Monday, September 10, 2012

Vista: Unfolding the Mapping Process

Horacio Zabala. Seis imágenes del fragmento 30 (America del Sur) II, 1973 

Courtesy of Henrique Faria Fine Art, New York, NY

Vista: Unfolding the Mapping Process
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Comisarias invitadas: Jodie Dinapoli y Eva Mendoza
UMUC Arts Program Gallery. University of Maryland University College.
Domingo, 16 de septiembre - Domingo, 25 de noviembre 2012
Recepción de inauguraci
ón:
Domingo, 23 de septiembre 2012 3-5 pm. Inn and Conference Center, Lower Level

Artistas:
Silvina Arismendi, Alberto Borea, Carola Bravo, Cesar Cornejo, Priscila De Carvalho, Rodrigo Echeverri, Nicky Enright, Pilita Garcia, Gisela Insuaste, Tamara Kostianovsky, Esperanza Mayobre, Elena Patiño, José Ruiz, Camilo Sanín, Vargas-Suarez Universal, y Horacio Zabala.

Spanish:
Durante cientos de años los artistas han mostrado interés tanto por el propio proceso de mapeado como por  captar  las características visibles de un lugar. Desde el trazado de líneas sobre placas de cerámica hasta la creación de cartografías precisas y de diseños matemáticos, su trabajo ha servido de herramienta para resolver problemas prácticos tales como señalar límites territoriales y políticos o concebir información de carácter científico y posteriores líneas de investigación sobre nociones de identidad.

Partiendo del concepto original del mapa y de su proceso de creación, en Vista se exponen una serie de obras de artistas latinoamericanos contemporáneos, inspiradas en el mapeado como proceso creativo y de exploración, que incluyen composiciones basadas en la propia memoria, en la identidad y en visiones utópicas del futuro. Este proceso comporta tareas como esbozar, trazar, representar, construir o reproducir al tiempo que hace uso de la distorsión y de otras técnicas no propiamente cartográficas.

Por medio de estructuras, abstracciones, paisajes urbanos, instalaciones y nuevos medios audiovisuales, Vista revela diferentes enfoques del proceso de entender el territorio, desde lo social a lo personal, de lo concreto a lo abstracto, de lo excepcional a lo convencional. Las obras seleccionadas para esta exposición pretenden fomentar el debate y mostrar las diferentes posibilidades que tiene los mapas, entendidos como construcciones sociales, políticas y culturales en constante evolución que derivan de los continuos cambios en cánones y cosmologías.

English:
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For hundreds of years artists have been involved in the process of mapping as well as capturing the visible features of a site. From drawing lines on ceramic plaques to creating accurate cartographies and mathematical designs, the mapmaking activities of artists have served as a tool to resolve practical issues such as territorial and political boundaries and to outline scientific information as well as to further investigative notions of identity.

Departing from the original concept of a map and the process of its creation, this exhibition incorporates works by contemporary Latin American artists inspired by mapmaking as a creative and exploration process, including those who create compositions based on memory, identity, and utopian views of the future. This process involves outlining, charting, depicting, building, and tracing, as well as distortion and other less cartographical techniques.

Through structures, abstractions, urban landscapes, installations, and new media, Vista reveals different approaches to the process of understanding territory from the social to the personal, from the concrete to the abstract, from the exceptional to the conventional. All the artworks have been brought together to encourage debate, to show the different possibilities of maps, and to further our understanding of them as evolving social, political, and cultural constructions derived from changing cosmologies and canons.

UMUC Arts Program Gallery. University of Maryland University College.
3501 University Blvd. East, Adelphi, MD 20783
Abierto diariamente de 9 am a 9 pm.

Monday, May 14, 2012

ÑY Closes May 20. ART MUSEUM of the AMERICAS. Washington, DC

Welcome to my Hood by Sol Aramendi



ÑEW YORK
Latin American and Spanish artists


Curated by Paco Cano, Eva Mendoza Chandas and Jodie Dinapoli

Last week!! Through May 20, 2012

AMA ׀ Art Museum of the Americas

201 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006


Hours TUE-SUN | 10 AM-5 PM


ABOUT THE EXHIBIT

English
AMA | Art Museum of the Americas, of the Organization of American States (OAS) presents Ñew York, an exhibition that addresses mobility in an era of widespread displacement where barriers between the global and the local are broken down.  The artists were selected based on their artistic careers and their approaches to concepts of mobility, migration and cultural exchange, all intrinsic to a city where new ideas, experiences and diversity converge.
Ñew York showcases the work of 19 artists from 10 countries of Latin America and Spain who have made New York City the gravitating force of their artistic discourse, and is part of the OAS AMA’s ongoing exhibitions series of cross-cultural dialog through contemporary art.

