New York
ISA CARRILLO, CIRCE IRASEMA, LUCÍA VIDALES: TERRA PRETA
«Terra Preta» presents the work of three Mexican artists to consider the sacredness of fertile soil and the relevance of ancient wisdom. Through depictions of Mesoamerican mythology and deity representation, the examination of the rituals and sageness of our precursors, and the construction of an underground imaginary, the exhibition aims to approach the intricate legacy of prosperity within black earth.
Residencies in London And New York Supported by The Caribbean Art Initiative
The Caribbean Art Initiative collaborates actively and on the long-term with cultural institutions and not-for-profit organizations that exhibit and support artists inside the Caribbean region, as well as with organizations outside the region that provide public interest and exposure for Caribbean arts. The Initiative is frequently present at major international events that foster an interplay between regional and global art scenes. This year, the Caribbean Art Initiative is pleased to announce two open calls. Application Deadline is March 31, 2019.
Mariana Castillo Deball:finding Oneself Outside
Working in sculpture, printmaking, photography, and installation, Mariana Castillo Deball (b. 1975, Mexico City, Mexico) examines how knowledge and cultural heritage are produced, organized, measured, and authenticated. Her works often take inspiration from Mesoamerican iconography and narratives, considering their early-colonial transformations and their presence in Central America today. The title of her New Museum exhibition, «Finding Oneself Outside», offers a possible description of a sensation that is central to both the study of history and the experience of encountering an unfamiliar culture.
“HOLES IN MAPS” EXPLORES THEMES OF GLOBALIZATION, MOBILITY AND BORDERS
«Holes in Maps» explores themes of globalization, mobility and borders by examining ways in which personal narrative, social critique, trade, nationalism, identity and citizenship intersect. The artworks in this show challenge maps certainty and stability, exploring the immense gulf between lines on paper and lived experience – between symbols and their referents. Maps may reveal political and geographical realities, but what do they conceal?
PABLO GÓMEZ URIBE: ALL THAT IS SOLID
By welcoming the results of procedural testings into his work, Gómez Uribe targets the notion of Architecture as an arena of uncontested progress, problematizing the conflicting relationship between modernism and modernization. In the ambiguity of global capitalism, where seeming permanence is designed for obsolescence, triumphant architectural developments that follow the beat of real estate drums are destined for decay, disintegration and disappearance.
Lygia Pape at Hauser & Wirth New York
Hauser & Wirth New York hosts the gallery’s first solo presentation of Pape’s work in the United States since announcing worldwide representation of Projeto Lygia Pape in 2016. Spanning Pape’s multidisciplinary practice, the exhibition shares the artist’s singular vision with visitors, mining her profound and often playful approach to the physical and material experience of art, which elucidates a deeply human understanding and unique reframing of geometry and abstraction. This exhibition is accompanied by a forthcoming catalogue from Hauser & Wirth Publishers that includes a conversation between the artist’s daughter, Paula Pape, curator Paulo Herkenhoff, and poet Ferreira Gullar, with an additional commissioned text by author Alexander Alberro.
SIGFREDO CHACÓN: SITUATIONS. EARLY WORK, 1972
Miami Biennale y Henrique Faria Fine Art | New York presentan «Situations», una recreación de la instalación del artista Sigfredo Chacón (Caracas, 1950) presentada originalmente en el Ateneo de Caracas, en 1972. Desafiando la omnipresencia del arte cinético, «Situaciones», se presentó como una declaración irónica, opuesta a la formalidad y rigidez de las presentaciones artísticas de la época.
Jaime Gili:dark Paintings
Jaime Gili’s painting is steeped in the paradox of an abstract practice whose meaning depends largely on referentiality. Despite the artist’s long-term commitment to the mostly flat and broken planes of geometry in an investigation of color that delights in the specificities of materials and technique, Gili’s paintings are mostly discussed in relation to the histories of prewar and postwar geometric abstraction that circulate globally.
Almost Solid Light:new Work From Mexico
Paul Kasmin Gallery (New York) presents «Almost Solid Light», an exhibition of contemporary Mexican artists, celebrating the long history of cultural cross-pollination between neighboring nations. The exhibition brings together artists practicing in diverse media who are living and working in Mexico and further afield, several of whom have never before exhibited in the United States.
Primordial Marks.eugenio Dittborn’s Recent Airmail Paintings in New York
While the recent works by Chilean artist Eugenio Dittborn retain many of the hallmark features of prior «Airmail Paintings», the ones currently exhibited at Alexander and Bonin in New York are marked by multi-chromaticity and the incorporation of dynamic bars of color, which imbue the work with a strong aesthetic presence. Here we share an essay by Laura Braverman, published by Alexander and Bonin to accompany the exhibition. In it, she delves into the pre-writing strokes («palotes») that are a pervasive pictorial mark in this series, a key feature that also appears to echo many of the conceptual and poetical themes that have become central to Dittborn’s «Airmail Paintings».