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CYNTHIA COHEN AT GALERÍA DEL PASEO
Since January 2nd at Galería del Paseo (Punta del Este, Uruguay), Cynthia Cohen presents Un jardín sobre una playa, una playa sobre una ciudad, una ciudad sobre un cerro (A garden on a beach, a beach on a city, a city on a hill) exhibition.
LUCIO FONTANA'S MABIENTE SPAZIALE IS RECONSTRUCTED AT EL MUSEO DEL BARRIO
Since January 23rd at El Museo del Barrio (New York, USA) the year begins with Italian-Argentinean artist Lucio Fontana’s Ambiente Spaziale (Spacial Environment) exhibition.
AURORA CAÑERO RETURNS BACK WITH HER SCULPTURES TO CHILE
The renowned Spanish sculptor, Aurora Cañero, returns to Chile after 13 years, with a stunning exhibition of her sculptures. The exhibition will take place at Aninat Galería de Arte main room with its inauguration on January 16th and a closing on March 12th.
LORENZA BÖTTNER, ART AS ACTIVISM
Until February the 3rd, at La Virreina Center de la Imatge (Barcelona, Spain), a retrospective dedicated to Chilean artist Lorenza Böttner (Punta Arenas, Chile, 1959 - Munich, Germany, 1994) is exhibited. Consequence of a co-production between La Virreina Center de la Imatge and the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart (Stuttgart, Germany), the exhibition inaugurated in early November and was conceived under Paul B. Preciado’s curatorship with Viktor Neumann, Pere Pedrals and Andrea Linnenkohl collaboration.
AFTER A LONG PAUSE IN ITS PRODUCTION, GUSTAVO PÉREZ MONZÓN EXHIBITED IN LONDON
Saturday, January 5th is the last day to visit the Cuban artist Gustavo Pérez Monzón exhibition at the Richard Saltoun Gallery, located in London. This exhibition does not only mean the artist's debut in the United Kingdom, but it is also his return after a recess of artistic production of more than thirty years.
NATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARTISTIC TRAJECTORY EXHIBITED AT THE BUENOS AIRES FINE ARTS MUSEUM
With the aim of promoting the visualization of outstanding artists, the works of those who were awarded with the National Prize for Artistic Trajectory -recognition granted by the Argentine State through the Buenos Aires Fine Arts National Museum (MNBA) - are exhibited at the National Hall of the MNBA. After five decades, the museum takes up this experience.
FROM NEW YORK TO PUNTA DEL ESTE: LILIANA PORTER´S AND ANA TISCORNIA'S NEW PLAY AT GALERÍA DEL PASEO
This afternoon at Galería del Paseo in Punta del Este (Uruguay), the gallery located in Manantiales neighborhood will screen THEM documentary record, a co-directed play by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia. The play premiere had place a few weeks ago at The Kitchen (New York) theater, a stage that has seen some of the most important figures of the artistic avant-garde.
HASHIM SARKIS: THE NEW DIRECTOR OF VENICE BIENNIAL'S ARCHITECTURE SECTOR
After a meeting of the Venice Biennale Board, the 17th International Architecture Exhibition to be held in 2020 has a new curator: Hashim Sarkis. Recommended by Paolo Baratta, director of the Venice Biennale Board, Sarkis was appointed director of the Architecture Sector of the Biennial.
PINTA MIAMI: AN ART FAIR THAT FINDS ITS PLACE
During Miami Art Week some of the most important fairs of the modern and contemporary art international scene were celebrated. This is the case of PINTA Miami, the fair committed to the support and visibility of Latin American art within the international focus. With a phenomenal growth during its fifth edition at the Mana Wynwood Convention Center, the results of PINTA Miami 2018 are the projection of its increasingly reputation in the international circuit.
JUMEX MUSEUM: MARCEL DUCHAMP AND JEFF KOONS DIALOGUE IN PUBLIC FOR THE FIRST TIME
Since May 17th at the Jumex Museum (Mexico City, Mexico) they present an unprecedented exhibition. Apariencia desnuda: el deseo y el objeto en la obra de Marcel Duchamp y Jeff Koons, aun (Nude appearance: desire and object in the work of Marcel Duchamp and Jeff Koons, still) curated by Massimiliano Gioni, is an exhibition that explores the parallels between two of the most influential artists of the 20th century.
UTDT 2018 FILM PROGRAM: WITH A CLOUDY SIGHT NOTHING IS SEEN
During yesterday and today afternoon, with the purpose of celebrating the UTDT 2018 Film Program held at the Torcuato Ditella University (Buenos Aires, Argentina), Con la vista nublada no se ve nada (With a cloudy sight nothing is seen) is a collective exhibition where the program participants project and exhibit the work during the year. Also, works of artists invited to the 2018 edition and previous years are exhibited.
