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SITElines.2014: _Unsettled Landscapes_, a Reimagined Biennial with a New Focus on Contemporary Art from the Americas
SITE Santa Fe is pleased to announce the selection of 45 artists and artist collaboratives from 16 countries to be included in the inaugural edition of SITElines, SITE Santa Fe’s new biennial exhibition series with a focus on contemporary art from the Americas.
Exhibition: _Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today_ at the Guggenheim Museum, New York
From June 13 through October 1, 2014, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York will present the exhibition Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, which marks the second phase of the Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative.
CA2M presents the XXI Image Symposium: _Monstrous Compositions. The Documentary Dispositive at Work_
As part of the XXI Sessions for the Study of Images, the Centro Cultural 2 de Mayo, CA2M, Madrid, is organizing the Symposium: "Monstrous Compositions.
_Darío Escobar: Broken Circle_, at the Craft & Folk Art Museum, CAFAM, Los Angeles
The Craft & Folk Art Museum presents “Darío Escobar: Broken Circle”, the first solo museum exhibition in Los Angeles of the acclaimed Guatemalan artist.
IN MEMORIAM
“I have never been strictly abstract or strictly figurative. What I have always been is strictly Oswaldo Vigas”. This quote by one of the key figures of Latin American modernity, who was born in Valencia, Venezuela in 1926, and who died this past 22 of April at 88 years old in his country of origin, defines what was his existence and, within it, the entirety of a great and powerful creative journey that resists classification.
Saludarte Foundation 2014 _Curatorial Program presents Uprooting Architecture (Constructing non-places)_ in Miami
Saludarte Foundation, in collaboration with Universidad de Los Andes, University of Miami, and the National Media Museum (UK), is pleased to announce “Uprooting Architecture” exhibition series, that will be presented from April to December 2014 at the Foundation space in Wynwood (Miami), curated by Roc Laseca.
_“Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below”_ at Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art
Demonstrating the artist's remarkable ability to transform materials and their surrounding architecture into an enveloping perceptual experience, “Teresita Fernández: As Above So Below” combines graphite and gold to create a series of immersive, interconnected installations whose scale shifts from intimate to vast, from miniature to panoramic.
Iván Navarro: _“This Land is Your Land”_ at Mad. SQ. Art in New York
Madison Square Park Conservancy’s Mad. Sq. Art is presenting a new sculptural installation that will be on view until April 20ht: “This Land Is Your Land” by Brooklyn-based Chilean artist Iván Navarro.
_“Architectures of Light”_ by Karina Chechik at the Frost Art Museum
The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum is presenting “Karina Chechik : Architectures of Light” , curated by Francine Birbragher.
_“Lygia Clark: The Abandonment of Art, 1948–1988”,_ a major retrospective at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art presents a major retrospective devoted to the art of Lygia Clark (Brazilian, 1920–1988), the first comprehensive exhibition in North America of her work.
The Cintas Foundation
The Cintas Foundation is probably best known for the fellowship it grants every year to architects, writers, music composers and visual artists of Cuban origin.
_Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America_, at Saatchi Gallery, London
Taking its title from the prehistoric landmass that conjoined Africa and Latin America, this major survey -“Pangaea: New Art From Africa and Latin America”- at Saatchi Gallery, reunites the two former sister continents by bringing together the work of 16 of their contemporary artists.
_Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond_ and the Historic artwork _Citrus 6906_ by Hector Fuenmayor at Hunter College
“Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967–1978”, curated by Harper Montgomery, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Professor of Modern & Contemporary Latin American Art, and the historic installation “Citrus 6906” by Héctor Fuenmayor are on display at Hunter College.
Ernesto Neto Wins 2014 Aspen Award for Art
The Aspen Art Museum (AAM) announces the selection of renowned contemporary artist Ernesto Neto as the recipient of the museum’s 2014 Aspen Award for Art.
Few days are left to the closure of the call for the galleries of Ch.ACO Fair 2014
Until April 20, 2014 applications from all galleries of Chile and other countries that wish to be part of the show will be received. The organization will evaluate each of the spaces and give their verdict through www.feriachaco.cl
The Metropolitan Museum of Art seeks an Estrellita B. Brodsky Curator of Latin American Art, Modern & Contemporary Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, one of the world’s finest museums, seeks a specialist in twentieth- and twenty-first-century art of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America.
