Reviews

The sculptures of Amilcar de Castro all stem from the same basic procedure of cut and fold. He mastered the technique of turning hard metal into what appeared to be mere sheets of paper, surfaces that seem almost pliable and end up that way after strenuous efforts.

Luisa Richter (Germany, 1928) once told us that one of the reasons why she did not leave Venezuela was her attachment to her house and her fascination for the light of the tropics.

Photography-based works by Susy Iglicki tie together very diverse space-historical times, showing how the river of blood that crosses the history of the world tends to bury the signs of identity. Her art tries to make us see, to re-humanize.

It is always a privilege when someone opens that whimsical window that leads to the unsuspected inner world of each human being. This is exactly the risk and the joy afforded by the exhibition “A little window inside my head”, by Cuban artist residing in Miami Ana Albertina Delgado.

Antonia Eiriz used to refer to Guido Llinás’s grocery store, where the works of Cuban abstract painters were kept − forgotten for almost twenty years − as “the catacombs of Cuban art”, and the fact is that the history of abstract art in Cuba reflects one of the most difficult paths within the panorama of the visual arts of the island, since this art was faced more often than not with rejection or incomprehension, or with downright oblivion.

The body of Rómulo Aguerre´s photographic work is presented in this exhibition through an impeccable and limited selection of pieces that justifies the international interest that the legacy of this artist (Montevideo, 1919-2002) has aroused in recent years among collectors and institutions of the field of art.

The 2012 New Museum Ungovernables Triennial samples work by thirty-four artists born in the 1970s and 80s and from parts of the world “foreign” to New York audiences, primarily the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

Le Bal (independent space devoted to photography, videos, cinema and new communication media) invites visitors to an unprecedented experience...

A retrospective of the work of Uruguayan artist Luis Camnitzer will be held in June at the Museo de Arte de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

Three large-scale canvases by Valeska Soares occupy the three main walls of Eleven Rivington – concurrently on view with the artist’s extensive exhibition of the same series at Fortes Vilaça gallery in Sao Paulo.

From May 1 through June 22, the first solo show in New York City of Soledad Arias (Buenos Aires, 1959) will be held at RH Gallery. The title of the exhibition, “ON AIR”, refers to the live retransmission of texts and to the exhaling of air necessary for speech.

Last October, in her third and most recent exhibition “ Constructions” at Cecilia de Torres Gallery, Argentinean born Marta Chilindron presented a series of seven new works - all of which emphasize and highlight trademark themes in her art of the last few years: movement, geometry, responses to light and the difference between perception and reality.

Finland, Op. 26 is the official title of a symphonic poem written in 1899 by the Finnish composer Jean Sibelius. At that time, Finland was under Russian dominion, and the piece, composed for an event organized by the local press, which was subjected to a rigorous censorship, immediately became a hymn incarnating opposition to foreign rule, and more specifically, to censorship and oppression.

From May 5 through June 16, visitors will have the chance to appreciate for the first time in New York, artist Hélio Oiticica’s (Rio de Janeiro, 1937-1980) installations Penetrável PN1, Penetrável Filtro and Penetrável PN28 “Nas Quebradas” at Galerie Lelong.

Nayda Collazo-Llorens’ latest works displayed in her individual show at LMAKprojects are so fascinating, complex and inquisitive as usual.

Eduardo Stupía has been in the public eye ever since his first solo show held in 1972 at the legendary Lirolay gallery. Writer Ricardo Piglia (Argentina, 1941), whose most recent novel, Blanco nocturno (Anagrama, 2010) obtained the Dashiell Hammett Award, the National Critics’ Award (Spain), the Rómulo Gallegos and the Casa de las Américas awards, has kept a private diary for more than fifty years.

Fernanda Laguna, a paradigmatic artist of the 1990s whose artistic talent was many times pushed into the background by her brilliant role as a cultural manager, is presenting the brief retrospective “Don’t trust what you see” at Nora Fisch Gallery.

As a heart-felt paradox and a homage, Mirtha Dermisache (Buenos Aires, 1940-2012) is included among the seven artists of the exhibition Color - instructions for use.

According to the Gospels, after Jesus’ death and resurrection he appeared before his disciples. Thomas was not present on that occasion and he did not believe when the other apostles told him what they had seen.

I became very interested in the seriousness and the rigor of the work of Erica Sogbe (Venezuela, 1979), her analytical capacity at the time of proposing new reading strategies for the construction of the relationship between form and the formless;

As a foretaste of what will be displayed at the Havana Biennial as of May, Magnan Metz has assembled the latest – and perhaps the most audacious – works of Alexandre Arrechea.

The Center for Puerto Rican Studies (Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños), founded almost forty years ago, is a research-based institute with a vast and invaluable collection of materials documenting Puerto Rican life and culture in New York.

Iran do Espírito Santo was born in 1963 in the city of Mococa, Brazil. As a teenager, he worked in a photography lab processing black and white prints, which was to later greatly impact his work.

Many times − and this occurs in the visual arts − we are presented with a complex narrative, occasionally anachronistic, or with a synthesis that verges on minimalism and forces us to imagine that which has not been depicted, or conversely, to depict the unimaginable.

As of at least 2002, when he began his series of street dwellers in London city, collectively titled Sitters, the work of Ricardo Alcaide (Caracas, 1967) explores the borderline character of the skin; it penetrates into the metaphorical richness of membranes (whether they be walls, blankets, plastic sheets, fences, or the skin itself) that separate the interior from the exterior, that divide one world from another world that is its obverse, its opposite.

In an interview with Felipe Ehrenberg (Mexico City, 1943) included in the catalogue of his exhibition, Manchuria, Visión Periférica (Manchuria, Peripheral Vision) (2006), Guillermo Gómez-Peña calls the indefinable artist (furiously Mexican in the first place, and then, universal) who prefers to call himself − like his father, Duchamp − an “artisano” (a play with words combining artisan/artist and “sano”/healthy), although his actual profession is that of “neologist”, inventor of logical systems of thought, that is, of languages, "my conceptual goD.F.ather."

A musician and painter, concerned with the human figure and the landscape, mural art and spontaneous symbols, the effects of light and the vibration of nuances, Leopoldo Torres Agüero was, in all the stages of his production, an artist inclined to experiment with form and color.