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Around Town – Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art at ArteAmricas 2009

Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art at ArteAméricas 2009
Posted by Joanna of Around Town at 9:13 PM
Curated by Curator Milagros Bello. Booth # 809
From March 27th through 30th, 2009

Dates: From March 27th through 30th, 2009
Location: Miami Beach Convention Center. 1901 Convention Center Drive. Miami Beach, FL 33139
Booth # 809
Regular Hours: Friday, March 27th, 12:00 noon – 9:00 p.m.; Saturday, March 28th, 12:00 noon – 9:00 p.m.; Sunday, March 29th,2012:00 noon – 7:00 p.m. and Monday, March 30th, 12:00 noon – 5:00 p.m.
Admission: $ 12

Trends: Latin American Contemporary Art curated by Milagros Bello has been presented at the Merrill Lynch ArteAméricas art fair since its first edition. This year Merril Lynch ArteAméricas will take place from March 27th through 30th, 2009 at the Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami.

Trends 2009 will present more that fifteen Contemporary Latin American Contemporary artists. A talented group composed by a mix of y oung and emergent voices as well as mid-career creators who have transformed the Latin American art scene. They focus on cultural politics and hot issues of contemporary times. Through drawings, paintings, objects, installations, digital photographs, videos and performances, they propose politically charged works with a new visual vocabulary away from traditional practices and fossilized academicism. They propose new icons, new subjectivities and personal mythologies that reflect their concern on societal and cultural ordeals nowadays.

Trends’ works juxtapose multiple narratives and intercrosses ideological standpoints, crystallizing and mirroring world critical issues. It incorporates ephemeral elements, memorabilia, discarded objects, imposing new methods and techniques that dislocates traditional exposure, and forces the public to perceive the art from new angles of vision.

Contemporary Latin American Art is no longer a peripheral art enclosed in a territorial microcosm, restrained to tight borders or simple geographies. Contemporary Latin American art reveals itself concisely strong and vividly rooted in the global hemisphere competing in the world art arena.

Participating artists show their determination to set new ways of expression. They are Aisen Chacin, Alvaro Garcia-Ordonez, Barbara Barreiro, Belaxis Buil, Carlos Tirado, Ena Marrero, Evelyn Valdirio, Grimanesa Amoros, Liliam Dominguez, Mariano Costa Peuser, Nestor Arenas, Pablo Contrisciani, Pacaso Frank Chinea, Patricia Gil, Rosario Bond, Ruben Ubiera and Sergio Garcia. Video artists: Andres Michelena, Flavio Cury, Gabriela Morawetz, Marco Montiel Soto, Matilde Marin, Richard Garet, among others.
Curator’s Voice Art Projects
Milagros Bello

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El Comercio


Navegando por otros mares


El Comercio – Un mundo global se puede encontraren una pequeña localidad llamada Jamaica, en Queens, Estados Unidos. La artista peruana Grimanesa Amorós –radícada hace más de 15 años en Nueva York-se nutre de la experiencia de haber vivido en este vecindario donde lo común es la diversidad de lenguas, comidas, y costumbres. En “Remolino”, que se exhibirá este 5 de marzo como parte de la colective “En tránsito al paraíso-imaginarios de la migración”, Amorós nos habla de su experiencia de viviren un país extranjero.

“Como crecí en el Perú, estaba fascinada por la diversidad y el dinamismo de ciudades como Nueva York y, durante mucho tiempo, imaginé un proyecto que explorara y celebrara esta cultura de las diferencias. ‘Remolino’ está inspirado en el vecindario de Jamaica, uno de los primeros lugares en donde viví en Nueva York, y el condado con mayor diversidad étnica en Estados Unidos”, precisa la artista.

EXILIADOS


Utilizando video, ‘backlights’, fotografía, pintura, dibujo e instalación, los artistas participantes abordan las relaciones con su medio actual de residencia, aluden a contetos culturales más amplios o incluso exponen distintas miradas en el tiempo de la realidad del Perú o de América Latina, producidas en los entornos en los que viven.

Junto con Amorós participan Alejandra Ballón, Carolina Kecskemethy, Cecilia Noriega, Marco Pando, Humberto Polar, Paola Cabrera, Patricia Vega, Luisanna González, Elena Damiani y Alessandra Rebagliati.

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Culture TV – Artist of the week


Grimanesa Amorós is an interdisciplinary artist with diverse interests in the fields of social history, scientific research and critical theory, which have greatly influenced her work. She often makes use of sculpture, video, lighting and sound to create works that illuminate our notions of personal identity and community. Amorós utilizers her art as an agent for empowerment to involve viewers from all different backgrounds and communities. Born in Lima. Lives and works in New York City and Peru. Amorós studied at The Art Students League (1984–1988) and Private Ateliers in Lima, Peru (1981–1983).

Amorós is the recipient of several grants, which include the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artist Fellowship (Washington, DC), The Travel Grant Fund for Artists, NEA Arts International, (New York, NY), The Bronx Museum for the Arts: Aim Program (Bronx, NY) and The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation “Participant Biennial Competition” (New York NY). Awards also include the X Tumi USA Award (Miami, FL) and artist residency fellowships by Art Omi (Columbia County, NY), Santa Fe Art Institute (Santa Fe, NM), The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts (Amherst, VA), Artspace (Raleigh, NC) and Centrum Arts (Por Townsend, WA). Additionally, her works have been selected for the Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State in Ankara, Turkey (2001) and Lima, Peru (2003).

