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Un catálogo para sumergirse en las redes de Gego

La Fundación Gego presentó esta semana el primer capítulo de lo que será el Catálogo razonado de la artista: “Volumen I. Sistema Reticular”

La presentación esta semana del primer capítulo, Volumen I. Sistema Reticular, da acceso al Catálogo razonado de Gego, una publicación en línea desarrollada por la Fundación Gego para brindar la información más completa posible sobre la variada producción artística de la artista germano-venezolana Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt, Hamburgo, 1912 – Caracas, 1994), considerada como una de las artistas más significativas que emergieron en Latinoamérica en la segunda mitad del siglo XX, y de quien se exhibe actualmente una importante retrospectiva en el Solomon R. Guggenheim Nueva York.

Producto de un estudio acucioso donde se incluyen las características técnicas de las obras, imágenes, historial de exposiciones, referencias bibliográficas y colecciones, el Catálogo razonado de Gego está proyectado como una investigación en desarrollo, con publicaciones programadas en los años por venir, y está concebido para desplegarse en diez volúmenes que responden a los diferentes momentos, géneros y lenguajes por los que transitó Gego durante su vida artística. Cada volumen contará con un conjunto de obras estudiadas, y textos introductorios que definen y valoran sus peculiaridades.

El primer capítulo, Volumen I. Sistema Reticular, cuenta con los textos introductorios de Josefina Manrique –directora del catálogo razonado– así como del poeta y curador Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, y contiene el estudio de 116 obras tridimensionales, realizadas por la artista entre los años 1969 y 1988, siguiendo el sistema estructural reticular, es decir, su método de creación basado en el tejido de redes y mallas metálicas.

En palabras de la curadora de la Fundación Gego, Josefina Manrique, “La obra de Gego es bastante heterogénea, si nos basamos en la variedad de géneros que cultivó a lo largo de toda su trayectoria artística. Esa particularidad nos llevó a abordar el catálogo razonado de la misma delimitando áreas de estudios específicas conforme a los diversos tránsitos de su trayectoria. Como resultado, iniciamos nuestras entregas con este primer volumen dedicado al sistema reticular en su aspecto tridimensional. En otras palabras, comenzamos por lo que a juicio y consenso de críticos, curadores, coleccionistas y público general es su obra más emblemática y significativa: las reticuláreas, redes y mallas”.

Los próximos volúmenes proyectados y en investigación son: Volumen 2. Dibujos sin papelVolumen 3. Obras de integración a la arquitecturaVolumen 4. Líneas paralelasVolumen 5. Bichos / BichitosVolumen 6. Libros y plegadosVolumen 7. Diseño y objetos variosVolumen 8. Dibujos, pinturas y collagesVolumen 9. Estampas y grabados, y  Volumen 10. Tejeduras, los cuales irán publicándose anualmente.

El Catálogo razonado de Gego tendrán 10 volúmenes que se desarrollarán durante una década (CORTESÍA FUNDACIÓN GEGO)

Cabe destacar que el Catálogo razonado de Gego cuenta también con un glosario con los principales términos utilizados por Gego, así como una sección llamada guía en la que se explican los criterios empleados para mostrar la información de la obra.

“La elaboración de un catálogo razonado es un trabajo primordialmente de equipo. En nuestro caso, los Departamentos de Registro, Centro de Documentación y la Curaduría nos coordinamos en primer lugar para verificar, completar y corregir el trabajo de registro realizado en todos los años anteriores, y en segundo lugar, muy principalmente, nos concentramos en actualizar toda la información, no solo términos de la data, sino también en poner al día los criterios y parámetros bajo los cuales registrar las obras”, afirma Josefina Manrique.

Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) nació en la ciudad alemana de Hamburgo en agosto de 1912, y en 1938 se graduó en Ingeniería, mención Arquitectura en la Universidad de Stuttgart, Alemania. Un año después, emigra a Venezuela y obtiene en 1952 la nacionalidad venezolana. Desarrolló una amplia y reconocida trayectoria artística durante más de cuatro décadas, durante las cuales exhibió su obra en Venezuela, Colombia, Estados Unidos, México, Argentina, Portugal, España, Francia, Alemania, Reino Unido, Brasil, entre otros países. Sobre la artista se han realizado importantes exposiciones individuales en instituciones como Solomon R. Guggenheim Nueva York, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), el Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Barcelona (MACBA), el Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), el Museo de Arte Moderno de Sao Paulo (MASP), el Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, entre otros.

El Catálogo razonado de Gego está disponible desde la página de la Fundación Gego (https://fundaciongego.com/) así como también desde su propia dirección https://catalogorazonado.fundaciongego.com/

La Fundación Gego nació como una iniciativa familiar a raíz del fallecimiento de la artista en 1994. Tras recibir el legado de su obra, sus hijos y nietos crearon la Fundación Gego con el objetivo de catalogar, conservar, estudiar y promover la obra de Gego.

Para ello cuenta con un modelo institucional que le permite desarrollar y proveer diferentes actividades y servicios, tales como la atención al público interesado en consultar el archivo documental de la Fundación, gestionar licencias de derechos de autor para la reproducción de obras y documentos (bibliográficos, fotográficos, audiovisuales, entre otros) relacionados con la vida y el trabajo de Gego, gestionar comprobantes de registro en su base de datos computarizada, además de asesorías a instituciones, curadores y coleccionistas.

En sus casi 30 años de existencia, la fundación ha desarrollado y apoyado importantes exposiciones retrospectivas de la artista, así como numerosas exposiciones colectivas en las que su obra ha sido incluida; ha editado o asistido en la edición de diversas publicaciones, así como ha contribuido en la realización de documentales y seminarios en importantes instituciones dentro y fuera de Venezuela.

Guiada por el ánimo de ampliar las múltiples investigaciones e interpretaciones posibles de la obra de Gego, la fundación ha seguido procurando alianzas institucionales y el desarrollo de proyectos expositivos, editoriales y artísticos, al tiempo que ha insistido en la realización del Catálogo razonado de Gego, el cual probablemente sea el proyecto más ambicioso y complejo, que haya emprendido hasta la fecha. Con este catálogo razonado, la Fundación Gego afianza su compromiso en el estudio de la obra de la artista, a través de una herramienta de uso público para todos aquellos interesados en la obra de Gego.

Finalmente, la directiva de la fundación invita a coleccionistas y propietarios de obras de Gego a que sean parte de esta investigación en desarrollo, registrando o actualizando los datos de sus obras en la base de datos de la institución.

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17th Annual Breakfast with the Arts

17th Annual Breakfast with the Arts & Hospitality
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17th Annual Breakfast with the Arts & Hospitality

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Félix González-Torres

"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) félix gonzález-torres
"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) félix gonzález-torres

Félix González-Torres

American, b. Guáimaro, Cuba 1957, d. Miami, Florida 1996

(American, born Guáimaro, Cuba, 1957–died Miami, USA, 1996, due to complications arising from AIDS) encountered Spain directly in 1971, when he was sent as a child with his sister from Cuba to Madrid, prior to settling with an uncle in Puerto Rico. He began his artistic training in Puerto Rico and relocated to New York to continue his studies. It was in New York that he established his career working both as a solo artist and separately as a member of the collective Group Material.


Biography published by David Zwirner Gallery

Felix Gonzalez-Torres was born in Guáimaro, Cuba, on November 26, 1957. He referred to himself as American. He lived and worked in New York City between 1979 and 1995. Gonzalez-Torres died in Miami on January 9, 1996 from AIDS-related causes. He began his art studies at the University of Puerto Rico before moving to New York City, where he attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, first in 1981 and again in 1983. He received his BFA from Pratt Institute, New York, in 1983 and his MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987.

From 1987 to 1991, Gonzalez-Torres was a part of the artist collective Group Material, whose collaborative, politically-informed practice focused on community engagement and activist interventions. In 1988, he had his first one-man exhibitions, at the Rastovski Gallery, New York, INTAR Gallery, New York, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. His earliest billboard work, “Untitled” (1989), was installed at New York’s Sheridan Square on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Stonewall Rebellion. In 1990, a solo presentation of Gonzalez-Torres’s work served as the inaugural exhibition of the Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Traveling, a survey of the artist’s work, was presented at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago in 1994. In 1995, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, organized an international traveling retrospective of his work. The artist participated in numerous group shows during his lifetime, including early presentations at Artists Space and White Columns in New York (1987 and 1988, respectively), the Whitney Biennial (1991), the Venice Biennale (1993), and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1995) and the Art Institute of Chicago (1995).

In 1997, the Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany, organized a traveling posthumous solo exhibition and published a catalogue raisonné of the artist’s work. Further solo exhibitions of his work were held at such institutions as The Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide (1998); The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (1999-2000); El Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay (2000-2001); Serpentine Gallery, London (2000); Le Consortium, Dijon (2002); and Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2006). In 2007, Gonzalez-Torres was selected to represent the United States at the 52nd Venice Biennale.

More recently, in 2010-2011, WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, organized a six-part traveling retrospective, Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form, which was also presented at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, and Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. At each institution, Elena Filipovic curated a retrospective version of the exhibition which was reconsidered midway through its run by a collaborating artist-curator: Danh Vo, Carol Bove, and Tino Sehgal, respectively. Further exhibitions devoted to the artist’s work have been held at PLATEAU and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea (2012); Metropolitan Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2015); Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2016); and Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA) (2021).

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Summer was on view at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto in 2022. Also in 2022, The two-person presentation, Felix Gonzalez-Torres – Roni Horn, was presented at the Bourse de Commerce–Pinault Collection, Paris. 

In 2023, David Zwirner, New York presented an exhibition of works by the artist. This was the second solo exhibition of Gonzalez-Torres’s work at David Zwirner since the announcement that the gallery would be joining Andrea Rosen Gallery in co-representing the artist’s estate.


Felix Gonzalez-Torres earned a BFA in photography from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York, in 1983. Printed Matter, Inc. in New York hosted his first solo exhibition the following year. After obtaining an MFA from the International Center of Photography and New York University in 1987, he worked as an adjunct art instructor at New York University until 1989. Throughout his career, Gonzalez-Torres’s involvement in social and political causes as an openly gay man fueled his interest in the overlap of private and public life. From 1987 to 1991, he was part of Group Material, a New York-based art collective whose members worked collaboratively to initiate community education and cultural activism. His aesthetic project was, according to some scholars, related to Bertolt Brecht’s theory of epic theater, in which creative expression transforms the spectator from an inert receiver to an active, reflective observer and motivates social action. Employing simple, everyday materials (stacks of paper, puzzles, candy, strings of lights, beads) and a reduced aesthetic vocabulary reminiscent of both Minimalism and Conceptual art to address themes such as love and loss, sickness and rejuvenation, gender and sexuality, Gonzalez-Torres asked viewers to participate in establishing meaning in his works.

In his “dateline” pieces, begun in 1987, Gonzalez-Torres assembled lists of various dates in random order interspersed with the names of social and political figures and references to cultural artifacts or world events, many of which related to political and cultural history. Printed in white type on black sheets of paper, these lists of seeming non sequiturs prompted viewers to consider the relationships and gaps between the diverse references as well the construction of individual and collective identities and memories. Gonzalez-Torres also produced dateline “portraits,” consisting of similar lists of dates and events related to the subjects’ lives. In Untitled (Portrait of Jennifer Flay) (1992), for example, “A New Dress 1971” lies next to “Vote for Women, NZ 1893.”

