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VENICE BIENNALE 2024 – LATIN AMERICA EVERYWHERE
The 2024 edition of the Venice Biennale is coming to an end. Stranieri Ovunque - Foreigners Everywhere, curated by Brazilian Adriano Pedrosa, offered a reflection through art about migration and borders, recurring themes in today's global discussion. Arte al Día was present to cover the 60th International Exhibition, not only to bring the work of more than 300 artists from almost 100 countries, but also to focus on the contribution of Latin American artists to the global scene, whose presence marked a high point in this edition.
JOSÉ PARLA’S PAINTINGS AT PAMM
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.
NEW NARRATIVES IN THE FOTO COLECTANIA COLLECTION IN MIAMI
The exhibition Beyond the Single Image. Spanish Photography from the Foto Colectania Collection, Barcelona, at The Marguiles Collection at the Warehouse in Miami, presents 150 works by 36 artists from the Foto Colectania Collection, that currently comprises more than 3,000 photographs by Catalan, Spanish, and Portuguese authors, making it undoubtedly one of the most comprehensive private photography collections in the Iberian Peninsula.
DESPUJOLS' EMBROIDERED GEOMETRY AT LLAMAZARES
Isabella Despujols (Barquisemeto, Venezuela, 1994), Venezuelan artist based in Brazil, uses her artistic references for the realization of her latest series of works, a set made this year where textiles and embroidery are especially relevant, as well as the formal fact that they reflect. In them is palpable the conversation that he intends to maintain with those styles and languages that were fundamental in the countries to which he circumscribes his personal experience.
COSMOTECHNICS: LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS IN FACT LIVERPOOL
FACT Liverpool presents Cosmotechnics, a group exhibition by Latin American artists curated by FACT’s Curator-in-residence Beatrice Zaideberg. Cosmotechnics showcases a series of transformative installations featuring video, sound, sculpture, and digital media.
ADELA CASACUBERTA: MYCELIUM, FRAGMENTATION AND TRANSFORMATION
The Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales in Montevideo, Uruguay, presents the work of Mexican artist Adela Casacuberta. It is a site-specific installation Pink mushrooms in the museum's gardens and an exhibition of her most recent works.
THE TERRITORIAL BY THREE LATIN AMERICAN ARTISTS AT ÁNGELES BAÑOS
Based on the biologicist theories on territoriality and the relationships derived from living beings with their immediate environment, the Angeles Baños gallery from Badajoz proposes an exhibition project to three Latin American artists so that, through their experiences and their personal vision, they can materialize and express those feelings of territoriality, and always from the parallelism of the human being with the rest of living beings.
VENTO BY ALBERTO BARAYA – IN PONTEVEDRA
The Museum of Pontevedra exhibits Vento (wind, in Galician), the proposal that the artist Alberto Baraya (Bogota, Colombia, 1968) has developed and now shows at its headquarters in the Castelao Building as part of the cycle of exhibitions Infiltracións. This program aims to carry out specific projects that have as their backbone the dialogue arising from research and work with pieces from the collection of the Galician institution to promote re-readings on it.
AVAF IN MIAMI – AN INSTALLATION AT THE BASS
The Bass is presenting the exhibition asume vivid astro focus – XI, an enveloping installation of patterned wallpaper and decal graphics that spans floor to ceiling in a setting created for works by more than thirty artists. On view from November 13, 2024.
HURVIN ANDERSON’S LANDSCAPES AT PAMM
Inspired by the murals of Carl Abrahams lining the departures lounge of Kingston Jamaica’s Norman Manley International Airport, Hurvin Anderson presents a new, sixteen-panel, monumental painting in his first solo show at Pérez Art Museum Miami.
RUBEM VALENTIM AT ICA MIAMI: THINKING AND TRANSFORMATION
ICA Miami presents the first US museum exhibition of the late Afro-Brazilian painter Rubem Valentim (b. 1922, Salvador, Brazil; d. 1991, São Paulo). A singular voice in modernist painting and geometric abstraction, Valentim explored the medium’s formal concerns and social resonances across cultures and spiritual practices. This exhibition focuses on works Valentim produced in the 1960s, and the transformation of his work and thinking during this time.
