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El Museo’s Bienal 2013: “Here is Where we Jump”
La Bienal 2013, El Museo del Barrio’s 7th biennial exhibition, inaugurated on June 12, features work by 37 emerging Latino and Latin American artists, from newly-minted to mid-career, who live and work in New York City metropolitan area.
The Latin American Pavilion: Subjective Cartographies at the Biennale di Venezia
“El Atlas del Imperio” (The Atlas of the Empire) the exhibition presented for the Latin American Pavilion of the Istituto Italo-Latinoamericano (IILA), inside the venue of Isolotto dell'Arsenale, was organized by Sylvia Irrazábal, IILA´s commissioner, with Alfons Hug as curator and Paz Guevara as co-curator.
IN MEMORIAM
Berenice Arvani Gallery announces the death on June 6, 2013, of the Argentine visual artist Manuel Álvarez.
Common Projects: Kaarina Kaikkonen’s _Traces” and “Dialogues_
The Finnish artist Kaarina Kaikkonen is presenting two exhibitions in two different venues in Santiago: “ Traces”, featured on one of the staircases of the Museum of Memory and Human Rights, and “Dialogues”, held in the National Museum of Fine Arts.
New Records at the Latin American art auctions in New York
New records for Latin American artists and works were set during the May auctions devoted to this area in the diverse international auction houses in New York.
The 9th Bienal do Mercosul / Porto Alegre launched its pedagogical program
The 9th Bienal do Mercosul | Porto Alegre launched Cloud Formations, a five-month pedagogical program especially designed for the educators, mediators and aficionados of the 9th edition, which takes place from 13 September to 10 November, 2013, weather permitting.
IN MEMORIAM
The Argentine artist Enio Iommi (b. Rosario, Santa Fe Province, 1926) has passed away. He was born to be a sculptor, and he absorbed art in the bosom of his Rosario family.
Eugenio Dittborn at the Museum Het Domein
The Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn (b. 1943, Santiago) is internationally acclaimed with the Airmail Paintings that he has been making since 1983.
“Pop Up” gallery gathers together six Peruvian artists in Switzerland, in the exhibition _Universos paralelos (Parallel Universes)_
Nest Gallery in Geneva, Switzerland, provides the setting for the exhibition Universos paralelos (Parallel Universes), which gathers together six Peruvian artists under the curatorship of Caroline Briceño.
_Adrián Villar Rojas: la inocencia de los animales (The Innocence of Animals)_ at MoMA PS1
Adrián Villar Rojas: La inocencia de los animales (The innocence of animals) is organized by Klaus Biesenbach, Director, MoMA PS1, and Chief Curator-at-Large, MoMA.
Tania Candiani
The Project Five Variations of Phonic Circumstances and a Pause presented by Tania Candiani at Museo Arte Alameda, Mexico City, just received the Award of Distinction in the Hybrid Arts Category of The Prix Ars Electronica.
_Unsaid/Spoken_
Intersubjectivity is one of the distinctive traits of the human being − simultaneously an individual and a social entity. In this sense, communication becomes the means of expression and sociabilization par excellence.
Alexandre Arrechea´s installation project _No Limits_ at Park Avenue
Monumental sculptures of iconic New York buildings to emerge along the Park Avenue Malls in artist’s inaugural NYC public art exhibition
Juan Downey | A Communication Utopía
Mexico City’s Tamayo Museum inaugurated the exhibition “Juan Downey| A Communication Utopia”, curated by Julieta González.
_Remembering / Providing / Resisting. Eugenio espinoza + Andrés Michelena_ at CCE, Miami
Remembering / Providing / Resisting is a tandem project by Eugenio Espinoza (Venezuela, 1950) and Andrés Michelena (Venezuela, 1963) presented at the Spanish Cultural Center in Miami (CCEM) until May 17, 2013.
Artists reinterpreting a baroque canvas featuring the Christ of Burgos at Clang Gallery in Sicily
Six contemporary artists -Tiziana Cera Rosco, Giovanni Gaggia, Eva Gerd, Maddalena Mauri, Pablo Rubio, Sasha Vinci- confront each other on the symbolism of an anonymous canvas whose origin is assumed to lie in Spain.
