Galleries

By Álvaro de Benito

The Madrid branch of La Cometa gallery presents during July the work of eight of its Ibero-American artists in a group show that delves into different languages and techniques, from ceramics to painting, and also includes dialogues with architecture and other productions. Three of those represented come from Spain, while of the five American representatives, four are Colombian and one is Cuban, which brings a representative vision of the gallery's artistic proposal closer to the spectator.

The proposal of Julia Aurora Guzmán (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1993) navigates between different techniques, addressing sculpture, textile, photography or performance and is posed as the result of the vital action itself. Her works decipher and highlight the natural cycles of life, the beginning with birth and the end with death, without forgetting the present as transience.

All sauce, No shrimp is Sophie Ullrich’s anticipated solo exhibition at Piero Atchugarry. The artist presented a new collection of site-specific paintings and sculptures that entwines modern folklore and scientific inquiry.

Casa Triângulo presented Between roots and ruins, the first solo exhibition of Marina Hachem at the gallery, with a critical essay by Victor Gorgulho.

Kasmin gallery presented Mundo de Julia, an exhibition of ceramic sculpture by Julia Isídrez. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the United States and runs concurrently with Isídrez’s presentation in Stranieri Ovunque – Foreigners Everywhere, the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Adriano Pedrosa.

The Ford Foundation Gallery presented Catando Bajito: Incantations, the second movement of a year-long exhibition series that celebrates strategies for resistance in the wake of rising violence and incursions against bodily autonomy toward feminized bodies.

Zielinsky opened a new space in São Paulo, Brazil and presented a solo exhibition by Brazilian artist Claudio Goulart (1954-2000), whose work was developed in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, where he lived for over 30 years until he passed away due to complications from AIDS.

Marli Matsumoto Arte Contemporânea featured artist Mayana Redin’s solo show Nenhum Mistério (No Mistery) at the gallery, with a presentation and critical text by José Augusto Ribeiro.

The Madrid-based Max Estrella exhibits in its Project Room space Escuchando la Lluvia (Listening to the Rain), by artist Glenda León (Havana, Cuba, 1976), which also serves as a letter of introduction of the Cuban artist as the gallery's new representative. This piece of enormous stylization is presented as a blown glass sculpture handcrafted by the Royal Glass Factory of La Granja in Segovia that collects a visual representation of a drop of water falling.

Galleria Continua presented in its Parisian space the Franco-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez’s first solo exhibition The Euphoria of Color (L’euphorie de la couleur).

TOMAS REDRADO ART Gallery presented in Miami the fifth movement of MONTES NO VISIBLES (Unseen mountains), curated by Natalia Sosa Molina and Victor López Zumelzu. This new movement features the work of Andrea Ferrero (Peru), Julia Retz (Brazil), and Henry Palacio Clavijo (Colombia).

As part of its participation in PhotoEspaña, the Fernando Pradilla Gallery presents the work of Marcos Lopez (Santa Fe, Argentina, 1958), one of the most outstanding Latin American photographers on the scene and a regular on the circuits with his peculiar and characteristic conception of life in South America, where everyday life is combined with exaggeration and color that give him an unmistakable trademark.

Juana Subercaseaux, a Chilean artist based in Mexico City, presents Esto es Eso, her first exhibition at OMR, showcasing her latest works that intertwine a feminine perspective with the intimate, the mystical, the ephemeral, and the spiritual aspects of nature.

Madrid's Casado Santapau presents a retrospective exhibition of the work of Waldo Balart (Banes, Cuba, 1931), which covers the minimalist and precise, almost mathematical proposal of the geometries and the concrete abstraction of his works.

PATRON presented Las raíces conversan por debajo de la tierra (Roots converse below the ground), the second exhibition with Mexico City based artista, Noé Martínez.

Soy mujer que habla con el viento is the proposal that, around the production of the famous photographer Maya Goded (Mexico City, Mexico, 1967), presents the Madrid gallery Memoria (at its Centro venue) within the PhotoEspaña program.

Zielinsky presented Vera Chaves Barcellos' second solo exhibition at the gallery, entitled Objects 1969-1970.

Kurimanzutto presented Making a Presence, Marta Minujin’s exhibition in New York.

Madrid's Galería Freijo presents a photographic exhibition that materializes two singular views of Mexico in the mid-20th century: that of Armando Salas Portugal (Monterrey, Mexico, 1916 - Mexico City, Mexico, 1995) and his photographic work on the buildings of architect Félix Candela (Madrid, Spain, 1910 - Durham, USA, 1997), and that of architect Roberto Fernández Balbuena (Madrid, Spain, 1890 - Mexico City, Mexico, 1966), and his almost botanical devotion to documenting the ahuehuetes.

Casa Triângulo presented Algaravia, the first solo exhibition by Andy Villela at the gallery, featuring critical texts by Carolina Lauriano, Clarissa Diniz, Lucas Albuquerque, Lorraine Mendes and Victor Gorgulho.

The Casa del Barrio gallery reopened its doors in Samborondón, Ecuador. The gallery presented the exhibition MOTO & AZIONE by visual artist Irving Ramó, curated by Rodolfo Kronfle.

The exhibition as far as we can see in la_cápsula gallery is an invitation to reflect and resonate collaboratively on the ways of interpreting the world/s.

The exhibition at Rolf Art REVUELTAS by Gabriela Golder - one of Argentina's most internationally recognized audiovisual artists - presents video works in dialogue with the historic lithographic works of master printmaker Guillermo Facio Hebequer.

JO-HS, a global gallery specializing in emerging contemporary art, debuts its inaugural exhibition in New York, titled Techne. A curated showcase of works by 10 emerging Latin American artists, Techne grapples with how technology shapes humanity.