Reviews

Atelier Morales: Arqueología III. Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Atelier Morales ventures a new beauty that, albeit with tension and ambiguity, appeals to the viewer’s senses and feelings.

Miguel Rothschild: Cuarenta días y cuarenta noches. Ruth Benzacar
Review of Miguel Rothschild´s exhibition at Ruth Benzacar Gallery.

Claudio Tozzi: New Figuration and the Rise of Pop Art 1967-1971.Cecilia Brunson Projects, London
The exhibition concentrates on one of the most difficult periods in Brazilian political history, a period that began with the imposition of a military dictatorship in 1964.

Colección Tedesco: Diagonal Sur - Arte argentino hoy. Centro Cultural Borges. Buenos Aires
With almost four hundred works from the Esteban Tedesco collection, Diagonal Sur - Arte Argentino Hoy occupies all the galleries of the Centro Cultural Borges. A milestone in the history of contemporary art collecting, the show makes visible art produced over the course of the last thirty years.

Carlos Motta: Deseos. Galerie Mor Charpentier, Paris.
This first solo exhibition of the Colombian artist explores the historical representations of what is considered unconventional sexual desire.

Juan Andrés Videla: Nada está quieto. Centro cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires
The over seventy paintings and drawings in this anthological exhibition offer us a remarkable opportunity to interrogate the artistic universe Videla has developed over the last twelve years.

Hernán Bas: Fruits and flowers. Galerie Perrotin, Paris
Bas’s iconography has been inspired by late 19th-century decadent and symbolist aesthetics in both literature and the visual arts.

Jesús Soto: Estático/Dinámico. Galería Ascaso. Caracas
It is truly remarkable that an artist without a high school education was able to produce such a deep body of work, one steeped in the concerns of art, mathematics, and musical harmony.
![Guadalupe Valdés, Habitar lo nuestro [Inhabiting What’s Ours]. Mixed media on canvas, 55 x 69 cm. 2015 Guadalupe Valdés, Habitar lo nuestro [Inhabiting What’s Ours]. Mixed media on canvas, 55 x 69 cm. 2015](/var/artealdia_com/storage/images/resenas/guadalupe-valdes-vencer-el-olvido.-galeria-isabel-aninat-chile/567068-1-esl-AR/Guadalupe-Valdes-Vencer-el-olvido.-Galeria-Isabel-Aninat-Chile_grid_horizontal.jpg)
Guadalupe Valdés: Vencer el olvido. Galería Isabel Aninat, Chile
The artist’s reminiscences are alliances she puts together on the basis of other artists’ signatures that, when joined, turn into a vision of art that surprises and captivates us, engaging collage in a creative game with reality.

Federico Colletta: El desmoronamiento de la corteza terrestre. Centro Cultural Recoleta. Buenos Aires
The apparent working of nature’s chance in Federico Colletta’s process is actually a strategy, a partial loosening.
![Luis Romero. Tu y Yo [You and I], 2015, prints on paper and glass, Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery (photo by O. Torridas) Luis Romero. Tu y Yo [You and I], 2015, prints on paper and glass, Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery (photo by O. Torridas)](/var/artealdia_com/storage/images/resenas/luis-romero-borderline.-alejandra-von-hartz-gallery-miami/567032-1-esl-AR/Luis-Romero-Borderline.-Alejandra-Von-Hartz-Gallery-Miami_grid_horizontal.jpg)
Luis Romero: Borderline. Alejandra Von Hartz Gallery, Miami
Luis Romero is interested in putting together a sort of inventory of the constructive resources of geometric abstraction in order to discover new discursive possibilities.

Ken Matsubara: Repeticiones. Del Paseo Gallery, Punta del Este
This show brought together three videos and an installation—a series of open books, as tenuous as memories, displayed on music stands.
![PACIFICO [PACIFIC], 1994. Pacifico series, 120x104 cm. Vintage print. Photograph: Daniel Avena PACIFICO [PACIFIC], 1994. Pacifico series, 120x104 cm. Vintage print. Photograph: Daniel Avena](/var/artealdia_com/storage/images/resenas/fernell-franco-cali-clair-obscur.-fondation-cartier-paris/566942-1-esl-AR/Fernell-Franco-Cali-Clair-Obscur.-Fondation-Cartier-Paris_grid_horizontal.jpg)
Fernell Franco: Cali Clair Obscur. Fondation Cartier, Paris
On exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain is the first retrospective of Fernell Franco (1942-2006), an important, though still little-known, figure in Latin American photography.
![Gerardo Goldwasser, Medidas rígidas [Rigid Measures], 2015. Wood and varnish, 100 cm. long / Madera y barniz, 100 cm, largo. Gerardo Goldwasser, Medidas rígidas [Rigid Measures], 2015. Wood and varnish, 100 cm. long / Madera y barniz, 100 cm, largo.](/var/artealdia_com/storage/images/resenas/goldwasser-uribe-el-sistema-de-los-otros.-galeria-del-paseo-punta-del-este/566897-1-esl-AR/Goldwasser-Uribe-El-sistema-de-los-otros.-Galeria-del-Paseo-Punta-del-Este_grid_horizontal.png)
Goldwasser - Uribe: El sistema de los otros. Galería del Paseo, Punta del Este
The exhibitions by experienced artists Gerardo Goldwasser and Pablo Uribe held at Galería del Paseo evidence a shared sensibility and a similar placid atmosphere. By different means, the two shows by artists of the same generation look to ancestral traces and give rise to a multiplicity of meanings.

