Notes related to Painting

Cuban artist Zilia Sánchez, known for her multidimensional paintings that challenge Minimalism with abstract, erotic forms, has died at the age 98. Her death was confirmed by the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico and Galerie Lelong & Co., which has represented the artist since 2013.

NSU Art Museum at Miami presents three exhibitions: Rose B. Simpson and Vanessa German: IT INCLUDES EVERYONE, EVERYWHERE, ALWAYS; the first solo museum exhibition of artist Cici McMonigle Creatures for the divine; and Vicious Circles, the first exhibition in the United States dedicated to artist Jacqueline de Jong.

Fundación Casa de Mexico in Spain hosts the exhibition Modern Art of Mexico, with funds from the Blaisten Collection and curated by Daniel Garza Usabiaga, which takes an interesting look at the country's 20th century production through the eyes of Margarita Nelken (Madrid, Spain, 1894-Mexico City, Mexico, 1968).

Pérez Art Museum presents the exhibition José Parla: Homecoming. Featuring new works and a site-specific mural exhibition, it marks the artist’s return to painting and Miami.

Lisbon's MAAT hosts the exhibition Disco, a show with more than half a thousand works by Vivian Suter (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1949) with which the institution pays tribute to the pictorial production of the Swiss-Argentine artist and her particular exploration of the interaction with nature and the different techniques and possibilities applicable to painting.

The Argentine artist Guillermo Kuitca was commissioned to create a site-specific work in the chapel of the Hôtel Salé, home of the Musée national Picasso-Paris. The final commission, whose canvas is the walls of the chapel, can now be visited.

Travesía Cuatro hosts at its Madrid headquarters Surf and Turf, the fifth exhibition that the gallery dedicates to Milena Múzquiz (Tijuana, Mexico, 1972), that gathers, with about thirty works, the continuity of the production that began after the aesthetic and technical change produced by the end of Los Súper Elegantes, a musical group that he shared with the Argentine Martiniano López Crozet, and which represented a platform that brought together his purest expression through voice and body, as well as with the aesthetic possibilities of costumes and image.

Germán Tagle (Santiago, Chile, 1976) returns to Madrid's Daniel Cuevas, where he held his first exhibition two years ago, with El territorio portátil, a show in which the Chilean artist returns to the axes of landscape, painting and culture that have been the backbone of his latest productions.

Lucio Fontana made one of the most extraordinary and radical gestures of modern art in 1958 when he cut the surface of a monochromatic canvas with a razor blade. The exhibition “Il y a eu un futur- Un Futuro c'é stato” at the Musée Soulage, Rodez, revisits the legacy of this artist and offers a survey of his entire oeuvre, before and after the war, in Argentina and Italy.

The exhibition Lia D Castro: Everywhere and Nowhere, at MASP – Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand is the artist’s first solo show in a museum, and brings together 36 works, most of which are figurative paintings. The selected works explore scenarios where affection, dialogue and imagination become important tools for social transformation.

The Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) in Badajoz is exhibiting, under the title Paisaje Transferido, a wide-ranging show by MartÍn Lopez Lam (Lima, Peru, 1981), one of the main exponents of graphic art in Spain, where he has been living for the last two decades.

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Aglaé Bassens: Emptiful is the debut solo museum presentation for the Brooklyn-based painter at Institute of Contemporary Art Miami.

Renowned artist Fernando Botero died on Friday, September 15, at the age of 91 at his residence in the Principality of Monaco.

EFG Latin America Art Award, in collaboration with ArtNexus, presented arteba 2023's nominated artist. Iosu Aramburu is one of the finalists for the annual acquisition award, which will be announced at Pinta Miami during Miami Art Week.

Tender Loving Care: Contemporary Art from the Collection at the Museum of fine Arts in Boston invites visitors to explore how contemporary artists trace and address concepts of care through their materials, subjects, ideas, and processes.

The experience of visiting the exhibition of Martín Reyna (Buenos Aires, Argentina) at the galerie Bessiere called Fluides is truly captivating. To achieve this, the artist took full advantage of the topographical qualities of the exhibition space. Fluides is an installation that maps the artist's work including a selection of paintings, many of them in large format on paper as the main support.

In March 1985, a breakthrough in filmmaking was released in United States’ theaters. Signed by Woody Allen and titled "The Purple Rose of Cairo", the search for the purple rose is nothing more than a way of approaching the impossible.

Emilio Martinez’s first solo museum exhibition Van Gogh, Lautrec, and me in NSU Art Museum. Curated by Bonnie Clearwater, Director and Chief Curator of the Museum.

"Judith Lauand/Walking into the future". In that way Profilograma Judith (2000), by Augusto de Campos, one of the main names of concrete poetry in Brazil, celebrates the art of Judith Lauand (1922-2022).  The São Paulo artist, a female figure almost isolated in the country, was given a long retrospective with 124 works and extensive documentation, opened before her death at the end of last year, at São Paulo Museum of Art (MASP).

The Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza, in collaboration with the National Gallery of London, presents a retrospective dedicated to the British painter Lucian Freud (1922-2011), on the occasion of the centenary of his birth.

"Giacoya" is the first solo exhibition of Floridian artist Mario Giacoya (1951) at the National Museum of Visual Arts (MNAV).

In her first solo exhibition, the artist from Córdoba moves between and beyond the limits of what can be said, from words and beyond them, with curatorship by Agustina Rinaldi.

The Claude Bernard Gallery is dedicating an exhibition as a tribute to the master Antonio Seguí, who passed away in February at the age of 88 in Buenos Aires.

Raquel Forner. Spatial Revelations. 1957-1987 at Museo de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires exhibits the series of paintings, drawings and engravings of the Argentine artist, dedicated to exploring the conquest of the cosmos.

The Spanish-German artist Gabriela Ayza Aschmann (Cologne, Germany, 1991) presents in Tomas Redrado Art a series of paintings created in 2022, as an experience of inquiry into the expanded borders of portraiture that strengthens her. It is a sustained practice that she carries out advancing against the background of the history of the avant-garde, but above all she acts as if she were tearing pages from her own life, to add them to art.

The EFG Latin America Art Award, in partnership with ArtNexus, presented the nominated artist for its annual acquisition award. Florencia Böhtlingk, from HACHE Gallery, Buenos Aires, adds up to the list of selected artists. The winner will be announced at Pinta Miami during Art Week in Miami.

ARKEN Museum of Modern Art opens the first major Leonora Carrington exhibition in Scandinavia. The artist was one of Surrealism’s key figures, rebelling against power hierarchies and conventions with a magical universe filled with humor, witchcraft and spirit.

Ruido / Noise is the first international survey of the work of Colombian American artist Karen Lamassone. Spanning from her early years to today, the exhibit at Swiss Institute shows the artist’s commitment to portraying women as desiring subjects.

During the last years painting has continued its course in permanent metamorphosis, adapting to the times, reviving from its previous deaths, stripping itself of accessories, undressing and even disappearing. A part of this process has focused on the mechanisms of production; the other, has been accompanied by an intense reflection that goes beyond painting and meditates on the status of image.

The new catalog raisonné of Oswaldo Vigas is now available online, thanks to the artist's foundation. This is the first Venezuelan artist to have a complete catalog of this kind.