pacheco decided to undertake the retrieval and systematization of all kinds of documentation referred to the history of the visual arts in Argentina.

“I think art chooses you and art leaves you,” Luz Castillo confided to Arte al Día. Since 1995, Castillo has been the director of Arte x Arte, the Buenos Aires gallery specializing in photography, video and digital art.