CA2M, Madrid, announces Call for research projects for the symposium _Speculating on Change_
These days the semiotic control associated with cognitive capitalism have become part of the fabric of life in all its aspects.
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo named Charles Esche as curator for the 31st Bienal de São Paulo
Fundação Bienal de São Paulo named Charles Esche (Scotland, 1962) as curator of the 31st Bienal de São Paulo, which will be held in 2014.
Mexican Art at the Musée du Louvre
Mexican art, an area in which the Louvre’s Hispanic collection is intended to expand, will be showcased at the museum this spring.
Manuel Álvarez Bravo´s retrospective at Foundation MAPFRE, Spain
Fundación Mapfre is presenting a retrospective of the Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo (1902–2002), one of the founding fathers of modern photography in Mexico, curated by Gerardo Mosquera and Laura González Flores.
_Leo Matiz, Gazing at the Infinite_ at the Museo Nacional de Colombia
As part of the National Tributes program, the National Museum - Ministry of Culture presents the temporary exhibition Leo Matiz, Mirando al infinito (Leo Matiz, Gazing at the Infinite).
_Havana: Enigma of the Ruins_, by the Cuban American Guillermo Portieles at Fototeca de Cuba
Havana: Enigma Of The Ruins , curated by Dennys Matos, art critic and independent curator, consists of 12 photographic works intervened with mixed media such as charcoal, watercolor, acrylic and other. In addition to these works, the exhibition includes a video art titled Enigma Havana.
Locust Projects celebrates its 15 year with special events projects and events
“Since our move in 2012 into a new 5,000 square foot exhibition space in the heart of the Design District, we now have more than twice as much space to truly focus on better meeting our mission to serve artists and the community,” said Chana Sheldon, executive director of Locust Projects.
_Art in Response: Jorge Díaz Torres_ at the Museo de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Museo de Arte de Ponce inaugurated the installation of contemporary art titled Art in Response: Jorge Díaz Torres, open until May 27, 2013. This exhibition reflects the museum’s institutional goals of catering to a wide range of interests and enabling audiences to have a common space to meet, discover new horizons, and begin new dialogues.
Cuauhtemoc Medina Named Chief Curator of The MUAC, Mexico
The Coordination of Cultural Diffusion of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, through its General Direction of Visual Arts, announced that Cuauhtemoc Medina, critic, art curator, and investigator of the Institute of Aesthetic Investigation of the academic institution, will assume the position of chief curator of the Contemporary Art University Museum (MUAC), replacing María Inés Rodríguez.
Luis González Palma at Art Museum of the OAS´Art Museum of the Americas, Washington
In the spirit of the hemispheric exchange taking place at the forty-third regular session of the OAS General Assembly in Antigua, Guatemala, from June 4 to 6, 2013, the OAS’ AM A | Art Museum of the Americas presents “ Un Lugar sin Reposo | A Place with no Rest,” an exhibition of artwork from one of the host country’s finest artists, photographer Luis González Palma.
The 10th Monterrey FEMSA Biennial is being held in Mexico City
As part of the celebration for its more than 20 years of continuous support to contemporary art, the Monterrey FEMSA Biennial is inaugurating a major exhibition on Thursday, March 21 at the Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso (Ancient School of San Ildefonso).
_Container_: Jorge Macchi’s first solo exhibition in Switzerland
For his first institutional solo exhibition in Switzerland, in the Kunstmuseum Luzern (Museum of Art of Lucerne), Jorge Macchi (b. 1963) is developing spatial installations in situ. This allows the Argentinean artist to respond sensitively to the existing exhibition architecture.
_Asco: Elite of the Obscure, a Retrospective (1972-1987)_ arrives at the MUAC, Mexico City
The Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporáneo (MUAC), from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), will inaugurate on March 21st, the first retrospective of the conceptual and performance art collective ASCO.
ICI and CPPC call to the Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean
The Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) and Independent Curators International (ICI) are pleased to announce an open call for curators: The 2013 Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros Travel Award for Central America and the Caribbean.
Casa Daros will inaugurate its space in Rio de Janeiro, with an exhibition of Colombian Contemporary Art.
After a painstaking and monumental restoration and renovation project, the Casa Daros building, dating back to 1866 and located in Botafogo, Rio de Janeiro, will be inaugurated on March 23, 2013.
