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Arte al Día takes a look at the curatorial selection that highlights works by Ibero-American galleries in the NEXT, RADAR and Main sections of Pinta Miami. The curatorial team for the 2024 edition of the fair is integrated by Irene Gelfman -global curator of Pinta and co-curator of FORO and Special Project-, Giuliana Vidarte -curator of NEXT and co-curator of FORO and Special Project- and Angelica Arbelaez -curator of RADAR.

Isabel Hurley Gallery in Malaga dedicates an exhibition as a tribute to Alberto Borea (Lima, Peru, 1971- ibidem, 2020). El negro estuvo aquí (2008-2013) goes through his last five years of production through a selection of representative works that were part of the solo shows Ruinas y ciudades, Mountains of America and Turista El Dorado, all of them exhibitions that the Peruvian made in this same gallery, in addition to the proposals made to be exhibited in Volta NY 2011 and ARCO 2013.

Since its foundation in 2007 in New York, Pinta has established itself as a key event in promoting Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese art. What began as a boutique fair in the Big Apple has evolved into a global concept connecting artists, galleries, and collectors worldwide.

The work of Voluspa Jarpa (Rancagua, Chile, 1971) has had a very preeminent focus on the political concept surrounding archiving and its documents. Attracted to investigate more about its multiple meanings as a result of the declassification of secrets, specifically the one carried out by the Clinton administration regarding the 1973 coup d'état against Salvador Allende, the artist begins a discursive investigation on the importance of the archival support and the materiality it has as a political document, which leads her to qualify that presupposed legibility.

The work Nicolás Lamas (Lima, Peru, 1980) presents at The Goma Galery in his solo show Flujos atemporales/sedimentos cognitivos is circumscribed to his way of understanding relationships in a network of knowledge that involves the worlds of the natural and the cultural. Both spheres are the ones that lead him to use in his production processes different materials, artificial and organic, with which he gives life to hybrid elements that have an impact on the viewer's perception.

Contemplando es como fuimos cambiando (Contemplating is how we changed) is the exhibition, the first one in Spain promoted by an institution, that the CICC Tabakalera in San Sebastian is dedicating to Gabriel Chaile (San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina, 1985), one of the most prominent names in contemporary Latin American sculpture. This proposal is intended to take an extensive look at his work, from his beginnings to his latest works produced in Lisbon, and which is recognizable by his monumental adobe, clay and metal pieces that reflect the morphology of the pre-Columbian ceramics of his native region.

The São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP) presents the exhibition Serigrafistas Queer: Liberdade para as sensibilidades (Freedom for sensibilities) from December 13 to March 16, 2025. It addresses themes such as the struggle for reproductive rights, bodily autonomy, the political approach to the HIV crisis, and the celebration of diverse affections and identities.

The exhibition Contar Rutinas (Counting Routines) dedicated by the Cerezales Antonino and Cinia Foundation to the work of Ana Amorim (São Paulo, Brazil, 1956) includes a selection of actions and performative works and installations that reflect the activity of the Brazilian artist from the 1980s to the present. The architecture of this exhibition is marked by the artist's daily conceptual and performative routines, reflecting their influence in the results of monumental dimensions.

Goya's Los Disparates preceded, or marked, painting's entry into modernity. Beyond this historiographical note, the series by the Aragonese master captures with masterful imagery the vicissitudes of irony, sarcasm and the darkness of a reality that has lasted through time to the present day. The plates of his etchings become the surface that deposits this reality, and the result, once impregnated, works as a full reminder of the origin of our essence, our fears and our actions.