Gonzalez-Torres invited physical as well as intellectual engagement from viewers. His sculptures of wrapped candies spilled in corners or spread on floors like carpets, such as “Untitled” (Public Opinion) (1991), defy the convention of art’s otherworldly preciousness, as viewers are asked to touch and consume the work. Beginning in 1989, he fashioned sculptures of stacks of paper, often printed with photographs or texts, and encouraged viewers to take the sheets. The impermanence of these works, which slowly disappear over time unless they are replenished, symbolizes the fragility of life. While in appearance they sometimes echo the work of Donald Judd, these pieces also belie the Minimalist tenet of aesthetic autonomy: viewers complete the works by depleting them and directly engaging with their material. The artist always wanted the viewer to use the sheets from the stacks—as posters, drawing paper, or however they desired.

In 1991 Gonzalez-Torres began producing sculptures consisting of strands of plastic beads strung on metal rods, like curtains in a disco. Titles such as Untitled (Chemo) (1991) and Untitled (Blood) (1992) undercut their festive associations, calling to mind illness and disease. In 1992 he commenced a series of strands of white low-watt lightbulbs, which could be shown in any configuration—strung along walls, from ceilings, or coiled on the floor. Alluding to celebratory décor—in the vein of the charms of outdoor cafés at night—these delicate garlands are also a campy commentary on the phallic underpinnings of numerous Minimalist creations, particularly Dan Flavin’s rigid light sculptures. Also in 1992, Untitled (1991), a sensual black-and-white photograph of Gonzalez-Torres’s empty, unmade bed with traces of two absent bodies, was installed on 24 billboards throughout the city of New York. This enigmatic image was both a celebration of coupling and a memorial to the artist’s lover, who had recently died of AIDS. Its installation as a melancholic civic-scaled monument problematized public scrutiny of private behavior.

Gonzalez-Torres received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1989 and 1993. He participated in hundreds of group shows during his lifetime, including early presentations at Artists Space and White Columns in New York (1987 and 1988, respectively), the Whitney Biennial (1991), the Venice Biennale (1993), SITE Santa Fe (1995), and the Sydney Biennial (1996). Comprehensive retrospective exhibitions of his work have been organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (1994); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (1995); Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany (1997); and Biblioteca Luis-Angel Arango, Bogotá (2000). Other exhibitions have been held at the Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin (2006–07); PLATEAU, Seoul (2012); and Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul (2012). A survey of his work, Specific Objects without Specific Form, was organized by WIELS, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Brussels (2010), and then traveled to the Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2010), and the Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main (2011). In 2007, Gonzalez-Torres was selected to represent the United States at the Venice Biennale in the exhibition Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America. He died in Miami on January 9, 1996.

"Untitled" (Perfect Lovers) félix gonzález-torres
“Untitled” (Perfect Lovers) félix gonzález-torres

Medium: Wall clocks and paint on wall

Dimensions: Overall dimensions variable; clocks 14″ diameter x 2 3/4″ (35.6 cm diameter x 7 cm) each

Copyright© 2023 The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation, Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

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www.e-flux.com/announcements/381451/felix-gonzalez-torresthe-politics-of-relation

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Sandra Monterroso

Sandra Monterroso
Sandra Monterroso

Sandra Monterroso

[1974, Guatemala]

Sandra Monterroso is a known textile artist whose work reflects gender issues and power structures. Inspired by the techniques and aesthetics of indigenous people from her native Guatemala, her work is often presented as installations.

Sandra Monterroso occupied the Studio House until December 16. During that time, she developed the project of the series Corazón delator: recetas para sanar heridas (Telltale Heart: Recipes to Heal Wounds), inspired by a story by Edgar Alan Poe and in indigenous recipes to cure evil eye. At the end of the residency period, the pieces were exhibited.

Monterroso’s artistic education includes a Ph.D. in artistic practices, a master’s in design processes, and a bachelor’s degree in graphic design. She lives and works in Guatemala City, Guatemala. Her oeuvre reflects gender and power themes and her commentaries about the colonial residues in contemporary society. She is inspired by the techniques and aesthetics of the indigenous population of her native country. She uses in her creative process artisanal procedures, such as fabric dyeing using natural components from her culture. Her pieces offer a point of encounter between the traditional and the contemporary and often are presented as soft sculptures and installations. Her work has been included in numerous international exhibitions in museums, institutions, and galleries.

Sandra Monterroso began her artistic career in performance art in 1999. She earned a B.A. in Graphic Design in 2001 followed by an M.A. in Design from Universidad Popular Autónoma del Estado de Puebla (UPAEP) in Puebla, Mexico. In 2020, Monterroso earned a PhD in Art Practice from the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien in Vienna, Austria. She has represented Guatemala in more than twelve biennials, including the 56th La Biennale di Venezia, the 12 Bienal de La Habana, and the Frestas – Trienal de Artes in São Paulo. Monterroso lives and works in Guatemala City.


In her work, Monterroso explores the dynamics of indigenous culture in the postcolonial era, gender issues, and other constructs of power across media including tapestry, painting, video, installation, and performance. Her influences include Cindy Sherman (USA), Gina Pane (France), Carolee Schneemann (USA), Ana Mendieta (Cuba), and Marina Abramović (Serbia), as she explores issues of identity and relational dynamics between genders and cultures. As Monterroso explains, “Behind the silence and the paradox of modernity and coloniality, I start taking as a symbolic reference more particularly the Mayan Q’eqchi’ language as an inheritance from my grandmother, whose linguistic structure is completely metaphorical.” 

Monterroso has shown her work in selected exhibitions around the world, including the Bienal de Artes Visuales del Istmo Centroamericano (BAVIC), Museo de Arte de El Salvador (Museo MARTE), San Salvador, El Salvador (2006); Indigenous Voices, La Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione America Latina-IILA, Venice, Italy (2015); Art-Action Feministe: Panorama de la vidéo-performance féministe contemporaine latino-américaine, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2009); Cosmópolis II, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France (2019); To Weave in Blue, Poema al Tejido, The Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art, University of Memphis, Tennessee, USA (2020); and Visionarios, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain (2009).


Monterroso’s work is included in the permanent collections of Centro de Arte Fundación Ortiz-Gurdián, Managua, Nicaragua; Essex Collection of Art from Latin America (ESCALA), Colchester, England, UK; Fundación Paiz, Guatemala City, Guatemala; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), San José, Costa Rica; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS), Madrid, Spain; YES Contemporary, Miami, Florida, USA; and many private collections

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Decolorando las Hebras and Colorando las Hebras (video, 2011), Arts of the Ancient Americas Jewel Box Gallery, Denver Art Museum, CO, USA
Sandra Monterroso: The Healing Paradox, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA

2022
Altar para pájaros, Instituto de Visión, New York, NY, USA
Cuerpos Infinitos: Sandra Monterroso, Musiq’ / Breath of the spirit, Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
Cuerpos Infinitos: Sandra Monterroso, Heart of the Windy Place (performance), Casa del Lago UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico

2020
Threads of Memory, Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino, Houston, TX, USA
Dyed in the wool – the committed poetics of nonconformity, Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, UK
Artwork in Focus – Sandra Monterroso: Tu Ashé Yemanya, Cecilia Brunson Projects, London, UK

2019
Las heridas también se tiñen de azul, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala
El agua se volvió oro, el río se volvió oro, el oro se volvió azul, Museo ExTeresa, Mexico City, Mexico

2018
Hybris, NG Gallery, Panama City, Panama

2017
Inchaq’na / Hermana Mayor, French Alliance, Guatemala City, Guatemala
Distorsiones e imperfecciones, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2014
Acciones para abolir el deseo, The 9.99 Gallery, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2013
Efectos cruzados, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, San Salvador, El Salvador

2011
Efectos cruzados, Galería Piegatto (Arte La Fábrica), Guatemala City, Guatemala

2009
Meditando el error, Galería de Artes Visuales, Universidad Rafael Landivar, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2008
Rakoc Atin. Palacio de la Corte Suprema de Justicia, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2005
Sucesos Carcomidos, Galería El Attico, Guatemala City, Guatemala

2004
Metabolismo, Centro Cultural de España, Guatemala City, Guatemala

1999
Ave Fénix, Vestíbulo BANCAFÉ, Guatemala City, Guatemala

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Essex Collection of Latin American Art, London, UK

Fundación Paiz para la Educación y la Cultura, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain 

Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MADC), San José, Costa Rica

Ortíz Gurdián Foundation, Managua, Nicaragua

YAXS Foundation, Guatemala City, Guatemala

Yes Contemporary, Miami, FL, USA

Sandra Monterroso

The Healing Paradox

Exhibition text by independent curator and art historian Alma Ruiz

January 26 – March 16, 2023

Sandra Monterroso
The Healing Paradox

The Healing Paradox marks Sandra Monterroso’s second solo show at Sicardi | Ayers | Bacino. Continuing her interest in Guatemalan textiles as art-making material and as tools to address her country’s embattled history, Monterroso, an artist with Maya Q’eqchi’ roots, focuses her attention this time on more modest materials. Leftover fabrics from a local rug factory and organic cotton and linen embellished with embroidery and neon lights effectively become a compelling locus where discussions about healing wounds within a complex postcolonial heritage occur. 

Monterroso utilizes soft materials paired with manufactured objects to construct visual paradoxes. For example, several pieces are made of fabrics originally destined for landfills. Woven by indigenous hands who labor for low salaries to produce beautifully crafted rugs for luxury homes, the scraps tangentially point to a socioeconomic hierarchy between the haves and have-nots. In rescuing the discarded materials, Monterroso performs a redeeming ritual, imbuing them with new life as artworks and, paradoxically, transforming them into repositories of the inequalities, discrimination, and racism that still exist toward marginalized groups without openly highlighting their victimization. In their conclusive form, the pieces are joined to create a whole, mending leads to metaphorical healing.

Color is an important signifier connecting Maya Q’eqchi’s culture to Monterroso’s personal history. The artist is known for her extensive use of indigo and cochineal dyes, with which she colors her textiles and yarns. There is evidence that the Mayas used indigo to create Mayan blue, a pigment developed in the late pre-Classic period, 1900 BC to 200 AD. It can be found in Mesoamerican pottery, murals, and archeological artifacts. The cochineal comes from a tiny cactus-dwelling insect harvested to produce a red dye. While the indigenous people used the red pigment to dye their textiles and for its healing properties and associations with divine light and the sun, the Spanish conquistadors viewed it as a source of wealth. As European demand for cochineal increased, its production became another form of indigenous exploitation. The inclusion of these pigments in the title of many of Monterroso’s works, for example, Like the Triangles: The Celestial Water and the Indigofera Give Us Back the Light and Like the Rhombus: The Earth and the Cochineal Give us Back the Light, underscores their relevance in the rituals of her ancestors and her role in preserving such knowledge. The triangle and diamond-shaped neon lights appended to the fabric stand in for territory/land; the slightly discernible circle inside the neon is a seed, a symbol of birth, growth, and land cultivation. To say that their inclusion seems paradoxical is true; their electric-powered presence gives back the light needed in an altered state of consciousness to enter a moment of reflection on modernity or, more precisely, on the open wounds resulting from the encounters and disagreements that occurred while going through this modernity.

