Reviews
ArtexArte
Chronological leaps and narrative soundness may be found in “Photography in Argentina 1840-2010”, the exhibition that spans the history of the discipline from its origins to the present, through canonical images and other less known ones.
Monique Rozanès
They look like exotic jewels from an Arabian Nights’ tale. We are referrring to the work of an artist with a long and fruitful trajectory, Monique Rozanès.
Ana Mendieta
Who was Ana Mendieta? Who is Ana Mendieta today? “One of the most inventive and iconoclastic artists of the late 20th century;” such the categorical assertion of Olga Viso, director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C.
Pablo Vargas Lugo
I first came across the work of Pablo Vargas Lugo (Mexico City, 1968) in the late 1990’s around the time that his seminal pieces began to exhibit internationally, thus becoming referential outside of Mexican contemporary art circles
Pablo Reinoso
Pablo Reinoso’s Buenos Aires, 1955 bold oeuvre defies perception; it plays with illusion and with the viewer’s participation, offering a framework for reflection.
MATEO LÓPEZ: AN OEUVRE ADRIFT FROM THE CONTINENT
In Mateo López’s oeuvre, drawing and its three dimensional projections are analogous to the hand that gropingly explores the world, spreading out into lines over the space with a playfulness that evokes Plato’s Myth of the Cave.
THE REVEALING DIALOGUE BETWEEN CRUZ-DIEZ AND ARIEL JIMÉNEZ
Carlos Cruz-Diez in conversation with Ariel Jiménez is the title of the first of a series of books included in an important editorial project conceived by the Cisneros Foundation, aimed at enriching the history under construction of Latin American art through a valuable resource that has been over looked by critics: the unreplaceable dialogue with the artist.
Marcelo Pombo
In search of new images, Marcelo Pombo reached “The Depths of the Sea” (“Lo profundo del mar”) the title of his latest exhibition , and this is the origin of the works he is currently showing at Zavaleta Lab.
Rosario López
Between 12 August and 2 October, 2010, Casas Riegner Gallery, Bogotá is hosting the exhibition “Rosario López: lo informe y el límite” (Rosario López: the shapeless and the limit), in which the Colombian artist presents her most recent production.
Re(cámaras): Espacios para una fotografía extendida.
From 11 August through 27 October, 2010, the Mint of the Bank of the Republic is hosting the temporary exhibition “Re(cámaras): Espacios para una fotografía extendida”, curated by María Wills Londoño.
Juan Carlos Distéfano
Social and artistic memory in Juan Carlos Distéfano. Obras 1958- 2010, the wonderful exhibition featuring more than 70 works by the remarkable Juan Carlos Distéfano (Buenos Aires, 1933), held at the Art Space of the OSDE Foundation in Buenos Aires.
Paolo Gasparini
The exhibition of photographies by brothers Graziano and Paolo Gasparini, entitled “2 x Gasparini” takes us back to two visions of contemporary Venezuelan photography.
Luis Lizardo
The title of this exhibition is somewhat disconcerting. Luis Lizardo (Venezuela, Caracas, 1956) is showing his recent work in the framework of the old coffeee drying patios of the Hacienda La Trinidad, in Caracas.
Domingo de Lucía
The story of carmine red is associated to sex, violence and political struggles. Also to war and drama. The humble cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) that produces it was always alien to the passions it generated. I
Nelson Domínguez
“De Cuba Nelson Domínguez: Pintura, escultura, dibujo y grabados” (“From Cuba Nelson Domínguez: Painting, sculpture, drawing and engraving”), the first solo show of this great Cuban artist in the Dominican Republic, ran from mid-June to the end of September at the welcoming spaces of Alinka Arte Contemporáneo.
José Dávila
In José Dávila’s one-person exhibition at OMR Gallery in Mexico City, Ningún donde puede ser aquí a title inspired by the expression “Nowhere can be there".
José Luis Landet
The term ‘sesera’ (brainpan) refers to the part of the skull that encloses the brain and the grey matter itself, while at the same time it also serves to describe the person who acts with prudence and good judgment.
"Boy, Oh Boy!"
The Miami gallery Fredric Snitzer presented its summer group show, which explores a “macho/masculine” position throughout a wide spectrum ranging from the macho-macho, the peacock, and the gay man or woman, to childhood and the boy-girl relationship.
Pepe López
Under the title A Collective Sum, the Wynwood District gallery Ideobox Artspace presented during the past month of April three solo shows.
New Work Miami 2010
New Work Miami 2010, “was conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami’s artistic community, and it will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment,” according to the press release issued by the Miami Art Museum to promote the exhibit.
Volf Roitman
One day, talking with Volf Roitman, he confessed to me that he saw everything in the shape of the geometric forms that the MADI movement had created.
Liliam Cuenca
Painting, as we are taught by Asians, Romantics and Surrealists alike, is valuable insofar as it opens a door to imagination.
La carpeta de los diez
The idea of grouping together was Fred Schiffer’s, and it was inspired by a similar model, an association of photographers formed at the end of the 19th century in London (Linked Ring Brotherhood), but the written pages were kept by Annemarie Heinrich.
Nicola Costantino
The ground floor of the tower conceived by César Pelli for YPF is a unique scenario to exhibit Trailer, Nicola Costantino’s most recent production, which consists of five trailers and several bill boards announcing the homonymous short film.
Leonardo Pellegrini
An architect and urban planner, Leonardo Pellegrini (Argentina, 1969) lives and works in Salta “the beautiful”, as announced in the advertisement that promotes this province, in whose premises in Buenos Aires city the solo show MB # is being held.
Graciela Hasper
Graciela Hasper’s (Buenos Aires, 1966) interest in addressing the problems of painting has been evident since she began to show her work in 1989.
Alicia Villarreal
“La enseñanza de la geografía, dos ejercicios” es una obra concebida en proceso, donde la artista se ha relacionado con una historia y una situación de lugar, diseñando actividades y un montaje que buscaron integrar activamente a la comunidad.
Alejandro Quiroga
The series “Fine Tuning VOL. V / La tierra que habla” is inevitably included in a tradition of local landscape and “blot” painting developed from the late 19th century to the preset.
Ismael Frigerio
Ismael Frigerio (1955) emerged at the end of the 1970s from a generation of Chilean painters influenced by the transavantgard and Neo-Expressionism.
Johanna Unzueta
There is a certain “Neo-conceptual” art in Chile that succeeds in reconnecting the aesthetic discourse and the aesthetic experience through craftswork and ordinary, everyday objects, bringing the public into contact with the artwork.
Leo Matiz
The Comet Gallery presented a small homage exhibition for the photographer Leo Matiz under the title Geometría en Colombia (Geometry in Colombia).
Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection
The exhibition Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection at the Lowe Art Museum is the first to exhibit in Miami the art of the politically disobedient generation that introduced contemporary art to Cuba in the early 1980s.
Alexander Apóstol
When at the end of November of 1952, the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela suspended the ballot count corresponding to that year’s elections, the country entered a period of authoritarian rule under General Marcos Pérez Jiménez which would last six years.
