Reviews
Arte en el Plata
Impossible to ignore and really impressive, the four artistic interventions featuring gigantographs of works by up-and-coming contemporary artists on the façade of the Del Plata Building managed to transfer images which are habitually viewed in more intimate venues, such as museums and private collections, to the public sphere.
Andy Warhol
A great success of attendance, the traveling exhibition Andy Warhol. Mr. America, at Malba-Fundación Costantini, coincided with the sale of 200 One Dollar Bills (1962), auctioned by Sotheby’s for 43 million dollars; a smaller, cross-shaped version of the same work was featured at the Buenos Aires show.
Gabriela Albergaria
Galería Vermelho, Sao Paulo, inaugurated its 2010 exhibitions program with three excellent solo shows: “Universe”, work by the collective Detanico Lain; Ana María Tavares’s “Paisagems perdidas” (Lost Landscapes); and the recent work of the Portuguese artist Gabriela Albergaria.
Guillermo Trujillo
Independently of the pleasure or the gratification that we have always obtained from viewing Guillermo Trujillo’s works, he has not ceased to amaze us with his capacity to offer us new emotional experiences in each of his incursions in the world of creation.
Arturo Herrera
After a long wait, Venezuela witnessed the first solo show of Arturo Herrera (Caracas, 1959), an artist trained in the U.S.A. and currently living in Berlin.
Carlos Cruz-Diez
The sensation of color exerts an influence on and affects our everyday life. The lay person simply does not perceive it. Man shows more interest in form than in color. However, he experiences color in his daily life. To understand this we must analyze “the problem of color” and become aware of the fact that perception of the harmony of colors is part of an individual’s culture.
Ana María Nava
Ana María Nava’s (Venezuela, Edo. Zulia, 1962) work is featured as a fresh proposal related to the use of glass in art.
Oscar d’Empaire
As part of the development of the theme of assemblage, Oscar d’Empaire (Venezuela. Edo Zulia, 1930) is featuring his most recent show, where he exalts the use of iron and welding.
Muestra Nacional de Arte de Puerto Rico-09
Although presented with great irregularity, the Muestra Nacional de Arte de Puerto Rico (National Art Exhibition of Puerto Rico) is an event that is enthusiastically awaited and welcomed by the lovers of the visual arts of this island, since it gives them an idea − sometimes whimsical − of what is taking place in those complex and always changing/controversial creative spaces.
Tony Bechara
Tony Bechara (Puerto Rico, 1943) is an interesting combination between an icon of New York’s Hispano-American society.
Kreyol Factory
From the end of November, 2009 to the end of February, 2010, the exhibition spaces of the French Embassy in the Colonial District of Santo Domingo remained open to the public to feature the group show “Intersections/ Kréyol Factory”.
Julio Suárez
“Nothing is more disquieting than the ceaseless movement of that which appears to be motionless”. The phrase belongs to the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995). Julio Suárez (1947) rediscovers it on his clear and vertiginous mirrorlike compositions.
Betsabée Romero
The traveling retrospective of Betsabée Romero, curated by Julián Zugazagoitia, is an impeccable show in terms of the balance between the challenging baroque style of this Mexican artist who appropriates the rituals of popular aesthetics or combines the traces of pre-Hispanic iconography with participative forms of social irony, and a mise-en-scène that does not fear the void of space.
Antonia Guzmán
To a great extent, the safeguard for attempting the use of a lan- guage that represents the feminine has been the aggressiveness of proposals which, due to their strong content of emotional or social violence, cannot be considered “weak”.
Migraciones: Mirando al Sur
The exhibition Migraciones: Mirando al Sur Arte, organized by the Spanish Cultural Center in Miami and curated by Rosina Cazali, inverted the perspective of the migratory movement in the continent that involves multitudes moving northward, and performed a sort of cultural investigation of these crossings looking southward, to the artistic practices of Central America.
Milton Becerra
In its Miami venue, Durban Segnini Gallery presented “ALE’YA” (book of the principle of written truths), the solo show of Venezuelan artist Milton Becerra (Colón, 1951), who has been liv- ing and working in Paris since 1980.
Eduardo Costa
Ideobox Art Space has brought to Miami a retrospective exhibition of the work of Eduardo Costa (Buenos Aires, 1940) which, under the title “Mid Career Survey - Fashion Fictions, Names of Friends, & The Painting/ Object”, offers the viewer a summary vision of the prolific artistic production of the past forty years of this important and sui generis Argentine conceptualist.
Guerra de la Paz/Teresa Diehl
Beyond the Daily Life, the exhibition curated by Julián Navarro and held at the Center for Visual Communication in Miami from 5 December 2009 through 16 February, 2010, gathers together the work of Guerra de la Paz (the artistic duo formed by Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz) and Teresa Diehl.
Rubén Torres Llorca
So Quiet in Here was a memorable installation by Rubén Torres Llorca at El Museo del Barrio in New York in 1998.
Pablo Bronstein
Pablo Bronstein, (b. 1977, Buenos Aires, currently London-based) is the six artist to participate in a series of solo shows of young artists presented annually by the Metropolitan Museum, New York.
Lydia Rubio
The title of Lydia Rubio’s exhibition at the Beaux-Arts des Amériques, L’Étrangère (The Foreigner), evokes the title of Albert Camus’s famous book, although the artist obtained inspiration from a poem by Marjorie Agosin.
Nicola Costantino
With the strength of an atavism that brings intense emotions to the imaginary of contemporary art, the violence that pervades the history of Argentina seems to resurface in the work of artist Nicola Costantino.
Luiz Hermano
When I asked Luiz Hermano what he thinks about while weaving his complex threads of wire that bind together all sorts of prosaic objects, his answer was that he meditates.
Betsabeé Romero
The Mexican visual artist Betsabeé Romero1 expresses herself through different artistic mediums – painting, photography, collage, serigraphy, sculpture – but her favorite material is the car and all the parts and accessories that constitute it.
Javier Silva-Meinel
Based on the most traditional photography techniques and devoid of any kind of theatrical trick, the images portrayed by photographer Javier Silva-Meinel (Peru, 1949) manage to convey a powerful emotional and aesthetic energy.
Oscar Niemeyer
The exhibition presented at Fundación Telefónica in Madrid, in conjunction with the Fundación Cultural Hispano-Brasileña, is the well-deserved tribute to one of the most influential architects in the international context.
Limber Vilorio
The always interesting proposal of Limber Vilorio (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, 1972)
Zinny/Maidagán
Dolores Zinny (Rosario, Argentina, 1968) and Juan Maidagán (Rosario, Argentina, 1957) have been invited to explore Zollamt.
Norton Maza
How difficult it is not to feel impressed by the work of Norton Maza-Lautaro (Chile, 1971 -). An oeuvre reflecting a personal life of exile and travels.
Atelier Morales
The Steps Gallery presented the first solo show in London of Atelier Morales.
Interview - Marta Minujin
Marta Minujin interview by Philip Larratt-Smith