Reviews
ARCOmadrid 2020: ALFREDO JAAR, A LESSON
The famous German gallery Thomas Schulte presents an individual booth dedicated to the artwork of Alfredo Jaar. The four selected projects of high political content were selected by the artist himself.
ARCOmadrid 2020: PROYECTOS ULTRAVIOLETA, HIGHLIGHTED STAND OF THE DIALOGUES SECTION
Within the framework of the Dialogues section, ARCOmadrid presented the First Iberia Prize to the Guatemalan platform Proyectos UltraVioleta for the work of Hellen Ascoli and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa.
ARCOMadrid - LATIN AMERICAN ART AND A MACRO EXHIBITION OF VOLUSPA JARPA
As an extension of the “Alternative Views” project presented in Chile’s Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, the stand of the French gallery Mor Charpentier presents in ARCOmadrid 2020 a series of works by Voluspa Jarpa (Chile, 1971) never displayed before.
CLAUDIA AMMIRATA: ON THE PAIN OF YOUR OWN
Fix Me (Arréglame), an exhibition by Venezuelan artist Claudia Ammirata in Artmedia Gallery, is a photography and documentary video project exposing with as much ontological truth as formal sensibility, what is most vulnerable in one’s life to the look of the others.
REPENSAR LA HISTORIA DESDE EL LENGUAJE, ENTREVISTA CON ELIÁN STOLARSKY
En 2018, con tan solo 28 años, el Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales de Montevideo (MNAV) la convocó para exhibir Y todos los otros, una exposición individual que, mediante el grabado, el arte textil y la animación reconstruye el pasado judío de su familia, la construcción de la identidad polaca emigrada por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, en definitiva, la creación de un archivo histórico generacional. Desde 2015 vive en Europa: primero vivió en Bélgica, donde participó en la residencia Frans Masereel Centrum, y ahora en España, adonde llegó para formar parte de la residencia Casa Velázquez y quedarse.
THE BODY’S MEMORY - MAX ESTRELLA GALLERY, MADRID
From January 30 to April 4, the Max Estrella Gallery exhibits La Magdalena de Proust: Antropocentrismo cotidiano (“Proust’s Magdalene: Everyday Anthropocentrism”). The exhibition brings together the work of six international artists around the experience of the body (that is, the memory of the body), based on the famous novel by Marcel Proust.
RE-COLLECTOR: AN EXHIBITION BY ANDRÉS MICHELENA IN VENEZUELA
Venezuelan artist Andrés Michelena presents Re-collector at the Carmen Araujo Art gallery in Caracas, starting December 11th. Check out the review.
THE FORM IS FEMALE
Geometric Abstraction in Latin America, 1950 to today.
THE TIME WE HAVE LEFT: AN EXHIBITION BY HERNÁN SORIANO AT LANZALLAMAS
With Fiorella Di Biase's curatorship, the exhibition The time we have left, by Hernán Soriano, takes place at the Lanzallamas gallery. Santiago López shares his thoughts.
XXL CROSSED LANDSCAPES: 15TH LYON BIENNALE
In the framework of the 15th Lyon Biennial, curator Patricia Avena reflects on the artworks that are part of this new edition and the importance of landscape in contemporary art.
UN MODELO PARA HABITAR DESDE LA CONCIENCIA
En el espacio de Fudnación El Mirador (San Telmo, Buenos Aires), el artista rosarino Francisco Vazquez Murillo exhibe Los movimientos alrededor del sol, una exposición que propone revitalizar la relación con la Tierra y habitar el mundo desde la contemplación y la conciencia.
SPACE BETWEEN: A SKETCH OF THE NEW ARGENTINE GENERATION
Within the framework of the Young Art Biennial, the collective exhibition Espacio Entre is exhibited at the Recoleta Cultural Center (CCR). Under Tainá Azeredo's (Brazil, 1984) curatorship, twenty-five visual and plastic artists were selected to show their artworks in rooms 3, 4 and 5 of the CCR constituting a small sketch of the Argentine sub-32 art production.
JUAN MANUEL ECHAVARRÍA: RIVERS AND SILENCES
The art historian and former curator of the National Museum of Colombia, Natalia Vega, reflects on Juan Manuel Echevarría's (Meddellín, 1947) artwork through Ríos y Silencios (Rivers and Silences) exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá (MAMBO) between 2017 and 2018.
SONIA FALCONE: LIFE FIELDS
Anchoring the observation at Sonia Falcone: Fields of life exhibition held during 2017 at the Royal Palace in Lisbon, the editorial staff of Arte Al Día Internacional makes an approach to the artwork of the Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1965).
