Category: exhibition

Madrid

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I visited Madrid, a couple of weeks ago; (my first time in Europe).  I went there for the opening of Lugares de Transito, a project terminating as an exhibition and a book.  The exhibition is of photo-based works, done by collaborating artists – one from Spain and one from a host city.

The artists are Tatiana Fernández Gueara and Aleix Plademunt (Santo Domingo); Humberto Díaz and Daniel Silvo (La Habana); Juan Pablo Garza and Carlos Sanva (Maracaibo); Mateo López and Juan Carlos Martínez (Bogota);  José Manuel Castrellón and Matías Costa(Panama); Byron Mármol and Juan Diego Valera (Guatemala City) ; Gonzalo Vargas and Esteban Pastorino (Quito); Adler Guerrier and Rosell Meseguer (Miami).

The curator of LDT is Marta Soul.  And a local curator in each host city also contributed to the project, they are Michelle Ricardo (Santo Domingo), Tania Hernández (La Habana), Luis Gómez Rincón ( Maracaibo), Roxana Martínez ( Bogotá),  Johann Wolfschoon (Panamá), Stefan Benchoam (Guatemala), Paulina León (Quito) and Gean Moreno (Miami).

The exhibition is taking place at Tabacalera, espacio PROMOCIÓN DEL ARTE. (here’s an nice image of my piece).  An old tobacco factory built around 1780-1792.

The other half of the building houses a C.S.A.(Centro Social Autogestionado).

  

The press release

Exposición ‘Lugares de Tránsito’

22 junio – 2 septiembre

Tabacalera. Espacio Promoción del Arte
C/ Embajadores 51. Madrid
www.lugaresdetransito.net

El Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte inaugura el próximo jueves 21 de junio, la exposición Lugares de Tránsito, organizada por la Subdirección General de Promoción de las Bellas Artes en Tabacalera, donde se mostrarán 8 proyectos fotográficos desarrollados en América Latina, resultado del trabajo realizado bajo la premisa de investigar otros modelos de producción en la creación contemporánea.

El proyecto Lugares de Tránsito comenzó su andadura en 2009, siendo este un programa de residencias artísticas comisariadas, en el cual una pareja de artistas, junto a un comisario local y la labor curatorial de Marta Soul, compartieron la tarea de realizar un trabajo fotográfico de reflexión y autoría compartidas. Lugares de Tránsito, con especial acento en el ámbito de la fotografía, aborda la valoración del lugar y de lo común a partir de proyectos artísticos vivos. Experiencias que miran a América Latina como realidad compartida, como escenario participativo desde el que se construye una ciudadanía con personalidad propia.

Durante los años 2010 y 2011, La Habana, Santo Domingo, Maracaibo, Bogotá, Miami, Guatemala, Panamá y Quito han sido escenarios del proyecto y se muestra ahora en España, en el espacio de Promoción del Arte en Tabacalera, la exposición que, comisariada por Marta Soul, exhibirá los trabajos de los dieciséis artistas participantes: Tatiana Fernández y Aleix Plademunt, Humberto Díaz y Daniel Silvo, Juan Pablo Garza y Carlos Sanva, Mateo López y Juan Carlos Martínez, Adler Guerrier y Rosell Meseguer, José Manuel Castrellón y Matías Costa, Byron Mármol y Juan Diego Valera, Gonzalo Vargas y Esteban Pastorino.

Lugares de Tránsito es un proyecto de la Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional para el Desarrollo (AECID), ideado por Eneas Bernal, Sara Cabanes y Marta Soul, y organizado por la asociación Hablar en Arte, en el que participan la Red de Centros Culturales de la AECID y las Oficinas Culturales de España en Iberoamérica. En su presentación en España, se han sumado al proyecto: Casa de América, colaborando en la organización de un foro de pensamiento, y el Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, que ha organizado la exposición que, a partir del 22 de junio, estará abierta al público en Tabacalera.

May the bridges I burn light the way / Ferran Martin @ The Cave

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May the bridges I burn light the way / Ferran Martin
The Cave @ Big-E Studio
5300 NW 2nd Avenue, Little Haiti, Miami.
786.222.7536
info@glexisnovoa.com
Opening reception, Wednesday, May 23, 2012, Thursday, May 24, 2012, 7:00-10:00 PM.

