Reviews

Adding color and moving away from monumental sculpture cast in unfired clay, Villar Rojas’ latest in-situ exhibition, Los Teatros de Saturno, at Kurimanzutto gallery does indeed represent a departure from his previous work, though brought to life with the central threads of his creative career, the ephemeral quest for life that often emerges from decay and his theatrical approach to artistic production, well intact.

Enrique Minjares is angry and laughing. The 36-year-old artist draws a thin line between the two in his latest exhibition – derived largely out of faithful respect for formal artwork construction and an earnest sense of humor in what we all must now see as a casually cruel environment for art production in the Americas.

Emilio Pérez’s third solo exhibition at Galerie Lelong, New York, includes recent paintings on wood panels, as well as a triptych executed during his residency at the Lux Art Institute in California in 2011, on view for the first time in the city.

“How do you know I’m mad? said Alice. `You must be,' said the Cat, `or you wouldn't have come here.'

The photographic record of mystical feeling has been commonly addressed by the great religions of our contemporary world.

Previously heralded as the world’s most infamous contemporary artist – his highly contentious photographic work Piss Christ, 1987 pictured a crucifix bathed in his urine –a mature Andrés Serrano now proffers social consciousness.

We can imagine Luis Terán’s studio as a great building work, full of materials scattered all over the floor and with construction workers wearing hard hats swarming about.

What are the applications for such a title? It could be a pulled from a manual of any sort, instructing us how to put up wallpaper, bandage a wound, or any type of industrial assemblage.

Taking the temporal and spatial axes as conducting thread, the exhibition A Language beyond Form (Un lenguaje más allá de la forma) constitutes a poetic incursion into our existential labyrinths, using the refined plastic forms of abstract and/or conceptual nature of ten Latin American leading artists as vital trigger.

For someone interested in Latin American contemporary art it is always pleasant to fill in some of those gaps that the mental geography seems to have. Let’s be realistic: for some years ̶ too many ̶ and to date, it has been difficult to find that piece of the puzzle which, positioned on Bolivia and Ecuador, would complete the map.

A new gold standard has been set with the opening of Esteban Lisa: Retornos, Toledo, 1895 / Buenos Aries, 1983 at the Biblioteca Nacional de España. The retrospective featured 149 works of art beginning with the artist's early abstract experiments in oil on cardboard rendered in a cubist-inspired style from 1930 to 1940.

A member of a family of sculptors, Claudio Girola was part of the concrete art groups in the Río de la Plata region. Like all avant-garde artists, concrete artists made use of an arsenal of pamphlets and manifestos, the first of which was the Manifiesto de cuatro jóvenes, signed precisely by Girola, jointly with Tomás Maldonado, Alfredo Hlito and Jorge Brito in 1942.

Adding color and moving away from monumental sculpture cast in unfired clay, Villar Rojas’ latest in-situ exhibition, Los Teatros de Saturno, at Kurimanzutto gallery ...

After a sell-out booth at last year’s ArtBo art fair in Bogota, Johannes Voigt, owner of Johannes Voigt Gallery in New York, has a good reason to be fond of Colombia.

Reality as the unalterable context where actions take place and the way in which those same activities have an incidence on everyday life are the point of departure for the investigations that Teresa Margolles (Culiacán, Mexico, 1963) has been carrying out for years.

There are artists who have had such a colossal impact at a given stage in the history of their countries’ art and such a marked influence on the successive generations that no tributes will ever suffice.

Beyond the vernacular-artistic manifestations that strive to understand what is produced in and from the Caribbean as an eclectic amalgamation of ancestral and cultural links, the work of artist Zilia Sánchez (1926) has developed amidst notions of rupture, which have a long tradition in the modern and contemporary art production of Latin America.

This exhibition displays works that have the power of revealing many layers of the ever-changing experience of immigration.

Fernando Carabajal is one of those cultural producers who masters different expressive platforms with equal ease.

The necessary exhibition Documentación en galería: El caso Di Tella. 1958-1969 (Documentation in gallery: The Di Tella Case. 1958-1969), curated by the gallery directors Claudio Golonbek and Ricardo Ocampo, is an invitation to delve into the research work carried out by the Center for the Visual Arts (CAV) of the Di Tella Institute.

Over the years, it has been characteristic of Magdalena Atria (Santiago de Chile, 1966) to maintain a constant activity in relation to her work with color.

On August 1st, artist Nicolás Lobo and software developer Dylan Romer launched Purple-Goo, a sound-stretching application for iPhone and iPad. It allows users to extend a song up to 100,000 times.

Carola Bravo’s video installations in “We Are Where We Are Not” bring to my mind a foundational moment in the history of this genre that did not take place in the field of art but in the field of literature.

It is a well-known fact that conceptual art cannot be understood without resorting to the essential structure it received from the most relevant authors of the revision of modernity carried out in the 1960s in Brazil.