London: Over sixty galleries from America and Europe will be in this city for Pinta (June 6 - 9), a fair turned into one of the important annual meetings of Latin American art, since its first edition in New York, 2007.
Fourteen Spanish galleries will be attending the event, from Madrid: Aina Nowack, AAC; Blanca Berlin Gallery; Distrito 4; Blanca Soto Arte; Espacio Minimo; Cayon SL Gallery; La Caja Negra Gallery; Guillermo de Osma Gallery; Magda Bellotti; Max Estrella; from Barcelona: Tasneem Gallery; Tatiana Kourochkina Galeria d’Art; Barcelona Gallery, and Rafael Ortiz from Seville.
Others participants: Isabel Aninat, AFA Gallery (Santiago de Chile); Anita Schwartz Art Gallery, Rio de Janeiro; Baró Galeria, Nara Roesler Gallery, Luciana Brito Gallery and Vermelho (São Paulo); Bolsa de Arte, Porto Alegre; Celma Albuquerque, Belo Horizonte; Artana Latin American Art, La Haya; Artworx.b146, Zurich; Christopher Paschall Galeria S. XXI and LGM Arte Internacional (Bogota); Arevalo Gallery, Durban Segnini, Hardcore Art Contemporary Space, Pan American Art Projects, Sammer Gallery, LLC and The Americas Collection (Miami); Edel Assanti, Maddox Arts, Post Box Gallery, Selma Feriani Gallery and Stephen Friedman Gallery (London); Estudio Arte 8, Caracas; Frederico Sève Gallery, Henrique Faria Fine Art, Josée Bienvenu, Praxis International Art and Gallery (New York); Enrique Guerrero Gallery, Mexico D.F.; Lucia de la Puente Gallery, Lima; Matilde Bensignor Gallery, Buenos Aires; Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin; Habana Gallery, Havana; Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Teresa Anchorena, GC Estudio de Arte (Buenos Aires); Salar Art Gallery, La Paz, and Toluca, Paris.
PINTA will be showcasing different works created by Latin American artists such as master Joaquin Torres Garcia, whose work has reached record prices in auctions, and Cuban artist Carmen Herrera (one of the recent “discoveries” of art), as well as new and upcoming artists just like Brazilian Felipe Barbosa, famous for using soccer balls in his works. A tribute to well-known artists will be presentation of important personal displays created by Brazilians Regina Silveira with Luciana Brito Galeria from São Paulo; Waltercio Caldas with Celma Albuquerque from Belo Horizonte, one of Mexican Felipe Ehrenberg with Baró Galeria from São Paulo, and Chilean Eugenio Dittborn, with Blanca Soto Arte, Madrid.
The section of Individual Projects, an area with the curatorship of London-based Mexican Pablo Leon de la Barra, will count on the most representative works of contemporary Latin American art, among them Prosopopeya, by Brazilian Rivane Neuenschwander –in conjunction with Stephen Friedman Gallery from London, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery from New York and Fortes Vilaça Gallery from São Paulo–, conceptual work that plays with puns made of organic and food materials such as dehydrated oranges, coco soaps and eggs. Other projects in this section include Argentine artist Fabian Marcaccio with Thomas Schulte from Berlin; Vermelho Gallery from São Paulo, with works of André Komatsu, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, from New York with Guatemalan artist Dario Escobar; Blanca Soto Arte, from Madrid (Ricardo Alcalde); Fucares Gallery, Madrid (Pablo Vargas Lugo); Lucia de la Puente Gallery, Lima (Huanchaco); Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York (Emilio Chapela); Max Estrella, Madrid (Marlon de Azambuja); Post Box Gallery, London (Alejandro Pintado); Ruth Benzacar Art Gallery, Buenos Aires (Eduardo Basualdo); Toluca, Paris (Milagros de la Torre).
This time, the Acquisition for Museum Program invites museums interested in Latin American art to acquire works in the fair. It counts on Tate Modern from England, Georges Pompidou Center from France, MUSAC (Museum of Contemporary Art from Castile y Leon, Spain), and Essex University Latin American Art Collection from England, that organizes PINTA’s Program of Conferences, Talks and Debates.
Further information: www.pintaart.com
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