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In the past first week of August, from 1 to 7, the first edition of Pinta Sud ASU was held in the city of Asunción, Paraguay. This is a special program dedicated to promoting and giving visibility to Paraguayan contemporary art on the local and international scene, and which seeks to generate environments of cooperation and exchange between various public and private sectors of the Paraguayan cultural scene.

Fundación MAPFRE presents Paolo Gasparini: Field of images, from July 1 to August 28. This exhibition brings together more than 300 works that present a complete journey through the artist's career, focusing both on his photographs and on his other main form of expression, the photobook, a crucial narrative device for defining the history of photography in South America. The exhibition brings together some of the artist's most important projects created over more than six decades of a photographic career that as a whole offers a tour of various cities in the process of transformation: Caracas, Havana, São Paulo and Mexico City. , in addition to its resonances from Munich, Paris and London.

Cecilia Vicuña: Spin Spin Triangulene is the first solo exhibition in a New York museum for the pioneering contemporary Chilean artist, poet, activist, and filmmaker Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago). Showcasing Vicuña’s artistic production from the late 1960s to today, this exhibition will feature the breadth of her multidisciplinary practice, including paintings, works on paper, textiles, films, a site-specific Quipu (Knot) installation, a one-time performance of a “living” Quipu, and new paintings and works on paper created specifically for this presentation.

This solo exhibition devoted to the work of acclaimed artist Tacita Dean, which is presented across the two galleries on the upper floor of the museum, is formed around two recent projects: a trilogy of works designed for The Dante Project (2021), a ballet inspired by The Divine Comedy, and One Hundred and Fifty Years of Painting (2021), a 16mm filmed conversation between the artists Luchita Hurtado and Julie Mehretu.

Geraldo de Barros is, without a doubt, one of the Brazilian artists most studied by contempora- neity. Over the course of his artistic career he pioneered the path of multidisciplinarity, develop- ing his work consistent with not only his own research, but also with the Brazilian political and social contexts and with Brazilian art history. To celebrate these historical developments, the Ar- quivo Geraldo de Barros and Luciana Brito Galeria are presenting the exhibition Objetos-Forma [Objects-Form], which features never-before-shown works that recover a fundamental moment in Geraldo de Barros’s career. The show opens on August 9 and occupies all the gallery’s exhibi- tion spaces.

Through painting, Sandra Gamarra Heshiki (Lima, Peru, 1972) questions the representation mechanisms of the art system and the museum as an ideological device. He resorts to copying to make available certain cultural artifacts that have been extracted from their contexts within the framework of the modern-colonial regime. The artist adopts a syncretic gaze where pre-Columbian, colonial, modern and contemporary material productions come into friction.

La Fundación Ruth para las Artes (Ruth Arts) se complace en marcar su debut en el panorama de la filantropía artística con el anuncio de su ciclo inaugural de concesión de subvenciones. La nueva fundación cuenta con el respaldo de un legado de $440 millones de la difunta Ruth DeYoung Kohler II, y espera otorgar subvenciones por un total de más de $17 millones anuales.

In Alcobendas a new art gallery was inaugurated. This is Fleisch, a space dedicated to architecture, art and gastronomy. In an industrial warehouse renovated by Kurhaus Studio, the Spanish architect Nicolás Sfeir and the curators from Peru and Argentina Carlos García-Montero and Manuela Barreiro are carrying out an international project that proposes exhibitions with bold montages. This is Huacas: architectural synthesis by the Peruvian artist Yerko Zlatar, the exhibition that inaugurates its official program, which can be visited by appointment until the end of September.

From June 26 to September 5, Leandro Erlich presents “Seeing is Not Believing” at the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, an exhibition that challenges our perception of reality and distorts everyday situations under incredibly real visual effects.

Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino is pleased to announce Antológica, a retrospective exhibition for gallery artist Graciela Hasper (b. 1966, Argentina) at the Museo Provincial de Bellas Artes Franklin Rawson in San Juan, Argentina. 

Incorporating a range of styles and movements that include Minimal Art,Transavanguardia, Pop Art and contemporary art, the exhibition presents works dealing with individual and societal struggles to attain balance, harmony and stability. At the same time, these works show how transient balance is, once it has been attained.

Pupila is the ambitious individual exhibition that the Argentine artist Eduardo Basualdo (Buenos Aires, 1977) has developed especially for the Modern Museum in dialogue with its director Victoria Noorthoorn, with whom he has already collaborated in the past, and especially for the Pontevedra Biennials (2006) and Lyon (2011).

Celebrating the work and legacy of the writer Clarice Lispector (1920-1977), the IMS brings the exhibition Constelação Clarice. An investigation into the poetics of the author, curated by Eucanaã Ferraz and Veronica Stigger, the exhibition brings together approximately 300 pieces, including manuscripts, photographs, letters, records, press materials and other documents.

