MIAMO ART MUSEUM November 2, 2007 – January 13, 2008 New Work Gallery Enrique Martínez Celaya works in a variety of media, including painting, photography, sculpture and installation. He is perhaps best known for his large-scale paintings made from tar and other materials. Influenced by the writings of poets and philosophers, these rich and [...]
MEXICO UNIVERSITY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART Over two decades, marked by their relocation from Argentina to Mexico in 1990, Enrique Jezik (Cordoba, Argentina, 1961) has deployed a complex work ofexploring the power structures and devices, surveillance, repression, control and violence, from within polymorphic practice of contemporary sculpture. For EnriqueJezik, the sculpture is a way of thinking to power and violence as a stubbornaction on the matter of bodies. His performances, videos and specific interventions that involve tactics that range from the [...]
Viewpoint: 2011 September 9–November 6, 2011 Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition commemorates the eighth annual exhibition dedicated to the foundation’s grants programs at the CIFO Art Space. The emerging artists selected as recipients of CIFO’s 2011 grants are: Laura Belém (Brazil), Marcius Galan (Brazil), Fritzia Irizar-Rojo (Mexico), Begoña Morales (Peru), Amalia Pica (Argentina), [...]
An important new exhibit opens at the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Los Angeles on September 18, 2011. Curated by Rubén Ortiz-Torres in association with Jesse Lerner, the exhibition MEX/L.A.: “Mexican” Modernism(s) in Los Angeles, 1930-1985, focuses on the construction of different notions of “Mexicanidad” within modernist and contemporary art in Los Angeles. The [...]
Miami, (August 5, 2011) – Magdalena Fernández’s video installation, 2iPM009, brings Geometric Abstraction to a new level of expression. During the past decade the Venezuelan-born artist (1964) has developed a body of kinetic sculptures and videos, the latter incorporates sound and movement of lines and colors. In 2iPM009, Fernández incorporates very sophisticated sound compositions [...]
Update: Amelia Peláez at MoMA, Pablo Milanés in NYC, Adrian Fernandez in Houston PUBLISHED by www.cubanartnews.org Sep,8 2011 Amelia Peláez at MoMA. In her review of the Museum of Modern Art’s new installation of its permanent collection, New York Times art critic Roberta Smith singled out a vibrant painting by Amelia Peláez. Located in what [...]
Venezuelan-born Luis Pérez-Oramas will be responsible for the 30th São Paulo International Biennial to be held in 2012. Pérez-Oramas is expected to begin working as soon as the appointment is made public, putting together the curatorial team that will accompany him in the process of organizing the Biennial. The curator will be also responsible for [...]
NEW METHODS is a three-day symposium examining the practices of contemporary arts organizations that provide essential educational and professional development to local artistic communities in Latin America. The symposium will provide an insider’s view into the diverse art scenes and complexities of working in the region, and through critical discussions with key figures [...]
The Long Beach’s Latin American Art Museum, exhibit the Art work by mexican artist Gabriel de la Mora. It will be open between February 20 to July, 2, 2011. Frágil / Fragile will display his most recent works, focusing on an installation of tables with objects and some works on walls. The [...]
Aimé Césaire, Lam, Picasso “Nous nous sommes trouvés” Grand Palais, Galeries nationales 16 March 2011 – 6 June 2011 An exhibition organised by the Rmn-Grand Palais as part of 2011 Année des Outre-mer. It takes place under the patronage of Monsieur Nicolas Sarkozy, President of the French Republic. It will subsequently be shown [...]