MEDIA AND ITS EFFECTS THROUGH FABRIZIO ARRIETA'S PAINTINGS
At Diablo Rosso think tank and art space located in the center of Panama City in Panama, the Costa Rican artist Fabrizio Arritea (Costa Rica, 1982) presents since December 1st La Tierra era Plana (The Earth Was Flat), an individual exhibition that explores the meaning production generated by social media and their effects over people acting or thinking.
A RETROSPECTIVE OF JOSÉ PEDRO COSTIGLIOLO INAUGURATES THE NEW SPACE OF PABLO ATCHUGARRY FOUNDATION IN MIAMI
In order to celebrate the opening of its second space in Miami, Florida, Pablo Atchugarry Foundation (Uruguay) presents a retrospective exhibition of the Uruguayan artist José Pedro Costigliolo (1902-1985). Forerunner of non-figurative art, Costigliolo's contribution to geometric abstraction development -movement emerged mainly in Latin America- has been recognized internationally. Raised as a retrospective that explores the changes and evolutions of the Uruguayan artist, La Vida de las Formas (The Life of The Forms) opens the foundation new headquarters at Miami on December 29.
HOW TO SURVIVE A TRAUMATIC EXPERIENCE IN A POST-CAPITALIST SOCIETY?
From December 14th to February 21st at Sala Gasco Contemporary Art, in Santiago de Chile, the artists Jorge Brantmayer, Víctor Castillo, Catalina González, Angie Saiz and Joaquín Segura present Postrauma. Under Saiz curatorship the exhibition aims to illustrate the multiple expressions after traumatic experiences.
BUENOS AIRES: THE FINE ARTS NATIONAL MUSEUM PRESENTS IT'S PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION
In addition to Clorindo Testa’s individual exhibition the Fine Arts National Museum (MNBA) of Buenos Aires (Argentina) inaugurates En Tránsito. Fotografías de la colección del Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (In Transit. Photographs from the Fine Arts National Museum collection). After passing through Córdoba and Mendoza provinces, the photographs of Henri Cartier Bresson, Graciela Iturbide and Sara Facio, among other renowned artists who make up the MNBA collection, will be exhibited since tomorrow on the second floor of the museum.
MICHAEL SMITH THINKS ABOUT THE CORPORATE CULTURE ASPIRATIONS AT THE JUMEX MUSEUM
Tomorrow at the Jumex Museum, the North American artist Michael Smith presents ¡Imagina la vista desde aquí! (¡Imagine the view from here!), an exhibition that represents aging, failure and enthusiasm based on the aspirational construction of corporate and institutional culture.
CLORINDO TESTA, THE ARCHITECT THAT LIVES IN THE MUSEUMS
On December 11th, at the Fine Arts National Museum (MNBA) of Beuenos Aires (Argentina), inaugurates an exhaustive exhibition of Italian-Argentinean plastic artist and architect, Clorindo Testa. Bringing together artworks from 1968 onwards the aim of the exhibition is to pay tribute to one of the most important figures of the Argentinean 20th century, his work and legacy in the South American country.
ART BASEL MIAMI: DORAL GOVERNMENT INAUGURATES A PROJECT OF URBAN ART
In the framework of Art Basel Miami, Doral government inaugurated yesterday the Urban Art Project for pedestrians Pedestriart conceived by Cuban artist Leonel Matheu. Stimulating the awareness of pedestrians through iconographies, the project aims to represent traffic signals from their shapes and color coding. With the inauguration at Downtown Doral Park yesterday afternoon the installation proposes a creative and interactive experience for the community.
KURIMANZUTTO TRIBUTE IN NEW YORK TO THE EMBLEMATIC SIGNALS LONDON
Inaugurated on November 13th, the New York gallery Kurimanzutto presents Signals: If You Like I Shall Grow (Part II), a collective exhibition that brings together the work of artists such as David Medal, Mira Schendel, Alejandro Otero, Jesus Rafael Soto, Sergio de Camargo , Lygia Clark and Liliane Lijn, among others. On exhibition until January 21st, the show commemorates the innovative spirit of the consecrated Signals London gallery (1964-1966).
ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH: THE SPANISH ARTIST ANTONI MIRALDA PRESENTS HIS NEW BOOK
The Artbook Editions, Unlimited-Limited # 6, print by Antoni Miralda, New World Foods lighting the Old World pays homage to the creative community that frequented El Internacional Tapas Bar & Restaurant, the now legendary postmodern restaurant which the artist launched in Tribeca with Chef Montse Guillén in 1984. El Internacional combined avant-garde artistry and food, becoming an iconic symbol of New York in the 1980s through its nightly explorations of cross-cultural, trans-disciplinary aesthetics.
