Reviews
The exhibition “Soto. Paris and Beyond, 1950-1970” curated by Estrellita Brodsky, brings together twenty years of work by the Venezuelan master painter Jesús Soto (1923-2005).
Although the works range from painting to video installation, and although the artists are from Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia, “An Other Place” reverberates a collective sense of displacement.
The installation 2iPM009, 2009, by the Venezuelan artist Magdalena Fernández (1964) is currently being shown at the Frost Art Museum, Florida International University, after its tour of the 10th Cuenca Biennial, and it will later travel to the Museum of Latin American Art in California.
Decadence is, without a doubt, one of the most defining traits of contemporary society. This feeling of deterioration which, in the opinion of Fredric Jameson , is a premonition of Post-Modernism itself, invalidates our capacity to predict with any certainty in what direction we are moving.
Like the first exhibition bearing the same title, which we could visit in 2010 and with which this show shares a contradictorily paradoxical spirit, the present exhibit opens with a series of graffiti leading to the gallery entrance. As in the previous show, we are overcome by a feeling of being in the presence of something that is not consistent − the words optimism and radical do not seem to work very well together.
The critical attitude towards the establishment and towards the power to hurt of some photographs based on an equivocal notion of aging and beauty define, on the whole, the view conveyed by Aurora Molina’s work.
