Galleries

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.

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.