Defying Stability: Artistic Processes in Mexico, 1952-1967
The decade and a half that followed 1952 was a time of flourishing intellectual and artistic activity in Mexico. Based on extensive historical and archival research, Defying Stability offers a polyhedral vision of a decisive period in cultural modernity that cannot be encompassed by the reductive concept of so-called “Rupture”.
Major exhibition by Luis Cruz Azaceta at Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art in New Jersey
Aljira, a Center for Contemporary Art is pleased to present “Bending the Grid. Luis Cruz Azaceta: Dictators, Terrorism, War and Exiles”, a major survey exhibition of paintings by a leading Cuban-American artist exploring political and social issues through formal experimentation.
Regina Silveira presents “The dream of Mirra and other constellations” at Museo Amparo, Puebla, México
Brazilian artist Regina Silveira presents a site-specific intervention for the crystal cube of the lobby of Museo Amparo, where through visual metaphor she transforms and re-signifies this space.
An exhibition deconstructing masculinity at the Art Center South Florida
As part of the Art Center South Florida exhibition´s program, the Richard Shack Gallery is presenting “In His Own Likeness/ A su imagen y semejanza” , a show that primarily reaffirms existence, which in its diversity and complexity, is equally divine.
1ST INTERNATIONAL CONTEMPORARY ART BIENNIAL, CARTAGENA DE INDIAS, COLOMBIA
The city of Cartagena has strong connections to cinema, music, dance and traditional artisanal crafts and this first edition of the biennial honors these cultural manifestations while introducing both national and international contemporary perspectives.
Claire Breukel named Chief Curator at MARTE Contemporary in San Salvador
In its 10th year, Marte Contemporary at MARTE Museum in San Salvador announces an exciting expansion. Founded with the support of Miami-based collector Mario Cader-Frech, Marte Contemporary attracted the eye of friend and supporter, curator Claire Breukel who jumped at the opportunity to be the first formal Chief Curator, assisted on the ground by Program Manager Lucas Arévalo.
Enrique Martínez-Celaya´s first solo exhibition in Sweden
Enrique Martínez Celaya, a renowned Cuban-American artist based in Miami, is presenting his first exhibition at Gallery Andersson/Sandström in Umea, Sweden.
_México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990_
México Inside Out: Themes in Art Since 1990 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ranks as the largest exhibition of contemporary Mexican art in the U.S. in over a decade.
CA2M Presents “Collection VII. The Progress Dysfunction”, a collaborative project with Museo Reina Sofía
“The Progress Dysfunction” gathers together a selection of works from the Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo (CA2M) holds in conjunction with others from Reina Sofía Museum. Two public collections separated by just a few kilometers away.
Christie’s Offers New Master’s Degree In Global Contemporary Art
In September 2014, Christie’s Education New York will launch a unique new master’s degree program called “Global Contemporary Art,” focused on preparing students for careers in the constantly evolving contemporary art marketplace.
Performance by Galia Eibenschutz activates Rita McBride´s piece “Arena” at the Museo Tamayo in Mexico
Museo Tamayo will present on February 8th at 1:00pm the performance “Studies of Space within Space; of Other Studies, of Other Spaces”, by Galia Eibenschutz, in collaboration with Hans Bryssinck and Víctor Muñoz.
Interactive and itinerant Exhibition “This is Not a Museum. Portable and Lurking” at the CCEMiami
The exhibition, curated by Martí Peran and produced by ACVic Centre d’Arts Contemporànies (Contemporary Arts Centre of VIC, Barcelona, Spain),Acción Cultural Española (AC/E) and the Centro Cultural Español Miami, CCEMiami, is conceived as a working process combining research and education.
_Deferred Archive_
Our sense of contemporaneousness logically implies a relationship of otherness with history, resulting precisely from the fact that our experience is anchored in the present, as opposed to historical events, which involve a notion of the past.
José Gurvich. The Pulse of a Restless Will to Change.
“In order to find life, I had to plunge into a free space, with only one hope: that at its bottom I might find my own voice”. José Gurvich
