The Houston Fine Art Fair will return for its 5th edition, to run September 10-12, 2015 at NRG Park, with a First Look and VIP Preview on September 9th. Since launching in 2010, the Houston Fine Art Fair—dubbed “The City’s Art Fair”—has offered a week of cultural events connecting international galleries and artists with the thriving Houston art scene. This year’s fair will additionally offer patrons and connoisseurs of Latin American art several special program opportunities as well.
Houston and Mexico DF based curator, Marianna Valdes Debes, will present Paper Today, a special section with a focus on paper featuring work from Latin-America artists who specialize in this media that integrates installation, drawing and sculptures in and with paper: Alfredo Gisholt (Mexico, 1971), Maribel Portela (Mexico, 1960), Miler Lagos (Colombia, 1973).
From the curator’s statement:
Alfredo’s Gisholt’s latest monochromatic works on paper will be part of this section. Built as drawings and collages, these latest images are highlighted by the limited palette and unveiling of their pictorial structure. Made up of white, black, grey and sepia tones, these spaces surprises us by the strange anatomy of their entity. Growing out of the surface of the support-paper-there is an absence of depth, the spaces evade any allusion to the convention of the sacred place rising instead as a mysterious pictorial reality.
Maribel Portela’s body works, exposes the power of paper in her exquisite lace and big scale Installation “Cumulus”. This project was inspired by nature, which she tries to reproduce on paper by printing, cutting and sticking paper to create dimensional and tridimensional pieces. In her “Memory” project, she carries the intention of bringing to the surface the matter process and all of the paper possibilities.
Colombian artist Miler Lagos’ branch-like forms are composed entirely of sheets of newspaper, densely stacked together and sanded at the edges, which generates both a mottled, trunk-like surface and a wood effect color. Lagos’ work enacts both a fantasy of return (the paper turning back into its natural source material) and a parody of it: these broken branches are, after all, dead, and their listless slumping has something of the exhausted body about it, something worn-out. The density of the work’s structure recalls, in cross-section, the striations of cut wood, and points out the uselessness of the dated news stories contained within – these can’t be read, but they wouldn’t be, anyway.
Paper Today will be on view during public hours. Additionally, on Thursday, September 10th, Houston Fine Art Fair will present a panel discussion and reception for enthusiastic collectors of Latin American art, and those considering joining their ranks. A panel discussion, What You Need to Know to Collect Latin American Artmoderated by Rose Salum, Editor/Owner, Revista Literal (Mexico), will be open to the public in the theater from 5 to 6 p.m. followed by a Latin American Art Lovers Reception from 6 to 7 p.m. hosted by First Class Magazine. RSVP required here: www.houstonfineartfair.com/rsvp-latin-american-art
Source: Arte al Día
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