RETHINKING LATIN AMERICA: CIFO'S GRANTS AND COMMISSIONS PROGRAM
Through the exhibition that the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation held in 2017 for its fifteenth anniversary, Yunekis Villalonga makes a revaluation of the foundation scholarship and commission program.
ENERG(ETHICS)
Monument of the heroes, Bogotá.
FUERA DE FOCO: UNA REINTERPRETACIÓN DE LO ORNAMENTAL
En su proyecto curatorial desarrollado para Fuera de Foco -sección experimental de BAphoto-, Alfredo Aracil propone una reflexión respecto a lo ornamental, entendido como síntoma.
CARLOS ALONSO AND AN UNUSUAL APPEARANCE IN THE EXPERIMENTAL CINEMA OF THE 60
In BAphoto 2019, the Sasha D gallery presents thirty-five frames intervened by Carlos Alonso for an experimental film by Alejandro Mathe in 1960. The work, never before exhibited, is an exemplary piece that illustrates the avant-garde movements of the 60s and 70s in Argentina.
EL PEZ REY: EL POTENCIAL DEL ARCHIVO Y LA LEGITIMACIÓN DEL RELATO
En plena Ciudad de Buenos Aires hay un pedazo de litoral. El susurro denso de los grillos del campo húmedo reproduce un eco exhaustivo. En la sala se proyectan los testimonios de dos señoras mayores. Leemos lo que dicen en subtítulos porque los videos están silenciados. Los bichos del humedal monopolizan el espacio: el sonido se vuelve casi material en la sala.
THE UNBOUNDED LINE: A SELECTION FROM THE JUAN CARLOS MALDONADO ART COLLECTION
The art collection of Juan Carlos Maldonado, from Miami, is a treasure that runs through geometric abstraction and concretism with its social implications, mainly in South America and extended to the international scene.
THE FIRST SWORD WAS A GIFT
In a dialogue between techniques, rituals, mythologies and stories, Argentine artists Constanza Chiappini, Gonzalo Maggi and Julia Rosetti establish a story that challenges the present in the exhibition The first sword was a gift.
RADICAL WOMEN
Within the framework of what was Radical Women exhibition that was given at the Hammer Museum, L.A., California, independent critic and curator Adriana Herrera Téllez reflects on the visibility of these artists and the legacy proposed by the catalog.
SEX STORIES
Elvis Fuentes reflects on Stories of Sexuality exhiition in the MASP and the importance of controversial art.
BEHIND CRUDO
Diego Trulls, founder and producer of the CRUDO countercultural project, explains his relationship with art, the objectives for his interview channel and the desire to generate an audiovisual record of the international contemporary scene.
RETURN TO KOYAANISQUAATSI: WILLY CASTELLANOS AT THE KENDALL ARTE CENTER IN MIAMI
In a context of hyperinformation and image overproduction, José Antonio Navarrete reflected on the construction of meaning in contemporary visual arts from the artwork of Willy Castellanos.
DIMENSIONS OF THE SAME
Argentine artist Constanza Oxenford presents Dimensions of the same, her second solo show at OdA, Art Gallery
THE UNEARTHLY ENCHANTMENTS OF NELA ARIAS-MISSON
“I don’t paint to live, I live to paint.” — Nela Arias-Misson when asked about her refusal to sell her work.
SHARED ABSENCE, A DIALOGUE ON MEMORY
The Rolf Art gallery exhibits Falta compartida (Shared Absence). Conceived as a collective exhibition in collaboration with Mon Charpentier, eleven Latin American artists approach memory from diverse languages.
JULIO LE PARC, A VISIONARY
At his 90, the Kirchner Cultural Center presents the most important retrospective of Julio Le Parc. Main figure of optical art and international avant-garde, Julio Le Parc. A visionary will accompany the exhibition that is being set up by the National Museum of Fine Arts of Buenos Aires.
WHO'S THAT GIRL?: FLAVIA DA RIN IN THE MODERN ART MUSEUM OF BUENOS AIRES
On exhibition at the Modern Art Museum of Buenos Aires until September 29, ¿Quién es esa chica? (Who's that girl ?), by Flavia Da Rin, is the first retrospective in a museum of one of the most relevant figures of the Argentine contemporary scene.
LEANDRO ERLICH AT RUTH BENZACAR
"The Scottish artist Andy Goldsworthy said that his art school was not the academy but the beach. Mine was the VCR," wrote Leandro Erlich in the framework of his exhibition Coming Soon, in Ruth Benzacar.