THE LAST GALLERY EDITION OF THE YEAR IN BUENOS AIRES
On Saturday, November 9, 2024, a new edition of Gallery arrives to explore the neighborhoods of San Telmo and La Boca, in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Gallery promotes free tours through art circuits where visitors can discover a great diversity of galleries, museums, artists' studios and foundations. A great opportunity to bring contemporary art closer to the general public and promote the extraordinary local offer.
VIVIAN SUTER AND THE RELEVANCE OF SURROUNDINGS AT MAAT IN LISBON
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.
ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA’S “BARE TOOL” AT LOCUST PROJECTS
Locust Projects presents Bare Tool (Herramienta desnuda), a new exhibition by artist Alexandre Arrechea that explores the action of a stone skipping across water as a metaphor for “social sculpture” and the resulting ripple effect, which the artist envisions in three acts: “The Tool,” “The Action,” and “The Implications,” unfolding as a large scale, immersive multimedia experience that invites reflection on the power of individual acts.
TOMÁS SARACENO'S INSTALLATION AT THE COPENAGHEN PLANETARIUM
The Copenhagen Planetarium opens a permanent installation by Tomás Saraceno, Cosmic Threads, where the public is invited to reflect on the enigmas of the universe and human responsibility for the future of the planet.
OLGA DE AMARAL IN PARIS: AN EXHIBITION AT THE FONDATION CARTIER
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is presenting the first major retrospective in Europe of Olga de Amaral, a key figure of the Colombian art scene and of Fiber Art. The exhibition brings together nearly eighty works made between the 1960s and now, many of which have never been shown before outside of Colombia.
AN EXHIBITION AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM ADDRESSING POLITICAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND SOCIAL CHANGE
Shifting Landscapes is a group exhibition at the Whitney Museum that explores how constantly evolving political, ecological, and social landscapes inspire artists and their interpretations of the world around them.
CECILIA VICUÑA & JULIAN CHARRIÈRE: INAUGURAL ERIC AND WENDY SCHMIDT ENVIRONMENT AND ART PRIZE
The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) announced two winners of the inaugural Eric and Wendy Schmidt Environment and Art Prize: Julian Charrière (b. 1987 in Morges, Switzerland; lives and works in Berlin, Germany) and Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948 in Santiago, Chile; lives and works in New York, NY and Santiago, Chile). Each artist will receive 100,000 USD and institutional support from MOCA to develop a commissioned project addressing the critical intersections of art, climate change, and environmental justice.
ACCRETION: WORKS BY LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN
Santa Barbara Museum of Art presents the exhibition Accretion: Works by Latin American Women, with works from artists from the United States but with roots in Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico and Peru.
FERNANDO LEMOS AND JAPAN REVIEWED AT GULBENKIAN
The approach and review of the work that the multidisciplinary Portuguese-Brazilian artist Fernando Lemos (Lisbon, Portugal, 1926 - São Paulo, Brazil, 2019) made in the framework of his relationship with Japan is the reason for the exhibitions that two centers of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation dedicate to his figure. It is worth remembering here that both of them transit in the Japanese concept that stands as the central axis of the new headquarters of the Centro de Arte Moderno, recently inaugurated, and on which the dialogue between both curatorial proposals pivots.
PINTA BAphoto - THE EXPRESSION OF A REGION'S PHOTOGRAPHY
Pinta BAphoto closed its 20th anniversary at La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina, after a weekend that brought together the best of photography in the region and was a meeting point for gallery owners, artists, curators, collectors and photography lovers. The fair attracted more than 14,000 visitors during its three days open to the public.
JAIME BOLOTINKSY'S EVERYDAY ELEMENTS - TRIBUTE ARTIST AT PINTA BAphoto 2024
The Tribute Artist section of Pinta BAphoto celebrates a decade exhibiting the trajectory of photographers who had an active participation in the field, seeking to recover and value their figure. This edition, curator Francisco Medail presents Jaime Bolotinsky, a Russian-born photographer based in Buenos Aires who was a pioneer when it came to composing his portraits, using everyday elements and a precise handling of light.