Exhibition dates May 23 – June 06, by appointment only.

Throughout the years, in videos, installations, and the fallas from his native Valencia, Ferran has been working at intersection of modernist concepts and traditional craftsmanship.
For example, at the Popiashvili Newman gallery in NYC, Ferran produced two site-specific installations dedicated to his parents: To The Height of My Father (2009) and Granada (2012). These works playfully responded to the constraints of a gallery space located below ground level: In the former, he lowered the height of the ceiling to uncomfortable dimensions while, in the latter, he transformed the standard concrete floor into an ornate wooden patina with burnt Moorish decorations. Through these tactics, he situated the body of the viewer within a network of art historical discourses while also insisting on the material dimensions of bodily experience.

This approach is also evident in video works that document the artist walking through various urban and natural environments while wearing a mirrored cube on his head. In dialogue with minimalist concerns regarding phenomenological experience, Ferran moves the conversation forward by inviting viewers to consider modernism as a lived experience in spaces beyond the parameters of ‘the white cube.’ In this context, his transposition of fallas into an ‘art context’ enacts a significant reversal as Ferran brings this communal tradition, to which he is personally connected through his father’s expertise, to a new public. With the construction of each falla, Ferran has to deftly adapt to a new physical situation, he has an incredible wealth of craft, sculptural, and building skills. He is also adept at working with various practitioners, as this tradition deeply rooted in collaboration.

via glexisnovoa.com

smoke signals: portals y paisajes

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smoke signals: portals y paisajes
curated by William Cordova
under the bridge
12425 ne 13th ave
305 987 4437
May20, 2012 – July 08, 2012

“in one case, the out of field designates that which exists elsewhere, to one side or  around; in the other case,
the out of field testifies to a more disturbing presence, one which cannot even be said to exist, but rather to
insist or subsist, a more radical elsewhere, outside homogeneous space and time”

     -Gilles Deleuze (Cinema I: The Movement-Image 1983)

 

“… nothing stays permanent”

-Hiroshi Sugimoto (interview with Giampaolo Penco: 2007)

 

smoke signals: portals y paisajes is a project that focuses on the concept of the lens as a portal, frame, window,

an entry point that one can further look through to unlock narratives beyond the limits of a two dimensional plane:

informed, constructed and activated by our own personal experiences… experiences we bring to this two dimensional frame.

The mobility/ immobility of the two-dimensional lens, frame, portal operates as static objects in one hand while penetrating

through the fabric of our own consciousness with implied narratives on the other hand.  We as spectators enter these portals,

seeking paisaje or landscape all the time except that we more often run into them through the comfort and familiarity of our

own lens, our own doorway thus further negating any possibility of new discovery or perspectives. These familial experiences

can be altered by permitting ourselves to slow down the way we interpret the landscape…slowing down our visual sensors

in order to comprehend and disseminate the parallels between familiar and distant moments/memory in many cases forgotten

or displaced…juxtaposing known images, sounds and situations with possible foreign ones that slowly create a paradox between

the unfamiliar and familiar…threading, constructing and overlapping multiple narratives fused together to propose alternative

perspectives. Gaining these perspectives can allow for a reconsideration of the known physical and psychological terrain.

Social change only happens when we change our perspective.

 

“We should distinguish the properties of particulars, and gather by induction what pertains to the eye when visions take place and what is found in the manner of sensations.”

-Ibn Al-Haytham (The Book of Optics: 11th century)

Sheree Hovsepian

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This is very nice works.

Sheree Hovsepian: Contact
Charest Weinberg is pleased to present, Contact, an exhibition of new works by New York City based artist, Sheree Hovsepian. This will be the first solo exhibition for the artist with Charest-Weinberg.

Sheree Hovsepian was born in Isfahan, Iran in 1974. She immigrated to the U.S in 1976 and was raised in Toledo, Ohio. She attended the University of Toledo and obtained her BFA and BA with a focus on Photography and Art History. In 2002, she received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Recent projects include Harlem Postcards at the Studio Museum in Harlem, a solo project at the Spertus Museum in Chicago, and a solo exhibition at Spare Room/West St. Gallery. Currently, she lives and works in New York City.

June 24th, 2011 – August 20th, 2011

http://www.shereehovsepian.com