THE AMA FOUNDATION DONATED ENRIQUE RAMÍREZ CHILEAN ARTIST ARTWORK TO NEW YORK'S MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
The Chilean AMA Foundation, better known as FAMA, donated to New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) Ocean, 33 ° 02'47 "S / 51 ° 04'00" N, the Chilean artist Enrique Ramírez artwork. The reason for the donation is the celebration of the tenth anniversary of the foundation.
OSVALDO ROMBERG EXHIBITS A HISTORICAL REVISION OF COLOR
At Henrique Faria Gallery of Buenos Aires, the artist and curator Osvaldo Romberg (Buenos Aires, 1938) presents Estudios de color: Del análisis a la metáfora (Color Studies: From analysis to metaphor). Product of a formal search during a specific period of the Argentine artist, the exhibition exhibited at the gallery located in Retiro neighborhood joins together more than fifteen exceptional artworks of Romberg's career.
DIEGO FIGUEROA LOOKS FOR POPULAR CONDITION MEANING TODAY
At the HACHE gallery in Buenos Aires, an individual exhibition by Diego Figueroa inaugurated. Mi Reina (My Queen) is the first exhibition of the Argentine artist exhibited in the gallery. From intertextualities with canonical works of art history, Figueroa wanders between the "legitimate" concept –introduced by the French thinker Pierre Bourdieu- and the popular.
BOLIVIA: SONIA CUNLIFFE AT THE TENTH SIART INTERNATIONAL ART BIENNIAL
Within the framework of the tenth SIART International Art Biennial, in Bolivia, which ends tomorrow, the artist Sonia Cunliffe represented Peru with the El Guerrillero Heroíco project. Through the archival photography and the appropriation of objects, the Peruvian artist reconstructs the revolutionary political scene in Latin America after the Cuban revolution.
CHRISTOPHER GRIMES PROJECTS PRESENTS IÑIGO MANGLANO-OVALLE'S INSTALLATION AT A NORTH AMERICAN INSTITUTION
Supported by Christopher Grimes Projects, large-scale artistic and architectural projects promoter organization, the artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Madrid, 1961) completed a site-specific installation at the Texas A&M College of Engineering at to inaugurate the new program of art in said institution.
MERCEDES AZPILICUETA EXPLORES PHYSICAL AND ORAL LANGUAGE BORDERS
At the Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires (MAMBA), an individual exhibition of Argentine artist Mercedes Azpilicueta is exhibited until 3rd of March. Through video installations and sound pieces, Cuerpos Pájaros (Birds Bodies) explores the hidden resources of expression: gestures, breathing and tone.
ESCUELA FLORA CLOSES IT'S 2018 EXCHANGE PROGRAM WITH A COLLECTIVE EXHIBITION IN BOGOTÁ
As a closing of what was Escuela Flora 2018 program, FLORA ars + natura opens its doors with The Cat is Killing the Birds, but I Love her Anyway collective exhibition. After a collective exchange carried out in the Bogota (Colombia) headquarters, more than twenty Latin American artists exhibit their work.
THE JCMAC COLLECTION PRESENTS A DIALOGUE BETWEEN INDIGENOUS CULTURES AND MODERN ART
Under Ariel Jimenez curatorship, the Juan Carlos Maldonado Art Collection (JCMAC) presents Convergences / Divergences, Primitve Source of The Modern. The exhibition opens on Friday, November 30 - within the framework of Miami’s art week - in the Miami Design District Center of the organization and will take place until May 4th, 2019.
GALERIA MURILO CASTRO INAUGURATES NEW SPACE IN MIAMI
With a collective exhibition titled This is Brazil, the prestigious Galeria Murilo Castro Gallery inaugurated its new space based in Miami. The expansion not only means an opening to the international market, but also as the positioning as a one of the most important galleries in Brazil.
PABLO SUÁREZ. NARCISO PLEBEYO: HUGE RETROSPECTIVE AT THE MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART OF BUENOS AIRES
This afternoon at the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA) auditorium, under the exhibition curator Jimena Ferreiro’s and Rafael Cippolini’s tutelage inaugurates Pablo Suárez. Narciso Plebeyo. Constituted as a huge retrospective of the South American artist Pablo Suárez (Buenos Aires, 1937-2006), the exhibition will be exhibited in the museum until February 18th.
TANIA BRUGUERA AND HANS ULRICH OBRIST AT ASCOA
Within the framework of the collective exhibition Lydia Cabrera and Édouard Glissant: Trembling Thinking opened in October at the America Society / Council of the Americas (ASCOA) gallery, the artists Tania Bruguera and Hans Ulrich Obrist will carry out a discussion that will revolve around it.