“Don’t Shrink me to the Size of a Bullet” : HIWA K at KW Institute of Contemporary Art

HIWA K

KW Institute for Contemporary Art and the Schering Stiftung present “Don’t Shrink me to the Size of a Bullet” by artist Hiwa K, winner of the Schering Stiftung Art Award 2016.

Showcase : Mel DeWees

MEL DEWEES

“Films in Sheep’s Clothing” : The first solo show in Italy of John Smith at ALMA ZEVI Gallery

JOHN SMITH

“Films in Sheep’s Clothing” is the first solo show of John Smith in Italy exhibited by ALMA ZEVI Gallery in Venice, showing the work made between 1976 and 2015.

Showcase : Cristina Garrido

CRISTINA GARRIDO

                   

(Español) GALERÍA WEEKEND : Visibilizar el Arte Chileno Contemporáneo

(Español) PAUL BIRKE PARA GALERÍA WEEKEND

(Español) Entre el 5 y el 7 de Mayo Santiago de Chile tendrá su primer Galería Weekend, donde todas las galerías inaugurarán exhibiciones en un mismo día. Es una nueva experiencia donde las personas podrán conocer en terreno el galerismo y el trabajo de nuestros artistas.

(Español) Notas de Atenas : El Templo de lo Fútil

(Español) POR CARLA GARLASCHI

(Español) El desorden de la información, sumado a viajes a Medio Oriente y Norte América en las dos semanas anteriores me anticipó a un estado de disociación.

Concept and Painting : Robert C. Morgan at PROYECTOSMONCLOVA

Morgan is an undisputed authority on conceptual art. PROYECTOSMONCLOVA with the exhibition “Robert C. Morgan: Concept and Painting” highlights Morgan’s vibrant artistic achievements through a survey of his dedicated studio output.

A Minimal Maxim: Major Survey of Robert Ryman in Mexico at Museo Jumex

ROBERT RYMAN

The exhibition brings together five decades of Ryman’s paintings from the 1950s through the 1990s. This is the artist’s first solo museum exhibition in Latin America.

Spaces : SAGRADA MERCANCÍA

SAGRADA MERCANCÍA

Located in the República neighborhood, Sagrada Mercancía is inserted as a place where research and hallucination are mixed to investigate the processes rather than a result.

Doble Fondo : Tercerunquinto at MONCLOVA

TERCERUNQUINTO

In their latest solo exhibition “Doble Fondo (False Bottom)”, the Mexican artist group Tercerunquinto takes on their research into public space and its visual languages. Again the idea of the public wall space serves as the starting point.

(Español) Showcase | Claudia Müller

(Español) Construyo circuitos para el movimiento y descenso de los fluidos y que paradójicamente contienen lo incontenible, lo que se escapa, lo que no se puede tomar ni detener: el tiempo.

OROXXO : The supermarket of art and the capitalist game of Gabriel Orozco at kurimanzutto

GABRIEL OROZCO

(Español) El artista mexicano propone un juego de logos y reglas de mercado contrapuestas, como dos formas de entender un mundo capitalista que colapsa y se expande continuamente.

“The preliminary condition required for propelling workers to the status of “free” producers and consumers of commodity-time was the violent expropriation of their own time.” -Guy Debord, “Society of the Spectacle”.

DOCTOR LAKRA : Globalized Narratives of a Mythified Pop Culture

DR. LAKRA

The particular work and visibility of Dr. Lakra come from the tattoo tradition, and has mixed it with the collection of different objects that are born of mythical narratives that coexist with a globalized imaginary.

History is Taking Flight and Passes Forever | About the deconstruction and friction in the history

EDGAR ORLAINETA AT PROYECTOS MONCLOVA

“History is Taking Flight and Passes Forever” starts from a story, from a moment. Sculptures, objects, installations invoke to look at the same problems that persist from that history, taken and resignified by Edgar Orlaineta.

SEDAS DE CA(V)ALLO : An Homage to Juan Luis Martínez

In 1992 the Chilean artist Juan Castillo and the Uruguayan poet Roberto Mascaró decided to pay homage to the poet and visual artist Juan Luis Martínez; which would become an unique and particular editorial project. “Sedas de Ca(v)allo” was the magazine that mobilized poets, writers and artists, where each one of them was invited to […]

(Español) Poemas Concretos: Hacia la fluidez de la percepción fragmentada

(Español) FRANCISCA BENÍTEZ

(Español) En la última muestra de la artista chilena y radicada en New York, Francisca Benítez evoca una relación con la Poesía Concreta por la cercanía formal entre significado y significante que sucede con algunas señas icónicas, donde se da una selección de momentos y una percepción fragmentada.

Time and Human Being transformed into a Fiction Space

NICOLÁS RUPCICH

The work of the multimedia artist Nicolas Rupcich comes from the crossing of nature, science fiction and reproduction of the image. In these possible lines, it is where the search for an immanent truth of the state of the mind of the things, he does not find answers, but processes that respond to the new mechanisms of reproducibility.

Showcase | Debora Delmar Corp.

The globalization, capitalism and consumer culture have been some of the pillars that have shaped the reflections behind my work. I am interested in analyzing the systems and ways of life in which we live or rather those that we must adapt.

