Reviews
Alexandre Arrechea
In the work of Alexandre Arrechea –who will be representing Cuba in the 54th Venice Biennial − perspicacity, the meaning of which is “keen eyesight, acuteness of perception, discernment, or understanding,” defines a relationship with power in which the artist systematically resorts to humor as a strategy that leads him to hesitate just enough to discern its fissures and shake its hegemonic structures.
Guillermo Muñoz Vera
Probably the most significant item in this striking new series of paintings by Guillermo Muñoz Vera is the canvas called Los Geógrafos. It is a complex composition, which shows the artist’s virtuoso powers of realistic representation at full stretch.
Karina Peisajovich
Karina Peisajovich’s dazzling and surprising light interventions construct spaces and speculate about their perceptive possibilities; they address concerns associated to vision, to the direct relationship between the image and the eye.
Marta Minujín
The well-deserved retrospective of Marta Minujin’s (Buenos Aires, 1943) work at the MALBA, brought to the forefront the artist’s popularity and her complex artistic production, which revolves mainly around massive participation by the public and the alteration of perceptions, the modification of the environment, and the creation of a popular art.
The 60s and Pop
Jorge and Martín Castillo, of Galería Sur, made the opening of the exhibition The 60s and Pop: Politics and Sensuality coincide with the reception in honor of the directors of the prestigious international fair, who visited Punta del Este for the first time.
Liliana Porter
“They are visual commentaries that make reference to the human condition. What interests me is the simultaneity of humor and affliction, the banal and the possibility of meaning that may be found behind the works,” Liliana Porter (Buenos Aires, 1941) comments in relation to her exhibition at Galería del Paseo.
Sachiyo Nishimura
The work of Sachiyo Nishimura (1978) expands the notion of the photographic under abstract-minimalist strategies that disrupt, in turn, the notion of the real.
Palmario
Rather than revealing a point of view on the current Argentine art scene, Palmario introduces us into a universe shared by a curator and artist –Ana Gallardo– and the group of artists belonging to different generations that she convened
Jonidel Mendoza
Giambattista Vico (Naples, Italy, 1688-1744) in his book of 1725, The New Science or Principles of a New Science Regarding the Common Nature of Nations, opposed the criteria of rationalism, in particular the Cartesian destruction based on clear and distinct ideas, as the sole means to know the truth.
Jaime Gil Periférico Caracas-Centro de Arte Los Galpones
Of Catalonian parentage, Jaime Gili (Caracas, 1972) has lived in London since 1996. But he always returns to these lands to meet up with nature once again and manipulate it through his art interventions. He also does so in different countries.
Cali: Fallas de Origen
The politics of blood and fear established by Pablo Escobar and the Medellín Cartel with the aim of subjecting the Colombian society to their rule was very different from the one applied in Colombia’s Western Region. And this issue is precisely the central theme of this exhibition, which gathers together four artists under the curatorship of Juan Sebastián Ramírez.
Hernán Díaz
A selection of 150 photographs that include por- traits and documentary photography condenses half a century of artistic production by photographer Hernán Díaz (1929 – 2009).
Expansive References: Seven Ephemeral Murals
The traditional concept of mural painting, that instrument which rendered art democratic, drawing the absent-minded viewer towards a certain world of ideas that endures in time as a soundly established document.
Edgar Negret
Colombia paid homage to master artist Edgar Negret on his 90th birthday at its National Capitol.
Toys Art Us
I have always been obsessed with the perverse character that the naïve image of toys hides.
Consuelo Castañeda, Nereida García-Ferraz and Ángela Valella
Besides being an establishment for the dissemination of art, 801 Projects is, above all, an artistic project founded in 2005 to present performative events.
Feijão Com Arroz/Rice and Beans
This exhibition of video work curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti stood in stark contrast to its surroundings during the week of the overwhelming Art Basel Miami Beach fair.
Atelier Morales
Pilgrims is the title of the most recent photographic series conceived by the creative duo Atelier Morales, and it is also the title of the exhibition of this series that Curator’s Voice Art Projects is presenting in Miami.
Roberto Huarcaya
The Peruvian photographer Roberto Huarcaya (Lima, 1959) is one of the artists who uses the camera as a cogitative and analytic instrument, capturing and exposing reality in such a way that it leads us to discover aspects of this reality which we generally do not notice.
Rafael Soriano
Painter Rafael Soriano (Cuba, 1920) is not only one of the pioneers of abstract art in the Caribbean island; he is also one of the most original abstract artists in the American continent.
Mauro Giaconi
Mauro Giaconi’s universe is trussed up by a powerful secretiveness. His buildings impose their presence like enigmatic swarms, barriers, boundaries, impossibility.
Mario Bencomo
Opalia is the title of the most recent exhibition of works by the Cuban-American artist Mario Bencomo, presented by The Americas Collection.
Yoan Capote
I have followed the development of Yoan Capote’s work from his participation in the 8th Havana Biennial (2003) to his first solo exhibition last fall at the Jack Shainman Gallery.
Luis F. Benedit
Argentine artist Luis F. Benedit’s recent exhibition at Henrique Faria Gallery in New York is focused on the artist’s explorations regarding the elaboration of habitats and social organization systems.
Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco − Jalapa, Mexico 1962 − makes the issue of understanding and interpreting art through the limits a central theme in his work.
León Ferrari
In 1964 León Ferrari began his Manuscripts series choosing outdated words whose resonance he found more interesting than their meaning: words and texts capable of evoking rather than describing.
Leo Matiz
Paris Éternel, 1944: feux de la liberté, at Ideobox Art Space, and The Expanded Eye, curated by Osbel Suárez for the Miami Biennale, show facets of Leo Matiz’s (Aracataca, Magdalena, 1917– Bogotá, 1998) all-embracing eye.
Arturo Herrera
In Les Noces (The Wedding), 2007, the viewer witnesses a fragmentary projection of abstract shots following one another to the rhythm of Igor Stravinsky’s music.
Mario Testino
It is true that, beyond anything that might indirectly refer to the commercial aspects surrounding this exhibition, there is an important artistic background in the work of Mario Testino (Lima, Peru, 1954).
Carolina Caycedo
The past spring, Carolina Caycedo (London, United Kingdom, 1978) was invited to collaborate with Intermediae, one of the institutions devoted to contemporary creation launched in 2007 by the Madrid municipality, in a project based on the concepts of sound and neighborhood.
Abdul Vas
The argument that the exhibition project raises in this new presentation at Casado Santapau Gallery that we are referring to, is framed by a huge projection of elements, but it refers specifically to the relationship between this new species of humanoid chickens with machines.
Mariano Favetto
The landscape is, in fact, the summary or the visual product of a contemplative attitude with respect to the world that initially manifested itself exclusively in the reproduction of fields, skies and seas, but later projected itself strongly to encompass the rest of the world.
Adrián Villar Rojas
At the age of 30 and backed by a trajectory that is short in terms of time but extremely fruitful, even in the international arena, Adrián Villar Rojas is officially representing Argentina at the 54th edition of the Venice Biennial.
