Notes related to España

THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL MEANINGS OF KARLO ANDREI IBARRA AT CAAM
Concrete Wounds/Herida concreta is the exhibition that the Canary Islands' Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM) is dedicating to Karlo Andrei Ibarra (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1982), one of the most promising and internationally renowned names of the Puerto Rican art scene.

GENESIS AND BORICUA RESONANCES IN REVOLÚ
The birth of a new collective is always good news, and it is so for several reasons. Firstly, because of the existence of collective dynamics that bring together different points of view and, second, because, in a didactic way, it contributes to illustrate and understand the current cartographies of art. For the Revolú collective, formed by Andrés Meléndez (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1996), Miguel Ángel Feba (San Juan, Puerto Rico, 1994) and Marcos Daniel Vicéns (Bayamón, Puerto Rico, 1996), their first exhibition experience is the result of an artistic residency in which, almost blindly, they have been able to build those specific ties to start from the individual and reach the group identity.

COMMUNITY AND COLLECTION AT THE CULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MEXICO
The Mexican Cultural Institute in Spain hosts the group exhibition En el interior del cielo, a show that gathers some of the most prestigious Mexican artists from the collection of Lorena Pérez-Jácome and Javier Lumbreras.

PINACOTECA MIGRANTE: SPAIN AT THE VENICE BIENNALE
Spanish-Peruvian artist Sandra Gamarra Heshiki represents Spain at the Venice Biennale. It is the first time in 60 editions that an artist not born in Spain does so. Her project Pinacoteca migrante (Migrant gallery), questions colonial narratives and historical modes of representation.

ES BALUARD HOSTS ANA LAURA ALÁEZ'S DIALOGUE WITH EMPTINESS
Soy Palacio / Soy Establo is the proposal conceived by Ana Laura Aláez (Bilbao, Spain, 1964) for one of the spaces of the Balearic Museum Es Baluard and in which she proposes, as an intervention, an express dialogue with emptiness.

PAZ ERRÁZURIZ IN THE FUNDACIÓN MAPFRE COLLECTIONS
The international photography festival PHOTOEspaña proposes a program of exhibitions that evoke, both in concept and subject matter, a breadth and diversity that have led to its recognition for years. However, one of its most appreciated improvements has been the expansion of venues and cities, which allows for a wider and better offer.

REINOSO'S BIOMORPHISM, AT THE MEIAC
The Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) is extending until mid-September the exhibition Las líneas de la vida, by artist Pablo Reinoso (Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1955), which deals with the concept of legacy.

ART MARKET: NEW SECTION AT ARTE AL DÍA
It is with great enthusiasm that we announce the inauguration of a new section in our magazine, dedicated to the fascinating and dynamic art market. This section is designed to serve both experts and news collectors as well as enthusiasts who wish to enter, participate, and better understand this exciting world. The section benefits from the guidance and advice of María Sancho-Arroyo, an expert in the field.

LESLIE SARDINIAS. NATURE AND SEXUALITY AT CASA DE AMERICA
Casa de America joins the program of Muestra t, cultural festival of Madrid Orgullo (MADO) 2024, with the exhibition Jungle, by Cuban artist Leslie Sardinias. It is curated by Aldones Nino.

ALFREDO CASTAÑEDA, PAINTER OF POETRY
The exhibition Alfredo Castañeda, painter of poetry at Casa de América offers a journey through the Mexican artist's work from a more poetic point of view. In this way, Castañeda's paintings are shown accompanied by his poems, where a dialogue is generated between the artist's two vocations.

CARLOS GARAICOA: ARCHITECTURE AND PLACE AT THE CAAM
The Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), located in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is hosting the exhibition Toda utopía pasa por la barriga, a tour through the work of Carlos Garaicoa (Havana, Cuba, 1967) curated by Lillebit Fabraga that best connects with architecture, the natural order and the location of the human being in the system.

THE OTHERNESS OF THE BODY, ACCORDING TO NELA OCHOA, IN TEA
The Canary Islands' TEA (Tenerife Espacio de las Artes) is showing until September Y, a solo exhibition by Nela Ochoa (Caracas, Venezuela, 1953), which is part of the curatorial program Filtraciones that the center carries out for artists and with its collection.

CAC MALAGA HOSTS MARIO AYALA'S FIRST SOLO EXHIBITION IN A MUSEUM
The CAC Malaga hosts Milagro, the first solo exhibition in a museum of Mario Ayala (Los Angeles, USA, 1991), son of a Mexican-American mother and Cuban immigrant father, whose production reflects his personal experiences and artistic concerns of the world of garages, truck drivers and mechanics of Fontana.

TERRITORIES. CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE JORGE M. PÉREZ COLLECTION
The exhibition Territorios: Latin American Contemporary Art in the Jorge M. Perez Collection shows a selection of works by more than 50 contemporary Latin American artists at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC). It is curated by Jimena Blázquez Abascal, director of the CAAC.

EVA LOOTZ ASSAULTS MADRID
Austrian-born artist Eva Lootz (Vienna, Austria, 1940) has been living in Spain for more than half her life, where she has established herself not only as one of the great names of contemporary art in the country, where she was awarded the National Prize of Plastic Arts, but also in the whole international European panorama. A regular in exhibitions and public interventions, she now assaults Madrid with a double institutional presence with two large-format exhibitions at the Sala Alcala 31 and the Reina Sofia Museum.

HAITIAN PHOTOGRAPHER WILDLINE CADET PRESENTS EXHIBITION AT CASA DE AMERICA
Haitian photographer Wildline Cadet's exhibition Take this with you at Casa de América portrays the longing for the lost home. It is curated by Nanda van den Berg, Widline Cadet and Désirée Kroep.

PROCESS AND CLIMATE IMPACT IN HERIBERTO NIEVES
There is something structural in the Museo La Neomudéjar that allows plastic initiatives such as those of Heriberto Nieves (Vega Alta, Puerto Rico, 1957) to acquire greater meaning thanks to the dialogue with the space offered by this Madrid institution.

CAYCEDO’S LAND OF FRIENDS AT VALENCIA’S IVAM
Carolina Caycedo’s (London, UK, 1978) Tierra de los amigos (Land of Friends) arrives at the IVAM in Valencia after its run at the Artium museum in Vitoria.

FERNANDO BRYCE: FREEDOM AND POST-TRUTH AT 1 MIRA MADRID
Freedom First is the first solo exhibition that Fernando Bryce (Lima, Peru, 1965) presents at 1 Mira Madrid and is practically a declaration of intentions.

PATRICIA SICARDI, A BOOK, A LIFE
"If you hear a voice within you say, "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced".Vincent Van Gogh

LEANDRO FEAL AND HIS GREEN HAVANA
The Green Havana project is a captured sample of a time and an attitude, the same one that transits between evasion and hedonism and the social reality of the Cuban capital, a unique and referential site of that almost isolated Cuba and of a popular culture grown in the shadow of political influences.

THE GERMINATION OF HISTORY ACCORDING TO DELCY MORELOS, IN SEVILLE
Delcy Morelos (Tierralta, Colombia, 1967) lands at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC) in Seville with Profundis, an exhibition that gathers the spectacular intervention she has made ex profeso in the monumental areas of the Sevillian institution and that focuses on revitalizing the ancestral link of man with the earth, as well as capturing, through botany, the symbolism of the relations between Europe and America.

THE URGENT BESTIARY OF ROBERT NAVA
Standing before the expressive forcefulness of Mexican-American Robert Nava (East Chicago, USA, 1985) can be risky. At first glance, the primitivism in the technique used in his canvases is shocking in the conversion of the strength of the stroke and the basics of the gesture into a language that agglutinates a brute force. Perhaps for that reason, the usual tendency of those who face his work is to quickly pigeonhole it out of the academic, out of that refinement that is presupposed -although less and less- to those who fill the room of a museum, to let themselves be carried away by the urgency of expression in front of that pretended good taste.

THE IBERO-AMERICAN CURATORSHIP AFTER INÉDITOS 2024
For some time now, the Inéditos program carried out by La Casa Encendida -an institution of the Montemadrid Foundation- has become a more or less reliable thermometer of the emerging curatorial scene that has Spain as its epicenter. As a result of that consolidation, within that faithful reflection, the Spanish social and artistic structure itself plays a very prominent role.

YOUNG CARIBBEAN PHOTOGRAPHY AT PHOTOESPAÑA
Included within the activities of the program Transcultura. Integrating Cuba, the Caribbean and the European Union through Culture and Creativity, an initiative coordinated by the European Union and implemented by UNESCO in Havana, fifteen young Caribbean photographers between the ages of 18 and 35 will participate in PHotoESPAÑA 2024 with the presentation of their recent work, in addition to being able to interact professionally with cultural agents and the sector.

PATRICIO REIG AND THE ANATOMY OF THE GAZE
Patricio Reig (San Juan, Argentina, 1952) exhibits at the Centre Cultural La Mercè in Girona Anatomía de la mirada, a proposal that deals with the dissection of the act of looking and its individual and subjective approach.

PERFORMANCE AND MYTH IN HECTOR CANONGE
Héctor Canonge began to explore the possibilities of performance almost without being aware of it. With an extensive career in the field of new media and the art surrounding these technologies, and almost by inertia, he incorporates the use of his body in one of his installations, Schema CorpoReal, where his body covered by bar codes was scanned by the public so that, through texts that emerged referring to parts of his body, they ended up constructing a narrative of identity.

ANA GALLARDO'S RECONSTRUCTION AND “DELIRIUM”
It could have been an ordinary retrospective, but the decision to participate in some way in the creative process is a differential and even declarative point in Tembló acá un delirio, the exhibition that Museo CA2M in Móstoles delves into the figure, and at first hand, of Ana Gallardo (Rosario, Argentina, 1958).

CHAOS THEORY AT THE GUGGENHEIM BILBAO
The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao presents Metahaven. Chaos Theory. This is the first exhibition of the year in the Film & Video room, a space that the Museum dedicates entirely to video art, audiovisual installation and moving image as artistic languages, and which celebrates its tenth anniversary in 2024.

MEIAC PRESENTS MARTÍN LÓPEZ LAM’S PAISAJE TRANSFERIDO
The Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (MEIAC) in Badajoz is exhibiting, under the title Paisaje Transferido, a wide-ranging show by MartÍn Lopez Lam (Lima, Peru, 1981), one of the main exponents of graphic art in Spain, where he has been living for the last two decades.