Profiles
The Colombian curator José Roca, who is the newly appointed Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London, and who represents the gallery in Latin America and plays a leading role in strengthening its already close relationship with the art of the region, was interviewed by his fellow countrywoman, María Inés Rodríguez, recently appointed Chief Curator at the Tamayo Museum, after having served in the same capacity at the Castile and León Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC).
The exhibition Tomasello. Visible Structure and Reflected Color, organized by Ascaso Gallery in Miami, showcased the work of this master who expanded the view and the possibilities of lumino-kineticism, under the curatorship of Serge Lemoine, Professor Emeritus of Art History at the Sorbonne University, Paris, a theoretician in the field of geometric abstraction and concrete art, and the author of revealing texts such as Mondrian et De Stijl, or François Morellet, or Aurélie Nemours.
In 2002, curators Patrick Charpenel Corvera, born in Mexico, and Silvia K. Cubiñá, born in Puerto Rico, worked together in an exhibition entitled Interplay, presented at The Moore Space in Miami, as part of the projects coinciding with the launching of Art Basel Miami Beach.
Interview with Jesús Carrillo, head of the Cultural Programs Department at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, and researcher and liaison for the Southern Conceptualisms Network.
The new pavilion of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, designed by Foster & Partners (London), creates a common space, where artworks from North, Central, and South America produced over the course of three millennia interact like in no other museum.
This Mexican curator must rethink the future of one of the finest private collections of Latin American art in the world.
