Reviews

Santiago Escobar: Invisibles

Galería Christopher Paschall S.XXI - Bogota
Revealing the Invisible Truth

By Caridad Botella
On an interview with Doris Salcedo posted on the Tate Channel website, the Colombian artist states that “every work of art is political … the nature of art is political.” I doubt this is a universal, trans-historical truth, but it does come very close to [...]

Daniel Fiorda: Nostalgic Hardware

Lelia Mordoch Gallery - Miami
By Janet Batet
One of the most typifying traits of our contemporary society is the accelerated pace of the modernization we face daily. In this process, where innovation is the key to success for consumerism, the market creates a fictitious need that keeps us in perpetual anxiety. This concern, which certainly meets [...]

Lara Almarcegui

TENT - Rotterdam
Lara Almarcegui:  Construction Materials, Excavations, Wastelands
By Catherine Somzé
In his now famous 1997 performance Sometimes Doing Something Leads to Nothing, Belgian conceptual artist Francis Alÿs pushed an ice-block for eight hours throughout the streets of Mexico City to illustrate the impossible attempt of many of the megapolis residents to improve their living situation. Since [...]

Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely

Laurel Nakadate,
Stay The Same Never Change (Mary in the Water), 2008.
© Laurel Nakadate. Courtesy Leslie Tonkonow Artworks+Projects.

PS1 MoMA - New York
By Marco Antonini
Considering the formal and conceptual consistency of many of the presented works, Laurel Nakadate’s early to mid-career retrospective at PS1 seemed unnecessarily all-inclusive, a visual assault that left me wondering how really necessary [...]

Gabriel Kuri: Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab

Institute of Contemporary Art - Boston
By Irina Leyva-Pérez
“Nobody needs to know the price of your Saab” is the title of Gabriel Kuri’s first solo exhibition in a museum in the United States. The exhibition was organized by the Blaffer Art Museum at the University of Houston, and is currently on view at the Institute of [...]

Adam Ross

Hales Gallery - London
By Michele Robecchi
Adam Ross is an artist who periodically hops from abstraction to realism. As with many painters, the ostensible reason for doing so resides in his desire to examine his medium of preference and to establish a critical relationship between its two historical representational forms. But there is more. His landscapes [...]

Art in the Streets

Museum of Contemporary Art - Los Angeles
By Tucker Neel
It’s hard to see MOCA’s blockbuster exhibition, “Art In The Streets,” apart from its surrounding controversies. The show’s problems began back in 2010 when MOCA’s new director and “Art In The Streets” chief curator, Jeffery Deitch, had the artist Blu’s mural of dollar bill-draped coffins on the [...]

Miamicito

Dot FiftyOne Gallery - Miami
By Raisa Clavijo
Dot FiftyOne gallery recently hosted “Miamicito,” an exhibition assembling the works of fifteen contemporary Bolivian artists. The show, which was organized by Kiosko Gallery of Santa Cruz, included the works of: Alejandra Alarcón, Ramiro Garavito, Gastón Ugalde, Roberto Valcárcel, Douglas Rodrigo Rada, Raquel Schwartz, Alfredo Román, Roberto Unterladstaetter, Cecilia [...]

Singapore Biennale

By Victoria Lynn
Entitled “Open House,” the Singapore Biennale 2011 included 161 works by 63 artists from 30 countries. The exhibition revolved around notions of welcome and the artistic process. Building on earlier incarnations of ‘home’ that were explored in several international exhibitions during the 1990s, the Biennale considered interaction as a key leitmotif of our [...]

Uprooted/Transmigrations

Pan American Art Projects - Miami
Curated by Abelardo Mena

The Trojan Horse: Displacement and Resilience of the Uprooted Nation
By Joaquín Badajoz
The history of humankind sometimes seem to be, without diminishing other complex axioms and principles of civilization, the tale of the agonic paradox between sedentariness and migration. The parallel narratives that, from one point of [...]