Galleries

Rolf Art inaugurates Statement, the second solo exhibition of artist Francisco Medail, accompanied by a presentation text by essayist and cultural critic Paola Cortés Rocca.

Kubikulo presents in its Oporto gallery Sol Raso, an installation by Gabriel Ribeiro (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1990) that is presented as a material and superficial photographic event on polyurethane foams in which the evolution of the exposure of the materials to the elements and the sun for thirty days is captured.

Zielinsky presents in its Barcelona space Gladiators of the future, a solo exhibition by Claudio Goulart (Brazil, 1954 - The Netherlands, 2005) that continues Fragmentos da Memória, the exhibition on Goulart held at the gallery's headquarters in São Paulo. The show addresses themes of politics, the body and time, the usual axes of the Brazilian's production, which relied on his life experience as the main source.

One of Carlos Bunga's (Porto, Portugal, 1976) most recognizable features is his way of interacting with architectural spaces. This conversation and intervention has a formal character in the use of materials and chromatic ranges, but also by the introduction of everyday objects that, from the very conception of architecture, reside in it to complement it. This led him to be interested in the most temporary and basic architecture, with flaws in its canonical perception, but equally existing in socially unfavorable environments.

The gallery Lorena Ruiz de Villa hosts the exhibition Casa Encontrada, where the artist Sol Calero (Caracas, Venezuela, 1982) presents a new series of paintings that start from her previous work as a point of reference and in which she advocates the detachment of the most precise definition of her themes, with references to her origins. This proposal, however, leads us to a concept that walks on the line of the interrelation of the human and the natural, making his new production more fractionable.

Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery presented Hypnophilia, the fourth exhibition of Florencia Rodriguez Giles in the space. It features the curatorial work and text by Alfredo Aracil.

ARDE is the exhibition with Alejandro Chaskielberg and Don Rouch, guest artist, that brings together a series of works on which they have recently collaborated.

Madrid's Elba Benitez gallery has entrusted Vik Muniz (Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1961) with its first exhibition of the new season. Entitled Photocubism, the proposal is based on art historiography itself, recovering the cubist aesthetics as a substratum of the technical intervention he makes on iconic works of this movement. The Brazilian artist thus opts for this language to obtain new images that raise questions about perception and result.

Rolf Art presented Marcelo Brodsky's exhibition MARTIRIO, in collaboration with artists Fernando Bryce, Martín Kovensky and Fredi Casco; supported by a research and conceptual approach by José Emilio Burucúa and Carles Guerra.

Cuban-born artist Ariamna Contino presents the exhibition Manigua at El Apartamento, in Spain to revisit the concept of “manigua”, a term historically used to refer to a tropical forest ecosystem.

Lehmann Maupin presented Astral Sea, an exhibition of new work by New York-based artist Teresita Fernández. Featuring a series of glazed ceramic pieces and new sculptural paper panels, Astral Sea extends the artist’s interests in the confluence points of the cosmos, land, and water, as seen through the lens of an embodied sculptural landscape.

La huida (The escape) is the solo exhibition of Peruvian artist C.J. Chueca, based in New York, at _VIGILGOZALES Buenos Aires. It features a room text by curator and critic Florencia Portocarrero.

Sicardi Gallery presented Sebastián Gordín: two of us, the Argentine artist’s exhibition, curated by Fernando Castro R.

Tras la piel del mapa (Behind the skin of the map) is the first solo exhibition of Marina Camargo (1980, Maceió, Brazil) at the Zielinsky Gallery in Barcelona.

Gustavo Benítez presents at Exaedro the exhibition Damiana vuelve a casa (Damiana returns home), an exhibition that explores a story of identity, pain and abandonment. It is presented in the context of the art week Pinta Sud | ASU 2024, from August 5 to 11, and is curated by Ticio Escobar.

Artística - Espacio de arte presents from August 5 the artist Osvaldo Salerno with the exhibition of photographs El retorno (The Return), within Pinta Sud | ASU art week. It is curated by Javier Medina Verdolini and has additional texts by Ticio Escobar.

Within the context of Pinta Sud | ASU 2024, Viedma gallery presents from August 6 the installation El Bosque que vuela: ficciones en torno a Ogwa (The Forest that flies: fictions around Ogwa) by the artist Joaquín Sánchez. It is curated by Adriana Almada.

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.