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DAROS LATIN AMERICAN ART COLLECTION

DAROS LATIN AMERICAN ART COLLECTION

The Daros Latinamerica Collection of contemporary Latin American art touches ground in Zürich, Switzerland, and in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. In Zürich, the Daros Exhibitions space regularly presents shows from the collection, accompanied by Daros Art Education programmes and other related events. In Rio de Janeiro, a new art centre is being established, the Casa [...]

January 28 2011 | Posted in Museums | Read More »

LOS CARPINTEROS

LOS CARPINTEROS

The Havana-based collective Los Carpinteros (The Carpenters) has created some of the most important work to emerge from Cuba in the past decade. Formed in 1991, the trio (consisting of Marco Castillo, Dagoberto Rodríguez, and, until his departure in June 2003, Alexandre Arrechea) adopted their name in 1994, deciding to renounce the notion of individual [...]

January 25 2011 | Posted in Featured Artist | Read More »

SUPRASENSORIAL EXHIBITION AT MOCA, L.A

SUPRASENSORIAL EXHIBITION AT MOCA, L.A

Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light,Color and Space December 12, 2010-­‐February 27,2011 The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA Los Angeles—The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) presents Suprasensorial: Experiments in Light, Color, and Space, the first museum exhibition to situate pioneering Latin American artists among the international canon of those working with light and space. The exhibition will present Latin America as the source of new ideas about the [...]

January 24 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

ARCO 2011- SOLO PROJECTS: FOCUS IN LATIN AMERICAN ART

ARCO 2011- SOLO PROJECTS: FOCUS IN LATIN AMERICAN ART

The next edition of ARCO, International Contemporary Art Fair to be held from 16 to 20 February 2011, aims to be a memorable call because they not only celebrate the thirty year history, but also for the innovative changes that occur and the response of the galleries. On this occasion, the Fair will feature a [...]

January 24 2011 | Posted in Market, News | Read More »

IVAN NAVARRO

IVAN NAVARRO

Navarro investigates the dark side of light: the symbolic relationship between the electrical currents activating the lighting fixtures that are his sculptural building blocks and the political and social undercurrents of fear that have informed his development.   Born in 1972 in Santiago, Chile, Navarro came of age under the repressive dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet (1973-1990) [...]

January 24 2011 | Posted in Featured Artist, News | Read More »

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2010

ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH 2010

By Maria Brito Dec, 2010 My yearly tradition is to attend Art Basel Miami Beach. The ninth edition of the tropical “baby sister” of the original Swiss fair is actually becoming as important, if not more so, than its European “big sister”. I love everything about Art Basel, the fair and its satellites, as well [...]

January 23 2011 | Posted in Opinion | Read More »

CRUZ DIEZ RESTROSPECTIVE AT MFA HOUSTON

CRUZ DIEZ RESTROSPECTIVE AT MFA HOUSTON

MFA Houston and Cruz-Diez Foundation Present First Large-Scale Retrospective of Venezuelan Artist Carlos Cruz-Diez on February 2011 Carlos Cruz-Diez: Color in Space and Time features more than 150 works from the artist’s wide-ranging career, culled from the Cruz-Diez Foundation collection at the MFAH, and major private and public collections around the world. Houston— September TK, [...]

January 23 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

SIQUEIROS: LANDSCAPE PAINTER at MOLAA

SIQUEIROS: LANDSCAPE PAINTER  at MOLAA

SIQUEIROS PAISAJISTA/ SIQUEIROS: LANDSCAPE PAINTER September 12, 2010 – January 30, 2011 The Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) is proud to join the Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil (MACG), Mexico City, in presenting Siqueiros Paisajista / Siqueiros: Landscape Painter. This exhibition reveals the renowned Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros as a major landscape painter. The [...]

January 23 2011 | Posted in Museums, News | Read More »

CREATING MARKET FOR LATIN AMERICAN ART

CREATING MARKET FOR LATIN AMERICAN ART

A Labor Of Love Eugenio López is helping Latin American artists get a little respect. The sticky, sweet smell of crushed fruit emanates from La Colección Jumex, the gallery housing the private art collection of Eugenio López Alonso, heir to Mexico’s multi-billion-dollar Jumex juice fortune. Open to the public, the gallery is located on the [...]

January 23 2011 | Posted in Market | Read More »

HOW TO CREATE AN ART COLLECTION

HOW TO CREATE AN ART COLLECTION

by Javier Lumbreras Art plays a fundamental role in the history of man; in their culture, spirituality, intellectuality and finances. For centuries, art was reserved for the elite members of society. In this day and age, while understanding the complexities of a composition does require some degree of education and sophistication, anyone who has the [...]

January 21 2011 | Posted in News, Opinion | Read More »