Abstraction in Action Elena Damiani, Ivelisse Jiménez, Lucia Koch, Amalia Pica, and Adán Vallecillo: Displaced Images / Images in Space https://abstractioninaction.com/happenings/displaced-images-images-in-space/

AMALIA_PICA_Venn-diagrams-under-the-spotlight-a

Artists: Rosenda Álvarez Faro and Grabadores por Grabadores, Carlos Amorales, Francisca Aninat, Rodrigo Arteaga, Myrna Báez, David Beltrán, Hernaín Bravo, Fernando Bryce, Waltercio Caldas, Manuel Calderón, Johanna Calle, Luis Camnitzer, Tania Candiani, Claudia Casarino, Albert Chong, Lourdes Correa-Carlo, Elena Damiani, Annalee Davis, Paula Dittborn, Frances Gallardo, Carlos Garaicoa, Félix González Torres, María Elena González, Karlo Andrei Ibarra, José Iraola, Alfredo Jaar, Voluspa Jarpa, Ivelisse Jiménez, Leandro Katz, Lucia Koch, Irene Kopelman, Ricardo Lanzarini, Nicola López, Claudia Martínez Garay, Vik Muniz, Mônica Nador, Jesús Bubu Negrón, Rivane Neuenschwander, José Ortiz-Pagán, Amalia Pica, Isabel Ramírez, Sandra Ramos, Rosângela Rennó, Verónica Rivera, Nicolás Robbio, Mariana Rondón, Graciela Sacco, Rosemberg Sandoval, Oscar Santillán, Giancarlo Scaglia, the SEMEFO Collective, Daniel Senise, Edra Soto, Adán Vallecillo, and Alicia Villarreal.

Displaced Images / Images in Space
The 4th Poly/Graphic San Juan Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean
Curators: Gerardo Mosquera (Chief Curator), Vanessa Hernández, Alexia Tala
October 24, 2015 – February 28, 2016
Institute of Puerto Rican Culture
San Juan, Puerto Rico

The Poly/Graphic Triennial of San Juan, Latin America, and the Caribbean represents the transformation of what was, for more than 30 years, one of the most important art events in Latin America and the Caribbean: the San Juan Biennial of Latin American Graphics. Created in 2004, the Triennial promotes experimentation in the graphic arts, stimulating the combination of traditional printmaking and contemporary practices within a different curatorial theme each year.

Under the curatorial team of distinguished art critic Gerardo Mosquera (Cuba) as chief curator and co-curators Alexia Tala Barril (Chile) and Vanessa Hernandez Gracia (Puerto Rico), this 4th edition, titled Displaced Images/Images in Space will examine the shift of the graphic image between fields, supports, habits, and techniques, and especially its projection into three-dimensional spaces.

This edition of the Triennial will feature 55 artists from Puerto Rico, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as Latino artists residing in the United States.

This ambitious edition will include exhibitions, an educational program, events and publications throughout Puerto Rico, expanding beyond the capital city of San Juan to include spaces on the periphery and in other municipalities. As well, galleries and alternative spaces across the island will organize exhibitions in salute to the Triennial.

As a fundamental part of this 4th Triennial, an educational program has been designed whose aim is to develop and nurture creative thinking through participatory activities aimed at a variety of audiences and focusing on the exploration and collective recognition of the aesthetic experience. The project will feature activities that go beyond looking at art and entering the classroom as passive and hierarchical experiences.

The highlight of the workshops and lectures will be an international symposium, titled “The Contemporary Image: From Symbolic Space as Hegemony to Symbolic Space as Problematization,” to be held on October 25, 2015 in the theater of the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras. Panelists scheduled to take part are Luis Camnitzer, Marta, Gili, Alfredo Jaar, Mari Carmen Ramírez, Cuauhtemoc Medina, and Beatríz Santiago Muñoz. This opening summit will bring together internal and external audiences of the 4th Triennial, and is aimed at promoting a discussion of the contemporary image, and the image in general, as social experience.

Amalia Pica, Venn Diagrams (In the spotlight), 2011, Focos en trípode, sensor de movimiento, gel de iluminación y grafito sobre la pared, Dimensiones variables, Obra: Cortesía de la Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros

 

November 4, 2015 Ivelisse Jiménez https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/ivelisse-jimenez/

Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

Prizes / Fellowships

Links

January 28, 2015 Rossana Martinez https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/rossana-martinez-2/

I am interested in creating an experience, and a dialogue between the body and common materials. The process and result are raw and unedited.  I investigate subtleties of balance and movement, breath and anatomy—based on the connection between a running and yoga practice, and my interest in dance, conceptual abstraction and performance art. My intention is to allow viewers to interpret and question the work according to their expectations about what art is and how it should appear.

