Lygia Clark (Belo Horizonte, October 23, 1920 – Rio de Janeiro, April 25, 1988) was a Brazilian artist best known for her painting and installation work. She was often associated with the Brazilian Constructivist movements of the mid-20th century and the Tropicalia movement. Even with the changes in how she approached her artwork, [...]

Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979) and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, film, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness [...]

by Valentina Tintori April, 2011         INTERVIEW WITH CAROLINA CAYCEDO By Valentina Tintori   What is your art work based on? Most of my projects are developed in real time and are site specific. They allow an interaction between people from different backgrounds and generate channels for discussion and collaboration between the [...]

By Valentina Tintori March 27,12011     “For a work to be what we call a work of art, it must generate an idea, perhaps another work,” Liliana Porter once observed, thus delineating the sphere of her production as the possibility of an ever-recurring cycle: a reality that produces a fiction that produces a reality, [...]

    “An artist is above all a human being, profoundly human to the core. If the artist can’t feel everything that humanity feels, if the artist isn’t capable of loving until he forgets himself and sacrifices himself if necessary, if he won’t put down his magic brush and head the fight against the oppressor, [...]

  Leonora Carrington’s work reveals the influences of fourteenth-century Italian painting, Celtic literary sources, and English nursery rhymes. She spent many years in Mexico, drawn to its symbolic imagery. Big Badger Meets the Domini Boys combines humans and animals as did the fairy tales she heard while growing up. She often uses animals to represent the [...]

Dario Escobar – Side and Back from kamel mennour on Vimeo. Darío Escobar is known for his sculptural recontextualization of everyday objects. Born in Guatemala (1971), his Catholic background and interest in local history became sources of inspiration for a body of work that combines mass-produced objects, craft techniques, and religious iconography. His work is [...]

Beatriz Milhazes (born 1960) is a Brazilian artist. Milhazes is known for her work juxtaposing Brazilian cultural imagery and references to western Modernist painting. The daughter of a lawyer and an art historian, Milhazes was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1960.[2] She studied social communication at Faculdades Integradas Hélio Alonso (FACHA), Rio De Janeiro [...]

Cuban born American artists Alain Guerra and Neraldo de la Paz are the collabortive duo Guerra de la Paz . Originally sourcing their materials from the waste bins of second-hand goods shipping companies in Miami’s Little Haiti, Guerra De La Paz make their sculptures from the discarded items of daily life. Viewing their practice as [...]

    Osvaldo Budet (b. 1979, Puerto Rico) currently living and working in Leipzig/Berlin, fellow of the Leipzig International Art Programme. Growing up in a colony (Puerto Rico) a “Third World” country has made me conscious and curious of the relationships between figures of authority and the powerless. I see my art-practice as an analogy [...]