THE SUBTLETY OF SANDRA CINTO, AT ES BALUARD

By Álvaro de Benito

A veces sueño que cae un meteorito sobre el mundo y lo construye (Sometimes I dream that a meteorite falls upon the world and builds it) is the proposal that Karlo Andrei Ibarra (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1982) presents at the Madrid venue of La Cometa. This exhibition, of enormous conceptualism, originates in the author’s fantasy and is transformed into a paradox: the reconstruction of a world that seems only possible through the impact of an asteroid.

Álvaro de Benito

At its Madrid venue Travesía Cuatro presents Las niñas del altiplano, an exhibition that forms the second chapter of Donna Huanca’s (Chicago, United States, 1980) first solo show in this space. While in Lengua de Bartolina Sisa (2017) the Bolivian-American artist paid a personal tribute to the heroine who led the Indigenous revolution against colonialism in the 18th century, her most recent proposal focuses on the female body and psyche, seeking reconstruction on all levels and instrumentalizing ritual as a means of repair oriented toward the future.

By Álvaro de Benito

Barcelona’s ADN Galería hosts Glass Ceiling, the second solo exhibition by Regina José Galindo (Guatemala City, Guatemala, 1974) in this space. The show brings together a selection of works that combine the techniques most often employed by the artist, with a key emphasis on her production in performance, video, and photography.

By Álvaro de Benito

Ninety-five years have passed since the iconic exhibition at New York’s Julien Levy Gallery dedicated to Manuel Álvarez Bravo (Mexico City, Mexico, 1902 – ibid., 2002), which brought the Mexican photographer’s work into the spotlight. Now, his oeuvre is once again the subject of study in Spain, where it had not been shown for more than a decade, through the exhibition organized by the Blanca Berlín Gallery in Madrid.

By Álvaro de Benito

Espacio Mínimo presents Alamandas, the second solo show by Mauro Piva (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1977) at the Madrid gallery. The proposal navigates through a universe with a strong natural presence, where connections between memory and spirituality—almost shamanic—emerge. From his own life experience, the Brazilian artist draws an environment built around remembrance, around the force and impact of the present upon the space one longs to return to, but which, in a certain sense, drifts away from the real.