Foundations

Luis F. Benedit (Buenos Aires, 1937-2011) was surprised by death while he was preparing the exhibition “Luis Benedit. Designer,” which was recently inaugurated in the framework of YPF Foundation’s “Art in the Tower” program.

In the framework of the annual mobilization in the Miami art world resulting from the celebration of the Art Basel Miami Beach international art fair, the exhibition “Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices.

“De donde no se vuelve” (“From where there is no return”) is the show with which the Centro Cultural Español is inaugurating its activities in its new Miami venue. The exhibition is a small touring selection based on the great retrospective (or introspective, as García Alix himself suggests) organized by the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in 2008 as a tribute to the trajectory of the photographer, writer and video artist, recipient of the Spanish National Photography Award, Alberto García Alix (León, 1956).

For the eighth consecutive year, CIFO is celebrating its exhibition devoted to the acclaimed Cifo Grants and Commissions Program at the Cifo Art Space.

The Juan March Foundation inaugurated in its Madrid headquarters the exhibition “Cold America. Latin American geometric abstraction (1934-1973)”, in order to map, in a fast and systematic way, the complex history of geometric abstraction in Latin America.

In the Brazilian scene, where there is still an evident absence of cultural centers with a minimally coherent program the Instituto de Arte Contemporáneo (Contemporary Art Institute) (IAC), inaugurated in Sao Paulo in 2006, constitutes a healthy exception.