Reviews
The exhibition “Prolonged Engagement”, a group show that gathered together artists who create aesthetic conditions rather than isolated art objects, takes its name from the traditional models of ethnography.
Heaven or Las Vegas is a spectacularly striking exhibition at the Paul Kasmin Gallery where ten wall and two floor sculptures occupy the three galleries.
Wilfredo Prieto (Sancti-Spíritus, Cuba, 1978) is a name not unrelated to the reality of the most select circuits of today’s artistic map. Indeed, if pressed, I would say, and it would not be a novelty, that he is one of the most promising figures of contemporary Latin American art.
To talk about Anna María Maiolino (Scalea, Italy, 1942) is to talk about one of the essential voices and languages in Brazilian contemporary art, a necessary element to understand the evolution of artistic experimentation of the productive 1960s and fundamental to understand its later development.
Among the latest challenges posed by the RSNAM directors is “El deseo nace del derrumbe” (“Desire is born from collapse”), an interesting proposal which materializes the ambitious attempt of the Madrid museum, by way of a retrospective exhibition, to classify, agglutinate and interpret the work of multidisciplinary sociologist and artist Roberto Jacoby.
Bio-art is one of the most recent trends developed by contemporary art, and its particularity is that it adopts biotechnology as a medium.
