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GUATEMALA - “CARLOS MÉRIDA” NATIONAL ART PRIZE RECOGNIZES DARÍO ESCOBAR
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 JOINS THE LIST OF IN-PERSON FAIRS TO BE HELD NEXT YEAR
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.
DEMOCRACY – INAUGURAL EXHIBITION OF ART FOCUS, A LATINAMERICAN GALLERIES COLLECTIVE
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
LAST DAY OF PINTA MIAMI LIVE – SOLO PROJECTS
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.
PINTA MIAMI - LIVE TALK #3 ¨MEET COLLECTORS¨ WITH EDUARDO CONSTANTINI
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, OUTSTANDING VENEZUELAN CURATOR OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ART, PASSED AWAY
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.
MIAMI- LAST DAYS TO VISIT THE HERNAN BAS EXHIBITION AT THE RUBELL MUSEUM
Celebrating its first anniversary and an expansión program, the Rubell Museum has presented four major exhibitions, including Hernan Bas’.
PINTA MIAMI LIVE – PHOTO AND EDITION
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.
PINTA MIAMI LIVE PRESENTS ALBA TRIANA AT OPEN FILE
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.
PINTA MIAMI- GONZALO FUENMAYOR WINNER OF THE EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD
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.
FAREWELL TO ALBERTO BOREA, PERUVIAN ARTIST
Recognized artist, Borea distinguished himself with his openness to diverse media where time, memory and history become of fundamental importance in his visual discourse.
NAEMI AND ART CODE SPACE PRESENT “I THOUGHT I WAS SLEEPING”, BY CUBAN ARTISTS
The works exhibited are known as “Outsider” art, and belong to the permanent collection of NAEMI (National Arts Exhibitions of the Mentally Ill).
PINTA MIAMI LIVE 2020 PUBLISHES THIS YEAR’S CATALOGUE
Echoing the innovative format that the virtual fair brings, the Pinta Miami Live catalog is digital and available in high resolution.
THIS WEEKEND ON PINTA MIAMI
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
THE BRAZILIAN WAVE IN PINTA MODERN
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.
PINTA MIAMI INAUGURATES ITS LIVETALKS AND PRESENTS A GUIDED TOUR OF AFRICAN ART IN EL ESPACIO 23
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.
PINTA MIAMI 2020 - PIERO ATCHUGARRY INAUGURATES “STANDING POINTS” BY BRAZILIAN ARTIST LYDIA OKUMURA
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.
MIAMI ART WEEK – FAENA ART PRESENTS ALEXANDRE ARRECHEA: DREAMING WITH LIONS
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.
PINTA MIAMI - HYBRID PROGRAMMING WITH NEW DIGITAL PLATFORM OF CURATORIAL EXPERIENCES AND SERIES OF POP-UP EVENTS DURING MIAMI ART WEEK
Modern and Contemporary Latin American Art Show, Pinta, kicks off its 14thedition (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.
EUTOPIA: ARGENTINE DESIGN WITH A STRONG PRESENCE IN PINTA MIAMI LIVE 2020
Designed by Francisco Gómez Paz (Salta, Argentina. 1975), the chair has won the prestigious Compasso d’Oro award in Milan and will now have a leading role in Pinta Miami’s virtual edition. Eutopia’s true innovation is being a rigorous industrial product yet produced independently, away from developed industrial systems.
AGUA DULCE – COMMISSIONED BY THE BASS MUSEUM TO ABRAHAM CRUZVILLEGAS
The installation is free and presented outdoors from November 29 to April 18. Curated by Silvia Karman Cubiñá (Executive Director and Chief Curator) and Leilani Lynch (Curator), from The Bass, it utilizes a selection of over 1,000 native plant species, fauna and mineral to form a planted environment in front of the museum.
ERNESTO BRIEL: IRIDESCENT GEOMETRIES AT THE JUAN CARLOS MALDONADO ART COLLECTION
Curated by Ariel Jiménez, the exhibition will be on view until March 20, 202. With the title Iridescent Geometries, the Collection gives continuity to the exhibition project that began six years ago. Since then, its objective has been to promote the study of modern and contemporary art at an international level, emphasizing abstract-geometric practices.
LARGER THAN LIFE SCULPTURES AND URBAN INTERVENTION. MANOLO VALDÉS: THE LEGACY
The Doral Contemporary Art Museum (DORCAM) exhibition will be the largest exhibition of Valdés’ epic sculptures to date. It will be on view for six months, until June 2021, with several programs organized around the exhibition throughout its duration.
MUSEU D'ART CONTEMPORANI DE BARCELONA - FINA MIRALLES: I AM ALL THE SELVES THAT I HAVE BEEN
Fina Miralles (Sabadell, 1950) is one of the most significant Spanish artists active from the seventies to the present day. The exhibition, curated by Teresa Grandas, presents works that break the limits of artistic conventions (the monochrome landscape, painting as gesture, the artist as an artistic object) in a body of work in which process is more significant than the formal result and gives the work value, albeit within a notion of ‘value’ that is constantly held to question, however it is materialized.
CASA HOFFMANN’S PROJECT FOR PINTA MIAMI LIVE 2020
Casa Hoffmann is an exhibition space in the city of Bogotá, dedicated to producing and exhibiting research in contemporary art commissioned to curators or researchers. Its exhibition cycle is consolidated in curatorial projects in which dialogue axes are established between proposals by local and international artists. The space promotes a line of research at the intersection between art, science and technology, making room for interdisciplinary, experimental and innovative proposals.
HOUSTON – THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS REOPENS WITH CONTEMPORARY ART EXHIBITIONS
The Museum will open the doors to the new Nancy and Rich Kinder Building on November 21. The new addition to the main campus will feature site-specific commissioned artworks from artists like Carlos Cruz-Diez, Olafur Eliasson, and Ai Weiwei. Plus, about 1,100 works from the Museum’s distinguished international collections of modern and contemporary art by artists such as Yayoi Kusama and James Turrell.
CAMILA BOTERO NOMINATED IN ARTBO FOR THE EFG LATIN AMERICA ART AWARD
The nominated work is Volcán I, III, II from 2019. It arises from a recurring question about the slow processes of change that are currently happening, these that have an intrinsic force and that transform everything around them. Camila Botero was born in Medellín in 1976, where she works and lives.
BEATRIZ LEMOS - NEW ASSISTANT CURATOR AT THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART RIO DE JANEIRO
Researcher and curator from Rio de Janeiro, she takes on the Adjunct Curatorship of MAM Rio as a result of the open call launched in October, which resulted in 139 applications.
JENNIFER GARZA-CUEN & ODETTE ENGLAND EXHIBIT “PAST PAPER // PRESENT MARKS: RESPONDING TO RAUSCHENBERG” AT PENUMBRA FOUNDATION NEW YORK
In 2018, Jennifer Garza-Cuen and Odette England spent a week at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Residency in Captiva, Florida, collaborating on a series of nearly 200 photograms.
A FAREWELL TO NELLY ARRIETA DE BLAQUIER - PATRON, COLLECTOR AND OUTSTANDING PERSONALITY OF ARGENTINE ART
The great patron passed away yesterday, Sunday, November 15, at 89 years of age with a career and heritage that served her international recognition.
20TH EDITION OF THE NATIVE CINEMA SHOWCASE OF THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN
Its virtual programming highlights new and popular classic films from November 18 to 27, including a total of 64 films representing 49 indigenous nations in 12 different countries: United States, Canada, New Zealand, Mexico, Guatemala, Finland , Ecuador, Norway, Peru, Argentina, Australia and Belize.