Monterroso’s exploration of healing within a postcolonial context is also expressed in Rombhus to Heal Wounds, a beautiful, bright-colored cotton piece embroidered with recetas* widely used for physical and spiritual healing. Here we can find prescriptions for curing the evil eye, ‘frights,’ cancer, and other ailments. One of them reads, Prescription for the evil eye (non-physical): In a cloth bag, put a few grains of achiote (annatto) and some cross-shaped chili peppers, pass [the bag] all over the [patient’s] body, tracing the shape of a cross, and throw it into the fire. Many of the prescriptions found in this and other of Monterroso’s works come from Aspects of Popular Medicine in Rural Guatemala. Published in 1978 by the now-defunct Instituto Indigenista Nacional, this study responded to the growing interest of archeologists, sociologists, linguists, and other social scientists in third-world popular medicine and its psychosomatic practices. Long treasured by her family, the book was recently gifted to the artist by her maternal aunt.

Her increased usage of sewing to assemble textiles and organic fabrics into new works has led Monterroso to reflect on the role that sewing has played in her family history. Her maternal grandmother, aunts, and mother relocated to Guatemala City to work as seamstresses. This fact was irrelevant until recently when the artist acknowledged that, perhaps subconsciously, she was continuing the family trade with works like Organic Composition in Rhombus No.1 and No. 2, sewn cotton and linen tapestries colored with natural dyes. Like other components in Monterroso’s oeuvre, sewing has been successfully added to her artistic lexicon and joyfully embraced by the artist to honor and celebrate her maternal lineage and Maya Q’eqchi’ heritage.

Alma Ruiz
Independent Curator

Contact: Dcfamilyfoundation.com

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JAVIER MARTIN

Javier Martin

Javier Martin Appropriation of Fragments Exhibition

Javier Martin

OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday June 22, 2023. 7pm-10pm.

In appropriation of fragments, Martin uses the space to create a dialogue between the individual fragments and their collective composition that forms the whole, transforming the gallery into a theater filled with fragments, representing the information overload of our time. A society created of fragments of information driven by advertising, technology and social media, questioning the veracity of what we recognize, through the use of appropriation, cutting, alteration and reflection, accentuating their emptiness; including the viewer in the scene and transforming them into a part of the fragments that invite self-reflection.
This exhibition is composed of three different body of works, where we can find a journey that shows the interdis-ciplinarity of the artist. From the installation Alma, part of the permanent collection of the Seoul Museum, which consists of a cube covered with mirrors where the viewer is reflected through the appropriated images stamped on them and illuminated by neon, a material appropriated by Martin who considered it a form of public writing, unassociated with art, and traditionally associated with popular culture.
He invites the viewer to step into a room where he has conceptually removed the walls, replacing them with un-limited light and space. Eliminating the barriers society imposes, which fill our minds with banal and insignificant thoughts, keeping us trapped and unable to realize the potential that exists beyond.
In contraposition to the installation, the body of work “CUT” first presented by the artist in Shanghai in 2015, a thought-provoking series that challenges our preconceptions about the power of celebrity and the way we con-sume media. Creating iconic hand-cut photographs, technique inspired by The Chinese tradition of paper cutting, giving importance to the use of the negative space and the contraposition between wholeness and emptiness.
Inspired by the fragments that are remaining from the cut out works, Martin creates the installation that is dis-tributed throughout the gallery, fragments of images that represent remnants, unfinished elements that are a fundamental part of the language, these large fragments leaning on the walls, a format that presents the timeless, the non-sculptural in dialogue with the viewer, questioning the finished, the incomplete or the original in modern society, exploring how images shape our perceptions of ourselves and the world.

Javier Martin

Bio.

Javier Martin (Spain, 1985) is a multidisciplinary artist who bases his creative exploration on the careful observation of his surroundings, detecting semiotic relationships that might otherwise pass by unnoticed to an unperceptive viewer. With this approach, the artist constructs situations that invite reflection on impending matters in today’s world.

Raised in Spain, Martin began painting in oil colors at the tender age of seven, and had his first exhibition at the age of eight; however, he never allowed himself to be influenced by formal artistic training. Instead, he relied on his experiences, which allowed him to explore the possibilities of various materials and tools that he incorporates
 in his work today. Traveling, living, and working in countries – from Europe, South Korea, Hong Kong, to the United States – honed his observation skills, allowing him to learn from people and daily situations far removed from his background. During the Summer of 2012, Martin participated in his first exhibition in Asia M50 Art District. By 2014 he officially was represented by Matthew Liu Fine Art Gallery in Shanghai.

In addition to his international exhibitions around the world, he shares his knowledge and personal experience regarding the realm of art culture through speaking engagements. In 2015 he conversed with a group of students during a Conference at Alboran College in Marbella, Spain, discussing the impact that art had on his life. 2017 opened with him presenting his performance piece ‘Lies and Light’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, followed by a discus- sion about the importance of breaking down the lights that veer us away from the path of truth. Most recently, he was a panelist in New Ways of Seeing, presented by New World Forum at Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong.

Martin has equally experimented in painting, collage, sculpture, performance art and video art. Through his work, he proposes relation- ships among forms, surfaces, textures, and scenarios in which objects used on a daily basis relate to each other in unexpected ways. This talented artist consistently demonstrates his capacity to masterfully manipulate and relate materials and situations to construct sharp visual metaphors. In the Fall of 2015, Martin presented “War, Consumption, and Other Human Hobbies” a solo exhibition at Valli Art Gallery in Miami. Showing several pieces from his Blindness Collection as well a collection of works whose messages addressed themes of consumption and strategies of power within the global economy.

For over a decade, Martin has been developing one of his most iconic collections, Blindness. The eyes, classically associated with the reflection of human emotions, are always concealed whether behind a vibrant stroke of paint or a glowing neon light. With painting and collage, he reproduces images of seemingly perfect models, symbols of a standard of beauty and lifestyle that most people long to enjoy. Inspired by the juxtaposition between the grit of city surroundings and the glossy ads that line them, Martin deconstructs this perceived perfection to create a contrast between technology, collage, and painting.

In the Spring of 2016, Martin presented his first performance piece ‘Lies and Light’ at his solo show during Art Basel Hong Kong week. This performance also represents the latest evolution of the art-
it’s Blindness concept. In this case, the artist manifests himself as the protagonist, literally shattering society’s barriers to convey the struggle against conformity, the fight for truth and freedom. This raw and rebellious performance find Martin completely vulnerable in an intense spiritual journey to overcome his past to progress.

In 2018, Martin continued to build on the questions raised by his performance art with installations that challenge viewers to examine their own blindness. Following his public Blindness mural for the 71st Festival de Cannes and his solo exhibition “Blindness the Appropriation of Beauty” (curated by Robert C. Morgan), Martin created a number of interactive installations in which the Blindness concept is more visceral and tangible than ever before. In ‘A Room Without Walls’, Martin riffs on his ‘Alma’ series with an immersive, completely mirrored room in which viewers see themselves infinitely repeated in the face of a figure blinded by neon light. For ‘The Dark Box’, exhibited at Valli Art Gallery in Miami and New York, Martin continues to challenge gallery visitors to directly interact with the Blindness concept. Developed in a world dominated by social media, Martin uses ‘The Dark Box’ to invite viewers to become a part of his art; at the same time, the piece creates a situation in which participants can question their own blindness to new means of consumption.

Martin’s most recent works show him revisiting the concepts behind his earliest works in the Blindness collection. In these large scale and expressive collages, Martin layers paint, prints, paper ephemera, and neon in order to present the Blindness concept with new complexity. Whereas he forces participants to examine their own blindness in his installations, these mature works show Martin mining his own oeuvre to reexamine Blindness more than a decade later. These reflective pieces have been exhibited simultaneously, at Plan B at David Zwirner and in a solo exhibition titled “BLINDNESS” at Valli Art Gallery New York in March, 2019.

Javier Martin presented his first solo museum exhibition at the Seoul Museum in Spring 2019 and his first solo exhibition in Japan at Maki Gallery on the fall of 2019.

Exhibitions

Upcoming

  • Appropriation of fragments – Solo exhibition (Ascaso Gallery) Miami, USA

2023

2022

  • ART TAIPEI (333 Gallery) Taipei, Taiwan
  • SKIN DEEP -Solo exhibition (Ascaso Gallery) Caracas, Venezuela
  • A New Horizon – Group exhibition (Akrilyc / Gallery 46) London
  • INTI-PUNKU – Group exhibition (Strouk Gallery) Paris, France
  • Baanai / Javier Martin – Duo Exhibition (Maki Gallery) ISETAN The Space,Tokyo, Japan
  • Cute Tunes for Serious Sapiens – Group exhibition (Ascaso Gallery) Miami, USA
  • Lights Appropriation Solo exhibition (Pulpo Gallery) Murnau, Germany

2021

  • Skin in the Game – Group exhibition (Gallery HZ) Hong Kong
  • ICONIC ; 아이코닉 – Group exhibition (Seoul Museum) Seoul, South Korea
  • We Dance You Mean – Group exhibition (Cerquone Gallery) Madrid, Spain
  • INTERAZIONI -Group exhibition (A Pick Gallery) Turin, Italy

2020

  • Blindness -Solo exhibition (Koo House Museum) Yangpyeong, South Korea
  • Alma- A Room Without Walls Public Installation (TEAF20) Ulsan, South Korea
  • Blindness -Solo exhibition (Tri-bowl Art Space) Incheon, South Korea
  • Blindness -Solo exhibition (Audemars Piguet House) Madrid, Spain
  • Gallery Collection vol.1 (Tezukayama Gallery) Osaka, Japan

2019

  • Borderless Artist Project -Solo exhibition (Andong Arts & Culture Center) Andong, South Korea
  • Infinite Light – Solo exhibition (Maki Gallery) Tokyo, Japan
  • Borderless Artist -Solo exhibition (Seoul Museum) Seoul, South Korea
  • Blindness -Solo exhibition (Valli Art Gallery) New York, USA
  • Plan B (David Zwirner Gallery) New York, USA
  • Blindness The Dark Box Interactive Installation (520 West 28th by Zaha Hadid) New York
  • Blindness -Solo exhibition Curated by Valli Art Gallery (Miami Design District) Miami,USA

2018

  • Intra Moenia – Cattelani Collections (Campori Castle of Soliera) Modena, Italy
  • Blindness The Dark Box Interactive Installation (Valli Art Gallery), Miami, USA
  • Selected Works (Valli Art Gallery) New York, USA
  • Blindness x Cosybox (Cannes Film Festival) Cannes, France
  • Dear my wedding dress (Seoul Museum) Seoul, South Korea
  • Blindness The Appropriation of Beauty Curated by Robert C. Morgan, New York, USA
  • 36th Korea Galleries Art Fair (Paik Hae Young Gallery) Seoul, South Korea
  • Convergence (Galerie Art District) Paris, France

2017

  • Blindness Alma- A Room Without Walls Installation (Valli Art Gallery Miami, USA
  • Art Miami (Paik Hae Young Gallery) Miami, USA
  • RAW- Blindness The Dark Box Interactive Installation (YAI) Miami, USA
  • Forza Group exhibition (Galerie Leroyer) Montréal, Canada
  • Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You (Paik Hae Young Gallery) Seoul, South Korea
  • Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (Matthew Liu Fine Arts) Shanghai, China
  • Within The Light -Solo exhibition (Heart House Private Members Club) Munich
  • Art Shenzhen (Matthew Liu Fine Arts) Shenzhen, China
  • New Ways of Seeing, Art World Forum, Liang Yi Museum, Hong Kong – Meet the Artist (Soho House) New York, USA
  • Scope Art Show (J+ Gallery) Metropolitan Pavilion, New York, USA
  • LIES & LIGHT, Video Performance at Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA),Jacksonville, FL
  • Art Palm Beach (Valli Art Gallery), West Palm Beach, FL

