Reviews

The art collection of Juan Carlos Maldonado, from Miami, is a treasure that runs through geometric abstraction and concretism with its social implications, mainly in South America and extended to the international scene.

In a dialogue between techniques, rituals, mythologies and stories, Argentine artists Constanza Chiappini, Gonzalo Maggi and Julia Rosetti establish a story that challenges the present in the exhibition The first sword was a gift.

Within the framework of what was Radical Women exhibition that was given at the Hammer Museum, L.A., California, independent critic and curator Adriana Herrera Téllez reflects on the visibility of these artists and the legacy proposed by the catalog.

Elvis Fuentes reflects on Stories of Sexuality exhiition in the MASP and the importance of controversial art.

In a context of hyperinformation and image overproduction, José Antonio Navarrete reflected on the construction of meaning in contemporary visual arts from the artwork of Willy Castellanos.

Argentine artist Constanza Oxenford presents Dimensions of the same, her second solo show at OdA, Art Gallery

The Rolf Art gallery exhibits Falta compartida (Shared Absence). Conceived as a collective exhibition in collaboration with Mon Charpentier, eleven Latin American artists approach memory from diverse languages.

At his 90, the Kirchner Cultural Center presents the most important retrospective of Julio Le Parc. Main figure of optical art and international avant-garde, Julio Le Parc. A visionary will accompany the exhibition that is being set up by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires.

On exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires until September 29, ¿Quién es esa chica? (Who's that girl ?), by Flavia Da Rin, is the first retrospective in a museum of one of the most relevant figures of the Argentine contemporary scene.

"The Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy said that his art school was not the academy but the beach. Mine was the VCR," wrote Leandro Erlich in the framework of his exhibition Coming Soon, in Ruth Benzacar.

Problems between the genius artist myth and the woman sign. Review of Gachi Rosati's Ver la diferencia (See the difference) exhibition at Lanzallamas Art Space.

At France National Library in Paris, a tribute is paid to the renowned Argentine artist, Antonio Seguí. From the pictorial to the narrative, the game of the exhibition reflects Seguí's search for a redefinition of mankind.

The visual artist, writer, and filmmaker spoke with Julia P. Herzberg for Arte al Día about his work process, his interest in photography and its boundaries.

Art Paris 2019!

Curated by Joaquín Barrera, Las cosas que Crecen is the second exhibition of the young project led by the pair Jen Zapata and Andrés Matías Pinilla located in the neighborhood of San Telmo. On this occasion, and as a strong bet during the ArteBA art fair weekend, Lanzallamas attacked with a solid collective proposal.

The reasoned catalog of the Coloritmos by Alejandro Otero is published in Caracas, a volume with more than three hundred pages that delves for the first time into a chapter little studied and of great value for the Venezuelan and Latin American art of the XX century.

Narciso plebeyo is the title chosen for the Pablo Suárez (1937-2006) exhibition curated by Jimena Ferreiro and Rafael Cippolini at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA). From the part towards the whole, the sculptural installation Narciso de Mataderos (1984-1985) projects as a key to look at the whole of the portrait of a subjectivity, which in each work is imbricated with the folds of a social history. In these folds the plebeian appears as a program of intervention in the art system and as a torsion of the artistic canon. The biographical effect of the exhibition reflects a work of collective memory carried out by those who knew it and contributed to the historical thickness of the exhibition.

Entering Delia Cancela. Reina de corazones (Delia Cancela. Queen of hearts), exhibition curated by Carla Barbero at Buenos Aires Museum of Modern Art, we are greeted by a painting with curved contours. Inward, large planes of primary colors oppress a face with absorbed eyes; outward, those planes push against the edges like a cloud in the instant before losing its contour. In Mujer y nubes (Woman and Clouds), of 1965, the formal synthesis of a pin-up figure and the effects of reverie annotated, with stereotypical signs, by a camp consciousness converge. The piece realized in co-authorship with Pablo Mesejean was, perhaps, chosen for the position it occupies by knotting three tenacious lines in Cancela’s production: visual mass culture, representations of femininity and visualized fantasy as an expanding force.

On Air is the fourth edition of the carte blanche exhibition series that offers selected artists the opportunity to appropriate all the exhibition spaces of the Palais de Tokyo, in Paris. For the occasion, Tomás Saraceno has made his greatest project to date which brings together some of his main works, installations and unpublished creations. An interactive project that links art and science and that makes the Palais de Tokyo a place of unique sensory experience. This multidisciplinary purpose continues the artist's research on the relationship between humans and non-humans. A collaborative and evolutionary project designed to imagine new ways of inhabiting the world.

Filled with artworks and prototypes for his next individual exhibition in La Boca neighborhood, Gonzalo Maggi’s studio-house in Villa General Miter remains hidden like a small museum. Behind two monitors, in front of the library, the young Argentinean artist takes a review over the works he has been doing throughout his career. Graduated from the Universidad del Cine almost a decade ago, Maggi changed cinema for the photography, but his production processes have more cinematographic filming than anything else.

The Fondation Cartier explores the diversity of Latin America modern art through Géométries Sud, du Mexique à la Terre de Feu, enhancing the richness and variety of ornaments, colors and figures in southern continent art. Gathering about 250 works from pre-Columbian period to the most contemporary productions, including popular art, abstract art, ceramics, sculpture, architecture and basketry, the exposition investigates the multiple forms of geometric abstraction in Latin America, which are inspired in pre-Columbian art, European avant-garde’s or in indigenous cultures still alive.

Until November 25, on the sixth floor of a business building in Buenos Aires City (928 Lenado N. Alem street), a sui generis collective exhibition within the Argentine contemporary scene opened. With the participation of ten of the most outstanding plastic artists since 2000 -Juan Becú, Florencia Bohtlingk, Laura Codega, Max Gómez Canle, Vicente Grondona, Máximo Pedraza, Tiziana Pierri, Déborah Pruden, Nahuel Vecino and Lorena Ventimiglia-, Le Le Lend inaugurated two weeks ago as a self-curated show.

Since immemorial times, the thread has fascinated and inspired artists and poets, and mythology has developed incessantly its mysteries: The Ariadne thread, the Moebius ribbon ...