On April 7, the Portuguese artist Carlos Bunga (Porto, 1976) presented his new installation Against the Extravagance of Desire at the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park. Last Thursday, July 7, three months after its inauguration, Bunga returns to the Palace to undertake a performative intervention on his work.

In this exhibition, photographs from Brazil turn to the constructions of national identity and culture based on the photographic collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro. The exhibition presents around 270 works by 120 artists, produced from 1860 to the present. It also includes a commissioned work by Rio de Janeiro-based visual artist Aline Motta, and a revival of her installation Filha natural.

The MACA is pleased to present two artists from the local scene in its exhibition halls: Verónica Vázquez and Martín Pelenur. Both with extensive experience both in Uruguay and abroad, present two unpublished exhibitions, especially created for MACA.

The Hilario Auction House has its twentieth online auction active with a surprising set that was part of the collection of Alfredo González Garaño (1886 – 1969), Argentine painter, disciple of the Catalan H. Anglada Camarasa, member of the "Parera group", active in the first decades of the 20th century; AGG was a cultural manager and great benefactor of public collections: he donated hundreds of works to the National Museums of Fine Arts and Decorative Arts, and to the Ethnographic and Hispano-American Art Museums I. Fernández Blanco, in addition to giving his Legacy to the Academy National Fine Arts, today in study.

Framer Framed in Amsterdam exhibits The Silence of Tired Tongues. Curated by Raphael Fonseca, the show presents the works of thirteen emerging artists born in Brazil. The artworks in the group exhibition bring together a sense of ‘saudade’, which can be translated as a mixture of melancholy and longing.

On its 25th anniversary, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin shows important works from the Nationalgalerie Collection and the Haubrok Collection. A spacious architectural design was developed in the museum’s Historical Hall especially for the occasion. Highlighted among the works are those by Alfredo Jaar and Ruben Ochoa.

Exhibited by The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA) and curated by Mariano López Seoane and Bernardo Mosqueira, Eros Rising presents drawings, paintings, and photographs by Artur Barrio, Oscar Bony, Carmelo Carrá, Feliciano Centurión, David Lamelas, Castiel Vitorino Brasileiro, Carlos Motta, Wynnie Mynerva, La Chola Poblete, and Tadáskía that seek to give form to the intangible experience of eroticism.

The artist has created a full-fledged maritime museum within the walls of the Brooklyn Museum, debuting approximately 250 new and recent works made entirely out of discarded plastic found in New York waterways. DEATH TO THE LIVING, Long Live Trash, a critical, provocative look at the ecological impact of capitalism across centuries, connects the history of American maritime art to current themes of environmental justice.

The Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen is dedicating the first comprehensive solo exhibition to the Brazilian avant-garde artist Lygia Pape (1927–2004) until July 17, 2022. Titled “The Skin of ALL” the exhibition presents the artist’s multifaceted, transgressive oeuvre, which she developed over five decades. 

The Museum of Modern Art announces Projects: Carolina Caycedo and David de Rozas, on view in the Museum’s street-level gallery through January 2, 2023. The exhibition focuses on the struggles for territorial sovereignty, Indigenous rights, and the building of environmental memory.

La Intermundial Holobiente is an inter/un-disciplinary group that attempts to invent imaginative practices based on modes of thought that are more than human —that is, not anthropo-centered. Its members are Claudia Fontes, visual artist represented by the gallery, philosopher Paula Fleisner and writer Pablo M. Ruiz.

Acquired for PAMM’s collection in 2020 with funds provided by Jorge M. Pérez, Chromosaturation is an immersive environment that reimagines color as an embodied experience.

Memory of a Telluric Movement is the title of this exhibition at Museum Haus Konstruktiv. It presents a comprehensive solo exhibition to Mexican artist Jose Dávila (b. 1974 in Guadalajara, Mexico, where he lives and works). Curated by Sabine Schaschl and on view until September 11^th.

The exhibition presents on several locations of the city of Lucca, 45 sculptures in marble, bronze and wood. The works in the streets, 16th century walls, churches and two interior spaces, can be visited until September 4.

The 24th Biennale of Sydney will take place March 9–June 10, 2024.

[NAME] Publications inaugurated their new space in West Miami with the exhibition Rafael Domenech: An Oracle on a Tomato, Ubiquitous Rectangles. The exhibition includes a series of newly-commissioned objects that activate the hidden potentials in the traditional book form by unfolding it as multi-media painting-like structures.

Radical Conventions is presented in collaboration with the Cuban Heritage Collection of the University of Miami Libraries. Curated by Elizabeth Cerejido, PhD., the exhibition will be on view until June 12^th.