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.
The exhibition features works from more than 20 international artists and designers in which the medium of thread or textiles play a prominent role. Their work can be seen as a metaphor for the ‘interweaving’ of artistry and craft; art and the public; and personal and societal themes.
The exhibition is multidisciplinary and includes installations, video works, wall hangings and standing objects, some of which are interactive.
ARCOmadrid 2014
19–23 February 2014 Halls 7 & 9, Feria de Madrid
Booth 7H02
Madrid, Spain
Abstraction in Action presents its online platform at an institutional booth during the fair, allowing visitors to interact with the database while gaining a deeper understanding of the project and the artists involved. The website will launch a new “Projects” section during the fair, featuring exhibitions, site-specific installations, and events that AIA has produced. Along with that, AIA features new artists:
Artists: Arden Quin, Carlos Arnaiz, Estrada, José Antonio Fernández-Muro, Sarah Grilo, Juan Lecuona, Macaparana, Kvĕta Pacovská, Cesar Paternosto, Ana Sacerdote, Fidel Sclavo, Torner
Artists: Ricardo Brey, Jorge Cabieses, Yamandú Canosa, Paula Delgado, Sigismond de Vajay, Cao Guimaräes, Ricardo Lanzarini, Marco Maggi, Vik Muniz, Michel Pérez Pollo, Pablo Reinoso, Jorge Satorre, Eduardo Stupia, Janaina Tschäpe, Dani Umpí, Pedro Varela
For her first solo show at the Gallery and in the USA, Marcolina Dipierro has immersed herself with the investigation of the possibilities and potentiality of the circular form. To show its formal visual and perceptive infinity while identifying dialogues of direction, attitude, limits, volumes, and folds.
In her practice, Dipierro explores the unlimited possibilities that SPACE offers as the support of art work, as a constructive tool of the creative instance, and as a protagonist.
“Object” pieces of elemental geometric lines (volumes, planes and shapes), elaborated in simple materials that enter in direct dialogue with the walls and floor, establish formal ties with the shadows and the materials of the same, rendering subjective the superficies and the tridimensional.
The series of works that Dipierro presents for this occasion reflect on the formal continuity of the circle and its respective quadrature as constituent members of the geometrical universe:
Continuity in time
Continuity in reflection
Continuity in shadow
Born in Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires, Argentina, holds a Fine Arts Degree from the National Fine Arts School “Prilidiano Pueyrredón” in 2000. Amongst her solo and group exhibitions: Color y Consecuencias, site-specific light intervention at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Rosario, Argentina – MACRO (2007); Projections, Les dix ans du 19, Centre Régional d’ Art Contemporain de Montbéliard, Paris (2007); Ficción Encendida, CCEBA, Spanish Cultural Center at Buenos Aires (2009); Planograf, Zabaleta Lab-Arte Contemporáneo (2010); en ángulo, Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2011); “en cuadre “, Jorge Mara La Ruche Gallery, Buenos Aires (2012). She was recipient of the Scholarship FONCA-CONACULTA for the Program of Artistic Residencies for Ibero American and Haiti Creators in Mexico (2009) and was awarded the National Fund for the Arts Scholarship (2013). Dipierro lives and works in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
