Reviews

Presented together with The55Project, The Undercurrent revisits Prado’s ongoing series “Measure of Dispersion,” last exhibited at the Jardim Botânico do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2017.

Open until Friday 27, the TRANSVERSAL exhibition is an intersection between art, science and technology, a meeting between the perceptual and the philosophical, beyond the purely technical.

Last week, the Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan received an instruction manual valued between $120,000 and $150,000. The manual itself is not an artwork, but 14 pages of detailed layouts on where, how, and how often the banana must be replaced. Yes, it is "Comedian", the conceptual artwork that went viral last year at Art Basel Miami Beach.

On July 28, a retrospective exhibition of the Canarian artist Concha Jerez (Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1941) was inaugurated at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Mounted in the Vault Room, the Protocol Room, the stone stairs and the third floor of the Sabatini Building, the project takes museum visitors on an extensive journey that goes from the 70s - the artist's formative years - to the present. Que nos roban la memoria (They steal our memory), curated by Joao Fernandes is, beyond its regressive nature, a reflection on the mechanisms of censorship and repression in the face of memory mechanisms. Ultimately, a historical review from collective memory and personal memory.

Article commissioned by Y.ES Contemporary, part of the 2019 Y.ES Artist Academy focused on arts writing, program led by Gabriela Poma. An iniciative of the Robert S. Wennett and Mario Cader-Frech Foundation, Y.ES Contemporary creates opportunities for outstanding Salvadoran contemporary artists to advance their artistic practice and engage with artists, curators, collectors, gallerists and the media within and outside El Salvador.

Article commissioned by Y.ES Contemporary as part of the 2019 Y.ES Artist Academy focused on arts writing, program led by Gabriela Poma. An iniciative of the Robert S. Wennett and Mario Cader-Frech Foundation, Y.ES Contemporary creates opportunities for outstanding Salvadoran contemporary artists to advance their artistic practice and engage with artists, curators, collectors, gallerists and the media within and outside El Salvador.

The last exhibition by Juan Iribarren Scalamandre-Pfizer, which took place at the Carmen Araujo Arte Gallery in Caracas, was a "visual essay", a work that brought together different "means" and "ways" of image production, and took the form of an exercise (and also a game) of connections: coming and going, confluences and dispersions. A “visual essay” that, on the one hand, manages to synthesize in an “event” a large part of the artist's pictorial interests, and on the other, narrates a transit, a move.

The cultural proposal of the collective PANTANOSUMPF and its exhibition Anábasis, in Buenos Aires. Young artists from the River Plate, between the weight of the past and the resignification of the present.

The Cartier Foundation presents the largest exhibition dedicated to the work of Brazilian photographer Claudia Andujar who, since the 1970s, has dedicated her life to the photography and defense of the Yanomami, one of the most important indigenous communities of the Brazilian Amazon. 

The famous German gallery Thomas Schulte presents an individual booth dedicated to the artwork of Alfredo Jaar. The four selected projects of high political content were selected by the artist himself.

Within the framework of the Dialogues section, ARCOmadrid presented the First Iberia Prize to the Guatemalan platform Proyectos UltraVioleta for the work of Hellen Ascoli and Naufus Ramírez-Figueroa.

As an extension of the “Alternative Views” project presented in Chile’s Pavilion in the Venice Biennale, the stand of the French gallery Mor Charpentier presents in ARCOmadrid 2020 a series of works by Voluspa Jarpa (Chile, 1971) never displayed before.

Fix Me (Arréglame), an exhibition by Venezuelan artist Claudia Ammirata in Artmedia Gallery, is a photography and documentary video project exposing with as much ontological truth as formal sensibility, what is most vulnerable in one’s life to the look of the others.

En 2018, con tan solo 28 años, el Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales de Montevideo (MNAV) la convocó para exhibir Y todos los otros, una exposición individual que, mediante el grabado, el arte textil y la animación reconstruye el pasado judío de su familia, la construcción de la identidad polaca emigrada por la Segunda Guerra Mundial y, en definitiva, la creación de un archivo histórico generacional. Desde 2015 vive en Europa: primero vivió en Bélgica, donde participó en la residencia Frans Masereel Centrum, y ahora en España, adonde llegó para formar parte de la residencia Casa Velázquez y quedarse.

From January 30 to April 4, the Max Estrella Gallery exhibits La Magdalena de Proust: Antropocentrismo cotidiano (“Proust’s Magdalene: Everyday Anthropocentrism”). The exhibition brings together the work of six international artists around the experience of the body (that is, the memory of the body), based on the famous novel by Marcel Proust.

Venezuelan artist Andrés Michelena presents Re-collector at the Carmen Araujo Art gallery in Caracas, starting December 11th. Check out the review.

Geometric Abstraction in Latin America, 1950 to today.

With Fiorella Di Biase's curatorship, the exhibition The time we have left, by Hernán Soriano, takes place at the Lanzallamas gallery. Santiago López shares his thoughts.

In the framework of the 15th Lyon Biennial, curator Patricia Avena reflects on the artworks that are part of this new edition and the importance of landscape in contemporary art.

En el espacio de Fudnación El Mirador (San Telmo, Buenos Aires), el artista rosarino Francisco Vazquez Murillo exhibe Los movimientos alrededor del sol, una exposición que propone revitalizar la relación con la Tierra y habitar el mundo desde la contemplación y la conciencia.

Within the framework of the Young Art Biennial, the collective exhibition Espacio Entre is exhibited at the Recoleta Cultural Center (CCR). Under Tainá Azeredo's (Brazil, 1984) curatorship, twenty-five visual and plastic artists were selected to show their artworks in rooms 3, 4 and 5 of the CCR constituting a small sketch of the Argentine sub-32 art production.

The art historian and former curator of the National Museum of Colombia, Natalia Vega, reflects on Juan Manuel Echevarría's (Meddellín, 1947) artwork through Ríos y Silencios (Rivers and Silences) exhibition held at the Museum of Modern Art in Bogotá (MAMBO) between 2017 and 2018.

Anchoring the observation at Sonia Falcone: Fields of life exhibition held during 2017 at the Royal Palace in Lisbon, the editorial staff of Arte Al Día Internacional makes an approach to the artwork of the Bolivian artist Sonia Falcone (Santa Cruz de la Sierra, 1965).

Through the exhibition that the Cisneros Fontanals Foundation  held in 2017 for its fifteenth anniversary, Yunekis Villalonga makes a revaluation of the foundation scholarship and commission program.