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“A journey, an exploration and an homage to private collecting in Colombia.” I Wanna Be With You is a group exhibition that investigates the concepts of contact, interaction, communication, proximity, exchange, strategies of collaboration. On the other hand, isolation, seclusion, social distance, detachment, and separation. The project pays homage to some of the most prestigious Colombian private collections while offering an unusual itinerary of Colombian and international art history from the 1970s till now. Therefore, highlighting how private collections are a vital part of the art-system and an alternative yet exciting way of approaching and experiencing art.

The new research institute, established with a gift from the Legacy Emilio Ambasz Foundation, will be dedicated to understanding the interaction between architecture and ecology in order to highlight the urgent need for an ecological transformation. The goals of the Institute, through a range of curatorial programs and research initiatives, are to foster dialogue, promote conversation, and facilitate research around the relationship between the built and the natural environment.

Curated by Alastair Fuad-Luke, the 2021 edition of Porto Design Biennale aims to think and intervene in the current moment, under the theme Alter-Realities: Designing the Present.

Architecture with plant fibres has high sensual and haptic qualities, and in terms of the selection criteria of the FIBRA Award also high aesthetic quality. The FIBRA Award is given by amàco, the research and experimental centre for natural building materials in Villefontaine in France, and curator Dominique Gauzin-Müller.

The Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes will present, starting on January 8, the exhibition "Tres miradas sobre Mar del Plata", made up of a selection of photographs by Annemarie Heinrich, Ataúlfo Pérez Aznar and Alberto Goldenstein that can be seen at the MAR Museum (Museum of Contemporary Art of the Province of Buenos Aires) in Mar del Plata until June.

Curated by Gabriel Pérez-Barreiro and Lara Marmor, the show radically exhibits new installations and drawings from different series made throughout Duville's career. "We invite the public to immerse themselves and perceive the strangeness generated by the timeless landscapes made by the artist, graphic representations of the earth created from reconstructions, some made by memory and others invented", state the curators. It is also complemented by a story written by César Aira in relation to the exhibition.

Terapia Fotográfica (Photographic Therapy), a Latin American photography community created in the wake of the pandemic, presents an urban gallery with photography on the facade of the Víctor Larco Herrera Hospital, in the Magdalena del Mar district. Curated by Sophia Durand, the exhibition evokes the viewers and makes of them the protagonists "with a look that welcomes and cures with art the symptoms of a pandemic society."

The artist received the award from the Spanish insurance company for the work Mirage II, from the Mecánica Celeste exhibition. The work of Glenda León affects with sensitivity and poetic acuity in that need of the human being (following Ernst Fischer) to complete its individuality. In this search for intimate nature, she resorts to exploring the Nature that surrounds us.

On the occasion of the celebration of its nineteenth anniversary and in the context of the (on-site) museum closed by the confinement decreed in March, Malba presents La historia como rumor, an annual program of online exhibitions conceived by director Gabriela Rangel with the aim of documenting and contextualizing a set of performances that occurred at different times and places in America and the Caribbean, in a historical transition marked by the end of the Cold War and the beginning of the internet.

The exhibition La luz del fragmento (The Light of the Fragment) presents for the first time a selection of works by Rafael Tur Costa ranging from the 1950’S to our days. The exhibition not only recomposes the artist’s body of work, it leads us to that private space in which every detail correlates with a life experience. It is in this invisible dialogue that new meanings appear and shed light on the manner in which Tur Costa’s artistic practice is to be understood.

The Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, dependent on the Ministry of Culture of the City, announces the donation of 60 works by Aldo Sessa (Buenos Aires, 1939) that go through its 50-year bond with the museum. Thus, they will become part of the collection of the institution, adding to the history of the donations made to the museum by the great Argentine artists.

In a ceremony held on Wednesday, December 16 in the Reception Hall of the National Palace of Culture, the Ministry of Culture and Sports presented the 2020 “Carlos Mérida” Award to visual artist Darío Escobar.

Art Dubai taking place from March 17-20 at Madinat Jumeirah will present exciting new global perspectives across gallery halls, new artist-led initiatives activating the city of Dubai, UAE-wide programming across the cultural institutions ecology, and exclusive events across outdoor settings, adapted with all the appropriate health and safety measures.

