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 [...]

Curatorial Fellowship for curators and scholars from Latin America, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel (Germany)       dOCUMENTA (13) and the Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) have created a Curatorial Fellowship that will offer curators and scholars from Latin America the opportunity to work on the development of dOCUMENTA (13), an exhibition that will take [...]

  The 7th Edition of sp-arte will take place from 12-15 May, 2011 with a record attendance of galleries. The complete list of exhibitors is already available. The fair will occupy the first and second floors of Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo. Itaú Private Bank, Oi and Iguatemi São Paulo are the main sponsors to the event. [...]

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, [...]

  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 [...]

    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 [...]

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 [...]