 
Traducido del inglés

Me interesa crear una experiencia, un diálogo entre el cuerpo y los materiales comunes. El proceso y resultado es crudo e íntegro. Investigo las sutilezas del balance y del movimiento, de la respiración y la anatomía, basadas en las conexiones entre la práctica de yoga y correr, así como mi interés en la danza, la abstracción conceptual y el performance. Mi intención es el permitir a los espectadores interpretar y cuestionar la obra de acuerdo a sus expectativas de lo que el arte es y cómo debe verse.

Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

Prizes / Fellowships

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions 

Publications

Collections

Links

January 27, 2015 Marcius Galan: Tight but Loose https://abstractioninaction.com/happenings/marcius-galan-tight-loose/

IMG_3764_960

Tight but loose
Julio Surárez & Marcius Galan
December 12, 2013 – February 2, 2014
Galería Agustina Ferreyra
San Juan, Puerto Rico

Galería Agustina Ferreyra is pleased to announce Tight but Loose, an exhibition by Julio Suárez & Marcius Galan.

Using a minimal aesthetic and through a wide variety of media such as; installation, sculpture, photography and drawing, the work of Marcius Galan (1972), is a series of material experiments that question the limits of space and its metaphorical possibilities, as well as our relation to it and the social and political implications of everyday geometry. His work defies the way we relate to objects, while it plays with our perception and our  sense of spatial construction.

Marcius Galan (Indianápolis, USA. 1972) lives and works São Paulo, Brazil. Recent exhibitions include: Diagrama, Espacio NC, Bogotá, Colombia; Geometric Progression, White Cube, Londres, Inglaterra; Imóvel/Instável, Galería Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil, 30 x Bienal – Bienal de São Paulo, Brazil & Dreaming is a form of Planning, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, PR.

Click here to view Marcius Galan on Abstraction in Action.

December 10, 2013 Tony Cruz Pabón https://abstractioninaction.com/artists/tony-cruz/

Translated from Spanish

Time, the everyday and repetitive actions like filling up, empty out, or repair, are recurring ideas in my work. To me, representing through drawing the distance between my home and the house of my relatives, or the calculation of the times that I take my hand to my mouth when I am smoking—both drawn on pencil over the wall—more than an act of measurement, they are to me a way of shaping everyday experience.

For example, the exercise of walking around the city of San Juan to document a series of constructions, made by the inhabitants of the city with everyday objects, made with the purpose of reserving a parking space. This document resulted in a publication that gathers this form and to which I add a series of drawings that propose the use of these same objects for other purposes or possible sculptures.

Generally, my work ends up becoming drawing, where I utilize a few material and visual resources. I am interested in materials that are easy to obtain, such as Plastiscine for children—which I have used to “repair” cracks on a deteriorated building—or powdered construction pigment, which registers the movement of a ball in a baseball field during a game.

In my most recent projects, I have investigated the visual production that generated from Puerto Rican popular music (Salsa, Bomba, and Plena), during the 60s, 70s and beginning of the 80s. The LP as an object, the graphic design, the typography and the images that are produced through the lyrics, give me the opportunity to make an analysis of the construction of landscape in that specific moment.

 

El  tiempo, lo cotidiano, y las acciones repetitivas, como rellenar, vaciar o reparar son ideas recurrentes en mi trabajo. Representar en dibujo la distancia entre mi residencia y la casa de mis familiares, o bien el cálculo de la cantidad de veces que me llevo la mano a la boca al fumar un cigarrillo (ambos dibujados en lápiz sobre la pared), más que un acto de mensura, son para mi una manera de dar forma a la experiencia cotidiana.

Como es el ejercicio de caminar por la ciudad de San Juan con el fin de documentar una serie de construcciones, hechas por los habitantes de la cuidad con objetos cotidianos, hecho con el propósito de reservar un estacionamiento. Este documento resultó en una publicación que recoge esta forma y en la cual añado una serie de dibujos que proponen el uso de éstos mismos objetos para otras funciones o posibles esculturas.

Generalmente mis trabajos terminan siendo dibujos, donde utilizar pocos recursos materiales y visuales. Me interesan los materiales que me son de fácil acceso, como la plastilina para niños, -que he utilizado para “reparar” grietas en un edificio deteriorado-, o el pigmento de construcción en polvo, con el que queda registrado el movimiento de una bola en un campo de baseball durante un partido.

En mis últimos proyectos me encuentro investigando la producción visual que se generó en la música popular puertorriqueña (salsa, bomba y plena) durante las décadas de los años 60, 70 y principios de los años ochenta. El LP como objeto, el diseño gráfico, la tipografía y las imágenes que se producen en las letras de las canciones, me dan pie a hacer un estudio de la construcción del paisaje en ese momento.

Selected Biographical Information

Education / Training

Prizes / Fellowships

Solo Exhibitions

Group Exhibitions

Publications

Collections

Links

October 5, 2013