Reviews
The institutional spaces to divulge the work of young artists are becoming progressively scarcer in Venezuela. For this reason we welcome the initiatives where new proposals can be shown. Sala CAF is sponsored by the Latin American Development Bank.
The term assemblage is derived from the French assemblage, which means to gather together, unite. So making an art of assemblage is a sort of act of love, inasmuch as objects of different natures are fused. And just like in any human corporal relationship, things will make sense if the mixtures work. Thus the artist of assemblage arises as a magnificent alchemist that processes wastes to turn them into art.
The first impression when viewing Chema Madoz’s (Spain, 1958) images is one of surprise and perplexity. Then we will identify this impression with the surrealist touch in her work. At a later stage, we will dwell on the warmth of the grain and the compositional purity of the nuances ranging from white to black.
Governed by four thematic axes, the retrospective Comedy and tragedy 1948-2010 by Beatríz González, was presented at the Ciudad del Río venue of the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín.
For several decades now, Ana Mercedes Hoyos has focused her attention on the cultural influence that a social minority, in particular the one of San Basilio de Palenque, can exert on our national identity as Colombians.
Seen from far away, one of the pieces at Jac Leirner's retrospective show now on at Estação Pinacoteca in São Paulo looks like an all white minimalist composition, a Robert Ryman of sorts, discrete and almost about to disappear against the immaculate wall of the museum.
