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Art breaks with the familiar and opens people’s eyes to new visions of the future: art creates utopias. Tools for Utopia tells the story of political and social oppression, but also of a cultural spirit of revolution; it shows how art became the tool of change in Latin America. The exhibition takes as its starting point the tradition of abstract and concrete art in countries including Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay from the 1950s until the 1970s, and presents an insight into the artistic work of Latin America.

Curated by Eugenie Tsai, the exhibition can be defined as a mid-career retrospective that delves into pop-culture not only by participating in it, but by feeding it. In that way, it highlights the power of connection, of community, of kinship. 

Today, Live on Instagram, Aimé Iglesias Lukin, director and chief curator of Americas Society Visual Arts, will host a conversation with the contemporary artist.

The new museum presents the Helga de Alvear Collection exhibition. Curated by José María Viñuela (Cáceres, 1944), the exhibition consists of 150 artworks by artists such as Joseph Beuys, Doris Salcedo, Yves Klein, Ai Weiwei, Goya, Louis Bourgeois, Olafur Eliasson and Lucio Fontana, among many others.

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (National Museum of Fine Arts) presents, from March 25^th, the exhibition “The accidental canon. Women artists in Argentina (1890-1950) ”, curated by researcher Georgina Gluzman. The show will bring together more than 80 works (made by 44 artists) with the intention of questioning the stories established in Argentine Art History and recovering the figure of these creators, many of them ignored or unknown.

The biggest group exhibition of Latin American female artists, this projects aims to highlight a group that has been historically underrepresented. “Through meaningful and memorable initiatives like this one, we aim to contribute to the art landscape in an impactful way”

Situated between kinetic art and op-art, Pantone's work for this exhibition is an exploration of colour and light, the boundaries between the analogue and the digital, and the interaction of the viewer with the artwork.

In the first anthological exhibition of Elda Cerrato (Argentine born in Asti, Italy, in 1930), artist and teacher of Argentine artists, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires presents a selection of works spanning fifty years of production carried out between Buenos Aires, Tucumán and Caracas. In both its artistic and academic development, Cerrato's work offers a unique symbolic, conceptual and ethical fabric, in which the diverse trends of 20th century Latin American art resonate, as well as the social, political and cultural dynamics of the region.

The second season is just a few days away and opens this March. After a successful launch with the first season, where the artists exhibited, the foundation created by Francesca Thyssen-Bornemisza announced three of the artists who will exhibit in st_age: Diana Policarpo (Portugal), Courtney Desiree Morris (United States) and Claudia Comte (Switzerland).

How does race structure America’s cities? MoMA’s first exhibition to explore the relationship between architecture and the spaces of African American and African diaspora communities, Reconstructions: Architecture and Blackness in America presents 10 newly commissioned works by architects, designers, and artists that explore ways in which histories can be made visible and equity can be built.

The XXI Support for Young Generations Art Contest gave nine winning artists the opportunity to exhibit their projects at the cultural centre La Casa Encendida. In addition, the Montemadrid Foundation  —the entity that directs and manages the centre's activities— gave an amount of 10,000 euros to each of the artists so that they can continue to develop their work.

El peso de la forma. El diseño gráfico de Carlos Cruz-Diez is the result of a collaboration between the Archivo Fotografía Urbana (Caracas, Venezuela) and the Cruz-Diez Art Foundation (Paris, France).

El Museo del Barrio is the first and leading museum in the country dedicated to preserving and presenting Latino art and culture. ESTAMOS BIEN - LA TRIENAL 20/21 is the Museum’s first large-scale national survey of Latinx art. Curated by El Museo del Barrio’s Chief Curator, Rodrigo Moura, Curator Susanna V. Temkin, and Guest Curator and Artist Elia Alba, the exhibition is on view to the public from March 13 to September 26.

Curated by Thyago Nogueira, coordinator of Contemporary Photography at the Moreira Salles Institute in Brazil, the exhibition covers the entire photographic production of one of the key figures in understanding the genocide of the aboriginal communities of the Amazon, mainly the Yanomami people.

The Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) presented its complete programme for 2021. Among the activities and exhibitions, two stand out: a retrospective of the Cuban visual artist Félix Gonzalez-Torres (Guaiamaro, 1957 - Miami, 1996) and the rescheduling of the exhibition of the Rafael Tous collection, originally scheduled for November 2020.

Twelve artists living and working in Argentina, Brazil, Georgia, Germany, Mexico, Spain, Turkey, and the United States respond to the notion of home in this exhibition curated by Sabrina Mandanici. On view through April 19.

On February 20^th, the Dos de Mayo Art Cantre (CA2M), in collaboration with the Kunstinstituut Melly in Rotterdam, opened the solo exhibition Cecilia Vicuña. Veroir el fracaso iluminado (Cecilia Vicuña. Veroir the illuminated failure). Conceived as a retrospective exhibition of the Chilean artist Cecilia Vicuña (Santiago de Chile, 1948), the project is curated by Miguel A. López (Lima, 1983) and has been supported by the Chilean Ministry of Culture, Arts and Heritage. This is the first exhibition of this size to showcase the artist in Spain.

Under the curatorship of Cristina Carrillo de Albornoz  —art critic and curator with an international career that includes institutions such as the Hermitage Museum and the National Gallery of Berlin— in collaboration with the actress Lina Botero, the artist's daughter, the exhibition was scheduled to close its doors on February 7^th. However, the public reception has been so good (more than 60,000 people have passed through CentroCentro to see Botero's work) that the date has been extended until Sunday 28^th.

In El Pran Projecten —Aruba-based platform dedicated to exhibiting the production of artworks that question the present of the former European excolonies in Central America—, the Cuban artist Ricardo Miguel Hernández (Havana, 1984) exhibits a series of photographic collages. Curated by Nelson González, When The Memory Turns To Dust II will be on view until the 31^st of March.

As part of the celebration of the activities to commemorate the 40^th Anniversary of ARCOmadrid, the exhibition ARCO. Recorridos Fotográficos (ARCO. Photographic Tours) is presented at the Centro Cultural Conde Duque. Curated by Rafael Doctor Roncero, the project brings together images produced by over eighty artists throughout the successive editions of the ARCOmadrid Art Fair, founded and inaugurated in 1982.

The exhibition, conceived by the Argentinean artist María Marta Fasoli (Mar del Plata, 1964), consists of a series of watercolours that explore the symbolism of the sea from the perspective of personal identity and its capacity to represent the dynamic character of the creative process.

The Chilean artist Patrick Hamilton exhibits an interactive sculpture in the Patio Sur of the Centro Cultural Conde Duque (Madrid, Spain) that questions the critical state of the current economic and climate crisis.

The young Mexican artist is exhibiting for the first time in Spain with a project conceived especially for the Madrid gallery.

In the exhibition presented by the Alliance Française Lima, the multiple worlds or netes that make up the Shipibo universe are united into one: The world of beauty and art.

The artwork by the emblematic artist Lucio Fontana (Rosario, Argentina, 1899 - Varese, Italy, 1968) was conceived by the artist in 1951 as a piece whose composition defies the limits of disciplines as diverse as drawing, sculpture, design and lighting.

The Colombian artist is showing her work “Mural para fábrica socialista” at the OCA (Office for Contemporary Art) in Oslo, Norway. The exhibition aims to catalyze solidarity against global conflicts and injusticies.

The choice of Aballí as the artist to benefit from the programme was made by a jury made up of two collectors and two directors of institutions related to artistic production in Spain —convened by the ARCO Foundation— who chose four Spanish artists and, subsequently, by the Meadow Museum's Selection Committee, constituted by the curatorial team and three collectors from the Meadows Museum's Advisory Council. Ignasi Aballí thus becomes the first participant in the MAS Programme.

In an atypical summer, the Hilario Artes Letras Oficios auction house holds a special edition through its website and with the closing of bids on Thursday, February 18, from 6.30 p.m. in Argentina, with an interval of 2 minutes between lot and lot. 

Devotional objects play an important role in the daily life of communities and are admired both for their artistic value and for their spiritual importance.

Teresa Burga was a precursor of Peruvian technological art. She was a conceptual multimedia artist and one of the most important exponents of the Peruvian non-objectualist artistic movement.