Museum Exhibitions
The itinerant exhibition “Oscar Muñoz/Protografías”, which ended in March at the Art Museum of the Banco de la República in Bogotá, Colombia, and will later travel to the Lima Art Museum (Mali), Lima, Peru; to the Museum of Latin American Art (MALBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina; to the Antioquia Museum, Medellín, Colombia, originated at the Art Museum of the Banco de la República in Bogotá, and was curated by José Roca and María Wills (adjunct curator).
Interview
The Colombian curator José Roca, who is the newly appointed Estrellita B. Brodsky Adjunct Curator of Latin American Art at Tate, London, and who represents the gallery in Latin America and plays a leading role in strengthening its already close relationship with the art of the region, was interviewed by his fellow countrywoman, María Inés Rodríguez, recently appointed Chief Curator at the Tamayo Museum, after having served in the same capacity at the Castile and León Museum of Contemporary Art (MUSAC).
News
Retaining the concept introduced by Adriano Pedrosa of a south that comprises the entire hemisphere and of practices that involve forms of resistance, the curator of Zona Maco Sur 2012, Patrick Charpenel, broke the linearity in the distribution and reformed the architecture of the area jointly with Luis Aldrete, who adapted the design of the spaces to the works.
On May 22 and 23, Christie's Latin American sale will offer an exceptional selection of works by modern and contemporary masters hailing from Mexico, Venezuela, Brazil, Argentina, Puerto Rico, Colombia, and many other regions throughout the Americas.
No Heroics, Please is the title of a posthumous compilation of short stories written by the American novelist and poet Raymond Carver during his youth, who understood that the value of the writing is within the daily happenings.
Reviews
As a heart-felt paradox and a homage, Mirtha Dermisache (Buenos Aires, 1940-2012) is included among the seven artists of the exhibition Color - instructions for use.
Fernanda Laguna, a paradigmatic artist of the 1990s whose artistic talent was many times pushed into the background by her brilliant role as a cultural manager, is presenting the brief retrospective “Don’t trust what you see” at Nora Fisch Gallery.
I became very interested in the seriousness and the rigor of the work of Erica Sogbe (Venezuela, 1979), her analytical capacity at the time of proposing new reading strategies for the construction of the relationship between form and the formless;
