Ramiro Lacayo Deshón (Managua, Nicaragua, 1952) is one of the most interesting Central-American painters working these days. Lacayo began in the art world as a writer and filmmaker. In the mid-1970s, during the insurrection against dictator Anastasio Somoza, he joined the Leonel Rugama cinematographic brigade, which documented the armed struggle of the [...]
Paris-based artist Pia MYrvoLD started her professional career in the 1980s in her native Norway, and along the way, she broadened her artistic practice to include different media and disciplines. It was in Paris in the 1990s that she began making a name for herself while working closely with architect Bernard Tschumi [...]
N’Namdi Contemporary - Miami
By Raisa Clavijo
“Defiant” included 13 works by Neha Vedpathak, which offer a look at her most recent artistic production. The pieces, comprised of multiple layers of both materials and meanings, invited the viewer to go beyond the surface to reveal the personal vision of the artist regarding her creative environment [...]
Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami
Curated by Jorge Luis Gutiérrez
By Raisa Clavijo
“The Other Dimension” constituted an ambitious project conceived of by Miami-based Antuan Rodríguez and curated by Jorge Luis Gutiérrez that became a study of the symbols and codes that contribute to establishing universal communication and overcoming linguistic and cultural barriers.
Antuan starts [...]
By Raisa Clavijo
The work of Tomás Ochoa (Cuenca, Ecuador, 1969) carries an implicit, powerful political message. This multidiciplinary artist takes Latin American society and history as essential raw material, analyzing them in light of his knowledge of semiotics, post-structuralist theories and decolonial discourse. His strategy is based on dismantling or deconstructing “official” history, [...]
Istituto Paolo Colosimo - Naples, Italy
Curated by Raisa Clavijo
By Paul Laster
Presenting a visual display in an educational center for the blind and visually impaired seems like a bit of a paradox, but that’s exactly what Annalaura di Luggo chose to do when she staged her exhibition “Blind Vision” at the Instituto Statale D’Istruzione [...]
Lélia Mordoch Gallery - Miami
A circumference on a chalkboard, a right triangle, a rhomb, are forms which we can fully intuit; the same held true with Ireneo for the tempestuous mane of a stallion, a herd of cattle in a pass, the ever-changing flame or the innumerable ash, the many faces of a [...]
Pérez Art Museum - Miami
Curated by María Elena Ortiz
By Raisa Clavijo
At Pérez Art Museum, New York-based Carlos Motta (Bogota, 1978) presents an exhibition through which he explores extremely contradictory positions about sexuality and eroticism in indigenous and European cultures during the conquest and colonization of Latin America. His research addresses the way in [...]
Canale Díaz Art Center - Coral Gables
Curated by Raisa Clavijo
By Jill Thayer
“My work is precisely the result of that interaction between the artist and the medium with which he works, between the individual and the world that surrounds him. Through this gesture, I attempt to recount my personal story, presenting it [...]
Vasarely Foundation - Aix-en-Provence, France
By Raisa Clavijo
“L’ Oeil Phénomène” (The Eye Phenomenon) at the Vasarely Foundation revolves around the legacy of GRAV (Group de Recherches d’Art Visuel) and its influence on contemporary art. The exhibition assembles works by Horacio García Rossi, Julio Le Parc, François Morellet, Francisco Sobrino, Joël Stein and Jean-Pierre Yvaral. [...]