Amorós has exhibited in the United States, Europe and Latin America. Most recent solo exhibitions and public work include: Remolino (Jamaica, NY), Substancial (Peekskill, New York), Ambulante Dental Health Van (Peekskill, New York), Terraforms (Miami, FL), Terrarium (New York, NY), Varna Festival of Visual Arts, 5th edition (Bulgaria), Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture (New York, NY), The Lee Building (New York, NY), Hudson River Healthcare Center (Peekskill, NY), Artspace (Raleigh, NC), BUZZER 30 (New York, NY), ARTCO Gallery, Drawings (Lima, Peru), R&F Gallery Encaustic Panels (New York, NY) and Egizio’s Project, Timeless Terracotta (New York, NY). Most recent group exhibitions include: The Museum of the Americas (Washington, DC), The Lab Gallery (New York, NY), Athens Institute for COntemporary Art (Athens, GA), SITE Santa Fe, Monothon 16 (Santa Fe, NM), and Free Manifesta Biennial (Frankfurt, Germany).

She has participated in numerous film festivals and art fairs, such as the LOOP Fair (Barcelona, Spain), Pulse Miami, Gallerie Anita Beckers, Art Forum Berlin, Germany New Media Festival, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, (Miami, FL) BAC ’07 (Barcelona, Spain), Sequences Athens Video Art Festival (Athens, Greece), Optica 2006 (Gijon, Spain), Aqua Art Miami (Miami Beach, FL), YEAR_06 Projects (London, UK) and has given many artist lectures, most recently at Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, NY). Amorós often teaches papermaking workshops to children and adults. A number of her pieces are permanently housed in public and private collections.

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Miami Living Magazine


Hardcore Art


Words by Marla E. Schwartz of Miami Living Magazine

What comes to mind when you hear the word ‘Hardcore’? Well, cleanse your thoughts because when it comes to the Hardcore Art Contemporary Space (HACS), you’ll be awash with information on how artists view religion, politics, and society, critical issues for superlative modern minds. HACS focuses on displaying projects that fit into this category but that actually go to extreme positions that allow artists a forum for building bridges between melding life and art.

The Executive Director of this 6,250-square-foot gallery is Andreina Fuentes, whose interest in the field lays in the creation of interactive installations. “We could all do well to imagine that without the investigation and evolution we could be converted into a monothematic society, completely brainless, without objective and renovation, empty, dry, and dead,” she pointed out. “With investigation, impetus is given in all directions, not only to the market and the economic well being but to culture as well as Hardcore.”

Artists whose work was recently displayed include the talented Grimanesa Amoros, Ena Marrero, Carlos Trilnick, and Pepe Lopez. The gallery is located at 33326 N. Miami Avenue in the flourishing Wynwood Art District.

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nyartdoc: curating as advocacy
art + medicine


In the early 90s, Hawaii-born physician Kóan-Jeff Baysa began to combine a curatorial practice that promoted the work of emerging and underrepresented artists as well as themes of health, the body, concurrent with a clinical practice. Like other medically educated individuals who establish themselves in creative fields, he has organized over thirty exhibitions cross-linking perception (smell, hearing, touch, taste, sexuality), knowledge of the world (propriocept, stereognosis, balance), body responses, substances, and conditions (fear, honor, anxiety, vanishing, cadavers, blood, skin), and popular culture (condom use, visual literacy, representation, digital photography, fetishism). Dr. Baysa has taught courses in visual literacy and is on the boards of art organizations that serve specific populations like Art Omi International Artists Residency Program (Ghent, NY), Vera List Center for Art and Politics (NY), and Cross Path Culture (NY and Johannesburg), New York art-science organizations ArtFlask and PaperVeins Museum of Art, is the in-house curator at TAMA (NY) and in the past served on the boards of Iona Pearl Dance Theater (Honolulu) and Creative Growth Art Center (Oakland). With business partner Ryan Harris, he is also the co-editor of the online contemporary art journal ArtPulse and the co-director of KJREE the art, commerce, and culture consultancy. An alumnus of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s prestigious Independent Study Program, Curatorial Section, Baysa works from bases in New York, Los Angeles, and Hawaii. He continues to forge new alliances between art and medicine from world-wide resources.

list of artists:
daiki wakachi
michelle lopez
long nguyen
qui zhijie
pan xing lei
maghan leborious
catya plate
stas orlovski
sarah lovitt
allan desouza
mark depman
jeff wyckoff
heather sparks
gordon matta-clarke.
ann hamilton
marina abramovic
oscar muñoz
wendy jacob
montien boonma
pak keung wan
david shaw
roland flexner
rey akdogan
william anastasi
dove bradshaw
thomas caggiano
carla rocha
wendy jacob
stephen lang
robert narracci
dennis oppenheim
marco scoffier
ian curry
mariko tanaka
anexandra charriol
grimanesa amoros
christopher saunders
catya plate
ginger andro
chuck glicksman
lance fung
richard humann
top changtrakul
nathan elbogen

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