VISUAL CONFLUENCES - NEXT | Out of Focus AT PINTA BAphoto
Pinta BAphoto celebrates its twentieth edition at La Rural, consolidating itself as one of the most important fairs dedicated to photography in Latin America. This annual event brings together galleries, artists and collectors, and throughout its two decades, it has been an essential platform for the development and dissemination of photographic art, both locally and internationally.
THEME AND CURATORIAL CONCEPT FOR THE 36TH SÃO PAULO BIENNIAL ANNOUNCED
Under the general curatorship of Bonaventure by Soh Bejen Ndikung, the 36th São Paulo Biennial announces its title, curatorial concept, collaborators and visual identity, in addition to informing about an important change in its exhibition period. The title will be: Nem todo viandante anda estradas / Da humanidade como prática [Not All Travelers Walk Roads / Of Humanity as Practice].
TO SEE AND THINK THE PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE AT PINTA BAphoto 2024
The region's most important photography fair Pinta BAphoto opens its doors October 24-27, 2024, at La Rural, Buenos Aires, Argentina. A celebration of the fair's twentieth anniversary with curatorial projects, spaces for artistic exploration, debates among experts and proposals from artists that cross photography with other disciplines.
THE 38TH BRAZILIAN ART PANORAMA: ECOLOGY AND FUTURE
The Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo presents the 38th Panorama of Brazilian Art: Mil Graus [A thousand degrees], an exhibition curated by Germano Dushá and Thiago de Paula Souza, and co-curated by Ariana Nuala, whose title evokes the idea of a “heat-limit,” where everything is transformed, referring to the intense climatic and metaphysical conditions that challenge and lead to inevitable processes of transmutation. In this edition, the MAM biennial exhibition presents 34 artists from 16 Brazilian states.
ALŸS AND THE COLLABORATIVE PHILOSOPHY OF THE GAME AT SERRALVES
Francis Alÿs (Antwerp, Belgium, 1959) began, at the end of the last century, to abandon the exclusivity of his body as the subject of the actions of his artistic proposal to begin to explore the possibility of finding and employing other subjects for this purpose. With this idea, the figure of children gained more and more importance in his production and became the sign of identity of a new stage for the new millennium.
CONTINUUM: FROM THE DIALOGUE WITH DELCY MORELOS
The Andalusian Center for Contemporary Art (CAAC) is showing Continuum or the appearance of the parts and the whole in its recovered space in the cellars of the institution's complex in Seville, an exhibition whose origin is to be sought in Profundis, the proposal that Colombian Delcy Morelos (Tierralta, Colombia, 1967) made for this same center this year and that served as a framework to sublimate, from the analysis, the dialogue beyond the material and the relationship she kept with her collaborators when it came to putting together her recent exhibition.
BODIES & TERRITORY: A GROUP EXHIBITION AT JUMEX MUSEUM
Siluetas sobre maleza [Silhouettes on grass] is a group exhibition at Museo Jumex that explores the ways in which bodies exist and inhabit territory. Spanning several generations, the exhibition features artists who explore the intertwined associations of body, land and identity in Latin America's history and present: Minia Biabiany (Guadalupe, 1988), Vivian Caccuri (Brazil, 1986), Frieda Toranzo Jaeger (Mexico, 1988), Ana Mendieta (Cuba, 1948 - USA, 1985), Nohemí Pérez (Colombia, 1962) and Vivian Suter (Argentina, 1949).
GUILLERMO KUITCA: A CUBIST CHAPELL IN THE MUSÉE NATIONAL PICASSO-PARIS
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.
WEIGHTLESS: LEANDRO ERLICH’S DEBUT IN GERMANY
The famous Argentinean artist Leandro Erlich (b. 1973) transforms Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg’s exhibition hall into a fantastically surreal cosmos, playing with the notions of perspective and gravity. His installations seem to suspend the laws of physics, opening up new perspectives on the multiple connections between science, technology, space travel, and migration. Weightless, the artist's first solo exhibition in Germany, was conceived specifically for the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, as were most of the works on view.