PalaisPopulaire in Berlin presents Make a Travel Deep of Your Inside, and Don’t Forget Me to Take, the first institutional solo exhibition by Chinese-Singaporean artist Charmaine Poh (b. 1990), Deutsche Bank’s “Artist of the Year” 2025.
The latest presentations staged by Tomas Sanchez –who has expressed himself through painting, drawing, ceramic art, puppet design, set design, fabrics, graphics and gems– reveal the multiplicity of a creative endeavor. Between November and December…
With the presence of Miguel Barnet, president
of Cuba’s League of Writers and Artists (UNEAC); deputy president Jose Villa Soberon; Lesbia Vent Dumois, president of the Fine Arts Association; Maria Caridad Gonzalez, the Excelencias Group’s permanent
Chile’s First Visual Arts Triennial has displayed neither artworks nor artists who can put on a good show. However, a whole country got hyped as a scenario thanks to a job well done by renowned curator Ticio Escobar at the helm of a team of…
One of the most striking and symbolic artworks of the past Havana Biennia was no doubt “The Oil Tanker” by artists Reynerio Tamayo (Niquero, 1968) and Eulises Niebla (Matanzas, 1963). The piece intends to mull over some of the globalization facts:…
How can art reviews be made in the Americas? That’s a heck of a question. How can art reviews be focused on a young art where, as we read in this section of the magazine’s first issue, definition, identity and totality are key players? The Americas…
A shortfall of research studies on the continental arts is the theoretical context poet Octavio Paz’s critical contribution hinges on. During the First Iberian American Meeting of Art Critics and Fine Artists in Caracas back in June 1978, expert…
Michael Dweck is a sensualist, a documentarian, a good story teller, and a great admirer of feminine beauty. He is also something of an islander in spirit, raised as he was on Long Island, New York. Indeed, he has a profound sense of place and…
In my third time around for The Archivist section, I want on the one hand to piece together some sort of a trilogy of a number of artists who are likened to the advance of the fine arts in the Caribbean and Central America, while on the other hand I…
Sebastian Alonso / Martin Craciun (Alonso+craciun). Afiches: Santiago Velazco y Javier Cirioni.
Montevideo is recognized as a
city where posters, billboards and paintings in public places are key players of the burg’s visual repertoire.
The Traces: The Private Eye exhibition is an initiative thought out by artists who set up a company for the registration and transfer of the personal stamps of their works out of the artistic scene each and every one of…
Frames, as much as borders, bug Cildo Meireles. That’s why he doesn’t make movies despite the interest he once had in it 40 years ago. The point is films usually end with a similar format and is not a form of art you can enjoy through taste, touch…
It’s becoming increasingly common to see brick-and-mortar art promotional places getting their virtual correlate on the world wide web or the Internet. There are times when the giant network helps to legitimize a certain project, making…
In his cult text “The Sufficiently Good Artist: Beyond the Avant-Garde Artist,” Donald Kuspit hurt for forever more the pride-swollen megalomania found in that kind of artist. Kuspit stripped the histrionic narcissism of the two basic typologies the…
The Orí. El Òrìsà personal exhibition is just another excuse to take back on Santiago Rodriguez Olazabal’s artwork, one of the esthetic proposals that better brings together the rituals, the…