2016

  • Context Art Miami (Valli Art Gallery) Miami, USA
  • Artist in Residence (Soho House) New York, USA
  • Blindness -Solo exhibition Curated by Valli Art Gallery (Toys for Boys) Miami, USA
  • Context New York (Valli Art Gallery) New York, USA
  • Private Event Blindness Neon Collection, JetSmarter, Malibú, CA
  • LIES & LIGHT Solo exhibition (California Tower, Loft 22), Hong Kong

2015

  • Basel Blindness, Art Basel Miami Week (Valli Art Gallery) Wynwood, Miami, USA
  • War, Consumption and Other Human Hobbies Solo exhibition (Valli Art Gallery) Miami, USA
  • Summer Show (Matthew Liu Fine Arts) Shanghai, China
  • Art Busan (Asian Art Works) Busan, South Korea
  • Art Edition Art Fair, (Hangaram Art Museum of Seoul) Seoul, South Korea

2014

  • 3A/Galleries, Art Basel Week, Miami, USA
  • Select Fair (Lavio Fine Art) Miami, USA
  • Blindness NEON (Kee Members Club) Hong Kong, China
  • Art021 Shanghai Contemporary Art Fair (Matthew Liu Fine Arts) Shanghai, China
  • Group exhibition (Pantocrátor Gallery) EBPC FreeTrade Zone, Shanghai, China
  • Cambiando Vidas (Luz Botero Fine Art) Panamá
  • Art Gwangju, (Lavio Fine Art) Gwangju, South Korea
  • Art Busan, (Lavio Fine Art) Busan, South Korea
  • “Eyes on me, please!” Solo exhibition (Houses of Art Gallery – HOA) Marbella, Spain
  • Art Lima (Pantocrátor Gallery) Lima, Perú

2013

  • Enlaces (Luz Botero Fine Art) Ocean Reef Island, Panamá
  • Select Fair, Art Basel Week, Miami Beach, USA
  • Live Painting (Art Shopping Festival for Charity) Andorra
  • Swab Art Fair, (Pantocrátor Gallery) Barcelona, Spain
  • Art Meets Fashion, City Bush Terminal, Brooklyn, New York, USA
  • M50 Contemporary Art District (Pantocrátor Gallery) Shanghai, China
  • Lavio Fine Art Vip Preview, Kee Club, Shanghai, China
  • CNCPT13 Gallery, Amsterdam

2012

  • Eyes wide shut, Solo exhibition (Arte City) Miami Beach, USA
  • Amsterdam Showcase, (Pantocrátor Gallery) Amsterdam, Holland
  • Art is the message Solo exhibition (Myra Galleries) Wynwood Miami, USA
  • Berliner Liste Art Fair, (Pantocrátor Gallery) Berlin, Germany
  • Frankenstein (ECCO) Contemporary Art Center, Cádiz, Spain
  • Swab Art Fair (Pantocrátor Gallery) Barcelona, Spain
  • Group exhibition M50, (Pantocrátor Gallery) Shanghai, China
  • Group exhibition (Houses of Art Gallery, HOA) Marbella, Spain

2011

  • Lo Que Existe Sin Ser Visto (Poligono Gallery) Marbella, Spain
  • Group exhibition (IVAM, Institut Valencià d’Art Modern) Valencia, Spain
  • “Thinking about Color” (Kasser Rassu Gallery) Marbella, Spain
  • Blindness (Baltus West Erie) Chicago, USA
  • Imm Cologne (Baltus) Cologne, Germany

2010

  • Blindness on paper (Baltus Beverly Blvd) Los Angeles, USA
  • Permanent Exhibition (Collection Prive) Cannes, France

2009

  • Art Fusion, Sotogrande Cádiz, Spain
  • Blindness (Resort La Torre Golf, Copa Davis) Murcia, Spain
  • Showroom Grupo Grancasa, Madrid, Spain

2008

  • Maison & Objet (Baltus) Paris, France

2007

  • Collective Quum Artist Digital Printing (Pedro Peña Art Gallery) Marbella, Spain
  • Collective Quum Artist (Pedro Peña Art Gallery) Marbella, Spain

2006

  • Estampa Art Fair, Madrid, Spain
  • Arte Lisboa Art Fair, Lisbon, Portugal

1994

  • Henry Studio Collective (Centro de los hijos the Ceuta) Spain
  • Group exhibition (Revellín Museum) Ceuta, Spain



Awards

  • 2011 Young Award arts and environmental sustainability, Marbella Spain
  • 1994 The Painting modality of the Painting and drawing contest for children “Caja Madrid” Ceuta, Spain
  • 1994 Mention of Honor for the exhibition of Henry’s studio students (Museo del Revellín) Ceuta, Spain

Speaking Engagements

  • 2019 Artist Talk (The CORE members club) New York, USA
  • 2017 Artist Talk (Soho House) New York, USA
  • 2015 Conference at Alborán College, Marbella, Spain
Perez Art Museum PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami

Bernabé Gilabert

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Bernabé Gilabert, master of abstraction

The painter Bernabé Gilabert Barba was born in 1953 in Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real, Spain). This circumstance already influences him, as it is the birthplace of the painter of the Generation of ’27, Gregorio Prieto, and the city where the International Exhibition of Fine Arts has been celebrated for 83 years. From a young age, Bernabé Gilabert Barba eagerly awaited the arrival of September to admire each of the artworks presented there.
At the age of 19, Bernabé Gilabert Barba moved to the city of Madrid for work reasons, where he met painters Julian Gomez, Jose Luis de Antonio, and Jose Maria Gallego Lopez (a caricaturist), creating the studio on Calle de la Bola, where they shared space, conversations, critiques, and learned from each other for several years. He visited galleries and museums, enriching himself intellectually.
He received a scholarship from the Castilla La Mancha Foundation to attend Fine Arts courses in Almagro (Ciudad Real), taught by Manuel L. Villaseñor, Antonio López, José Antonio Vargas, Julio López, and Guijarro, among others. Influenced by his teachers from La Mancha and his studio mate Julian Gomez, he worked in a realistic style.
In the 1980s, he began participating in competitions, winning the first prize in the XV National Painting Contest of Campo de Criptana (Ciudad Real), the second prize in the Castilla-La Mancha Contest in Almagro, and the third prize, the Golden Grape, in the National Fine Arts Exhibition of Valdepeñas.
Around 1999, Bernabé Gilabert’s work started to evolve towards broader planes of color and more concise figurative forms, where color predominates, influenced by his studio mate Jose Luis de Antonio.
In the early years of the new century, planes of color became the protagonists of his work, leading to a geometric abstraction inherited from constructivism. Inspired by the color planes of the walls that are exposed when a dwelling collapses, he became obsessed with uninhabited spaces.

The plinth in a building is located at the bottom of the wall, but for Gilabert it is at visual height, losing part of its original meaning, reaching a hierarchy that was previously stolen. The artist observes the different limits of the plinths and the possibilities of association through their fragmentation, seeking through primary geometric forms a totality in permanent revision. He fills the planes with colours, these expand, creating pictures within the painting, planes that energise the monochrome statism.

These real spaces, full of light and colour, serve as an excuse to try to elevate through meditation and the artisan process the pleasure of contemplating something as simple as the union of different colour planes in the baseboards. Colour creates a space that could be inhabitable, although in reality it can only be penetrated by the eye and initiate a dream.

Valdepeñas (Ciudad Real) 1953 .-

Individual exhibitions:

2010 .- Torreón de Lozoya. Caja Segovia Segovia-OS

2009 .- Monasterio Santa Maria la Real de Nieva OS Caja Segovia

2008 .- CC Joan Miró-Mostoles

2006 .- Gallery Marita Segovia-Madrid-Museo A. Lopez Torres-Tomelloso .-

2005 .- City Museum-Valdepeñas

2002 .- Eklectica-Madrid Gallery

2000 .- Sabape-Valdepeñas Art Gallery

1999 .- Escuela de Arte La Palma, Madrid

Exhibitions:

2008 .- Artists Collective Gallery-Marita Segovia-Madrid International Exhibition-Stand ArtMadrid Marita Segovia Gallery

2006 .- MAEN-New Media-Center-Aymt.de Cultural Kaleidoscope Mostoles

Perez Art Museum PAMM
Pérez Art Museum Miami

The House of Arts

The House of Arts

The House of Arts

WELCOME TO THE HOUSE OF ARTS, OUR HOUSE IS YOUR HOUSE!

Welcome to The House of Arts an inspirational contemporary platform connecting all forms of cultural manifestations in art and fashion, merging artisans, designers, visionaries, and entrepreneurs to create a give-back movement to local communities and going global by implementing cultural exchange between local and foreign artists. Here at The House of Arts, we work on developing a marketplace with showroom space as well as creating the right connections to showcase and sell original and vanguard pieces! Over the years, Art and Fashion have enjoyed a rich relationship, sometimes bold, and often understated, yet always stretching the boundaries of geography to bring global influences to our wardrobes. Today in our fast-paced digital world, there is a need to create cult status in an increasing demand for the new. Designers have always worked with artists, long before the commercial pressure to create lucrative, must-have product lines. Fashion and Arts have, and always will, go hand-in-hand. Thinking about that, and pursuing collaboration between both markets we welcome you into our house, your house, The House of Arts!

WHAT IS THE HOUSE OF ARTS?

THE HOUSE OF ARTS has become an important multimedia contemporary art platform, featuring annually some 80 plus celebrated artists, promoting and highlighting paintings, sculptures, art installations, photography, cultural projects, and other forms of art incorporated in a modern, contemporary context.

ESTABLISHED in 2010 we represent a cluster of projects dedicated to cultivating relations using art as a tool of cultural exchange and community identity. Our journey is a deep commitment to building bridges, promoting and creating educational projects, workshops, art talks, social change and inclusion through cultural experiences.
We believe in transcending all barriers using art as a universal language and common denominator.
With art shows and partnerships within the U.S and abroad, we now reach different parts of the world such as Asia, Europe, South and Latin America, as well as the Caribbean, engaging local and international artists with diverse curators and a strong team under the direction of Jade Matarazzo since 2010.

THE HOUSE OF ARTS is a natural and efficient platform for artists interested in gaining visibility, networking and meeting qualified trade buyers, gallery owners and managers, art dealers, architects, interior designers, and corporate art buyers.

