From Asia to the Future World of Art GRIMANESA AMOROS Is “Asia” a cultural conception? Or is it merely a geographical designation> Is it a collective term that stands for certain shared qualities? Or is it simply the name of … Continue reading
THE PAINTING OF GRIMANESA AMOROS Eduardo Marceles All of Grimanesa Amoros’ artistic creations reflect upon the human figure and Nature. This is how Amoros defends the delicate balance that exists between humanity and the vital resources that sustain it. She … Continue reading
A MOMENT OF SANCTUARY Susan Aberth In the hands of Grimanesa Amorós, installation art becomes a form of interactive theater that eschews narrative in favor of creating a poetic ambience within which multiple dialogues evolve. A masterful conductress, she mixes … Continue reading
A JOURNEY BETWEEN HEAVEN AND EARTH Marek Bartelik, Art Historian and Art Critic Grimanesa Amorós produced a video, capturing the singer Susana Baca performing on stage, singing La noche y el dia (The Night and the Day) and pirouetting, almost … Continue reading
INTRODUCTION Edwin Ramoran, Director of the Longwood Arts Project Grimanesa Amorós orchestrates works that bridge a diversity of forms, themes, and personal issues. In a past artist statement, she wrote about her painting as being analogous to poetry and continued: … Continue reading
FOREWORD Grimanesa Amorós has 20 solo and over 80 group exhibitions to her credit. Her work is in the permanent collections of 12 museums and foundations and 10 corporations. She now brings to the Hostos Center for the Arts & … Continue reading
Falling Tell Me Your Story Diane R Karp, Ph.D., Sante Fe Art Institute Director Life is filled with connections, some intentional and other circumstantial. During the spring of 2002 Grimanesa Amorós was part of an artists’ residency at the Santa … Continue reading
GRIMANESA AMOROS 2007 Remolino is artist Grimanesa Amoros’s site specific video-based project community interactive project that depicts specific individuals from this remarkable neighborhood. It is a mutating panoply that reflects the retention of ethnic identikit within a larger culture of … Continue reading
Grimanesa Amoros Remolino by Grimanesa Amoros Remolino was inspired by the neighborhood of Jamaica, Queens- one of the first places I lived in New York, and the most ethnically diverse county in the United States. This neighborhood was born of … Continue reading
Water Cube: la memoria dell’acqua a cura di Dores Sacquegna It opens the show the spectacular performance “Damp Room” realized by the performer Massimiliano Manieri, from Lecce, that he plays in interactive way with the spectator. The artist realizes a … Continue reading