Notes related to Painting
ESPEJO QUEMADA – DONNA HUANCA’S EXPERIMENTAL INSTALLATION AT BALLROOM MARFA
The artworks draw on visual, cultural, and mythological cues informed by feminism, decolonialism and the artist’s personal and familial histories, while simultaneously engaging with the biodiversity, geology, and dark skies of Far West Texas. The sky was particularly striking for Huanca–animated with cosmic and extraterrestrial forces while also revealing the natural rhythms of the sun and moon. ESPEJO QUEMADA is curated by Daisy Nam, Ballroom Marfa curator.
DANIEL ORTEGA CREATES AN IMAGINARY OF FUTURE ARCHEOLOGY IN HIS EXHIBITION "ABRAXAS"
Exhibited at Galería Zielinsky, this solo exhibition will take place until September 10, 2021 in Barcelona. It gives an account of the recent production of the artist, who bases his research on envisioning a new perspective of the landscape: extracting the layers of the environment he inhabits and discovering the synergies that arise between fragments of everyday ruins with materials of great symbolic charge.
BENJAMÍN CIEZA HURTADO EXHIBITS “SUBYUGADO” IN VIGIL GONZALES GALLERY
Set in Valle Sagrado de los Incas (Peru), the works are exhibited along with a made-for-the-occasion text written by Rafael Mayu Nolte. Taking its elements from banking, advertising and finance, the show aims to expose the ways in which a generation was manipulated and even suffocated by monetary schemes. Through metonimias and the deliberate invisibility of all identities but the white male, Cieza Hurtado speaks to the middle-class consciense of Lima.
ADRIANA VAREJÃO EXPLORES COLONIALISM THROUGH AESTHETIC SYNCRETISM AT GAGOSIAN NEW YORK
Varejão’s rich and diverse artistic oeuvre embodies the mythic pluralism of Brazilian identity and the fraught social, cultural, and aesthetic interactions that engendered it. Living and working in Rio de Janeiro, she draws upon the potent visual legacy of colonial histories and transnational exchange, creating confluent forms that expose the multivalent nature of memory and representation.
ABRA GALLERY EXHIBITS PAINTINGS BY JUAN CARLOS PORTILLO IN 'IT WILL BE BETTER THAN YESTERDAY'
It is an individual exhibition by the Venezuelan artist Juan Carlos Portillo made up of a set of 23 works that unfold in the room as a journey towards memory, where the flight of birds and a translucent atmosphere on the canvas trace a network that introduces the viewer in an anachronic album, the artist's personal blog, according to the gallery representatives.
LAST DAYS OF "ACTOS PREPARATIVOS: NEW LATIN AMERICAN FIGURATION"
The Chilean artist Pablo Linsambarth (Santiago de Chile, 1989) exhibits in VIGIL GONZALES’ Online Viewing Room (Peru). The exhibition aims to account for a new figurative aesthetic in development in the American continent. Taking into consideration the historical and social framework that surrounds Linsambarth's artistic impulses, the paintings on display are part of an equally interesting dialogue on an aesthetic, conceptual and political level.
