Happenings

Artists: Natalia Revilla, Alvaro Icaza, Sandra Nakamura, Carolina Cardich, Gianine Tabja, Ignacio Alvaro, Jesus Morate, Rhony Alhalel, Rocio Gomez, Jose Ignacio Iturburu, Santiago Quintanilla, Ana Teresa Barboza, Luisa Fernanda Lindo.

Instrucciones
July 3 – August 15, 2014
Wu Galeria
Lima, Peru

Instrucciones es un proyecto experimental que complementa el Laboratorio 2013 y que busca materializar los temas surgidos en las discusiones entre los artistas participantes durante los seminarios del programa de la galería dirigido por el curador Max Hernández Calvo.

En Instrucciones cada artista participante ha preparado indicaciones para la realización de una obra de arte que luego fueron repartidas aleatoriamente entre los demás integrantes del grupo. Esta premisa responde la lógica del Laboratorio, que proponía abrir los procesos creativos de los artistas con miras a examinarlos. Las instrucciones buscan sistematizar dichos procesos creativos para ser emprendidos por otros artistas.

Las obras presentadas muestran aproximaciones diversas en su elaboración y reflejan las posibilidades de interpretación del lenguaje de las instrucciones. Si entendemos estas instrucciones como obras en sí mismas, con el experimento no solo se consigue compartir un proceso creativo desde la mirada del otro, sino también cuestionar el concepto de autoría en el arte y la relación entre el original y su copia, planteando la pregunta sobre el valor que cobra el proceso sobre la idea original y sobre la forma resultante.

Una selección de las obras creadas en Instrucciones será exhibida en el local de Wu Galería en Av. Sáenz Peña 129, Barranco del 03 de julio al 15 de agosto, mientras la totalidad de las propuestas junto con información detallada del proceso de desarrollo del proyecto podrá ser vista en versión virtual a partir del 03 de agosto en el blog del proyecto www.wugaleria.com/instrucciones.

Image: Sandra Nakamura, “Sin título”, 2014, Piezas de máquina de escribir

Artist: Pia Camil

The Little Dog Laughed
July 12 – August 23, 2014
Blum & Poe
Los Angeles, CA, USA

Camil presents three interrelated bodies of work — a large-scale hanging curtain, paintings, and ceramic vases — which are inspired and based on abandoned billboards found around Mexico. Camil appropriates elements, such as strips of color or fragments of a letter or number, and transforms public advertisements into intimate household items, emphasizing the dysfunctionality of a mass consumer lifestyle with a playful but critical gesture.

The title for the exhibition derives from John Fante’s novel Ask the Dust, where Arturo Bandini, a struggling writer based in Los Angeles during the Depression, publishes an insignificant short story titled The Little Dog Laughed.  The story’s publication offers Bandini a glimpse of success. Interested in the main character’s false sense of self, Camil delves into the relationship between the personal and public in a modern dystopia.

A large hanging curtain, which typically references domestic and interior space, partially covers the entrance to the gallery and alludes to the idea of a theater backdrop or spectacle (the word for billboard in Spanish is espectacular). In the middle of the room, a large billboard-like structure functions as both a transparent screen and a shelving unit. Upon closer inspection, handmade ceramic vases become visible through the sheer canvas.

The paintings, like the curtain, are created using hand-dyed and stitched canvas, which has often been related to the so-called feminine. Though shapes and colors are repeated, each piece is uniquely constructed in an artisanal manner in order to decelerate the process of massive cultural production. In The Little Dog Laughed, Camil engages with an abstract image in different ways, uncovering the symbols and messages encoded in the cultural landscape.

Pia Camil (b. 1980) lives and works in Mexico City. She has a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art. In November 2014, she will complete a commission for the plaza of the Museo Jumex in Mexico City. She has exhibited internationally, including at ARTIUM, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; the Biennial of the Americas, Denver, CO; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Spain; and Universidad de Guanajuato, Guanajuato, Mexico.

Artists: None Futbol Club, Léa Le Bricomte, Leyla Cárdenas, Olivier Magnier, Saad Qureshi, Valerie Vaubourg, David Renault (Les Frères Ripoulain), Claire Froës, Théo de Gueltzl & Octave Marsal.

Légère Inquiétude
June 12 – July 20, 2014
White Project Galerie
Paris, France

Through a series of new works of art by emergent artists, Légère Inquiétude explores the concept of concern as a way to question the restlessness that troubles the contemporary society as well as the young art scene. LI questions the syntax of the exhibition itself as well as the languages of the objects displayed in their intangible form, the materiality of the work and even the possibility of its disappearance and its re-enactment.

Artists: Basualdo, Mariano Dal Verme, Barbara Kaplan, José Luis Landet, Soriano and Luis Terán.

Castillo Abierto
July 4, 2014
Document Art Gallery
Buenos Aires, Argentina

Artists: Marta Chilindron, Matthew Deleget, Marcolina Dipierro, Juan Pablo Garza, Pachi Giustinian, Gerardo Goldwasser, Lynne Golob Gelfman, Artur Lescher, Lori Nozick, Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova, and Sam Winston.

New Dialogues
June 12 – August 16, 2014
Alejandra von Hartz Gallery
Miami, FL, USA

New Dialogues is a curatorial exercise, work in progress, that will reflect on the resignificance of the work of art through dialogue, contextualization, association, and juxtaposition. Throughout the summer, selected works of the gallery’s artists will share the space creating situations that will generate or identify new perspectives.

Image: Leyden Rodriguez-Casanova. Round Faux Marble, 2014, Vinyl, Wood, Steel, 41 1/2 X 41 1/2 X 12 Inches (105.41 X 105.41cm).