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MEET OUR ARTISTS

  • Adriana VignoliAdriana Vignoli lives in Brasília-DF and works with sculpture, drawing, and photography. She conceptualizes sculptures that have a life of their own, and change slowly and continuously, transforming themselves into other, unpredictable forms. Graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from the University of Brasília, and is currently pursuing a doctorate at the Institute of Arts, also from UnB. Vignoli participated in national and international artistic residencies, the most recent being at Pivô Pesquisa (2022), São Paulo. Awarded the Funarte Marc Ferrez award (2021), and received the TCU National Exhibition Award in Brasília (2020). Shared an international group exhibition at Fundación Klemm, Buenos Aires (2019), and Nassauischer Kunstverein in Wiesbaden and at Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden (2014), while living in Berlin. Nominated for the PIPA Prize (2016). Received the FUNARTE National Award for Contemporary Art (2015). Her works are in national and international public collections. In Brazil, she is represented by Casa Albuquerque (Brasília, DF), Matias Brotas (Vitória, ES) and Celma Albuquerque (Belo Horizonte, MG) galleries.
  • Alex KorolkovasAlex Korolkovas was born in 1969, in São Caetano do Sul (São Paulo – Brazil) and studied Advertising at the Methodist University of São Paulo. Korolkovas studied at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, and worked as an assistant to photographers such as the renowned photographer Earl Miller. He was among the Top 10 fashion creatives in a contest held by Casa de Criadores (2004) and nominated for the Abril Prize of Journalism in the “photo essay” category for his work for VIP Magazine (2006). Alex moved again to the US in 2016, where he won the Visual Press Awards in Florida – in The Fine Art Photography category. Also in 2016, he held the Valentina exhibition in Miami that earned him another Visual Press Awards early in 2017, this time for Best Solo Exhibit. In fashion, Alex photographed for the best Brazilian designers – Jorge Bischoff, Reinaldo Lourenço, Glória Coelho, Pedro Lourenço, Cavalera to name a few. He currently collaborates with Brazilian, German, and American magazines, and lives in NY with his wife Mariana.
  • Alex RoccaInspired by architecture, landscaping and artistic and cultural movements, Alex Rocca handcrafts unique and original tapestries. The entire creative process, from inspiration, design and conceptual evolution, is the result of his life experience and training in cinema, scenography and interior design. 2012-2013, postgraduate in Scenography, coordinated by Ismael Scheffler, UTFPR. Curitiba – PR. 2015-2016, postgraduate in Interior Design, European Center. Curitiba – PR. 2006-2009, graduation in Cinema, FAP-PR. Curitiba – PR. Individual exhibitions include SP-ARTE “Pele Collection” at Pavilhão da Bienal, São Paulo (2022), and SP-ARTE “Vazios Collection” online in São Paulo (2021).
  • Andre MendesBorn in Curitiba, 1979. Graduated in Graphic Design from the Pontificia Catholic University of Paraná and specialized in artistic drawing at the Institut Superior de Disseny y Escola de la Imatge – IDEP, Barcelona. Mendes has been a part of over 11 solo exhibitions and 18 group exhibitions all over Brazil, Europe, and Asia since 2009. He has also participated in three artist residency programs: Tropikos, Hof Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand (2015), Kakiseni International Art Residency, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (2012), Jarbas Lopes, Maricá, Brazil (2008). Several of his pieces are displayed in museums, galleries, and institutional collections, such as GRPCOM Gazeta do Povo News, Curitiba, Brazil; Paraná Institute of Oncology, Curitiba, Brazil; Ricardo Fernandes Gallery, Paris, France; Santa Cruz Hospital, Curitiba, Brazil; Secretary of Culture of Ponta Grossa, Brazil; and Zilda Fraletti Gallery, Curitiba, Brazil.
  • Bia DoriaPlastic artist Bia Doria lives and works in São Paulo. She has already won several important prizes, participates in several exhibitions, and her works are in some of the most relevant galleries, museums, and places in the world. Bia works with waste from management forest, native trees rescued from fires, deforestation, bottom of rivers, and dams. From the North to the South of Brazil, she runs through, passes through, recovers, polishes, recreates, and takes care of nature. She is an important representative of sustainable contemporary art. She learned to observe nature and visualize works of art in trees, branches, roots of dead trees and other natural elements that were discarded. Her enhancement allowed her creations to expand and her convictions ecological issues echoed with greater amplitude, making the artist an important representative of sustainable contemporary art. She has published three books: Bia Doria Esculturas (2021), Raízes do Brasil, Editora Pit Cult (2014), and Bia Doria (2011).
  • Carlos Cruz-DiezFrench-Venezuelan artist Carlos Cruz-Diez (Caracas, 1923 – Paris, 2019) lived and worked in Paris since 1960. A major protagonist in the field of Kinetic and Optical Art, a movement that encourages “an awareness of the instability of reality.” His body of work established him as one of the key 20th century thinkers in the realm of color. Carlos Cruz-Diez’s visual art explores the perception of color as an autonomous reality evolving in space and time, unaided by form or support, in a perpetual present. His artworks are housed in prestigious permanent collections at institutions such as: Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Tate Modern, London; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne.
  • ChrispapitaChristian Escobar, “Chrispapita” in the art world, is a self-taught artist from Guatemala, is passionate about various contemporary artistic movements. As a child, he showed great interest in drawing; from pencil drawings to acrylic on canvas, he developed his own technique and style. Hyperrealism and realism is what he ́s best known for, inspired by the human figure and applying features of urban cultures and their relationship with nature and science. His artistic and life philosophy is the baroque ideal of Memento Mori, which means “Remember that you will die”, which motivates him to create works where the main theme is celebrating life, living in the present, learning from our past and future. He uses chiaroscuro as a tool to generate a correct dramatization in his themes, playing with the duality between light and darkness.
  • Chrystiane CorreaBorn in Niterói – Rio de Janeiro, lives and works in Rio de Janeiro. Bachelors in Social Communications – Universidade Gama Filho; EAV, Parque Lage – João Magalhães Núcleo de Estudos – João Wesley e Chang; Creative Process – Charles Watson, Atelier Novo Mundo, RJ; Davi Cury – Protect me from what i want / Proteja-me do que desejo – Daniela. Individual Exhibitions – 2011 – “O original, é o natural”, CCPCM (Centro Cultural Paschoal Carlos Magno) – Niterói/RJ; 2003 – Gravatá, Galeria de Artes Visuais Lana Botelho – Rio de Janeiro/RJ. Select Collective Exhibitions – 2016 – Confluences in Brazilian Contemporary Art, Art&Design Gallery – Miami/EUA; 2015 – JM Castellano Cervilla – Granada/Espanha; 2015 – Bienal Internacional de Arte; Contemporânea – Paris/França; 2014 – Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporânea – Paris/França.
  • Claudio TozziClaudio Tozzi is a Brazilian artist born in 1944 in São Paulo, Brazil, who has worked since the 1960s to challenge the political and social culture of Brazil and the world. Through his art he has highlighted the censorship of military dictatorships, the woes of mass media, and the strength of individuals. He participated in the NeoFiguration movement, primarily about issues experienced by Brazilians. Brazil lived under an oppressive dictatorship for years and the NeoFiguration movement worked to question the physical and social conditions of the era. Tozzi’s work has since been shared worldwide as he has gained popularity outside Brazil due to widely understood themes. He is one of the most well known and influential artists in Brazil.
  • Dabus & ThibesFernanda was born in Santa Maria, Brazil but has lived in the US since 200. Art came into her life first with dance and music, and many years later in psychology and psychoanalysis. Art has helped her explore her emotions and relationships in different colors and energies. The art of exploring new spaces has long been part of who she is. Her admiration for the arts has been there, ever present, until she finally found the courage to translate her life experiences onto canvas. Cecilia was born in Parana, Brazil. Since Cecilia’s earliest memories, she felt challenged to grasp the essence of art and its various possibilities. After living for a time in Europe, Thibes went back to Brazil and participated in two advanced training programs within the Anthroposophical Artistic field. her atelier has been an active space for work as an Art Therapist, Art Teacher, and Painter. It is also a place where the artist has a permanent collection of her artwork.
  • Daniel RaselloBorn in Buenos Aires. Graduated with a BA in advertising from FAECC in 1987. Already interested in art, took a course at the atelier by Luis Felipe Noé in Buenos Aires and art history. Moved to São Paulo in 1990, and a few years later participated in the biennial of Santos. In 2019, he left marketing to dedicate himself to art. Concerned with nature, he makes each tree the center of focus and uses an eye-catching technique: black ballpoint pens on Canson paper 300g. Exhibitions include the Rizoma Conecta arte, in São Paulo (2021), and his first solo show at Salão de Artes do Clube Paulistano (2022), curated by Sergio Scaff and Bel Lacaz. The exhibition “Perpetuate” consisted of trees, Brazilian animals, and natives that are at risk of extinction. Participated in the Salão de Artes Plásticas from Arceburgo, MG, winning the IHCA trophy, a major award. In Salão de Artes Plásticas Waldemar Belisário, Ilhabela, won bronze in the drawing category. Special guest at the exhibition “Dialogues on Paper” at Paulo Setubal Museum, Tatuí.
  • Dee LazzeriniThe artist’s work is focused on the creation of layers, fields and membranes, all inspired by microscopic experiments within the biological field. Moreover one could relate to the artwork from an “artificial bodies” perspective, all in different levels and scales. Almost like a new spontaneous generation of living organisms. Education – 2023-Graduation in Visual Arts – Ampli University of São Paulo; 2013 – PhD in Biomaterials Engineering – Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil)/ University of Strasbourg (France) – College of Metallurgical Engineering – 2009 – Masters of Science in Biomaterials Engineering – Federal University of Minas Gerais (Brazil) – College of Metallurgical Engineering; 2000 – Bachelor of Dental Surgery – University of Itauna (Brazil)
  • Delson UchoaDelson Uchôa (Maceió, Brazil, 1956) is one of the main contemporary artists representative of the so-called “Generation 80”. With an extensive trajectory of exhibitions – such as the Venice, São Paulo, Havana, and Cairo biennials – he has works in collections such as Inhotim (Brumadinho, Brazil), Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo (Brazil), Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo (Brazil), Vogt Collection (Berlin, Germany) and York Stack Collection (Berlin, Germany).
  • Edu SilvaGraduated in multimedia production at Senac (2010), he attends open courses, study groups and artistic accompaniments, dedicating himself to visual arts and graphic projects in his studio. Edu is interested in territorial tensions in social segregation and in identity issues that re-discuss miscegenation, with painting as the main production. From the experience of “being between” he produces works made up of unequally divided chromatic fields, where one color establishes itself as dominant while other colors occupy smaller spaces on the edges of the canvas. Some exhibitions: Solo : [In]Chromatic Fluxes – Centro Adamastor; Self-portrait – Vértice Gallery; Mestizaje – Casagallery; Ruptures – MAB. Collectives : XXI and XX International Biennial of Cerveira; 25th Salon of Plastic Arts of Praia Grande, 49th and 51st SAC of Piracicaba; Expanded Painting – Virgílio and PIN•CÉU Gallery – Funarte. 2nd place in the 10th edition of the Salão dos Artistas sem Galeria and 1st place in the XXXVII Salão de Artes de Rio Claro.
  • Elaine ArrudaElaine Arruda, 1985, Belém (PA) – Visual artist and teacher. PhD in Arts from ECA-USP, she completed part of her PhD at Université Paris 8. Since 2019, she has been a member of the faculty of the Federal University of Pará. She is currently represented by Galeria Barco (SP) and The House of Arts (Miami). In her trajectory, she participated in national and international exhibitions, among them: Brésil trois points, at Bateau Lavoir, in Paris. Biennale Internationale de la Gravure, in Sarcelles, France. Estampe Amazonienne, at the Engramme Artistic Center in Québec. In Brazil, the invitation to the show Cheio de Vazio, which took place at Instituto Tomie Ohtake, in São Paulo, curated by Paulo Miyada, stands out. In addition to exhibitions at CCSP, Goethe-Institut de Porto Alegre and Salão Arte Pará.
