Reviews
Simón Vega: When Worlds Meet
What does it feel like to be a Salvadoran artist in the midst of an international career, with a creative practice that is entrenched in notions and experiences of home?
_After the Object_
Referencing the maxim “after the artist”, which means that the work produced is not the work of artist X’, but that the work is done as a copy of, or in the style of, artist X'; five Mexican artists, Mauricio Limón, Quirarte & Ornelas, Omar Rodríguez-Graham, Moza Saracho and Marela Zacarias, reflect on what the art object is in contemporary art.
Eduard Moreno
The conquest of the land through opencast mining seems to be the point of departure for the reflections that Eduard Moreno’s current exhibition at NC Arte, curated by Conrado Uribe, propose.
Lais Myrrha
Her works are somewhat an ode to instability. In grayscale and minimalist aesthetics, Lais Myrrha investigates a syndrome that corrodes Brazil since its inception as the project of a nation.
Eugenio Espinoza + Andrés Michelena
This tandem project was structured through the dialogue of certain bodies of the work of two Venezuelan artists belonging to different generations: Eugenio Espinoza (b. 1950) and Andrés Michelena (b. 1963).
_Junkies’ Promises_
Even though there is no direct connection with the narrative from the original William Burroughs’s novel Junky, there are conceptual similarities related to the notion of survival that Iván Navarro (artist / curator) uses as tropes to describe artistic creation.
Cecilia Paredes
“De mil flechazos herido ” (“Wounded by a thousand arrow shots”), an allusion to a poem by Manuel González Prada, is the title of the intervention project presented by Cecilia Paredes at the Pedro de Osma Museum in Lima.
Richard Garet
Between March 2 and April 13, Julian Navarro presented the exhibition “Richard Garet: Extraneous to the Message” at Mandragoras Art Space in Long Island City, NY.
Lotty Rosenfeld. For a poetics of rebellion.
Still immersed in the repercussions of the recent discussions on museology and its capacity to reinvent itself in order to showcase the new media, different institutions have set out to plan exhibitions aimed at showing, more or less successfully, the recordings, archives, and actions of artists working with the most ephemeral artistic expressions.
Di Pascuale, Mandrile, Castiñeira and Chalub
With the opening of the exhibitions of works by Lucas Di Pascuale, Cecilia Mandrile, Romina Castiñeira and Luli Chalub, Córdoba’s Gnaro Pérez Museum, which lodges an important local painting collection, implemented an interesting exchange between the pioneering painters in its permanent collection and some of the most refreshing referents of the new generation.
CHACO
The spacious Juan de Salazar Spanish Cultural Center in Asunción (Paraguay) hosts the group exhibition “Chaco [contemporary inventions]”, which alludes to the artistic fictions associated to the Great American Chaco region rather than to its geographical, historical and socio-political situation.
_Electric Blue Night_
It is hard to notice, but the entire room is covered by a light touch of green, a muted color that sprawls across the walls and drowns the space in a sort of reminiscence of natural environment.
Sergio Vega
Sergio Vega (Argentina, 1959) is featuring the exhibition “Disassembling Paradise”. A paradise he alludes to through two of his series, “Parrot Color Charts” and “Shanty Nucleus After Derrida 2”.
On Painting
At a time when painting as a method, and its validity, are questioned from different fronts, the emergence of voices that somehow oppose those critiques is not undesirable.
Los Carpinteros
That the nave of Matadero, where the program for the development of specific projects, “Abierto x obras”, takes place, is one of the most interesting points in the artistic panorama of Madrid is a fact that few people deny.
Hernán Salamanco
Hernán Salamanco (Buenos Aires, 1974) insists on the fact that “painting is before and above all, (…) above everything else”. Vida espiritual is the vibrant result of his conviction, displayed at Slyzmud, a gallery that has been running for little more than a year.
Mónica Girón
In Fronterizo y traslación, at ZavaletaLab gallery, Mónica Girón (Argentina, 1959) gathers together works from different series, which include volumes in grey granite as well as watercolors on paper, reflecting a formal difference balanced with refinement and conceptual affinity.
Santiago Cárdenas
We had our first approach to the work of Santiago Cárdenas (Colombia, 1937) in Bogotá –inspired by an article by Galaor Carbonell.
Fabián Marcaccio
Fabián Marcaccio (Rosario, Argentina, 1963) has deservedly established himself as one of the most evident renovators of the Latin American pictorial language.
Luis Brito
In 2006, the photographer Antolín Sánchez made a documentary film on the work of Luis Brito (Venezuela, Edo. Sucre, 1945).
Karina Peisajovich
Karina Peisajovich (Buenos Aires, 1966), whose work in recent years has been linked to her experiences related to the perceptive possibilities of light and movement, presented Totalmente, tácitamente at Vasari Gallery.
José Luis Landet
To appropriate, make something one’s own. José Luis Landet (Argentina, 1977), who is having his first solo show in his native country at Document Art Gallery, works on the basis of this principle, the principle of original appropriation.
Camila Ramirez
Wealth is badly distributed in the world. And this is even more so in countries which have carried out a fanatically capitalist economic policy, as is the case of Chile.
_SUSTENTAZO (LAMENT II)_, MONIKA WEISS
The Museum of Memory is a space devoted to the testimonies of thousands of victims of the period of dictatorial regime in Chile.
Aníbal Vallejo
In Aníbal Vallejo’s recent series of paintings, different references to the history of painting may be perceived, among them, references to Claude Monet’s
José Luis Anzizar
In Urban Papers, José Luis Anzizar (Buenos Aires, 1962) continues his series Urban birdwatching, both visually and conceptually, marking itineraries and revealing movements which propose a reflection on the urban fabric and on perception.
Antonio Ugarte
It is difficult to partake of two fine art disciplines. Antonio Ugarte (Venezuela, 1961) is a photographer and a painter. The exhibition “Sombras de museo” (“Museum Shadows”) is based on his inquiries into photography.
_Between Two Continents: Spanish Geometric Abstraction in Latin America_
Starting with its title, this exhibition rescues an almost forgotten chapter in the global history of geometric abstraction, which was the axis of the modernist dream in Spain.
Humberto Vélez
In his presentation in Buenos Aires, Humberto Vélez (Panamá, 1965) exhibits, in the first place, the film The Last Builder (El último físicoculturista / El último constructor), 2008, with Dionisio Herrera González in the leading role, showing his sculpted body to the sound of Nikola Kodjabashia’s music.
Amalia Caputo
Amalia Caputo (Venezuela, 1964) has an obsession with objects. This does not apply only to found objects, but also to those which are sought, used, discarded, and whose eventual role, assigned to them by the new users, she wants to keep track of..
_Listening to Time (On the way of perceiving and other reasons_ in the work of Glenda León).
In the year 2000, artist Glenda León (Havana, 1976) left small frozen flowers inside ice cubes upon the tables of a bar.