Hugo Aveta: Sintomas, la imagen sin nombre. El Gran Vidrio. Argentina
Hugo Aveta lives by his work in that infinite universe of halftimes that avoid and survive finiteness.

Leandro Erlich: La democracia del Símbolo. MALBA. Buenos Aires
The removal of a section of the obelisk, as well as the fiction of transporting it and the choice of the new setting, not only formulates the artist’s political and conceptual agenda but also activates the senses.

Jorge Macchi: Lampo. NC – arte. Colombia
Lampo is a pause and change in pace in the programming of NC-arte, as well as the first major show by Macchi in Bogotá.
![Rey América [King America]. Oleo sobre lienzo / Oil on canvas, 146x89 cm. 1991. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) Collection. Rey América [King America]. Oleo sobre lienzo / Oil on canvas, 146x89 cm. 1991. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes (MNBA) Collection.](/var/artealdia_com/storage/images/resenas/perez-celis-testimonio-americano.-museo-nacional-de-bellas-artes.-buenos-aires/566304-1-esl-AR/Perez-Celis-Testimonio-americano.-Museo-Nacional-de-Bellas-Artes.-Buenos-Aires_grid_horizontal.jpg)
Pérez Celis: Testimonio americano. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes. Buenos Aires
The design of this exhibition prioritizes his almost fifty-year search for the specificity of the Americas.
![Muu Blanco. NCT-M, from the series NCT x 13 Samples, 2015. Intervention on Paolo Gasparini’s book Retromundo [Retroworld], 1986 Muu Blanco. NCT-M, from the series NCT x 13 Samples, 2015. Intervention on Paolo Gasparini’s book Retromundo [Retroworld], 1986](/var/artealdia_com/storage/images/resenas/muu-blanco-nctx13-sample-photographs-music.-artmedia-gallery-miami/566286-1-esl-AR/Muu-Blanco-NCTx13-Sample-Photographs-Music.-ArtMedia-Gallery-Miami_grid_horizontal.jpg)
Muu Blanco: NCTx13 Sample, Photographs & Music. ArtMedia Gallery, Miami
Muu Blanco’s strategy consists of selecting images by Gasparini and placing on them elements that make reference to Blanco’s daily life.
![Wifredo Lam, La Jungla [The Jungle], 1943. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Wifredo Lam, La Jungla [The Jungle], 1943. The Museum of Modern Art, New York.](/var/artealdia_com/storage/images/resenas/wifredo-lam-o-la-modernidad-transcontinental.-centre-georges-pompidou-paris/566268-2-esl-AR/Wifredo-Lam-O-la-modernidad-transcontinental.-Centre-Georges-Pompidou-Paris_grid_horizontal.jpg)
Wifredo Lam: O la modernidad transcontinental. Centre Georges Pompidou, París
The exhibition displays the different stages of the long journey that was Lam’s life as well as the varying courses of his production.

Josefina Guilisasti: A Matter of Perception. Cecilia Brunson Projects, Londres
Josefina Guilisasti's work restores the anthropological, historic, and cultural value of objects that no longer have a voice.

Studio R & R: Ceci n'est pas happening. Monoambiente. Buenos Aires
The exhibition was not a happening but that happened: a project featuring the architecture of emotion rendered as a portable party thanks to the abracadabra that completed the sound decoration.

Augusto Zanella & Luis Rodríguez: Mambo. Miranda Bosch, Buenos Aires
The space directed by Eleonora Molina presents an exhibition that has the optical illusions as starting point.

Matias Duville: Arena Parking. Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires
Duville traslada al espacio tridimensional ese mapa mental de motivos que caracterizan su obra.

Christian Carle Catafago: Monumentos a la deriva. Praxis Arte Internacional. Buenos Aires
Carle Catafago’s vistas celebrate the extraordinary landscapes south of the South, and convey, at the same time, their disturbing fleetingness.

Martin Legón: Las fuerzas productivas. Barro Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires
We could feel that the whole exhibition becomes a poem, that as soon as it anchors us to a meaning and an experience, it immediately produces a new estrangement to make way for another meaning and another experience.

Amadeo Azar & Jorge Miño: Los restos del Triunfo. Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires
Azar and Miño’s exhibition is not a literal commentary on “the remains of triumph;” its musicality opens up other horizons.

In fraganti. Fotografía y pintura. ArtexArte. Buenos Aires
Arte x Arte debuts its new stage as a foundation with an exceptional exhibition that investigates the intersections between painting and photography.

Francisco Medail: Parte. Studio 488, Buenos Aires
Medail presents an exhibition in where debate is the obsessions with perfection with roots in romantic thinking of a documentary photography that aspires to be ontology: to show the essence of things exactly as they are.

Adriana Lestido: Mexico. Rolf Art, Buenos Aires
The exhibitionfeaturing works by the photographer Adriana Lestido at Rolf Art, displays two impressive and beautiful photographic essays, developed in Mexican territory in 2010.

Vik Muñiz: Buenos Aires. Muntref
In the work of Vic Muniz, the materials have an economy, a social and political history, or a technology that begs to be included in the discourse.