Reviews

The title of this exhibition is somewhat disconcerting. Luis Lizardo (Venezuela, Caracas, 1956) is showing his recent work in the framework of the old coffeee drying patios of the Hacienda La Trinidad, in Caracas.

The story of carmine red is associated to sex, violence and political struggles. Also to war and drama. The humble cochineal (Dactylopius coccus) that produces it was always alien to the passions it generated. I

“De Cuba Nelson Domínguez: Pintura, escultura, dibujo y grabados” (“From Cuba Nelson Domínguez: Painting, sculpture, drawing and engraving”), the first solo show of this great Cuban artist in the Dominican Republic, ran from mid-June to the end of September at the welcoming spaces of Alinka Arte Contemporáneo.

In José Dávila’s one-person exhibition at OMR Gallery in Mexico City, Ningún donde puede ser aquí a title inspired by the expression “Nowhere can be there".

The term ‘sesera’ (brainpan) refers to the part of the skull that encloses the brain and the grey matter itself, while at the same time it also serves to describe the person who acts with prudence and good judgment.

The Miami gallery Fredric Snitzer presented its summer group show, which explores a “macho/masculine” position throughout a wide spectrum ranging from the macho-macho, the peacock, and the gay man or woman, to childhood and the boy-girl relationship.

Under the title A Collective Sum, the Wynwood District gallery Ideobox Artspace presented during the past month of April three solo shows.

New Work Miami 2010, “was conceived as an exuberant salute to Miami’s artistic community, and it will provide a partial snapshot of the Miami art scene at this moment,” according to the press release issued by the Miami Art Museum to promote the exhibit.

One day, talking with Volf Roitman, he confessed to me that he saw everything in the shape of the geometric forms that the MADI movement had created.

Painting, as we are taught by Asians, Romantics and Surrealists alike, is valuable insofar as it opens a door to imagination.

The idea of grouping together was Fred Schiffer’s, and it was inspired by a similar model, an association of photographers formed at the end of the 19th century in London (Linked Ring Brotherhood), but the written pages were kept by Annemarie Heinrich.

The ground floor of the tower conceived by César Pelli for YPF is a unique scenario to exhibit Trailer, Nicola Costantino’s most recent production, which consists of five trailers and several bill boards announcing the homonymous short film.

An architect and urban planner, Leonardo Pellegrini (Argentina, 1969) lives and works in Salta “the beautiful”, as announced in the advertisement that promotes this province, in whose premises in Buenos Aires city the solo show MB # is being held.

Graciela Hasper’s (Buenos Aires, 1966) interest in addressing the problems of painting has been evident since she began to show her work in 1989.

“La enseñanza de la geografía, dos ejercicios” es una obra concebida en proceso, donde la artista se ha relacionado con una historia y una situación de lugar, diseñando actividades y un montaje que buscaron integrar activamente a la comunidad.

The series “Fine Tuning VOL. V / La tierra que habla” is inevitably included in a tradition of local landscape and “blot” painting developed from the late 19th century to the preset.

Ismael Frigerio (1955) emerged at the end of the 1970s from a generation of Chilean painters influenced by the transavantgard and Neo-Expressionism.

There is a certain “Neo-conceptual” art in Chile that succeeds in reconnecting the aesthetic discourse and the aesthetic experience through craftswork and ordinary, everyday objects, bringing the public into contact with the artwork.

The Comet Gallery presented a small homage exhibition for the photographer Leo Matiz under the title Geometría en Colombia (Geometry in Colombia).

The exhibition Cuba Avant-Garde: Contemporary Cuban Art from the Farber Collection at the Lowe Art Museum is the first to exhibit in Miami the art of the politically disobedient generation that introduced contemporary art to Cuba in the early 1980s.

When at the end of November of 1952, the Supreme Electoral Council of Venezuela suspended the ballot count corresponding to that year’s elections, the country entered a period of authoritarian rule under General Marcos Pérez Jiménez which would last six years.

Ocasionalmente, el eurocentrismo en el arte ha hecho que se queden atrás, apenas sin analizar al otro lado del océano, algunas de las más interesantes tendencias artísticas fuera del viejo continente.

Once again, and for the thirteenth consecutive year, Madrid has been the epicenter of the development of a new edition of the Festival of Photography and Visual Arts, PhotoEspaña 2010.

To offer an overview of the work of the Brazilian artist Vik Muniz may be a complicated task due to the variety of formats and supports he resorts to.