PINTA Sud | ASU ART WEEK IN ASUNCION
The third and last edition of Art Week Asuncion presented by Pinta Sud | ASU starts today August 5 with an ambitious cultural program, curated by Adriana Almada and accompanied by Irene Gelfman, featuring exhibitions, curatorial programs, lecture series and events.
Pinta Sud | ASU organizes from August 5 to 11, 2024 the third and final edition of Art Week in Asunción, Paraguay, with contemporary art and cultural activations throughout the city in collaboration with public and private actors. This program invites you to discover the uniqueness of a booming art scene and delve into its invigorating cultural proposal.
It is an opportunity to enjoy seven days of artistic celebration in the city of Asunción. The cultural program is curated by Adriana Almada and accompanied by Irene Gelfman, Pinta's global curator. They are joined by outstanding national and international curators who will be in charge of various exhibition proposals, such as Ticio Escobar, Lia Colombino, Fredi Casco, Gustavo Riego, Bianca Bernardo and Damián Cabrera, as well as Alban Martínez Gueyraud, Javier Medina Verdolini, Thiago Sant'Ana, Fernando Moure, Félix Toranzos and Bettina Brizuela.
One of the most anticipated activities is FORO, the program of conversations: "Latin America and curatorial practice", which will bring together key curators and referents of the international art circuit, from prestigious institutions and museums in the United States, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Argentina.
FORO will take place at the Casa de la Integración of CAF - Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean. The objective of these conversations is to create spaces for debate, reflection and meeting, aimed at art professionals, students and teachers. Guests include Isabella Lenzi, Ines Katzenstein, Cuauhtemoc Medina, Raphael Fonseca, Bianca Bernardo, Maria Amalia Garcia, Vivian Crockett, Isabella Rjeille, Luciana Pereira, and Solano Benitez.
In addition, this edition of Pinta Sud | ASU presents a new window of exploration to cultural centers, galleries, museums, institutions, foundations and spaces with proposals from national and world-renowned artists. As part of the program, there will be a visit to the ceramic workshop in Itá of Julia Isídrez, one of the most outstanding sculptors in South America, who is emerging on the international scene as a unique figure for her ability to resignify an ancient sculptural tradition.
This new edition incorporates as a special feature the Young Curatorship Program -presented by Adriana Almada- to which Majo Fiorio and Luis Ocampos Pompa, young Paraguayan curators, have been invited to present emerging and mid-career artists.