Spanish
Ñew York es un proyecto expositivo en el que se presentan trabajos de artistas latinoamericanos y españoles residentes en Nueva York. Los artistas han sido seleccionados en base a sus trayectorias artísticas y teniendo en cuenta que las piezas con las que participan en la muestra son un reflejo de los conceptos de movilidad, migración e intercambio cultural, conceptos todos ellos intrínsecos a una ciudad en la que convergen ideas, vivencias, y culturas muy distintas y en donde todas ellas conviven y se interrelacionan.
Nueva York constituye un importante referente para la cultura hispana en Estados Unidos y en el mundo en general. Esta muestra de artistas hispanos en Nueva York resalta el trabajo de esta comunidad en Estados Unidos y muestra a través de las obras de los artistas seleccionados los lazos y las influencias de un arte que bebe de múltiples fuentes y que genera flujos culturales entre España, Latinoamérica y Estados Unidos.
La celebración de bicentenarios de Independencia de muchos estados americanos en estos años y la reivindicación de un Museo Nacional Latino en Washington, D.C son algunos ejemplos de la relevancia y la actualidad temática de este proyecto expositivo, propiciando un contexto sociocultural idóneo para llevar a cabo esta muestra en el Museo de Arte de las Américas (AMA) de la Organización de los Estados Americanos (OEA).


FEATURED ARTISTS
Abigail Lazkoz (Spain)
Ada Bobonis (Puerto Rico)
Alberto Borea (Peru)
Antón Cabaleiro (Spain)
Carlos Motta (Colombia)
José Ruiz (Peru)
Julieta Aranda (Mexico)
Esperanza Mayobre (Venezuela)
Dulce Pinzón (Mexico)
Fernando Renes (Spain)
Félix Fernández (Spain)
Juanma Carrillo (Spain)
Iván Navarro (Chile)
Jessica Lagunas (Guatemala)
Lluis Lleó (Spain)
Manuela Viera-Gallo (Chile)
Manuel Molina Martagón (Mexico)
Sol Aramendi (Argentina)
Nicky Enright (Ecuador)

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Profile: David Rodriguez Caballero. Category: Visual Arts. Spain Culture NY



Profile: David Rodriguez Caballero. Category: Visual Arts. Spain Culture NY
Interview by Eva Mendoza for Spain Culture New York. Consulate General of Spain in NY.
Quote: "As an artist, it's important for me to develop my work in a city like this, because it's full of stimuli and it's a great showcase within the art world".
To read the interview go to:

Saturday, January 14, 2012

Coming Soon!! ÑEW YORK. Latin American and Spanish Artists

Welcome to my Hood by Sol Aramendi



ÑEW YORK
Latin American and Spanish artists


Curated by Paco Cano, Eva Mendoza Chandas and Jodie Dinapoli

February 16 - May 20, 2012

AMA ׀ Art Museum of the Americas

201 18th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20006


Hours TUE-SUN | 10 AM-5 PM


ABOUT THE EXHIBIT
Ñew York, featuring works by young, outstanding Latin American and Spanish artists residing in New York City commemorates a long lost artistic exchange and recovers innovative communication channels between Latin American and Spanish plastic and visual artists. The exhibition incorporates New York City as the current setting where these creative forces re-encounter themselves.

The exhibition addresses mobility in an era of widespread displacement where barriers between the global and the local are broken down. Motion (mobility), Emotion (personal artistic work) and Promotion (promote and advance the careers of expat artists) are all addressed throughout the show.

The artists were selected based on their accomplishments, artistic careers and their approach to concepts of mobility, migration and cultural exchange, all intrinsic to a city where new ideas, experiences and diversity converge.

Curated by Paco Cano, Eva Mendoza Chandas and Jodie Dinapoli (all from Spain), Ñew York showcases the work of 19 artists from 10 countries from Latin America and Spain -all based in New York - who have made this city the gravitating force of their artistic discourse.


FEATURED ARTISTS
Abigail Lazkoz (Spain)
Ada Bobonis (Puerto Rico)
Alberto Borea (Peru)
Antón Cabaleiro (Spain)
Carlos Motta (Colombia)
José Ruiz (Peru)
Julieta Aranda (Mexico)
Esperanza Mayobre (Venezuela)
Dulce Pinzón (Mexico)
Fernando Renes (Spain)
Félix Fernández (Spain)
Juanma Carrillo (Spain)
Iván Navarro (Chile)
Jessica Lagunas (Guatemala)
Lluis Lleó (Spain)
Manuela Viera-Gallo (Chile)
Manuel Molina Martagón (Mexico)
Sol Aramendi (Argentina)
Nicky Enright (Ecuador)

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

Profile: Antonio Muñoz Molina Category: Literature and Humanities Spain Culture NY



Interview by Eva Mendoza for Spain Culture New York. Consulate General of Spain in NY.
Quote: "New York had seduced me always, for very different reasons, even sentimental. [...] The most significant change was from visitor to resident, from occasional to full time teacher. There were difficulties, but also much learning."
To read the interview go to:

Profile: Jorge Otero-Pailos Category: Architecture and Visual arts Spain Culture NY



Interview by Eva Mendoza for Spain Culture New York. Consulate General of Spain in NY.
Quote: "In New York, the definition of a monument is still a question, while in much of the rest of the world it is taken for granted, and this the basis of my research, to understand what is worth preserving in our contemporary moment."
To read the interview go to:


Profile: Rafael Lamas Category: Music. Spain Culture NY



Interview by Eva Mendoza for Spain Culture New York. Consulate General of Spain in NY.
Quote: "Like all New Yorkers, I have a love/hate relationship with the city. The best things are also the worst, what scares me and takes me away is what attracts me. What is it? Well, I don't really know... perhaps the mixture of vivacity and decadence."
To read the interview go to: