Galleries

Henríquez, Venezuelan artist based in Miami, sets up a psychographic landscape of mixed traits. In that territory there are no fixed coordinates, no preconceived ideas; just signs of an itinerary full of expectations, where the familiar and the strange cohabit. This new solo exhibition, curated by Felix Suazo, will encompass a selection of works made on fabric, paper, and wood between 2018 and 2021. The exhibition will take place at Laundromat Art Space.

The exhibition by the artist and architect proposes scenarios where the elements are stripped and the forms are revealed. The title of the exhibition, an idiomatic expression, already suggests the obligation of necessity and the inescapable nature of the evidenced planes. Until May 30.

The exhibition is based upon research Dávila conducted during the pandemic into the iconography of the circle and its presence throughout art history in the 20th and 21st centuries. Remarking on the phenomenon, Davila observes, “I’m interested in the circle as the most platonic of forms, it has been a constant human desire. The circle is the symbolic element of human progress.” Comprised of new paintings, sculptures, and silkscreens on cardboard, themes of circularity and the recurrent influence and circular forms throughout art history unite these three interrelated bodies of work.

Gabriel Rico, Guadalajara-based artist, actively engages theory by studying a broad range of philosophical works, scientific research, and ancient texts. A confessed ontologist, Rico brings to existence these theoretical musings through curious and fantastical juxtapositions of found objects – man-made and natural– with crafted pieces that together interrogate humanity’s species-being vis a vis the world of things, and to create visual formulae to help solve a myriad of universal existential problems.

Available both in-person and online, the exhibition (Specters) brings together works by the Peruvian artista that, with a text written by researcher Paula Eslava, translate a social and political postulation into easthetics.

The exhibition, curated by Paola Peña, brings together works that link the metaphorical capacity of light and fire to make visible from different perspectives and heterogeneous and pressing situations that demand our attention as citizens. They are also works that invite us to see the unmanifest, not to lose the capacity for wonder, to realize the always latent possibility of transformation or creation.

Jorge Cabieses’ paintings are distinctly geometric and his approach is successful in outsmarting geometric abstraction. His high clean and regular forms are contrasted by the use of hard and rustic materials. Curator Laura Marsh states, “Jorge Cabieses’ collages, paintings, and sculptures have resonance and depth beyond their points of departure within the canon of painting. “

Alexandra Trujillo amalgamates technology, nature, art and communication to assemble an immersive artistic experience that is no longer located within the walls of a gallery, but in the Amazon forest. The exhibition includes works in photography, textile installation, video-performance, lighting installation and interactive installation. In this way, the subject of communication becomes a medium itself, allowing the work-viewer relationship to become diaphanous.

Vigil Gonzales gallery in Peru presents, in its OVR (Online Viewing Room), a bi-personal exhibition by Serlián Barreto and Ernesto Gutiérrez Moya. It is the first in a series of exhibitions that focus on the production of Miami-based artists and curators.

CRISIS gallery, in Lima, exhibits the Peruvian artists Rafael Mayu Nolte (Lima, 1992) and Teté Leguía (Lima, 1995) in an exhibition that plays with the eclipsed, grazes the impenetrable and intertwines the mundane and corporal in a diaphanous conception.

A significant Brazilian artist of her generation and a founding member of Brazil’s Neo-Concrete movement, Lygia Pape (1927 – 2004) favored the primacy of the viewer’s sensorial experience and its role in everyday life. Examining the artist’s unique reframing of geometry, abstraction and poetry, ‘Tupinambá’ is the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles dedicated to Pape’s work and is organized with Projeto Lygia Pape and Olivier Renaud-Clément. Central to the show will be the Tupinambá series, one of the artist’s final bodies of work, revealing her desire to create more immersive experiences beyond the conventional boundaries of life and art.

Known as one of the most recognized landscape painters in contemporary Venezuelan painting, this time Pujol presents 27 of his most recent works, made on the island of Mallorca. These are acrylic paintings on canvas of medium and large format, as well as a set of watercolors on paper.

Rolf Art announces physical exhibition of the current online project Ejercicios de aridez (Aridity Exercises) (ejerciciosdearidez.com), a field project developed by the artist Celeste Rojas Mugica (b.1987, Chile/Argentina), under the curatorship of Florencia Battiti that will be on view from Friday, March 26^th.

The Lima-based gallery presents Works by Armando Andrade Tudela, Iosu Aramburu, Fernando Bryce, William Cordova, Zhivago Duncan, Ximena Garrido-Lecca, Rita Ponce de León, Gilda Mantilla and Raimond Chaves.

The Lima-based gallery exhibits these two artists whose richness in media and techniques finds, in abstraction, a common ground, a meeting point.

“Warawar Wawa (Son of the stars) adds to the identity of the Bolivian people a system of images belonging at the margin of the foreign perspectives that have made of the “Bolivian” a staging with two llamas and an Indian chewing coca”. First solo exhibition of the phographer (b. 1997,  Cochabamba, Bolivia) in VIGIL GONZALES gallery in Sacred Valley.

For nearly fifty years, Manuel Mérida has developed a unique technique on the many possibilities matter may offer. Espace Meyer Zafra presents a retrospective exhibition under the title “Rétroviseur”. On this occasion, the artist's very first catalogue Raisonné will be published by the gallery with texts written by Matthieu Poirier, Art Historian and curator specializing in Kinetic Art, and Valentina Locatelli, Art Historian and South American Art specialist.

Torcer mi nombre es conjurar tu cuerpo (Twisting my name is conjuring your body) is part of Parra's degree project that culminates in an individual installation show. It brings together photographic, object and sound pieces that inhabit a saline ecosystem and that reflect on the diseased body and the powers of fragility.

Organized by la_capsula, an independent and experimental curatorial project based in Zurich that seeks to create a dialogue between the artistic and cultural production of Latin America and Swiss/local artists. Curated by Adriana Domínguez and Elena Rosauro, the exhibition is on view until March 20th.

No Lugar, in collaboration with the Visual Arts School (CAV) of the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador present (im)pura [(un)pure], an undergraduate exhibition of the young artist Paula Hinojosa. The proposal brings together works in sculpture, ceramics, objects, embroidery, video performance and installation. Open until Saturday March 13^th.

"Pieces that revolve around the invisible but present, between materiality and its absence"

The contemporary art gallery Arsenal exhibits works by Simões (Brazilian) and Lasserre (Canadian) that borrow Schklovsky’s concept of ‘estrangement’ to question the ideas of object, material and function.

Art Code Space, gallery focused on Cuban artists, presents a collective exhibition curated by Yudinela Ortega that delves in universalityat the same time it highlights each of the artists’ individual creation.

Highlighting contemporary art from the port, the show seeks to decentralize the art of Santiago, presenting a selection of contemporary artists from the Valparaíso region.