Art Focus Latin America is the first Association of Art Galleries in Latin America, comprised of galleries from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, México, Puerto Rico, Uruguay and the United States.  Along with Juan Canela’s curatorial text, the participating artists in the exhibition are Eugenio Merino, Avelino Sala, Alejandro Thornton, Hugo Vidal, Cristina Castagna, Iván Hurtado, Pablo Uribe, Miguel Aguirre,  Andre Penteado, Romy Pocztaruk, Cecilia Barreto y Fernando Poyón

As a space for direct dialogue with the digital format of Pinta Miami Live, the Solo Projects section invited thirteen galleries for this edition under a novel curatorial premise.

Join tomorrow Tuesday 15th for a conversation between collector and MALBA founder Eduardo Constantini and Pinta Miami’s director Diego Costa Peuser

Miguel Miguel García was a passionate promoter of the visual arts in Venezuela, with nearly 50 years of tireless work as a curator, museum expert, researcher, and art critic.

Celebrating its first anniversary and an expansión program, the Rubell Museum has presented four major exhibitions, including Hernan Bas’.

In this fourteenth special edition of Pinta Miami, the largest art fair specialized in Latin America art in the United States adds two new sections to its program: Photo and Edition. With the relevance that photography has been gaining within the international art scene and with the importance that graphic arts have had for the transition from modern to contemporary art, both sections have been designed to represent a broader perspective of Latinamerican artistic production and its value in the evolution of artistic language.

Represented in Pinta by Casa Hoffmann, Alba Triana is a Colombian artist who works in formats that defy the planes of time and space, hearing and vision. Her interdisciplinarity transits the intersection between science and art, making music of movement and aesthetics of light.

EFG Latin America Art Award, in partnership with ArtNexus, celebrates its 10th year after being created to support artists in Latin America. Of the nominated artists, Fuenmayor was announced as the winner today at Pinta Miami Live.

Recognized artist, Borea distinguished himself with his openness to diverse media where time, memory and history become of fundamental importance in his visual discourse.

The works exhibited are known as “Outsider” art, and belong to the permanent collection of NAEMI (National Arts Exhibitions of the Mentally Ill).

Echoing the innovative format that the virtual fair brings, the Pinta Miami Live catalog is digital and available in high resolution.

Part of Pinta Miami’s agenda for this weekend, December 5th and 6th, is a series of Miami-based Studio visits, this time featuring those of Paul Amundarian, Alberto Cavalieri and Tony Vázquez-Figueroa. Saturday December 5, 11am - 4pm EST. Timed RSVP required at RSVP@pinta.art

Pinta Modern presents artworks from the beginning of the 20th century to 1960.  This section has been a focus during the 10 year trajectory of the fair, in which international galleries present high-level proposals, highlighting Latin American art that encompasses this period from Latin America, USA and Europe.

Live Talk ¨Meet Collectors¨ is a series of conversations with artists, curators, collectors, gallery owners and directors of international museums, who will reflect on different aspects of contemporary art in Latin America. Also on Pinta’s programme is a schedule of Pop-up events that will take place within the Miami Art Week frame.

Within the frame of Pinta’s launch, Okumura presents a selection of her most recognized installations and works on paper as a represented artist at Piero Atchugarry Gallery. A solo exhibition by postmodern Brazillian artist, Standing Points condenses the hypothetical space that Okumura designs with a tangible sense of altered dimensionality.

Curated by Direlia Lazo, Dreaming with Lions is a large-scale outdoor public artwork by renowned Cuban artist Alexandre Arrechea. The commissioned, monumental site-specific installation will on view until December 6. For Miami Art Week 2020, Faena Art aims to inspire hope and reinforce its commitment to shaping Miami’s cultural landscape through art. The public spaces within the Faena District will allow for a safe environment to view and interact with the artworks, bringing together the local community.

Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show, Pinta, kicks off its 14^thedition (December 2-15) with the launch of Pinta Miami Live 2020, a fully immersive digital platform granting access to free curatorial artistic content. The digital activations will be paired with pop-up events highlighting local and Latin American artists and works, continuing the fair’s presence in this year’s Miami Art Week.