Ana Mendieta (18 November 1948 – 8 September 1985) Ana Mendieta’s work encompasses the full range of avant-garde practices of the 1970s and 1980s: conceptual art, performance art, body art, earth art, and feminist and identity art. Exiled from her native Cuba at age twelve, she used art as a means of mediating between [...]
Gabriel Orozco, Tate Modern, London EXHIBITION Tate Modern 19 January – 25 April 2011 (Rated 4/ 5 ) Matters of life and death Reviewed by Laura Mclean-Ferris The atmosphere of Gabriel Orozco’s exhibition at Tate Modern swings, quite brutally, between play and ponderousness, laughs and tears, lives and deaths. There are chess boards, lumps of [...]
Arcos Dorados is launching the second edition of its Arcos Dorados Latin American Painting Competition, to take place within the setting of the twentieth edition of arteBA, which will be held between May 19 and 23, 2011 at the convention center La Rural in the City of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The aim of the competition’s second [...]
Austrian art collector Maximilian Reiss officially opened to the public a museum for contemporary Cuban art in Vienna. The first museum dedicated exclusively to Cuban art outside of Cuba will open to the public in the coming months in Vienna with a show of some 50 paintings and sculptures by the island’s most outstanding [...]
The Armory Show The Armory Show 2011 Opening Day Previews: Wednesday, March 2, 2011 Public Hours: Thursday, March 3 through Sunday, March 6 Piers 92 and 94 Twelfth Avenue at 55th Street New York City www.thearmoryshow.com This year The Armory Show will feature 274 blue-chip contemporary and modern art galleries from 31 countries. With The Armory Show and The Armory Show – Modern, visitors will [...]
José Gabriel Fernández’s molded wood and gessoed sculptures are derived from the fabric patterns that articulate the matador’s costume. These subtly undulating and reductive forms rest discreetly upon integral pedestals or commandingly occupy spaces on the floor. Fernández’s work of the past three years concentrates on the rituals that surround the fiesta brava, including [...]
MACBA – Museum Art Center Buenos Aires – is an organization dedicated on promoting Argentinian cultural practices and contemporary artistic expressions. Located in San Telmo, the historic neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, MACBA plans to open its doors on Mars 2012. MACBA Collection consists of a selection of abstract, geometric and contemporary art, however the museum [...]
Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (1934-1973) February 11 to May 15, 2011 The exhibition Cold America: Geometric Abstraction in Latin America (1934–1973) sets out to reveal the complex and fragmented history of geometric abstraction in Latin America and the way in which it repositioned and modified European abstraction. Painting, photography, sculpture and architecture are represented [...]