Happenings provides references on art events, exhibitions, biennales, art fairs and festivals, with a focus on Abstraction in Action artists and post-90s abstraction from Latin America.
Horacio Zabala: La pureza está en la mezcla / Purity Is in the Mix, is a retrospective exhibition curated by Rodrigo Alonso for the Colección de Arte Amalia Lacroze de Fortabat in Buenos Aires. It is open to the public until July and it will travel to the Phoenix art Museum to inaugurate in October and will be on public view until March of 2017.
The exhibitions is not organized chronologically, but it moves dialectically across time to demonstrate how Zabala has explored some ideas and forms of abstraction since the early 1970s to today. Constant areas of investigation are the monochrome and the use of mathematical and and punctuation symbols which create a tension between the color planes and the wall. Also a singular form of criticality and irony is present in much of his work, ranging from the political and the everyday in the global world.
The passion on the wall, the knot to come, the birth.
The sunless openings, the illuminated edge and its mourning.
The battle between the red and the orange, the fresh wind
of the memory of Greece where living is an experiment
of atmospheres, of bones, of cuts and sinking.
Syllables is an interdisciplinary show inspired on the 5th melisma for Gunther Gerzso written by Mexican poet Francisco Hernández; conducted by Omar Barquet and integrated as the 6th movement of the Ghost Variations project.
Ghost Variations is an interdisciplinary proposal launched in 2012, composed of a sequence of six projects organized similarly to the movements of a symphony, and as a series of six experimental collaborations understood as fugues.
Together they pose an analogy to the disctint evolutionary phases of a hurricane, emulating its intensity and movements, like the sketch of a spiral shape, mainly reflecting on the perception of time and life through the transformation cycles of a landscape and the chaotic nature of our thoughts, depicting a pulse wich changes in intensity, and thus, the estate of things.
Exposição do multiartista Nuno Ramos que traz a Belo Horizonte trabalhos inéditos, como as instalações Paredes (instalação); Balanças (instalação + performance); O direito à preguiça(órgão-andaime/instalação sonora). Além, de outras obras que ainda não foram vistas na capital mineira: No sé (instalação + performance); Confissões de uma máscara (Desenhos); Choro Negro (instalação escultórica).
Nuno Ramos é um dos mais importantes artistas brasileiros revelados na década de 80 e com contínua produção. Vem desenvolvendo trabalhos para diversas instituições nacionais e internacionais como a Bienal Internacional de São Paulo (1982,198 e 1995), a Latinamerican Art of the Century, o Moma, em Nova Iorque (EUA), entre diversas outros. O trabalho de Nuno vem se diversificando em várias áreas das artes visuais, cênicas, sonoras e poéticas, com uma produção que inclui filmes, livros e letras de música.
Na mostra serão abordadas diversas temáticas da produção do artista, como a mistura entre música e grandes peças. A ocupação do espaço com obras de dimensões elevadas, que poderão ser observadas de diversos ângulos e que causam estranheza aos espectadores, uma das marcas de Nuno Ramos, também estarão presentes.
DIVAGATION
Curated by Meyken Barreto, Carlos Garcia-Montero, Cecilia Jurado and ghostwriter.
May 6, 2016- May 30, 2016 Y Gallery
New York, NY
The show brings together a group of international artists whose practice is characterized by a special sensitivity towards the aesthetic and symbolic potential of everyday materials and objects. Their approach to artistic creation is strongly informed by the context in which their work is produced and by the background from which they come. With different points of departure, from performative to space- based concepts, they investigate and generate narratives about contemporaneity. From Mexico, Peru, USA, Israel, Spain and Serbia, the artists gathered here address different topics from social or politics to contemplative or physics, but they are all joined by a peculiar way to transform their reality in poetic ways.
El sentimiento más delicado, según Kant, se bifurca en dos especies; una es el sentimiento de lo bello y el otro es el sentimiento de lo sublime. Donde la afección para ambos es agradable, pero de manera muy diferente, así vemos que el día es bello y la astucia es pequeña y bella. Grandes lineamientos para comprender a este filosofo alemán, al expresar que el día es bello y la noche es sublime, esta sensacion tiene varios niveles, que van desde lo melancolico, al horror. Desde lo grande que es sublime a lo bello que es pequeño, pero nada es tan certero, ni tan definido. Asi se traspasan estas especies provocando sentimientos que nos llevan desde lo bello a lo sublime.
El entendimiento es sublime, el ingenio es bello, la audacia es sublime y grandiosa, en esta construcción arbitraria construida en el año 1765, al año siguiente en un compendio de notas, donde las cuestiones morales y antropológicas hablan de un mundo eurocentrista, antes de aparecer la extensión de lo sublime en el nuevo mundo, donde los caracteres asignados a lo europeo y sus diversas nacionalidades dan paso las mesticismos, donde los aportes de los pueblos originarios unidos a lo europeos, más un nuevo ingrediente, que son las culturas africanas, producen seres con una historia llena de nuevas fuentes. Las ideas de Kant se enriquecen y al citarlo, nos conduce a un desarrollo nuevo de interés.
Existen espacios inconclusos en el arte latinoamericano, producto de contingencias socio culturales y que son causantes de un desarrollo tardío en el quehacer local. Las peripecias de nuestro arte en lo formal se aprecian en salas donde se atiborran la recepción de proyectos que al final no dieron a la luz. Lo social y politico, factores inherentes, se agrupan como testigos de los quehaceres de nuestros artistas. En este plano esta exposición se compone en una revisión de nuestro arte, considerando lo interno, cuyos contenidos aluden a situaciones inherentes a las realidades contingentes.