  • Elisa ArrudaElisa Arruda is a visual artist born in Belém do Pará. Holds a Master’s Degree in Architecture and Urbanism from FAU-USP (2017), lives and works between Belém and São Paulo. She focuses on the condition of women, memory, bonds,motherhood, housing, and daily life. She uses metal engraving, and counterpoints printed images to the volume obtained by cutting and paper folding. Painting, furniture installations, manipulated and sculptural objects are part of her productions. Nominated for the 2021 PIPA Award. Recently awarded by the 32nd Edital of CCSP (2022), Branco de Melo Award from the Fundação Cultural Tancredo Neves – FCPTN (2022), 1st national engraving prize Marcello Grassman – Graphic Arts (2021) through Edital do Espaco Cultural of Banco da Amazon (2021); participated in the 48th Sacilotto Salon (2020), Itajaí Salon (2018), and received the Casa das Artes do Pará Research and Experimentation Scholarship (2017). Participated in several group and individual exhibitions.
  • EnivoENIVO has been working with art since he was 12 years old, when he had his first experience with graffiti, in 1998. Since then, he has marked the streets of the city with his materializations of ideas, expression of feelings and questions, through images. The artist has already illustrated advertising campaigns for brands and decorated homes and businesses. Graduated in Fine Arts from Faculdade Paulista de Artes, he is also an art educator and founding partner of A7MA Galeria. ENIVO also acts as a curator and organizer of exhibitions.
  • Eva Le CampionFor Eva Le Campion, the production process of a work is nothing more than painting life. “What I see, what I feel, what revolts me, what I cannot change, I paint life. Drawing is the only skill I have left to express the world around me”, says Le Campion. She suffered two influences in her career: her uncle, and the father of her children, Delson Uchoa. Through him, she started working with acrylic. Graduated in Letters from the Federal University of Alagoas (Ufal), Eva, in addition to acting in the field of arts, has always been supportive and fought for various social causes. In 2016, the artist received the 2015/2016 Camões Luso Brasileiro Award for her career spanning more than 30 years in the art world, for her social work and for the Moira exhibition, held at Pinacoteca Universitária, in December 2015.
  • Eva SobanShe is a reference in Brazil when it comes to webs. She has been awarded by the Museum of Modern Art of São Paulo, and participated in several exhibitions in Museums and Galleries in Brazil and abroad. Participated in the three Textile Art Biennials at MAM-SP; Contemporary Textile Art Biennials promoted by the WTA in Mexico, Montevideo and Madrid, as a guest artist. Latest exhibitions: “De Fio A Fio” MAB – FAAP – SP 2022 curated and participated; “The Genesis According to Eve” – MAS de SP- 2022; “By a Thread” MAJ – SC 2017; “Black Forest” MAB – SP 2016
  • Fabio Baroli[Uberaba, MG, 1981. Lives and works in São Paulo]. Bachelor in Visual Arts from the University of Brasilia – UnB, 2010 and Master’s student in Visual Poetics at the University of São Paulo – USP. Participated in several exhibitions in Brazil and abroad. Main single exhibitions: “Where the wind turns”, 2022 – Galerie Voss (Germany); “HOTSPOTS – Memória, imaginação e resistência”, 2021 – Zipper Galeria (Brazil); “Selva-Mata”, 2020 – Reiners Contemporary Art (Spain); “Goliath”, 2017 – Museumsquartier (Austria); “Deitei pra repousar e ele mexeu comigo” , 2016 – CCBB (Brazil); “Muito pelo ao contrario”. Received the Funarte Prize for Contemporary Art in 2012, the A. Marcanton Awardio Vilaça in 2013 and a nomination for the PIPA Prize in 2012. Has works in the collections of Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro – MAM, Museu de Arte do Rio – MAR, Museu Nacional de Brasília, Museu de Arte Contemporânea do Mato Grosso do Sul – MARCO, Kunst Im Tunnel – KIT (Germany) and Stiftung Kleine Kunstdialog West/Ost (Germany), among others.
  • Felipe CamaFelipe Cama (Porto Alegre, 1970, lives in São Paulo) examines the production, distribution and consumption of images in the contemporary world. He appropriates various types of media from digital images on the Internet to advertising photographs, pictures found in virtual travel albums and reproductions in art history books to compose works in media such as painting, photography, collage and video. His work is included in important institutional collections, such as the Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, Centro Cultural São Paulo, Museu de Arte de Ribeirão Preto, Instituto Figueiredo Ferraz, Centro Cultural Carpe Diem Arte e Pesquisa (Lisbon) and Musashino Art University (Tokyo). He has held over 15 solo exhibitions across Brazil, the most recent being “Corrupted” – São Paulo Cultural Center, São Paulo, Brazil (2020), “You Have Reached Your Destination” – Galeria Zipper – São Paulo, Brazil (2017), “Sul x North” at the Ribeirão Preto Museum of Art, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil (2016) and at Galeria Leme, São Paulo, Brazil (2015). His work is part of over 9 collections in Brazil, Portugal, and Japan.
  • Fernanda FigueiredoLimeira, São Paulo, 1978. Lives in Berlin. Fernanda Figueiredo studied Architecture and Urbanism at Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Visual Arts at Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado in São Paulo. She took part in open calls as SARP in Ribeirão Preto and the Salão de Abril in Fortaleza; exhibited at institutions such as MAM — Rio de Janeiro and MAM — Bahia; Kunsthaus Kannen in Münster; Galerie im Körnerpark and Kunstquartier Bethanien in Berlin; and in commercial galleries as A Gentil Carioca in Rio de Janeiro. She has received several awards, including Rede Nacional FUNARTE de Artes Visuais, Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt Stipendium from the Berliner Senate, and from Jakob und Emma Windler Stiftung for an artist residency in Switzerland in 2021. In 2023, the artist will participate in the 4th Industrial Art Biennial in Croatia. Her works are represented in private collections, at São Pedro Museum in Itu and in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Gersony SilvaGersony begun her studies in art, when she attended a Communication Design Course at Colégio Carlos de Campos, and immediately identified herself with universe of paintings. Graduated from Visual Arts at Belas Artes University São Paulo, Pedagogy at PUC University, SãoPaulo, and Psychology at São Marcos University, Gersony is also specialized in Art History at MASP, Museum of São Paulo, and Art Education at ECA USP, University of São Paulo, ArtTherapy at Sedes Sapientiae and Art Rehabilitation at AACD, Associação de Assistência à criança Deficiente. Gersony has an extensive academic specialization curriculum, as well as vast experience in Art Education in ateliers, schools, and Art Museums. She has over 25 years of experience as an art, Contemporary Art, and Art History teacher for both children and adults. As an Art therapist, Gersony researched and published a scientific article on the importance of art in the rehabilitation of special children at AACD.
  • Gilberto SalvadorPainter, draftsman, engraver, architect, teacher. Gilberto Orcioli Salvador graduated in architecture in 1969 from the College of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of São Paulo – FAU/USP, where he later worked as a professor. Simultaneously, he devoted himself to painting and drawing. He held his first exhibition in 1965 at the Teatro de Arena Art Gallery in São Paulo. He was awarded a gold medal at the Salão de Arte Contemporânea, Campinas, in 1967, and, in the 1969 and 1970 editions, with the acquisition prize. Participated in several editions of the São Paulo International Biennial, and two exhibitions at Masp stand out among his solo shows, in 1985 and 1995. In 1999, the sculpture Vôo de Xangô was installed at the Jardim São Paulo Station of the Companhia do Metropolitano de São Paulo. His work is characterized by the opposition between gestural and rigid lines, organic and inorganic forms, movement and static. Living forms, men, flowers and animals mix with geometric figures.
  • Heloisa Hariadne“My style in painting is intersected by the investigation of the memories in my body, in which I question the temptations and intentions in a portrait of the intimate – a memory of records of looks, people and constructions of small shapes, which are filled in image. I like to think of my paintings as a possibility of working an emotional aspect of portraits, using the construction of small shapes to transform them into people who fill themselves in the image. I like to think of my paintings as a possibility to work with one’s emotions in the portrait, creating an image of the body while questioning itself and its spaces. I think about the inversion of bodies and how their characteristics tread a poem that deals with an invisible path, as a search for traces that are not linked only to race, but also on deeper subjects. A desire to go through the vague, and at the same time habitable, a place where all bodies end up questioning themselves – identity – how much of your body is yours? Where has it become an idealization?” – Heloisa Hariadne
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  • ames KudoGraduated in graphic design from the Faculdade de Belas Artes, São Paulo (1989), and lived in New York (1992-1994), where he studied abstract painting at the Art Student League school. He also worked as a pattern designer at Diamond & Baratta in New York. “Topophilia” is the starting point of his work, emphasizing the memory of a part of his hometown that was flooded for the construction of a hydroelectric plant. Collages and images taken from encyclopedias construct their various realities and experiences. He has works at MAC-Museu de Arte Contemporânea de São Paulo, Pinacoteca do Estado de SP, Itaú Cultural, Miura Museum Matsuyama and others. Of his individual exhibitions, the following stand out: “Oxímoros” (Zipper Gallery), “Telúrica” (Laura Marsiaj Gallery and MARP – Museum of Art of Ribeirão Preto). And the group exhibitions, “Expeditionen in ästhetik und nachhaltigkeit” (Memorial da América Latina – São Paulo),“100 painters of tomorrow” (Beers Contemporary – London – UK and “Vértices” (National Post Office Museum in Brasilia).
  • Jay BoggoStylist and visual artist born in Joinville, Jay started his career as a self-taught artist. With more than 20 years of experience at the forefront of a textile industry and a connoisseur of raw materials, he founded J.BOGGO + and today works at the head of the brand, in addition to taking over the creative direction. All of his experience and personal transformation led him to give lectures at schools and universities, research and creation centers. He is an artist by profession through his works in paintings as well as the head of the clothing and lifestyle brand J.BOGGO +. In addition to being a designer for the brand, he paints pictures and is recognized at fairs and exhibitions in Brazil and abroad.
  • Jeane TerraJeane Terra researches the subjectivity of memory, the nuances of the transience of cities, and the debris of a time, such as urban erasure, the unbridled growth of cities and environmental issues. The artist’s work develops in painting, sculpture, photography, and video art. In her works, Jeane uses rubble and the “paint skin”, a technique she developed from mixing acrylic paint and binder, which, made in thin layers, takes on the appearance of skin. The artist uses paint “skins” to produce her paintings, some using the cross-stitch technique, or cut and pasted directly onto the canvas. A kind of body – painting. Just as, by using rubble from houses and buildings as an object of work and covering them with velvet skins, it generates new meanings to the body-house matter. The artist has participated in individual and group exhibitions in Brazil and abroad.
  • Joao Angelini“A resident of Planaltina, a historical/colonial city in Goiás and on the outskirts of Brasília, I have dedicated myself to investigating various gestures based on the transit between the rural colonial of Goiás and the urban modernity of Brasília. From mastic trees, bones, red earth to concrete, glass and white marble. Since 2005 I have been regularly exhibiting and receiving awards for my individual production. 1st Edition Global Crypto Art Exhibition – 59th Venice Biennale (2022), 2nd Décio Noviello Visual Arts Prize (2021), Sesc ComVida Prize (2020), Arte Como Respiro – Itaú Cultural (2020), Edital Novas Efervescências – EC Porto Seguro SP (2019), CNI Finalist – Marcantonio Vilaça (2017), awarded in the Directions of Itaú Cultural (2014, 2009 and 2006), Bolsa Funarte de Produção (2011), and Anima Mundi (2009) punctuate part of the trajectory of my work.” – Joao Angelini
  • Joao CastilhoJoão Castilho (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1978) is a visual artist who works with photography, video and sculpture. He is inspired by literature, popular culture, landscapes of the Brazilian cerrado, everyday scenes and current affairs. The artist’s work is present in institutional collections such as the Musée du Quai Branly, Paris; Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo; Pirelli/MASP Photography Collection, São Paulo; and National Museum of Fine Arts, Rio de Janeiro. He won awards from the Conrado Wessel Art Foundation (2014); and the Bolsa de Fotografia, from Instituto Moreira Salles, (2013). He was one of the artists selected for the 19th Contemporary Art Festival Sesc_Videobrasil and the Mercosul Biennial, in 2015. Main solo exhibitions: Zoo, Bratislava, Slovakia (2016), and Chaos-world, FUNARTE, Belo Horizonte, Brazil (2013). Main collective exhibitions: “L’Autre Visage” Embassy of Brazil in Belgium, Brussels (2017); 10th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre (2015); XX International Biennial of Curitiba, Brazil (2014); I Biennial of Photography, MASP, Brazil (2014).
  • Kazuo WakabayashiBorn in Kobe, Japan, in 1931, Kazuo Wakabayashi was already a trained artist when he immigrated to São Paulo in 1961. Wakabayashi quickly gained popularity in Brazil, Japan, and the United States. Four years after his arrival in Brazil, he participated in a group exhibition of Japanese-Brazilian artists at the Organization of American States, where he also held his first US solo show in 1969. In the 1940s and 1950s, while still in Japan, Wakabayashi experimented with figure studies, landscapes, and portraits of the female body. His later work can be divided into two periods. The first can be categorized as “informalist”, while also adhering to geometric principles; marked by thick, textured surfaces and abstract, monochromatic forms. In his second and latest period, beginning in the 1980s, he returned overtly to Japanese tradition, translating characteristics of traditional woodcuts, and specifically Ukiyo-e prints into three-dimensional, large-scale paintings and prints.
  • Laerte RamosLaerte Ramos (Brazil/São Paulo, SP, 1978) stands out in the Brazilian contemporary art scene, especially for his production in engraving and ceramic installations. He works with different materials such as woodcuts, serigraphy, painting, sculpture, tapestry, objects, using techniques and materials that challenge him as an artist-researcher. Graduated in visual arts from Fundação Armando Alvares Penteado-FAAP in Bachelor (2001) and Licentiate (2002). His works go beyond unitary pieces and cross different languages to modify their understanding and the space in which they are inserted. Since the second half of the 1990s, Laerte Ramos has participated in important group shows and, in the last 26 years, he has held several solo shows, in Brazil and abroad. He has a record of 51 solo exhibitions, 7 participations in artistic residencies, and 32 awards as an artist.As a curator, Laerte has 10 exhibitions and 2 awards, highlighting the Marcantônio Vilaça Award in 2020 with the exhibition “Compreensão do Ar” or (E = M2).
  • Luiz EscanuelaLuiz Escañuela graduated in visual communications, has a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from Centro Universitário de São Paulo, where he attended two years of visual arts. He has been drawing and painting since childhood, and started his professional career at the age of 22, working mainly with painting. He has already had two solo exhibitions, the most recent, entitled “Don’t Forget What is Epic” (2022) and “DISRUPTO” (2021). He participated in several collective exhibitions, international fairs, and gave a workshop in Germany. In 2020 he was elected by Forbes magazine as one of the influential personalities in the arts under 30 years old. He developed a particular method within hyper-realism. In more recent works, exemplified by “Don’t Forget What Is Epic”, he fuses detailed painting with new gestural experiments. The large-scale work reference research of cinema, the Brazilian baroque, creation myths, and the iconoclasm of philosophy, proposing hyper-links between the images and provoking poetic speculation in the spectator.
  • Marcelus FreschetHe is an Artist that explores forms and colors to bring harmony and elegance to his geometric works. – Lucia de Carvalho Curator of Expoarte Gallery, Brasilia, Brazil. Born in Santos, 1962, in 1984 he graduated in Architecture and Design / University FAU, Santos. Studied with Ruy Othake, Gilberto Salvador, Cristiano Mascaro and Odiléia Toscano. 1986, Studied ARTESCULTURA with Domenico Calabrone and Elvio Becheroni. 1987, Represented Brazil in Faenza Pottery Bienal -Italy 1987, Individual Exhibition Ceramica Oggi in Cultural Center Brazil – Italy , Milan. 1989, Starts his Glass Creations in Veneza , Italy. 1980 – 2001, Creates Functional Objects for TOK-STOK Stores, Cristais PRADO and O POTE , São Paulo. 2017-2018-2019 – Participates in Paralela Design Fair with his Glass Work and VisualArt Works. 2021 – Participates in the Contemporary Art Salon, Guarulhos. 2022 – Coletive Exibition in Bienal of São Paulo / BOOMDESIGN SP Lounge Bienal.
  • Marilia ScarabelloA visual artist, she lives and works between Jundiaí and São Paulo. Master in Visual Arts from Unicamp, specialized in Theatrical Scenography by Espaço Cenográfico and graduated in Architecture and Urbanism from Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie, she started her artistic production in mid-2013. Her work transits between multiple languages, including frequent procedures of appropriation, with research directed to questions involving the idea of territory and its physical and metaphorical representation.
  • Matias MesquitaMatias Mesquita has been a visual artist since 2009. Graduated in Industrial Design / Visual Communication from PUC-Rio. He attended the Escola de Artes Visuais do Parque Lage (2009-2010), and was co-founder of Elefante Centro Cultural, a major space for contemporary art in Brasília. Among his main exhibitions is “Concrete, Liquid and Gaseous Worlds”, at Casa Albuquerque (Brasília); and the group exhibitions “Conversations: Resistance and Convergence”, at the Casa das Onze Janelas Cultural Center (Belém/Pará) and “TRIANGULAR: Art of this Century”, at the Casa da Cultura da América Latina (Brasília). His production is in the collection of great Brazilian collectors, as well as important museums in Brazil: the National Museum of Fine Arts (Rio de Janeiro); O MAR – Museu de Arte do Rio (Rio de Janeiro); the National Museum of the Republic (Brasília). He is the recipient of ITAÚ CULTURAL – Arte Como Respiro (2020); PIPA Online Award nomination (2016); and IBRAM Feira Art-Rio 2011 Award (2011), among others.
  • Miguel GontijoMiguel Gontijo is from Santo Antonio do Monte, Minas Gerais, and currently lives in Belo Horizonte. He is a graduate in history and philosophy, and post-graduate in Art and Contemporaneity. He received several awards throughout most of the national territory and had several individual exhibitions, with works in public entities in Brazil and abroad. In 2004 he published the book ProfanasScripta, which the following year was released in Portugal with the plastic exhibition of the same title. With his contemporary look, he subverts the order of things. His paintings exchange themes, motifs and techniques with other arts, another time. Sometimes it shows the past, sometimes it is the present that imposes itself.
  • MundanoA Brazilian artist born in São Paulo, Mundano is 36 years old and in the last 15 years he has been actively using his art as a tool for social transformation. Defender of environmental causes and universal human rights, he founded the NGO Pimp My Carroça 10 years ago, with which he developed the Cataki application, aimed at connecting waste generators and collectors of recyclable material. The result of his artivism opened doors for him to take his actions with waste pickers around the world, traveling through more than 20 countries performing murals, exhibitions, graffiti, lectures, partnerships and integrating global programs such as TED Fellows.
  • O CranioA blue Indian is the trademark of artist Cranio from Sao Paulo, representing the indigenous people from Brazil. His mediums are acrylic on canvas and spray paint on walls, but he also enjoys creating variations by mixing the two. Cranio, which translates to ‘skull’ in Portuguese, is the pseudonym of Fabio de Oliveira Parnaiba who was born in 1982 and grew up in Sao Paulo, Brazil. In 1998 he began spray painting the walls of his hometown. With inspirations deriving from life, cartoons and legendary artist Salvador Dali; his illustrious ‘moniker’ of sorts, is a native indigenous person of Brazil, painted in blue. Developed out of a representation for the indigenous peoples who have populated his native country, Cranio cites that the Indians find themselves in funny and curious situations, prompting thoughts of more contemporary issues such as consumerism, corruption and the environment.
  • R2 StudioFriends Roberta Romanelli and Rodolpho Rivolta had the same taste for Pop and Contemporary Art, even before they met. In 2018, the two met when Rodolpho ordered a custom Toy Art from Playmobil from Roberts. And from there, a great friendship and enormous synergy made them think of creating something together. In 2020 they set up R2 Studio, an unpretentious, cool art studio full of childhood references from the 80s. At R2, you can find ToyArt, emblematic phrases, mirrors, neon, but the duo’s DNA is focused in Upcycling, a worldwide movement of creative reuse, where pieces and objects from the past are completely transformed by their unconventional interventions. That is why at R² many works are impossible to be replicated or transformed into a series. Based in SP, R2 has already spread its works to clients all over the world and Brazil, and has already exhibited their work “Put your Ego in a Box” in Miami and NY, and “Set me Free” which will now be exhibited in Venice.
  • Ricardo “Rag” AguiarRAG lives and works in São Paulo, Brazil. Graduate in Mathematics and Social Communication, and postgraduate in Design and Social Innovation. He uses painting, photography, and digital art techniques, bringing to the center of his work the various languages of labeling systems, narratives and beliefs that the productive modes of contemporary life impose on us in our day-to-day lives, mainly from the interference of humans on the planet. Solo Exhibitions: 2013 The White Rectangle at the Joinville Art Museum, Nutopia at the Goiânia Art Museum, 2011 Intervention for SESC Rio at the PUC Theater, Rio de Janeiro, 2010 The Atom and the Void at Zipper Gallery, São Paulo. His works are in public collections at the Museum of Art of Goiânia, Museum of Art of Joinville, Collection of the Secretariat of Culture of Santo André and Collection of the Secretariat of Culture of Praia Grande.
  • Renato MeziatRenato Pereira de Silva Meziat began his artistic career as a musician, training at Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Upon returning to his native Rio de Janeiro, he dedicated himself full-time to painting and by 1976 began gaining recognition. In 1978, his work was exhibited at the salon Nacional de Artes Plásticas and was chosen for a second showing the following year. The first of several solo exhibitions followed in 1980 at Galeria Ipanema in Rio de Janeiro.
  • Rosa FerrariRosa Ferrari lives and works in Nova Lima – MG. Her degree in Architecture and Urbanism puts her in contact with the visual arts and the enchantment for the natural riches of Minas Gerais brings baggage to her creative process. In experiments and research with raw materials and pigments found in nature, the artist creates sculptures, objects, photographs, installations and constructs conceptual art. Currently, she has been researching biomes and their riches, covering mainly the diversity of the Brazilian flora, and the various possibilities of human connection with nature. All based on the “sensory organization” that is specific to each society.
  • Thiago ToesToes’ production transits between different manifestations, including painting, sculpture and site specific, guiding the viewer to a sensorial space that makes us reflect on our presence and passage through the universe. As he builds his work, origins and births interest him a lot, making him grow as an artist in that time and space. The artist has already exhibited his work in several important spaces, such as the Memorial da América, SESC Belenzinho, Funarte, Casa do Olhar Luiz Sacilotto, and Paço das Artes; in addition to spaces abroad, such as the Kunstmuseum Kulturverein – Wittingen Art Museum in Germany, IK – Projects gallery in Lima, and participation in the Vulica Brasil festival, with a mural in the National Bank of Minsk building, in Belarus. He has also participated in the artistic residency at the 13th International Art Week in Lüben – Germany, and at Kaysaá – Artistic Residency on the north coast of São Paulo. He was awarded an honorable mention by the Salão de Artes de Vinhedo, and by the magazine DasArtes with the GARIMPO award.
  • Yuli GesztiYuli Geszti was born in 1953 and grew up during the 1970s and was influenced by the artistic atmosphere of the time. Conceptualism is often perceived as a response to Minimalism, and the leading art movement of the 1970s, challenging the boundaries of art with its revolutionary features. She lives and works in Rio de Janeiro in her atelier at Cosme Velho. She has dedicated herself exclusively to painting in acrylic paint on canvas since 1994. Yuli discusses the issues of the illusion of volume, figure and background, light and shadow in painting. Her works attract the viewer’s eye, leading them to the interior and exterior of planes and reliefs preserved in bands of contrasting colors. About the concepts of her work, she says, “my work is motivated by a challenge: to create the illusion of three-dimensional volumes on the flat surface of the canvas using only brushes and ink. These volumes are configurations of unusual objects arising from a planar support.”

