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_Vivid Memories 1984-2014_
“1400 artists exhibited, 150 in France and 82 abroad, 1300 works in the permanent collection. That is what 30 years of the Fondation Cartier represent”, Alain Dominique Perrin, president of the Fondation, points out in his speech on the opening day of the exhibition Vivid Memories.
El Presidente Juan Manuel Santos clausura la feria ARCOmadrid 2015, con Colombia como país invitado de honor
El Presidente de la República de Colombia, Juan Manuel Santos fue el encargado de clausurar oficialmente la Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo ARCOmadrid 2015, organizada por IFEMA, en la que este año Colombia es invitado de honor.
Bienal de las Fronteras
El Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Tamaulipas (Matamoros, México) presenta este 5 de marzo de 2015 los resultados de la convocatoria pública abierta de la Bienal de las Fronteras, un programa auspiciado por el Gobierno del Estado de Tamaulipas a través del Instituto Tamaulipeco para la Cultura y las Artes (ITCA) en coordinación con el Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes (CONACULTA).
Colombia, país invitado de ARCOmadrid 2015
La Feria, con la colaboración de la Embajada de Colombia en España, se hará eco de la pujante escena artística colombiana
Octava edición del Premio illy SustainArt en ARCOmadrid2015
El comité curatorial del programa #SoloProjects selecciona tres artistas finalistas al Premio illy Sustain Art. El ganador se dará a conocer en la Feria, que se celebra del 25 de febrero al 1 de marzo
Mexican Pavilion at the 56th Venice Biennale
The Ministry of Education and the National Institute of Fine Arts announce the participation of Mexico in the 56th edition of the Venice Biennale. The selected project, Possessing Nature, curated by Karla Jasso, brings together the work of artists Tania Candiani and Luis Felipe Ortega.
Machado/Muñoz: un nuevo concepto de galería en Madrid
El próximo 19 de febrero abre sus puertas Machado/Muñoz, la primera galería de diseño y mobiliario contemporáneo de Madrid. Especializada en piezas únicas y ediciones limitadas, su programa expositivo propone un diálogo entre el talento nacional y una selección de autores internacionales.
Latin American Modern Design at Americas Society
Moderno: Design for Living in Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela, 1940-1978 - On View at Americas Society February 11 through May 16, 2015
Cai Guo-Qiang: La vida es una Milonga
Cai mina la identificación de la pólvora con China, al tiempo que alude a su uso medicinal original y a su actual connotación violenta. Tanto el proceso químico de la explosión como la creación, destrucción y desaparición de la obra en sí están concebidas para producir una catarsis, tanto física como conceptual.
The Third Shore
Kir Royal Gallery Valencia in collaboration with Polytechnic University of Valencia is pleased to announce the exhibition "The Third Shore" curated by Guibert Rosales and Eleonora Battiston (Kir Royal Gallery) and by Ricardo Forriols (UPV).
Juan Andrés Gaitán
The Colombian-Canadian curator Juan Andrés Gaitán was appointed director of the Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo in Mexico City, following the resignation of Carmen Cuenca.
Pérez Art Museum Miami Announces Search for New Director
Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM) is launching an international search for a director to replace Thom Collins, who will step down in March after guiding the museum’s successful move to a spectacular new waterfront venue, PAMM Board Chair Aaron Podhurst announced.
Jesús Rafael SOTO _Chronochrome_
Galerie Perrotin presents “Chronochrome,” a double exhibition dedicated to Jesús Rafael Soto (1923-2005), held simultaneously in its Paris and New York spaces.
BLANTON MUSEUM ANNOUNCES MAJOR GIFT OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY LATIN AMERICAN ART
The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin has been gifted approximately 120 modern and contemporary Latin American artworks from UT alumni Judy and Charles Tate of Houston.
All set for the 2014 Ch.ACO Art Fair!
With 30 galleries from Europe, USA and Latin America, 12 Pop_Up Spaces representing the tendency of Chilean pop art, 19 publishers and three collections on display, the Ch.ACO Art Fair will hold its sixth version with an attractive cultural agenda of artistic proposals.
ARTISTS FROM PERU, BOLIVIA AND CHILE PONDER ON THE SUBJECT _MY NEIGHBOUR. THE OTHER_ IN THE 3RD WEEK OF CONTEMPORARY ART IN ANTOFAGASTA.