Paz : Emergence and Occupy

CARLOS SILVA

“Wagner states that the typical artist of his time is an egoist who, in complete isolation from the life of the people, practices his art exclusively for the enjoyment of the rich; in so doing he follows the dictates of fashion. The artist of the future, says Wagner, must become radically different.”- Boris Groys, “In […]

IN MÜNCHEN : RADIO CITY AT GALERIE JAHN

MARTIN GROß & JULIUS HEINEMANN

…In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied, and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was […]

(Español) Extinción de Dominio : Una consensuada armonía ilegal donde todo es posible de ver y también de omitir

(Español) JONATHAN HERNÁNDEZ

(Español) Lo sublime dejó de dar abasto ante las crisis, y la apropiación de elementos absurdamente cotidianos desplazados de su tarea original fue inevitable

The Rise of the Latin American Artist

CARLA GARLASCHI

Stockholm. She slowly comes into view, walking down the stairs with impeccably slicked-back, black hair, wearing a red velvet dress. She excuses herself preemptively, saying she has a cocktail party/meeting afterwards. Whether it is by expansion or by projection, something about Carla Garlaschi has been changing. Her participation in the SIART IX Biennial of Contemporary […]

The pixelated obsession for remembering (the memory as action)

ANDREA WOLF

(Español) La obsesión de Andrea Wolf por la documentación viene de una historia muy personal. Pero la forma en que actúa nuestra memoria y cómo se configuran nuestros recuerdos, ha llevado a la artista chilena, radicada en New York a ejecutar piezas que cuestionan y replantean a la imagen dentro de nuestro actual régimen visual.

Post Mortem | M for Manifesta

BY JUAN JOSÉ SANTOS

It’s like hitting your head on the doorframe as you enter the house. That’s the feeling this curatorial concept leaves you with, at least in this context. Suggested and evolved by Christian Jankowski (Göttingen, Germany, 1968) for the eleventh edition of the Manifesta, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art. “What People Do for Money”, is […]

Spaces | Proyectos Monclova

POLINA STROGANOVA

Today, Proyectos Monclova is one of the most important galleries in Mexico and Latin America, where they’ve played, gambled and even changed their skin, so to speak. Their vision is clear: taking established proposals and mix them with new generations, placing artists into both a local and global dialogue. Proyectos Monclova brings together Mexican and international artists […]

ION BARLADEANU : The story of the homeless man who conquered the art world

BY JUAN JOSÉ SANTOS

I had spoken with Cristian Cojanu, coordinator of Gallery H’art in Bucharest, so that he’d show me the works of some Romanian artists. “Wait here a moment, I’m going to go say hi to the most famous one”, he told me. He walked across the street to the park in front of the building where […]

Post Punk Era : When everything still seemed to be possible

MATS BÄCKER

                                       

(Español) Visitas | Aparatos para un territorio blando

(Español) FRANCISCO NAVARRETE SITJA

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Constructive Mechanics

CAROLINA SAQUEL

                                           

(Español) Desde una táctica inmaterial: vapores, saliva y cáscaras de naranja

(Español) MARIO NAVARRO

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Spaces | KANDOR 13

PABLO JANSANA

The space is directed by it’s founder Pablo Jansana, co-founder Felix Lazo and designer Lucia Cozzi. K13 is an hybrid platform for artistic production and exhibition. It is structured as a collaborative and networking platform, which uses other spaces for developing diverse activities.

S U P E R F L E X : The Corrupt Show and The Speculative Machine

(Español) CHRISTIAN VIVEROS-FAUNÉ

(Español) “The Corruption Show and The Speculative Machine” es la última exhibición del colectivo danés Superflex curada por el crítico de arte Christian Viveros-Fauné, actualmente en exhibición en el MAC, donde el poder, la migración, la mercantilización del arte y el propio valor de su contemporaneidad, fueron ejes y satélites de la entrevista.

you can’t make a revolution with silk gloves

WILFREDO PRIETO

“You can’t make a revolution with silk gloves” is the latest exhibition of Wilfredo Prieto, currently on display at kurimanzutto. About this project, baroque minimalism, the focus of ideas and more, is that the chilean artist Prem Sarjo talked with the cuban artist.

(Español) Homo Selfieniensis : ¿Quién tiene el poder?

(Español) UNA CONVERSACIÓN ENTRE JUANJO SANTOS E IRA LOMBARDIA

(Español) El curador y crítico Juanjo Santos conversó con la artista española Ira Lombardía acerca del fenómeno de la selfie. Lombardía ha desarrollado su práctica artística alrededor de las ideas convencionales de la imagen, fotografía, arte y filosofía, aparte de ser investigadora.

SONORA 128

A PROJECT OF KURIMANZUTTO

Kurimanzutto has since its beginning differentiated itself through its curatorial direction, both within the white cube and its projects in the public space, thus creating different instances of communication between people, art and certain messages. How was the “Sonora 128″ project conceived and from where comes its inspiration? In my opinion, kurimanzutto´s growth and progress […]

Visits | Museum Man

NINA L DEFELICE

It’s been a while since I last wrote, I was somewhere between busy and uninspired. Luckily, something happened in this show that awoke a kind of innocent curiosity that was half hibernating, half consumed and honestly half tired of the conventional formats in which we write and critic. It was in the house-studio of an […]

“No context determines the sense until the completeness. It doesn’t produce or guarantee therefore impassable borders”.- Jacques Derrida, Aporias.

Cristian Ordóñez