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.
Artists: Alberto Conrcuera, Bill Abdale, Carlos García Noriega, Diego Sierra Alta, Federico Martínez, Isauro Huizar, Ivan Krassoievitch, Javier Barrios, Jerónimo Reyes, José Luis Rojas, Juan Caloca, Karian Amaya, Laura Meza Orozco, Mario Navarro, Mauricio Cadena, Morelos León, Pablo Dávila, Paola Cortázar, Rolando Jacob, Sebastián Vizcaíno, Sofia Byttebier, Sofía Echeverry, Xavier de María.
SALÓN ACME
August 22 and 23, 2015
Wythe Hotel
Brooklyn NY, USA
Salón ACME is a platform that exhibits the work of new and established artists, either Mexican or foreign, encouraging the country’s artistic production.
Initiated in 2014, Open Sessions is a new program at The Drawing Center through which a large group of artists consider their relationship to drawing as medium, process, and metaphor. Working together over a two-year period, Open Sessions artists participate in ongoing studio visits and discussions, punctuated by small group exhibitions at The Drawing Center, as well as other self-organized shows in New York and abroad.
Name It by Trying to Name It: Open Sessions 2014-15 includes all artists in the program, giving the first floor of the museum over to an exploration of contemporary drawing, encompassing performance, video, sculpture, and installation, as well as traditional drawing forms. The show’s numerous collaborations, in which ideas and materials are shared, emphasize the medium’s flexibility and process-oriented nature. The exhibition will evolve over its six-week run, as some artworks enter and exit in two-week cycles, while others remain constant throughout the show’s run. Taken as a whole, Name It by Trying to Name It presents a window into nearly two years of thinking about drawing.
This year marks the twenty-first edition of the Rohkunstbau exhibition. Themed apocalypse and set against the historic backdrop of Schloss Roskow in the District of Potsdam-Mittelmark, the exhibition presents nine artists and an artist duo from eight nations.
The notion of transition serves as the focus of the examination of apocalypse. Every end brings a new beginning. This choice of theme for the XXI. Rohkunstbau is loosely tied to Richard Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen. But instead of being an exact interpretation of Götterdämmerung, the fourth and final part of the Ring, the exhibition draws on Wagner’s notion of an end and subsequent beginning. Wagner has served as inspiration for Rohkunstbau’s exhibition since 2011. In previous exhibitions artists have been invited to address themes of Power (2011), Morals (2013), and Revolution (2014), now followed by Apocalypse for 2015.
Artists: Amilcar de Castro, Ana Maria Tavares, Daniel Senise, Cristina Canale, Carlito Carvalhosa, Cinthia Marcelle, Chiara Banfi, Laercio Redondo, Marcius Galan, Miguel Rio Branco, Nelson Leirner e Rodrigo Matheus.
Com trabalho de 12 artistas representados pela Silvia Cintra+Box4, a “Exposição de Acervo 2015 ” traz um panorama diversificado da arte contemporânea brasileira.
Estado Sincopado es mi proyecto de banda musical, hasta hora de una sola persona, yo. Hago letras a partir de diferentes fuentes, casi todas referentes a aspectos del contexto social o político peruano, a manera de collage. En esto hay algo de los cut-ups de William Burroughs y de cierta tendencia del hiphop de rimar palabras más por su sonoridad que por su sentido, como en el trabajo de Victor Vásquez (Kool A.D.). En los conciertos, proyecto videos que explican de dónde viene cada fragmento y yo canto sobre bases musicales pre-elaboradas, añadiendo elementos electrónicos en vivo. (Gabriel Acevedo)
Sobre Gabriel Acevedo Velarde
Gabriel Acevedo Velarde nació en Lima, Perú, en 1976. Después de vivir por distintos periodos en Ciudad de México, Sao Paulo y Berlín, regresó para vivir en Lima en enero del año pasado. Entre sus exposiciones individuales destacan: “Ciudadano Paranormal” (Museo Reina Sofía), “Interruptions on decrees and stages” (Mori Art Museum), “Quorum Power” (Museo Carrillo Gil, Ciudad de México), y ”Cone Flow” (Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas). Ha participado en las siguientes exposiciones colectivas: Bienal de Lyon, Bienal de Sao Paulo, Trienal de Guangzhou, Auto-Kino (Temporäre Kunsthalle, Berlin), entre otras.