In a context where the desert is a geographic reality as much as a metaphor in terms of the scene, the Week of contemporary Art or SACO is instated as a unique event in a national level, as a decentralizing statement that also projects the north of Chile internationally.
TWO GREAT SAO PAULO GALLERIES’ ANNIVERSARY
The year 2014 is a year of celebrations in Sao Paulo. Besides the opening of the FIFA World Cup, the city of Sao Paulo celebrates its famous Art Biennial and the tenth anniversary of its SP Arte fair, establishing itself as one of the nottobemissed appointments in the calendar of the Latin American art circuit.
Fantastic Architecture
Lygia Clark (1920-1988) has been a central figure in Brazilian culture since the 1950s. Her career followed a radical trajectory from abstract geometric work on canvas and paper to participatory works and experiential installations. During the early 1960s, Clark abandoned painting and collage in favour of interactive sculptures, including the Bichos [Creatures].
_Drawing, out of control_
The exhibition El Dibujo Fuera de Sí: Tríptico de Venezuela (1970-2014) will be held from July 11 through September 21 at the Sala de Arte of Instituto de Canarias Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife (Spain).
Arte al Día Internacional together with Global Art Agenda
Arte al Día Internacional joins the project Global Art Agenda, an innovative application designed to manage, organize and share the vast and scattered information on the most important international art events.
Towards new metaphors of reality
Airmail Paintings in exile scattered throughout the world; a mural in the form of a big puzzle made of tourist brochures and magazines; visual cacophony generated by a terrifying urban development; violence transmuted into song.
Movil: A Renewed Space for Contemporary Art Opens with Irina Kirchuk
Curators Alejandra Aguado and Solana Molina Viamonte opened with Móvil a modality of management which to date was not known in Argentina. The project was launched with the exhibition Termo by Irina Kirchuk at CheLA, an industrial building of Parque Patricios.
The new Sammer Gallery New York
On May 27, Sammer Gallery New York opened its doors with a solo exhibition, Wheels and Cylinders, of the renowned Uruguayan artist Ricardo Pascale.
Pedro Reyes´ Mis-en-scene at the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico
“The Permanent Revolution” is an original mis-en-scene by the Mexican artist Pedro Reyes, in which, through the narrative format of theater, he investigates the two great ideological tensions that still permeate contemporary culture: Socialism and Capitalism.
Juan Manuel Echevarría´s _“Filme NN”_ in _“Contraexpediciones. Más allá de los mapas”_ at the Museo de Antioquia, Colombia
The Museo de Antioquia presents “ Contraexpediciones. Más allá de los mapas”, a reflection through diverse artistic practices on the forms in which local communities inhabit their territories.
ArteBA 2014 : Record sales to museums and institutions.
From the argentinian context, the National Museum of Fine Arts acquired the work by Graciela Sacco "Endangered extinct: Passion" a blueprint for refrigerator 1994 (Rolf Art Gallery), the Malba joined his collection a Margarita Paksa´s work (Document -Art Gallery), the video "Give Face" by Jose Alejandro Restrepo (Gallery Ignacio Liprandi) and two vintage photographs by Annemarie Heinrich (Galeria Vasari).
The New Artistic director for MALBA | Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires
The recent appointment of the internationally acclaimed historian and curator Agustín Pérez Rubio (Valencia, Spain, 1972) as Artistic Director of MALBA is an event of great importance, since it ratifies a new era of the museum.
William Cordova´S Exhibition _“Ceiba: Reconsidering Ephemeral Spaces”_ At Moad, Miami
The Museum of Art + Design, from Miami Dade College (MDC) will present the most recent art Project by William Córdova, graduated from MDC, in the inaugural exhibition of Swing/Sapace/Miami, at the Freedom Tower, Historic National Monument.
The Bronx Museum Explores Artists’ Responses to Modernist Architecture in Latin America and the Caribbean
The indelible influence of Latin American and Caribbean modernist architecture on contemporary artists will be explored by The Bronx Museum of the Arts in the exhibition “Beyond the Supersquare”, on view May 1, 2014 through January 11, 2015.
