Reviews

ArtexArte - Fundación Alfonso y Luz Castillo presents a group exhibition with works by  José Luis Cuevas, YaelMartínez, and Rodrigo Sánchez. 

The exhibition is moving due to the patient and painstaking treatment of wood, granite, and acrylic, due to the result of that work—pieces with striking presence and meaning— and due to fifty-one years of coherent production in sculpture that addresses the questions of material, form, and symbol.

Voluspa Jarpa on exhibit at the Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires is based on declassified CIA documents about fourteen Latin American countries

The show  focuses on his historical works, that is, works from the sixties and early seventies; it features works in acrylic and paintings key to the artist’s career.

The retrospective of his work at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid is the largest exhibition of its kind that the museum has held to date.

Peisajovich looks to Seurat’s color studies and his approach to the division of tones on the basis of the position of highlights of color to incite, at a distance, certain combinations on the retina.

In his new exhibition, Diego Bianchi elevates trash to the plane of what is called art.

Magdalena Jitrik & Leila Tschopp. MACBA. Buenos Aires

 El Dorado, as part of the exciting Bogotá art scene, to continue to provide visibility to processes outside the mainstream that are committed to a historical mission.

The exhibition organized by Autograph ABP and curated by Mark Sealy and Gabriela Salgado evidences the artist’s fascination with the complex cultural heritage of Bahía and of northeastern Brazil as a whole

Sculpture en Partage, brings together some one hundred works from the foundation’s holdings, ten of them from Danièle Kapel-Marcovici’s private collection. 

Elíptico articulate a specific polyphony of meanings where each of the works connects with another to construct a specific narrative of questions and intuitions. 

Ortega makes use of three elements steeped in symbolism due to their nature as objects and to the temporality that they represent.

Cameo ambitiously takes the shape of a multiple device that, in two different phases, provides an expanded experience of Tessi’s work. 

In Macaparana’s work, colors vibrate in linear structures held in careful balance by parallel, concentric, and slanting lines that follow an abstract and geometric calligraphy that dances over the surface.

Cruzvillegas turns this exercise at Turbine Hall into a unique opportunity to bring a number of his interests together in a single action.

Atelier Morales ventures a new beauty that, albeit with tension and ambiguity, appeals to the viewer’s senses and feelings. 

Review of Miguel Rothschild´s exhibition at Ruth Benzacar Gallery.

The exhibition concentrates on one of the most difficult periods in Brazilian political history, a period that began with the imposition of a military dictatorship in 1964.

With almost four hundred works from the Esteban Tedesco collection, Diagonal Sur - Arte Argentino Hoy occupies all the galleries of the Centro Cultural Borges. A milestone in the history of contemporary art collecting, the show makes visible art produced over the course of the last thirty years.

This first solo exhibition of the Colombian artist explores the historical representations of what is considered unconventional sexual desire.

The over seventy paintings and drawings in this anthological exhibition offer us a remarkable opportunity to interrogate the artistic universe Videla has developed over the last twelve years.

Bas’s iconography has been inspired by late 19^th-century decadent and symbolist aesthetics in both literature and the visual arts.

It is truly remarkable that an artist without a high school education was able to produce such a deep body of work, one steeped in the concerns of art, mathematics, and musical harmony.

The artist’s reminiscences are alliances she puts together on the basis of other artists’ signatures that, when joined, turn into a vision of art that surprises and captivates us, engaging collage in a creative game with reality.

The apparent working of nature’s chance in Federico Colletta’s process is actually a strategy, a partial loosening.

Luis Romero is interested in putting together a sort of inventory of the constructive resources of geometric abstraction in order to discover new discursive possibilities.

This show brought together three videos and an installation—a series of open books, as tenuous as memories, displayed on music stands.

On exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain is the first retrospective of Fernell Franco (1942-2006), an important, though still little-known, figure in Latin American photography.

The exhibitions by experienced artists Gerardo Goldwasser and Pablo Uribe held at Galería del Paseo evidence a shared sensibility and a similar placid atmosphere. By different means, the two shows by artists of the same generation look to ancestral traces and give rise to a multiplicity of meanings.