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Echo Contemporary Art Exhibition

Echo Contemporary Exhibition
Echo Contemporary Exhibition

Join us on THURSDAY June 22 for an Opening Reception at Echo Contemporary

Echo Contemporary Art on Thursday, June 22nd from 7pm to 10pm for the Opening Reception of the “Second Annual Guardian Studio Artists Exhibition”. Guardian Studios at Echo Street West is home to over 40 of Atlanta’s creatives and visual artists. Over 25 visual artists will present their paintings, sculptures, furniture, fashion designs and ceramic work. During the opening reception, the Studio Artists will have their 31 studios open to the public. Come and enjoy a cocktail while you tour the gallery and open studios.

Participating Artists

Alex Mari

Amanda Davisson

Angela Bortone

Aysha Pennerman

Charity Hamidullah

Dave Gastineau

Dionna Collins

Eve Brown

Felicia Castro

Gabi Madrid

Gavin Bernard

George Galbreath

Haylee Anne

Jena Dost

Jennifer Diaz

Jessica Caldas

Jessica Helfrecht

Kacee Friedman

Karen Graffeo

Kenya Freeman

Kieta Rose

MecSaiel Solehman

Mickey Griffin

Neka King

Petie Parker

Reed Knauth

Sally Eppstein

Sarah Al-Khayyal

Shannon Barns

Timothy Short

Tracy Murrell

Tree

Opening Reception- Thursday June 22, 2023 7pm -10pm

Exhibition Dates- June 22 – July 29

Echo Contemporary Art is located within the Guardian Studios building on the Echo Street West campus. 785 Echo Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30318.

Questions: [email protected] / 404.680.8728

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Bridget Finn

Bridget Finn
Bridget Finn

Bridget Finn

Bridget Finn was the Associate Director of Strategic Planning & ICI Projects at Independent Curators International (ICI) where she worked to support fresh ways of seeing and contextualizing contemporary art for ICI’s diverse audiences. She is also co-founder/curator of Cleopatra’s, an art space based in Brooklyn which has realized over 100 projects in the past five years. From 2011-12 Cleopatra’s operated a second project space in Berlin under the same name. In September 2012, the collective curated an exhibition titled CKTV for the Brooklyn, City Pavilion at the 9th Shanghai Biennale and in 2013 traveled an iteration of that project to the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York. In addition, Cleopatra’s is currently collaborating with Vox Populi (PA) to explore the current role of artist-run spaces within the broader artistic community. The two groups are in the process of surveying alternative and artist-run spaces around the U.S. in order to develop a network and foster dialogues between like-minded initiatives. This research will be made available via an online platform following Remake/Remodel, the project’s concluding conference that took place in Philadelphia in August of 2013. Previously, she worked at the Anton Kern Gallery, where she liaised with and supported gallery artists. Before living in New York, Finn received her BFA from The College for Creative Studies in Detroit, Michigan.

Interview: Gallery Owner Bridget Finn

BY KIM KOBERSMITH

Bridget Finn grew up in Detroit and moved to New York after graduating from the College for Creative Studies in 2005. There, she worked at both commercial galleries and arts non-profits before returning to Detroit in 2017 and forming the Reyes | Finn Gallery with business partner Terese Reyes. I had the chance to talk with Bridget at the gallery on a recent trip to Detroit.

Kim Kobersmith: What prompted your return to Detroit?

Bridget Finn: I started to think a lot about the fact that so much of what happens in the global art arena is really very loaded in the U.S. between Los Angeles and New York. If you go to other places, at least across Europe, there are a lot of places to look at art. There was so much happening in Detroit, so many changes. And I think it’s interesting to think about offsetting the center of the art world, if that makes sense.

Kim: What sorts of things were going on in Detroit that excited you about moving back?

Bridget: Detroit was an overlooked city after the Rebellion [urban riots] in 1967. It went through so much and the rest of the world forgot about it, and it just kind of remained as it was. I would say in the early two thousands that changed. Artists who were here did videos about how you can buy a house in Detroit for a dollar. People saw that and were moving here who had never been to the city. Simultaneously, larger corporations and developments were looking at Detroit. A place that didn’t change for so long was changing very quickly. It was like coming home to a new place.

Kim: How do the characteristics of the city inspire artists?

Bridget: Detroit is such a music town, right? I think people share this love and appreciation for music and there was less of a communal celebration of visual art. I feel that has really changed in the last 10 to 15 years. I love being part of the gallery scene here because everybody has such a different voice in terms of what they are contributing. Detroit is still a more accessible price point than so many other cities. People see an opportunity to do something here that they wouldn’t be able to do somewhere else.

I mean, for me, what’s interesting about talking to artists here is that they are often truly guided by their own studio practice, which I think is pretty unique. Detroit has always been a very blue-collar, hardworking city. And I do think that’s reflective in the artists that choose to be here, whether they were born here or they moved here and they’ve stuck around. You can really hunker down without interruption here and make work.

We work with an artist named Maya Stovall. Her practice is so incredibly rooted in place and in people. There wasn’t a mold in which Maya was following to see what a measure of success would be for her career. It is dictated by her. It takes a lot of time to meditate on what that practice is, which in other places you may not have as much time to be able to do.

Image: An installation view of work by Maya Stovall on display at Reyes | Finn Gallery. Photo credit: Clare Gatto.
Image: An installation view of work by Maya Stovall on display at Reyes | Finn Gallery. Photo credit: Clare Gatto.

Kim: What things do you keep front of mind when selecting artists and shows for the Reyes | Finn Gallery? Who are some of those artists?

Bridget: Artists want to do a show in Detroit; they want to engage with the city itself. I never fully separate from that conversation of place. When you’re in a place that has such a strong sense of character and such a rich history, you should be aware of that in pretty much everything you do. We try to be mindful of those concerns.

For example, this work is by an artist named LaKela Brown. LaKela now lives in New York, but is still 100% a Detroiter and comes back often. Her family is here. When she made her last show with the gallery, she stayed for an entire month at an art space and residency program called Pops Packing. She really spent time re-engaging with the city while she made the work. I think that her awareness of who she is and also what she does and where she is really made that show.

And this artist, here, is James Benjamin Franklin. He went back to graduate school when he was 44 years old and was in New York. He was working and exhibiting as an artist. He had a gallery that he was represented by, but he still felt this need to push his practice. And as many times as he tried to rework within his life in New York, it just never quite hit what he was trying to access within himself.

James ended up coming here to Cranbrook (Academy of Art) and it’s just all clicked. I think it’s so brave to have done that, totally blow up his whole life to do something really hard. He’s five years out of grad school and is making the best work of his life. He stayed after he graduated and has an amazing studio which would be hard to have somewhere else.

People like James are able to come and really dig their heels in and be, be here and be committed to the art scene. He’s such a supportive person. You’ll see him at everybody else’s shows. He’s really excited to take part in that greater community.

Image: A black and white photo of Bridget Finn. She is leaning on a table while looking forward into the camera. Photo by Dustin Aksland.
Image: A black and white photo of Bridget Finn. She is leaning on a table while looking forward into the camera. Photo by Dustin Aksland.

Kim: What was the motivation and purpose for the city-wide Art Mile project you helped coordinate?

Bridget: In Detroit, you’re less on foot than you are in other cities. You don’t run into as many people, so it becomes a little bit more of a solitary experience. I realized just before the pandemic that there were so many things I hadn’t yet experienced in terms of other art spaces – that we weren’t well networked within our own space. 

So we started something called Art Mile Detroit, an event with very art-fair qualities. At a time when it was difficult for people to show art, especially when you’re in a place like Detroit that has a collecting community, the idea was to be able to do something online. We included across the board the greater art community in Detroit and gave people the opportunity to make their own sales and to present work that they feel is defining to their program. It allowed for artists to continue their practice and to support themselves. It felt like a real win.

We did two iterations of Art Mile that lived exclusively online and had a really full program. Different kinds of performances, different kinds of panel conversations, which are all archived on the website. This was never meant to be a commercial project. This is just something that we did for the greater good of our art community. Now it’s figuring out what that next iteration is. 

(This conversation was edited for length and clarity)

Top image: An installation view of work by James Benjamin Franklin on display at Reyes | Finn Gallery. Photo credit: Clare Gatto.

UnderMain: On the Road sends writers out of Kentucky to explore the visual arts in cities of the Midwest and near South. This program is generously supported by the Great Meadows Foundation.

KIM KOBERSMITH

Freelancer Kim Kobersmith writes about arts + culture from the vantage of Berea, a creative small town where the Appalachian Mountains meet the bluegrass. Her stories focus on the power of art to further social justice, strengthen community, and transform culture.

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HOW TO BECOME A FULL-TIME ARTIST

How To Be Ready To Transition Into A Full-Time Art Career
How To Be Ready To Transition Into A Full-Time Art Career

HOW TO BECOME A FULL-TIME ARTIST

How many times have you been told that art is a dead-end career choice? I know I have heard this said by people so many times, and it is simply not true. If you find yourself asking is art a realistic and achievable career choice, you are in the right place to find out more. It is possible to turn your art into a successful career. Like most things, it isn’t always easy, but there are so many opportunities now if you have a plan and focus on taking it seriously as a career.

1. Turning art into a career

The first step to becoming a full-time artist is to make the decision to take it seriously as a career. This is easier said than done. Some people will tell you, you need to get a ‘real job’ instead. If you want to start making money from art, or want to turn art into your full-time career you have to first work out which career path will best allow you to shine as an artist and display your talents for all to see.

There are so many art career paths to choose from, you might even start your own art business, like me. Once you have found a role that looks like it will work for you, you need to build a portfolio of your work. Lots of people do this at the same time as taking a training course to develop their skills. A portfolio is simply a folder full of examples of what you can do, that you can show to potential clients or employers. It has never been easier to get your portfolio of work out there and get noticed, so don’t be shy about making things happen and taking the initiative.

2. How to find an art job

A career as an artist, or any creative is not always easy. However, it is definitely not limited to painting canvases. The world of art and culture is vast, and it offers so many worthwhile career paths and interesting jobs that are well worth considering. The best artists are very well connected and are good at building relationships in the part of the industry they want to work in. Go to events, sign up for courses, attend gallery nights, anything you can do to start networking with others will help you break into the industry.

3. How much do artists earn? What is an artist’s salary?

The cliché of the starving artist doesn’t have to become a reality, there are lots of art jobs that are very well paid and in high demand. Lots of areas of art can give you unlimited earning potential at the highest level, with some entry-level positions even earning £25k per year or more with technical training and a good skill level. The higher your profile is as an artist, and the better your portfolio of work, the more you are likely to earn. As a self-employed artist or running your own art business you are only limited by your time and imagination, you can build an art business as big or as small as you like.

I have chosen the route of starting my own commission-based art business that has allowed me to work with clients all over the world and start building my name as an artist. I find the commission process incredibly rewarding and I love that my work means so much to my customers. If you want to start making money from your art, I’ve shared my experience building my business in my new book, “Art is my career – How to Start an Art Business”.

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