It is initially a little strange to find the first artist on show in an exhibition of Surrealism in Latin American art to be English, but if you know the history of the artist Leonora Carrington who moved to Mexico in 1942, you will understand – all of which makes the current tensions in the […]
Once the height of elegant living, the modernist building designed by Cristobal Marinez Marquez with the first phase completed in 1957, the Riomar in Havana had 201 apartments over 11 floors, three ballrooms and two swimming pools. Sadly, it has slowly been allowed to decline and deteriorate and, in 2013 only 14 apartments remained occupied; […]
A father, mother and child, desperate to seek a new life, float helplessly across the shark-infested waters between Cuba and Florida in a raft made of tyres, with no sail or oars. Hanging down are Polaroid photographs of real-life experiences attached to the painting. A small naked man stands trying to pull a huge floating cloud […]
Forty years ago, an art student’s project to create an art magazine came to life with the first edition of “Arte en Colombia”. Over the last four decades, it has become the leading source of information on Latin American art, at a time when awareness of Latin American art has been growing in North America and […]
Strong geometric images in his paintings reflect Venezuelan artist Cipriano Martinez’s initial training as a civil engineer and his experience of working in his uncle’s print shop in Caracas. They depict the conflicting urban landscape of cities where engineers and architects seek to impose a rigorous order but the overall effect is a chaotic assembly […]
Adding to the display of Latin American art in London at the Lloyds Club, the White Cube Gallery in St James has the first exhibition in London by the Argentinian artist Christian Roso. Christian was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1982 and now lives and works in Vienna and Los Angeles. His clean restrained […]
The celebration of Latin American Art in London this summer which has been evident in the Pinta Art Fair, exhibitions at the Royal Academy, Maddox Arts, the Pantaea Exhibition of new art from Africa and Latin America at the Saatchi Gallery and, in the last week at Sadie Coles HQ, continues with a solo exhibition […]
It has been slow progress, but modern and contemporary Latin American art has started to make an impact in London. There have been solo shows by well-known artists such as the Mexican Gabriel Orozco at the Serpentine Gallery in 2004, Tate Modern in 2011 and also in the Fruitmarket Gallery in Edinburgh in 2013. In […]
Pinta arrived in London this weekend, the major art event showcasing the best in contemporary and modern art from Latin America, Spain and Portugal, with galleries from a number of countries. This must be one of the last shows to be held in Earl’s Court before it is demolished, so there is a slight sadness […]
An interesting experiment to include contemporary Latin American and African art in the one exhibition, but it works. The Saatchi Gallery has a new exhibition called “PANGAEA” which was the name of the landmass when the two continents were joined, many millennia ago in the prehistoric era. There is nothing prehistoric about the artworks on […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
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