By: Valentina Tintori March, 2011 Susana Reisman was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1977. She received a BA in Economics from Wellesley College (Boston, MA) in 1999 and an MFA in photography from the Rochester Institute of Technology (Rochester, New York) in 2005. After teaching photography for a number of years, Susana now dedicates her [...]
Antonio Caro is one of the most influential Colombian artists in Latin America. The artist presents for the first time in 30 years a commercial edition of his work Colombia on metal sheet. An artwork that for decades has brought to the mind of its audience debates about the identity of Colombians and the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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) [...]
by Maria Gainza “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, with one work containing another, [...]
Javier Téllez by Pedro Reyes BOMB 110/Winter 2010, FILM Erasmus of Rotterdam claimed there were three types of people: those who lived in a dream world, those who lived in reality, and those who were able to turn one world into the other. The Venezuelan artist Javier Téllez belongs in this third category of people for [...]
Extract from ‘Angela Bonadies: the whimsical archon’ by Lisa Blackmore A few weeks ago Venezuelan artist Angela Bonadies showed her series Las personas y las cosas in The Private Space in Barcelona, Spain. The show, which was curated by Jesús Fuenmayor, had previously been shown at Periférico Caracas / Arte Contemporáneo in 2009 and includes more [...]
Pablo Bronstein Metropolitan Museum, New York By Natalia Vega Pablo Bronstein, (b. 1977, Buenos Aires, currently London-based) is the six artist to participate in a series of solo shows of young artists presented annually by the Metropolitan Museum, New York, which has featured, since 2005, Tony Oursler, Kara Walker, Neo Rausch, Tara Donovan and Raqib [...]