Notes related to Puerto Rico
GISELA COLÓN: ANCIENT FORMS, NEW SOURCES OF TRANSFORMATION
The artist’s organic minimalism reveals the intertwining of ecological phenomena, personal and ancestral memory, and the relationship between cultural anthropology and the natural world.
DISCOVERING WHERE THE SUN TAKES REFUGE AND TURNING IT INTO ART
Jun Martínez uses artistic practice as a space for reflection; the Mexican gallery adhesivo hosts one of them.
WALTER OTERO: A TROPICAL GALLERIST IN AMERICA'S ECOSYSTEM
Books are published about artists, museums, and collectors—but why not talk about the gallerist, the one who connects them all?
ENERGY AND PATTERNS IN THE COSMOS, GISELA COLÓN IN CONNECTICUT
The Latin American artist draws inspiration from the landscapes of Puerto Rico and those of her adopted home in California to create sculptures that reveal the transformative power of nature.
A HUMANISTIC VIEW OF HOW THE WORLD IS INHABITED AT KUNSTHAUS HAMBURG
The group show Over Land and Sea, curated by Anna Nowak, tells of the migrant history of humanity, its present and future. In a tension between the tangible and the mythical, the animate and the industrial world, the works on display point to the vulnerability of human beings and, simultaneously, their inherent ability to change and transform.
FOUR GALLERIES, FOUR LATIN AMERICAN COUNTRIES AT PINTA MIAMI 2024
The Pinta Miami 2024 edition -from December 5 to 8- presents proposals that enhance the Latin American gene. Arte al Día highlights four galleries from four Latin American countries: Petrus Gallery in Puerto Rico, Proyecto H in Spain and Mexico, Salar Gallery in Bolivia and Judas Gallery in Chile.
THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MEANINGS OF KARLO ANDREI IBARRA AT CAAM
Concrete Wounds/Herida concreta is the exhibition that the Canary Islands' Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) is dedicating to Karlo Andrei Ibarra (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1982), one of the most promising and internationally renowned names of the Puerto Rican art scene.
GENESIS AND BORICUA RESONANCES IN REVOLÚ
The birth of a new collective is always good news, and it is so for several reasons. Firstly, because of the existence of collective dynamics that bring together different points of view and, second, because, in a didactic way, it contributes to illustrate and understand the current cartographies of art. For the Revolú collective, formed by Andrés Meléndez (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1996), Miguel Ángel Feba (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1994) and Marcos Daniel Vicéns (Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1996), their first exhibition experience is the result of an artistic residency in which, almost blindly, they have been able to build those specific ties to start from the individual and reach the group identity.
PROCESS AND CLIMATE IMPACT IN HERIBERTO NIEVES
There is something structural in the Museo La Neomudéjar that allows plastic initiatives such as those of Heriberto Nieves (Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, 1957) to acquire greater meaning thanks to the dialogue with the space offered by this Madrid institution.
ART AND ACTIVISIM BETWEEN CHICAGO AND PUERTO RICO
Entre horizontes: art and activism between Chicago and Puerto Rico at the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art examines the artistic genealogies and social justice movements that connect Puerto Rico with Chicago.
BEATRIZ SANTIAGO MUÑOZ: ORIANA
argos Center for Audiovisual Arts presents Oriana, the first solo exhibition in Belgium by Puerto Rican artist Beatriz Santiago Muñoz.
NO EXISTE UN MUNDO POSHURACÁN: PUERTO-RICAN ART IN WHITNEY MUSEUM
The exhibition explores how artists have responded to the transformative years since the hurricane by bringing together more than fifty artworks made over the last five years by an intergenerational group of more than fifteen artists from Puerto Rico and the diaspora.

