Happenings

Artists: Ananké Asseff, Juan Becú, Joaquín Boz, Sofía Bohtlingk, Dino Bruzzone, Elena Dahn, Bruno Dubner, Matías Duville, Julieta Escardó, Raúl Flores, Margarita García Faure, Lisa Giménez, Alberto Goldenstein, Max Gómez Canle, Sebastiám Gordín, Diego Gravinese, Silvia Gurfein, Silvana Lacarra, Estefanía Landesmann, Marcos López, Eduardo Médici, Emiliano Miliyo, Jorge Miño, Andrea Ostera, Esteban Pastorino, Oscar Pintor, Santiago Porter, Dalila Puzzovio, Res, Jorge Roiger, Rosa Chancho, Mariela Scafati, Pablo Suárez, Rosana Schoijett, Paula Senderowicz, Rosana Simonassi, Cecilia Szalkowicz, Mariano Vilela, Martín Weber, Pablo Ziccarello.

In Fraganti
Curated by Valeria González
April 11 – July 18, 2015
ArtexArte
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Proyecto que investiga la “y” que une y separa, de manera fluctuante, a la pintura y la fotografía, no tanto como disciplinas estables sino los espacios intermedios, dialógicos o conflictivos, en que los lenguajes se cruzan y engendran nuevas prácticas y pensamientos.

Se trata sobre todo de cruces de dispositivos, algunos de los cuales advienen en la desembocadura de largos procesos históricos.

Artist: Macaparana

Música
April 27 – June 27, 2015
Galería Jorge Mara La Ruche
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Una exposición para ver y oír. Esta muestra trata de una serie de más de 70 obras sobre cartón y papel inspiradas en la música. Hay en toda la obra de este artista una gran influencia musical. En este conjunto la correlación obra plástica y formas musicales es muy cercana y deliberada. Las obras de Música podrían considerarse casi partituras sin que exista una notación musical propiamente dicha. Existe una corriente de intérpretes y musicólogos que sostiene que una obra plástica – pintura, dibujo- puede ser interpretada por uno o varios instrumentos , improvisando libremente sobre las formas o las líneas de acuerdo a lo que estas sugieran al intérprete. El resultado, una vez traducido formalmente a música, puede ser vertido a una notación convencional e interpretado como cualquier partitura. Esto es lo que la flautista argentina Patricia Da Dalt ha hecho con un grupo de obras de Macaparana que forman parte de la muestra. Inspirada directamente por las obras, frente a ellas, la intérprete, sirviéndose de cuatro tipos de flautas distintas, ha “improvisado” una suite en cuatro partes, que da cuenta de lo que el espíritu, las formas y el color de estas obras le transmitían o sugerían. Esta llamada Suite Macaparana fue registrada en un CD, incluído en el catálogo editado con motivo de la exposición. Junto a esta composición, la flautista interpreta la obra del compositor japonés Toro Takemitsu, Itinerant, a la memoria de Isamu Noguchi, para flauta solista y el Trío Luminar su grabación de la Sonata para flauta, viola y arpa de Claude Debussy.

Artists: Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen.

Trace
May 1 – June 27, 2015
Galerie Isabella Czarnowska
Berlin, Germany

The title “Trace” already conveys an impression of the character of the exhibition and the atmosphere it will create. The artists will moreover venture beyond the physical boundaries of the space and open it up for new and unknown dimensions. As a result, the exhibition will exert a seductive lure and provide aesthetic pleasure by receiving and integrating each of the forms on view. At the same time, it will arouse suspicion and a feeling of uncertainty about what else will appear. The line between the utilitarian function of the architectonic space and a fictional, non-utilitarian one is very fine, and sometimes it is hard to tell where one ends and the other begins.

In the installation Frieze II, the wall looks as if it was being deliberately peeled away to expose an unknown source of light. Room II raises questions about the condition of historical memories and their contemporary character. A marble floor structure running across entire gallery seems to allude to the foundations of another building. Perhaps the form refers to a building of the past, now existing as no more than a trace? Or why not think of it as an announcement of possible future events?

The Cabinet, Credenza and Bedside Table form a series of objects distributed throughout the gallery. Each of them features the finest palisander veneer. If at first sight they look like elegant pieces of furniture, on closer inspection we discover that the objects are non-functional. What is more, they have been perforated with perfectly round holes which lead the gaze right through to the other side. This singular gesture not only opens the objects up to new dimensions, but also emphasizes their non-functional character all the more strongly. A literal act of perforation, well known from everyday situations, means nothing more than the end of validity, and turns the furniture into useless objects but beautiful sculptures.

Earlier works by Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen were presented in the exhibition “Caraota Von Moules” with Arturo Herrera at Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin (2012); in their solo exhibition “Persiana” at the Cultuurcentrum Mechelen, Mechelen, Belgium (2014); in “Landscape” in the Sala Juarez of the LARVA Laboratorio de Artes Veriedades, Guadalajara, Mexico, and in the show “In A Rhythmic Fashion” at Glyphotheque, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb, Croatia (both 2015).

A catalogue entitled “What Now?” was published by the DISTANZ Verlag in conjunction with the first exhibition by Carla Arocha & Stéphane Schraenen at the Galerie Isabella Czarnowska in 2013. The catalogue is available at the gallery as well as in bookstores worldwide.

Artists: Mateo López and Bernardo Ortiz, among many more

Drawing Biennial 2015
Until April 30, 2015
Auction online: 16 – 30 April 2015
Drawing Room
London, UK

Drawing Biennial 2015, an exhibition organized by the Drawing Room in London, UK. Selected by Drawing Room directors Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, each of the 252 participating artists was invited to make an original drawing in any medium on an A4 sheet of paper. Drawing Biennial 2015 culminates in an online auction that will run until April 30th. The sale of the works, all of them donated by the artists, will support the Drawing Room’s exhibition program.

Artists: Miguel Andrade Valdez, Julieta Aranda, Kader Attia, Elena Bajo, Otto Berchem, Monika Bravo, Fernando Bryce, María Magdalena Campos-Pons, Heman Chong, Elena Damiani, Marlon de Azambuja, Milagros de la Torre, Aleksandar Duravcevic, Nicole Franchy, Richard Garet, Kendell Geers, Pedro Gomez-Egaña, Radamés Juni Figueroa, Lucia Koch, Annette Lemieux, Jose Carlos Martinat, Jo Ractliffe, Rivka Rinn, Santiago Roose, Susan Siegel, DM Simons, Antonio Vega Macotela, Sergio Vega, and Zoé T. Vizcaíno.

THEOREM. You Simply Destroy the Image. I Always Had of Myself
Curated by Octavio Zaya
May 3 – August 1, 2015
Mana Contemporary
Miami, FL, USA

Several artists from far-flung locations such as Peru, Brazil, and Norway, are traveling to Mana to create their installations on-site. The artists address the hypothetical question ‘what if?’ – as inspired by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 1968 film Teorema – contemplating a world turned upside-down, where social tensions can be amplified to the point of poetic subversion, achieving possible transcendence.

Image: Miguel Andrade Valdez, Encofrado Construção III, 2015.