Diego Rivera’s relationship with New York is longstanding. As the most internationally renowned Mexican muralist of his time, MOMA commissioned Rivera in 1931 to work in the museum and create a series of portable fresco murals for a retrospective exhibition.
In 2002, curators Patrick Charpenel Corvera, born in Mexico, and Silvia K. Cubiñá, born in Puerto Rico, worked together in an exhibition entitled Interplay, presented at The Moore Space in Miami, as part of the projects coinciding with the launching of Art Basel Miami Beach.
The Patricia and Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting Maria Thereza Negreiros. Offerings until April 1, 2012.
The International Contemporary Art Fair, ARCOmadrid 2012, which is set to take place from 15-19 February will gather together 158 galleries from more than 30 countries in its General Program, as well as a further 58 galleries selected for its Curated Programs.
Tate announced the appointment of Colombian curator José Roca (b.1962) as the Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art.
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.
Emilia Azcárate’s (Caracas, Venezuela, 1964) most recent work offers us a new vision of the passage from the bidimensionality of the canvas to the three-dimensional object, which goes beyond the studies of depth that may be performed on the plane and that affords the latter a new form of life.