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The eighteenth edition of BAphoto ended last Sunday, held for the second consecutive year at Casa Basavilbaso. With photography as the main protagonist, more than 8,200 artists, gallery owners, curators, collectors and art lovers gathered to explore, discover and pay tribute to latinamerican photographers.

One of Pinta BAphoto's already characteristic program is Fuera de Foco (Out of Focus). Curated by Bárbara Golubick, this section highlights emerging artists’ photography from different parts of the country. This year, Remota Galería (Salta) with Clara Johnston and Matías de la Guerra and Talenta (Buenos Aires) with Coni Rosman and Juan Pablo Tristán,  are exhibiting.

Pinta BAphoto 2022 celebrates its eighteenth edition and presents not only an outstanding selection of galleries but also a program that offers renowned sectors and spaces that make room for more alternative work. Among them, Pinta BAphoto prides itself with Wunderkammer, dedicated to heritage photography, and Proyecto CALLE, whose photographers and protagonists are people without housing.

The new catalog raisonné of Oswaldo Vigas is now available online, thanks to the artist's foundation. This is the first Venezuelan artist to have a complete catalog of this kind.

Pinta BAphoto, the Latin American photography fair with the longest history can be visited from September 21 to 25. The artistic meeting, dedicated to the promotion, dissemination and marketing of photographs, as of this year is presented as part of the Pinta Art universe accompanied by EFG Wealth Management as Main Sponsor. Tickets available for Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September can be purchased at Ticketek.

Pinta BAPhoto opens its 2022 edition with a tribute to the outstanding photographer Sara Facio. The exhibition is dedicated to her intimate life and proposes a shift in the photographer's camera: she leaves aside her work as a portraitist to look at herself. It is curated by Francisco Medail and with the collaboration of Rolf Art.

The Gurvich Museum presents TRANSHEMISFERIO: Richard Garet - Diego Masi. An unprecedented exhibition in Uruguay that focuses on migration and distance through the dialogue between the two artists. Curated by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

Since September, Fernanda Lopes is the new Artistic Director of the Brazilian art gallery Athena. She will be in charge of several actions such as exhibition projects, public talks, publications, accompaniment of the represented artists and innovative and experimental research initiatives. 

Exhibited at the Tomás Redrado gallery and entitled “Ese día” (THAT DAY), the show curated by Elio Kapszuk presents portraits taken by Argentine photographer Alejandra López. In them are survivors of the attack, including brief stories.

The NSU Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale exhibits Lux et Veritas. This collective show illustrates some of the facets in contemporary art which are in processe of reshaping and reframing.

Pinta BAphoto presents its 18th edition at Casa Basavilbaso, Buenos Aires. The Latin American photography fair with the longest history can be visited from September 21 to 25. The artistic meeting, dedicated to the promotion, dissemination and marketing of photographs, as of this year is presented as part of the Pinta Art universe accompanied by EFG Wealth Management as Main Sponsor. Tickets available for Friday 23, Saturday 24 and Sunday 25 September can be purchased at Ticketek

For the third consecutive year, the Berne-based non-profit organisation art+château its next exhibition of contemporary art in an historic castle. Open until September 25^th, Beyond Baroque is curated by Dr. Valentina Locatelli, with the assistance of Giulia Busetti.

Buenos Aires - The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes inaugurated the exhibition "Carmelo Arden Quin, in the plot of constructive art", which offers an overview of the Uruguayan master's production through a hundred works from different periods of his career, exhibited along with pieces by colleagues with whom he forged links and joined artists groups. Curated by Cristina Rossi and open until November 20.

Mariano: Variations on a Theme is the first major retrospective exhibition of the work of Cuban artist Mariano Rodríguez (b. 1912, Havana; d. 1990, Havana) in the United States. Exhibited first at the McMullen Museum of Art in Boston, the exhibition is organized with the collaboration of the Fundación Mariano Rodríguez.

In the past first week of August, from 1 to 7, the first edition of Pinta Sud ASU was held in the city of Asunción, Paraguay. This is a special program dedicated to promoting and giving visibility to Paraguayan contemporary art on the local and international scene, and which seeks to generate environments of cooperation and exchange between various public and private sectors of the Paraguayan cultural scene.

Fundación MAPFRE presents Paolo Gasparini: Field of images, from July 1 to August 28. This exhibition brings together more than 300 works that present a complete journey through the artist's career, focusing both on his photographs and on his other main form of expression, the photobook, a crucial narrative device for defining the history of photography in South America. The exhibition brings together some of the artist's most important projects created over more than six decades of a photographic career that as a whole offers a tour of various cities in the process of transformation: Caracas, Havana, São Paulo and Mexico City. , in addition to its resonances from Munich, Paris and London.

Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene is the first solo exhibition in a New York museum for the pioneering contemporary Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago). Showcasing Vicuña’s artistic production from the late 1960s to today, this exhibition will feature the breadth of her multidisciplinary practice, including paintings, works on paper, textiles, films, a site-specific Quipu (Knot) installation, a one-time performance of a “living” Quipu, and new paintings and works on paper created specifically for this presentation.

This solo exhibition devoted to the work of acclaimed artist Tacita Dean, which is presented across the two galleries on the upper floor of the museum, is formed around two recent projects: a trilogy of works designed for The Dante Project (2021), a ballet inspired by The Divine Comedy, and One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting (2021), a 16mm filmed conversation between the artists Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu.

Geraldo de Barros is, without a doubt, one of the Brazilian artists most studied by contempora- neity. Over the course of his artistic career he pioneered the path of multidisciplinarity, develop- ing his work consistent with not only his own research, but also with the Brazilian political and social contexts and with Brazilian art history. To celebrate these historical developments, the Ar- quivo Geraldo de Barros and Luciana Brito Galeria are presenting the exhibition Objetos-Forma [Objects-Form], which features never-before-shown works that recover a fundamental moment in Geraldo de Barros’s career. The show opens on August 9 and occupies all the gallery’s exhibi- tion spaces.

Through painting, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (Lima, Peru, 1972) questions the representation mechanisms of the art system and the museum as an ideological device. He resorts to copying to make available certain cultural artifacts that have been extracted from their contexts within the framework of the modern-colonial regime. The artist adopts a syncretic gaze where pre-Columbian, colonial, modern and contemporary material productions come into friction.

La Fundación Ruth para las Artes (Ruth Arts) se complace en marcar su debut en el panorama de la filantropía artística con el anuncio de su ciclo inaugural de concesión de subvenciones. La nueva fundación cuenta con el respaldo de un legado de $440 millones de la difunta Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, y espera otorgar subvenciones por un total de más de $17 millones anuales.

In Alcobendas a new art gallery was inaugurated. This is Fleisch, a space dedicated to architecture, art and gastronomy. In an industrial warehouse renovated by Kurhaus Studio, the Spanish architect Nicolás Sfeir and the curators from Peru and Argentina Carlos García-Montero and Manuela Barreiro are carrying out an international project that proposes exhibitions with bold montages. This is Huacas: architectural synthesis by the Peruvian artist Yerko Zlatar, the exhibition that inaugurates its official program, which can be visited by appointment until the end of September.

From June 26 to September 5, Leandro Erlich presents “Seeing is Not Believing” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, an exhibition that challenges our perception of reality and distorts everyday situations under incredibly real visual effects.

Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is pleased to announce Antológica, a retrospective exhibition for gallery artist Graciela Hasper (b. 1966, Argentina) at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson in San Juan, Argentina. 

Incorporating a range of styles and movements that include Minimal Art,Transavanguardia, Pop Art and contemporary art, the exhibition presents works dealing with individual and societal struggles to attain balance, harmony and stability. At the same time, these works show how transient balance is, once it has been attained.

Pupila is the ambitious individual exhibition that the Argentine artist Eduardo Basualdo (Buenos Aires, 1977) has developed especially for the Modern Museum in dialogue with its director Victoria Noorthoorn, with whom he has already collaborated in the past, and especially for the Pontevedra Biennials (2006) and Lyon (2011).

Celebrating the work and legacy of the writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the IMS brings the exhibition Constelação Clarice. An investigation into the poetics of the author, curated by Eucanaã Ferraz and Veronica Stigger, the exhibition brings together approximately 300 pieces, including manuscripts, photographs, letters, records, press materials and other documents.

On April 7, the Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) presented his new installation Against the Extravagance of Desire at the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park. Last Thursday, July 7, three months after its inauguration, Bunga returns to the Palace to undertake a performative intervention on his work.

In this exhibition, photographs from Brazil turn to the constructions of national identity and culture based on the photographic collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition presents around 270 works by 120 artists, produced from 1860 to the present. It also includes a commissioned work by Rio de Janeiro-based visual artist Aline Motta, and a revival of her installation Filha natural.

The MACA is pleased to present two artists from the local scene in its exhibition halls: Verónica Vázquez and Martín Pelenur. Both with extensive experience both in Uruguay and abroad, present two unpublished exhibitions, especially created for MACA.